So, here are my weekly mileage totals for every week since I started the blog and ending with the day before the race (when I ran a whopping 1 mile). As always, the week number means the number of weeks left until the race.
- Week 23: 5 miles
- Week 22: 12 miles
- Week 21: 7 miles
- Week 20: 11 miles
- Week 19: 13 miles
- Week 18: 12 miles
- Week 17: 11.5 miles
- Week 16: 12 miles
- Week 15: 8.5 miles
- Week 14: 16.5 miles
- Week 13: 16 miles
- Week 12: 17 miles
- Week 11: 14 miles
- Week 10: 17 miles
- Week 9: 18 miles
- Week 8: 20 miles
- Week 7: 22 miles
- Week 6: 16 miles
- Week 5: 18 miles
- Week 4: 23 miles
- Week 3: 20 miles
- Week 2: 5 miles (injury)
- Week 1: 3 miles
Total (not including the race itself): 317.5
The numbers are really all over the place from week to week. I was injured twice and had to sit out three days after an osteopath visit in December, so that's at least nine days I lost right there. I'm kind of shocked to see I never ran more than 23 miles in a single week. That's really not that much. And I still ran a whole half-marathon and felt pretty comfortable doing it!
Here's another breakdown, listing each distance that I ran and the number of times that I ran it. (The total doesn't quite jive with the number above due to rounding off various distances to the nearest mile.)
Number of miles Total times run Total mileage at this distance
12 1 12
10 3 30
8 6 48
6 7 42
5 3 15
4 18 72
3 28 84
2 12 24
1 1 1
Again, this is surprising, but hopefully reassuring, to any Team in Training hopefuls that might be reading this: half of the total mileage for the season came from runs of 4 miles or less (72 + 84 + 24 + 1). Four miles is not that far! And even among the long runs, six and eight-milers were the rule--there were only four double-digit runs the whole season.
Now, let's sum up my fundraising. I raised a total of $4,060 to take the number two spot for Northern Ohio's Spring 2010 team--not bad! In addition to many cash donors at my agility fundraiser, there were 72 distinct individual donors who donated by check or credit card. The most common donation amounts were 25.00 (donated by 13 people) and 50.00 (donated by 12 people). I still want to send out one final thank-you to everyone, though I'm hoping wedding rules apply here and I get a month to do it. Hard to believe it's been 10 days since the race already. Any donors reading this--thank you so much for your AMAZING support! (And Klaudia, thanks so much for your wonderful card. I really appreciated it.)
Now, indulge me for just a bit longer while I pick apart my race. As you no doubt remember, the only thing that really messed me up was having to stop within the first mile to use the port-a-potty. So:
- Time it took me to reach the start line after the gun went off: 5 minutes, 36 seconds
- How long I ran before stopping: 5 minutes, 41 seconds
- How much time I lost as a result: 3 minutes, 30 seconds
- My time for the first 10K: 1:09:37 (11:12 pace)
- What my time COULD HAVE BEEN for the first 10K: 1:06:07 (10:38 pace)
- My time for the last 11K of the race: 1:09:44 (10:12 pace) YEAH, BABY! NEGATIVE SPLITS!
- What my watch said when I hit Mile 12: 2:10:00 (10:50 pace)
- How amazingly butt-haulingly fast I finished the last 1.1 miles: 9:21 (8:30 pace!!!)
- My finish time: 2:19:21 (10:37 pace)
- What my finish time COULD HAVE BEEN: 2:15:51 (10:22 pace)
- Average time for all half-marathon finishers at this race (according to Active.com): 2:10:12
- I finished 3370/4748 overall, 1767/3165 women, and 311/488 in my age group. I beat almost half the women!! Awesome!! Midpack, here I come!
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