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Howdy folks!

With the holiday weekend, I’ve had some additional time to look back at the year so far, and to spend some time blogging. I’m about halfway through the year now, so let’s take a look at my progress towards my overall running goal for 2025—running 2,000 miles

A chart showing cumulative distance planned in orange with circular points and actual distance in blue with square points. The actual distance is considerably less than the planned distance.
Looks like my recent trend is to do approximately the number of miles I need to maintain the same discrepancy between plan and actual distance.
A scatter plot showing the difference between planned and actual distance. The overall trend of the plot is increasingly negative, where the actual distance is much less than the planned distance.
If we look at this chart, we can see that with the exception of a few brief periods, I've been falling further behind week-to-week.

As you can see, I’m pretty far behind on this goal with a trend towards getting further behind. I had a few small setbacks this year with some minor injuries, illnesses, and weeks where I didn’t have time to get out for a run. I think the largest contributor, by far, was the Return to Office order. It sucks. I lose at least an hour a day to commuting and I don’t get to run with my favorite running partner.

Last year I totaled approximately 1,950 miles, very close to the goal of 2,000. I assumed that if I kept up a similar training regime, I should have no trouble coming close to the goal again. Afterall, I had spent 3 weeks in Japan doing only relatively short, easy runs.

At this point, I don’t think I’ll be able to recover and get back on track. I’ll keep the goal in mind, but with no assumption that I’ll even break 1,850 miles. It’s disappointing, especially because I feel that my struggles are outside of my ability to influence. I suppose there is always next year.

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