I’ve decided I’m going to do it.

I’m going to try for 7,000 walking/running miles this year.

It’s going to be a push, but I think I can do it. Last year I did 6,620, so this would be 380 more miles than that. So basically one more mile per day, plus a bit extra.

That doesn’t sound too bad, but I had a lot of high-mileage days last year. Like, my minimum daily distance was 6.07 miles; my maximum was 41.32.

[Insert five minutes of me dicking around in R making boxplots and such. Here is said boxplot of daily distance.]

My average daily distance for last year was just over 18 miles (18.09 to be a bit more exact). I need to bump that up to about 19.18. Again, not that much, but that’s an extra 1.1 miles every single day, and that’s also assuming I have either the same number of high distance days as last year or an equivalent (distance-wise) number of high-but-not-as-high “mid-distance” days this year.

BUT IT MUST BE DONE. A GOAL HAS BEEN SET.
VROOM.