2011 Run Mileage

I have dutifully tracked my running mileage this year on the Running Ahead website. One of the benefits of this effort is that the technology can generate various graphs which might somehow illuminate training patterns and future training strategies. So below is a chart showing my monthly mileage for 2011:

The Running Ahead site requires me to classify each run (even though many of my runs are just random blend of mostly slow running with maybe some hills and speed thrown in). As I look at this chart it is apparent I do very few "long runs". My longest runs are usually races - like in February when the 42-kilometer Tokyo Marathon represents a big chunk of the 176 kilometers I accumulated for the whole month.

Apparently my running dropped off in May amidst my journey to South Africa and Turkey; and never really picked up during the summer of triathlon training. The encouraging thing is how much I have managed to pickup my run training in November, December and January to-date in spite of much travel, races, continued swim workouts and increased cycle workouts.