With 4 days remaining in December, I am currently at 288.77 miles on the bike towards my goal of 300 and I intend to finish that up later today. My running mileage continues to gradually increase as I work towards the start of my marathon training program. This past Saturday I put in 5 1/2 miles on some slushy trails.
When I checked in at the pool this morning they informed me that my yearly pass would expire next week. I decided that before renewing my pass I wanted to ensure that it was saving my money (I was pretty sure already but wanted to verify). The yearly pass costs me $160 while an individual trip to the pool without the pass is $4, so simple math says that if I took more then 40 trips the to pool it would be worth it. The beauty of tracking all of my training on Garmin Connect is that I can run reports for situations just like this one. In the past year, I have logged 81 trips to the Urbandale pool, well worth the cost of a yearly pass.
With New Years just a few days away, I have been spending some time thinking about what goals I would like to set for 2017. As mentioned in previous posts, I am already planning to run my first marathon and compete in my first half iron distance triathlon, but I also want to continue to build my on my endurance base. I will save the 2016 training numbers for a later post, but in reviewing what I did in 2016, I thought it would be a great idea to build on those numbers for 2017. Ironically, as I was already thinking about the topic, my wife, Erin, floated an idea for something we could both do together. So here it is, our goal in 2017 is to run 2,017 miles combined. To put that in perspective, that equates to each of us running a little over 2.75 miles per day. A lofty goal for sure, but one that should propel both of us towards our other goals for the year.
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