Thursday, January 2, 2025

2024 Year in Review

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison

Really love this quote.  Guess it is time to put together some sort of year in review just for my record to look back on in the years to come.  So here we go again.

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Figured we needed another quote for the New Years as well.  

So-so year overall.  Was supposed to be a big year with Hardrock and Javelina but that did not happen of course due to the hip injury all summer and having to drop from starting Hardrock and went into Javelina with less than ideal training.  Did get a couple of wins this year so that is always positive.  Those get harder and harder to come by every year as I get older and the field gets younger and faster.

Training: Less overall hours spent but lots more mileage than last year due adding the bike back in.  Spent a lot of time on the bike this year when I was injured this summer since I could not run without pain.  Just over 2600 miles covered by foot (running, walking, skimo, ect.) with the rest on the bike.  Next year we need to be well north of 800 hours total which is the goal.


How does that compare to the past years?  Well this is an interesting view of the last 17 years.  Somewhat a normal year hourly-wise even with the injury.  Could have been a huge year if I would have been doing my normal Hardrock training in there as well.  The colors below match up with the colors for the activities above.


Here is the total ski days for this year.  Bad year on the sticks.  Hopefully will be better next year.



Races:
A somewhat more normal year for me as far as races are concerned.  Not quite the 30 plus events that I normally partake but close.  Missed a lot of summer due to the hip injury or otherwise would have had a lot more races this year including Hardrock.

Here is an interesting view of my race mileage this year from my spreadsheet.  Lots of running races for sure compared to others.  And yes I track my nights in the van.  Goal was 40 on the year, keep in mind we did not get the van until mid-March.



2024 Races/Events

Books:  
24 books this year which was the goal.  To be totally honest I have barely cracked open a book in the last month so there is that.   All over the place on my books with no real theme which is normal for me. I just read whatever catches my eye.  Kept the same goal this year with a goal of 24 or 2 per month.  Best book of the year???  Everest, Inc. * and of course any of the Jack Carr books.

2024 Books Read 
2. Outlive *
3. Tough
24. Stable*


Review of Goals for 2024:  

Another hit or miss year on my loose top 10 goals that I laid out last year....  

  1.  Improve my time at Hardrock over last year.  - Nope, DNS due to injury
  2. Read at least 24 books - Yep, 28 books
  3. Run Coaching Certification - Did not see a reason to do so
  4. Travel somewhere new for a race - Quite a few new places in the van
  5. Sky Dive - Some day, still waiting on Avery to do it with.
  6. Keep the blog going weekly -Yep and sure I annoyed people with it.
  7. Start more than 100 mile race this year - Nope, injury.  Wanted to do at least 2 100 races.
  8. Average a Peak a week in 2024 - First time I have failed at this, only had 38 this year
  9. Backpacking on the Colorado Trail for 3-7 days Nope, actually forgot about this goal unless you count all the miles I did with Jeff Browning during his FKT attempt (about 90 miles)
  10. Work on my lack of mobility at least 3-4 times a week. - Yes, my injury this summer required this

Goals for 2024: 

Of course there is some rollover from last year but they can be repeated year over year, especially the travel ones.  This of course does not include any work, family, or relationship goals... this is just strictly goals as they relate to this blog.

  1. Go all in on Western States 100
  2. Read 24 Books
  3. 40 nights in the van
  4. Weekly Blog post again, might change the formatting
  5. Sky Dive-- someday.
  6. 2 or more races over 100 miles
  7. Average one summit a week
  8. Backpacking on the Colorado Trail for 3-7 days 
  9. Run the 0.6 mile loop by the house 1000 times in 2025
  10. At least 1-2 Gravel Races

2024  in Pictures  (Chose at least 1 photo per month which was super challenging and did not happen.  Most of the months have 2 or more photos below.  Just to hard to decide. And yes, I tried to have that at least one other person is in the photo with me.  You can go through the weekly posts to see a lot of photos from the year)










































Have a Happy and Safe 2025!!!!!


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Wednesday, January 1, 2025

December Recap

 "I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it." - Estee Lauder

Going to keep this short this month since year end recap will be posted either later today or tomorrow.  Better month than last in all fronts.  Of course training started increasing a bit after getting into Western States at the beginning of the month.  One could say motivation has been somewhat high lately.  Only issue is the left knee flares up when I ride the bike so I have cut that out since the first week of December.  Need to start adding that back in to see what happens.  Do have a bike fit on the gravel bike on Monday so hopefully that will help.



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