I know, I know. Y’all are sick of these posts. I alluded to it in my last post and then spent some time typing it out. In the end I decided to cut down the words and try to let pictures speak some of them for me with notes of the good and bad etc. So I guess this post is more for me that you because this one is getting printed off and put into my training / scrapbook that my sis is making me. And I know that in the end I want this year documented for myself which is why there are so many links so that I can find stuff if I really want to. But I hope you enjoy it nevertheless.
Oh and P.S. That gingerbread house was definitely in the mid-drinking stages. I should go into the gingerbread house making business. Next year I’m tackling the village 😉
January: 396.8 miles (8:54 avg pace). Training run with Lacey (and I just noticed that I did a lot with her this year. LOVE YOU!). It probably set the tone for the year as it was a LR that was *pushed* fast and out of my comfort zone. And I handled it.
February: 390.4 miles (9:03 avg pace). I honestly cannot really remember anything remarkable about this month. Nor can I find a picture for it. Oops.
March: 432.3 miles (9:00 avg pace). Ugh Eastern States 20M. ‘Nuff said. Except that this month, while the monster month for Boston training, was tough on me physically. I ended up in PT for stuff and horrible shin splints.

Little did we know what was ahead...
April: 152.4 miles (9:20 avg pace). Boston. Marathon. (Goal for 2010:Requalify for Boston. Yup. Did this. Twice in fact. Holler)
May: 286.6 miles (8:56 avg pace). Lots of stuff: graduating, accepting a job, paying the security deposit and first month rent! Exciting stuff.
June: 500.5 miles! (8:42 avg pace) Getting to meet (and run with!) Jess during her trip to Boston. I also ran lots and lots of double and some triple to give me my highest month of the year.
July: 354. miles (8:37 avg pace). I dominated the local 5M Fourth of July race. I also took my Philly trip for my job pre-service orientation and I got to run with Flo!
August: 270.2 miles (8:33 avg pace). This month I took a trip to Texas and, by a twist of fast (or a really delayed flight stranding me in Houston) got to run with Jess again! When I got back from the vacay I took the MCAT and moved and started my job. Hello real world?

Well this pic was from her June trip. But still a good one nonetheless
September: 328.6 miles (8:36 avg pace). I raced a half marathon with Lacey(goal for 2010: sub 1:40:00 half Check), stayed with her family, went apple picking, mini-golf and drinking with her 🙂 FUN. I also broke 20 minutes (by ONE second) in the Providence 5k: goal for 2010: sub 20:00 5k Check
October: 422.1 miles (8:48 avg pace). Race the Tufts 10k with Lacey where I remember her telling me to “JUST DO THIS” (goal for 2010: sub 43:00 10k Check) and I signed up for WR. 5.5 weeks before race day. Eep.
November: 454.1 miles (8:54 avg pace). This was the month that training went “hardcore” for WR. I also celebrated my birthday by running my age in kilometers. I probably could have run my age in miles as I was training but km just was more appealing. Especially after going out to celebrate my birthday the night before. I also started the 100 pushups and 200 situps challenge. Woot.
December:260.8 miles (avg pace). December always gets the shaft from peeps in terms of having it’s own recap. And I’m going to do the same here. The biggest thing was White Rock (goal for 2010: sub 3:30 marathon Oooooooh man, that’s a check), which was awesome because I got to hang out with my RW peeps, saw bloggers, and hang out with Jess again. And I guess in order to give December a little boost to make up for the lack of a favorites post I’ll also say that I made lots of yummy desserts, and threw together some from a not-so-homemade standpoint which were just as yummy. Hopefully that continues into the new year as well.
Overall 2010 was an amazing year (goal for 2010: Have fun. Check!). And a record year too with those prs and the yearly mileage of 4248.4. This is a percent change of 36.4% from last year (3116.0 miles in 2009).
And since I had lots of time on my hands earlier this evening I decided it’d be fun to calculate exactly how much time I spent running this year:
- 26 days, 1 hour, 50 minutes, 20 seconds
- Average pace: 8:51
So I’m just putting it out there (again) that 2011 better be ready for me.