Here’s to 2012
January 1, 2012 7 Comments
Happy New Year!
I couldn’t be happier with the way 2011 ended — I ran 22 miles Saturday on the Regis course. Erin and I joined some new friends, including Kirsten, whose blog I’ve been reading for a very long time and we now finally got to meet and talk and run together:
(Many thanks to her bro-in-law/Facebook for the pic! That was after 14 miles and I was already that muddy. Yuck.)
Those 22 miles rounded out 214 for December. My highest mileage month EVER (my second highest was 170 in November!). Because of laziness in the winter and injury in the spring, I only totaled 1,451.25 for the year. But with all of the crap that happened, I’ll take it. I only had four of 12 months under 100 miles (and March and May were just barely under 100, each had about 96), so I’ll consider it a good effort.
I’m looking forward to 2012 bringing many great things and new challenges. In fact, I plunked down a nice chunk of change and registered for one of those challenges today:
Merry Christmas to me! I’ll be running the 50 mile race on June 16. I know I can do it, but I’m mostly terrified at the thought of it right now.
So, here’s to another year. New races, new distances, new trails, new friends and a whole new journey 
Happy running!
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Congrats on signing up for that race! I’m so proud of you. Can’t wait to get together soon.
50 miles wut wut! I am totally volunteering to be on your crew. And if you say no I will come anyways and follow you around. (:
Way to rock out the rest of those miles Saturday. I was busy shoving Lucky’s oatmeal into my face.
You’ve got six months and you are already way more prepared than I was when I decided to do 50 miles. My longest run was a 50K and you’ve already done that. I was nervous about the distance but I found that by choosing a really hard 50K, my 50M time was not much more in terms of hours in spite of the extra miles. What’s a few more hours on your feet after you’ve come a long way? Anyway, I had a wonderful experience during my first 50 last month and am already plotting on a 100K in March. Good luck to you!
I think you are the only ultra runner in my reader. Pretty bad woman!!
I cannot believe that you know Kirsten! She and I are friends from yoga! Small, small world.
Yay for yoga! And more chance meetings/connections!
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