2024 by the numbers

Consistency is the word of the year. You could make a case that it's the word of my running career. More on this in a bit. First, let's do the numbers.

The Numbers

I ran 3,541.65 miles in 2024. That's an average of 9.68 miles per day. Added to my life-to-date mileage, we get a total of 117,886.18 miles, roughly halfway to the moon.

These 2024 miles took me 673 hours and 20 minutes. Thus, the average pace was 5.3 miles per hour or 11.3 minutes per mile. In other words, it's 11:18 minute-per-mile pace. Yup, that's pretty slow. But the previous three years were even slightly slower. I'm just putting that out there.

Marathons

There were five of them: Big Beach (3:57), Cleveland (4:07), Erie (3:55), Akron (4:04), and Brunswick (4:29). With my usual (of late) goal of sub=four-hours being fulfilled two of the times, I'm reasonably happy with the lot.

Half-Marathons

Medina (1:54), Lighthouse (1:51), Pan-American Masters (1:50). I would like to get back to sub-1:50. Sounds like a good goal for me for 2025, no?

Other Races

No ultras of course. It's been a couple of years. I think I may truly be done with them. I did do some shorter stuff, including a few 5Ks. Besides the related Half-Marathon, I participated in the Pan American Masters Games track races (1500 and 5000). Most recently, I did the Hudson Frosty-Five-Miler in 41:41, I need to do more of these kinds of things.

New Experiences

I had much more fun doing the Pan American Masters Games than I thought I would. In future years, I'd like to do more track races like these against my fellow geezers. In any case, I hope to do at least something new and unique in 2025.

Travels

Yes, I traveled a lot in 2024. I mostly managed to keep on running, even when on the road (or the seas as it were). Although running on a cruise ship isn't the greatest, it sure beats not running.

Friends

As always, I did a lot of my 2024 running with new and old friends. These are the truly enjoyable runs. It's one of the primary reasons why I run. Even though I don't run with them all the time, I don't know if I could do it all without them. 

Consistency

Ten miles per day, at least for most days. Seventy miles per week, most weeks. Sometimes more or less, as I also tried to do a long run of 18 miles or more each week. I believe all this consistency is good and helpful. I hope to keep it going.

Weekly miles for all 52 weeks