It’s the end of the sixth month of the year, meaning it’s time for MORE MILEAGE STUFF!

Excited????

June mileage: 671.07

Monthly average mileage: 629.03

Current end mileage with this pace: 7548.3

AAAAAAAA IT’S ABOVE 7,500! Now I have to do it. I’m going to have to really push these next few summer months so that I can have some leeway when school starts and when the bad winter weather hits.

LET’S DO IT

(This year is going fast as hell, isn’t it?)

The fifth month of the year is done, so let’s check out that mileage:

May mileage: 673.99

Monthly average mileage: 620.62

Current end mileage with this pace: 7447.44

THAT IS SO DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO 7,500 HNNNNNNNNGH

(Also…could I do 700 miles in a single month? Do I dare try?????)

Ahoy, butt-bombs! I had a migraine late last night, but I’m only including that info for my own reference; the main point of today’s blog is the fact that it’s the end of the month, so we’re tallying the monthly walking/running mileage to see if I’m still on pace for 7,000 miles for the year.

April mileage: 641.63

Monthly average mileage: 607.27

Current end mileage with this pace: 7287.24

That’s good! Gotta keep it up, though, or do better.

March is DONE! Let’s mileage.

March mileage: 627.42

Monthly average mileage: 595.82

Current end mileage with this pace: 7149.84

Back above the goal of 7,000 miles! Let’s keep up this pace, huh?

February (at least in terms of my walking/running) is over! Let’s look at monthly stats.

February mileage: 541.37

Monthly average mileage: 580.02

Current end mileage with this pace: 6960.24

I figured this month would put me behind pace (if we’re going by monthly counts rather than daily counts) because 1) there were only 28 days this month versus the 31 from January and 2) I was stuck inside because of the weather for 20 days straight, which resulted no marathon distances and not many daily distances above 18 miles.

Let’s get back on track with March!

I’ve got a big mileage goal this year, so I think monthly check-ins are going to happen. Deal with it!

January mileage: 618.67

Monthly average mileage: 618.67

Current end mileage with this pace: 7,424.04

Um…woah. That’s a lot more than I thought it would be. I have to keep in mind, though, that this is a 31-day month.

(Don’t bump up the mileage goal to 7,500…don’t bump up the mileage goal to 7,500…don’t bump up the mileage goal to 7,500…)

We are 1/24th of the way through the year, so let’s check that pace, shall we?

Total distance so far (counting today): 293.07

If I were to keep up this pace, I’d hit 7,033.68 miles by the end of the year.

That’s just a little bit more than my goal!

So I basically have to do that 23 more times, huh? BRING IT ON

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.