D-D-D-DISTANCE
Here’s my Sunday-through-Sunday distance (in miles) this week:
- Sunday: 31.35 running, 4.59 walking
- Monday: 20.14 walking
- Tuesday: 20.05 running, 4.93 walking
- Wednesday: 20.17 walking
- Thursday: 26.24 running, 4.17 walking
- Friday: 20.07 walking
- Saturday: 10.1 walking (off day)
- Today: 26.34 running, 4.28 walking
Total: 192.43
Somebody has to do it.*
*Absolutely nobody has to do it; I’m just insane.
Halfway Mileage Update
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
Criss Cross Be a Boss
It’s Britain, but it’s still interesting!
(I just realized that sounded like the biggest insult to Brits, haha, sorry!)
This Again?
We are once again in a “Claudia Gets Accused of Cheating” phase on the Garmin Connect app. So to reiterate it one more time:
I do not fake my walking/running data. Every step, every mile, every route is 100% real and done by me. I’m not on Garmin Connect to compete with anyone (I do join challenges, but I truly do not care where I place in them; I sign up for the badges but that’s usually the last thought I give them). I’m on there because it records my data in case I lose my other backups. I have literally no reason to fake my data.
Also (and I’ve mentioned this before as well): do you know how hard it would be to fake this? Not only would I have to find somebody or something I could attach my Garmin to to get the miles done for me, but they’d have to be somebody/something that did this consistently and consistently enough for it to look “real” AND they’d have to have been doing it since like 2018 (or whenever I got my first Garmin, I can’t remember). They’d also have to travel to Moscow when I’m in Moscow in order to show up at the right location, haha.
It’s to the point where faking the data would be as much (or more) work than just doing the distance.
AND ANOTHER THING: my Garmin isn’t the only thing I use to track this stuff. I use the iTreadmill app on my iPod, too.
The only person I would be cheating if I were to do so is myself, and I want to continue to proudly say that all my mileage is 100% real and 100% mine.
This is the only thing in this universe that I’m good at. SO SHUT THE HELL UP AND LET ME HAVE THIS.
May Mileage Wrap-Up
(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?????)
Mileage n’ Migraine
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.
I Think I’m a Saucony Ride Girl Now
For the foreseeable future, at least. The Kinvara 15s still aren’t available up here yet, and at this point I don’t know if I can trust the Kinvara quality. The 14s were really, really bad. The Rides are working well for me. I ran my first marathon in the 17s and everything felt good! These also seem like they’re more durable in the Kinvaras, meaning they’ll last longer and I’ll have to do less frantic shoe hoarding (or will I???).
I’m still a little sore in my knees and hips after my walks/runs, but I think that’s just because I’m so used to the Kinvaras. I wore them exclusively for about twelve years, after all. The Rides have a slightly different shape to their soles and I can tell they affect my gait differently.
Anyway. I know nobody cares, but that’s where things are standing with the shoe situation for now.
March Mileage Wrap-Up
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?
Month 2: Mileage Check-In
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!
The Last of the Kinvaras (by James Fenimore Cooper)
So that last pair of Kinvara 13s in my size finally came from the Running Room the other day and today was the day to put them on!
OH
MY
GOD
I forgot how GOOD a new pair of 13s felt. It’s like I’m walking on ANGELS’ SOULS.
Saucony, please just bring these back. I promise we won’t be mad.
(The Running Room doesn’t have the 15s yet, but I’m scared of them already, haha.)
I’d like to issue a formal apology to the Kinvara 11s
Ugh.
SO.
I’m having a really rough time with the Kinvara 14s – rough enough that I actually reverted back to wearing my old worn-out Kinvara 11s (the ones I just finished with prior to this pair of 14s). While they’re not nearly as comfortable as the Kinvara 13s, they’re better than the 14s because it doesn’t feel like my ankle is getting actively eaten by a chainsaw when I wear them.
An angry bear, maybe, but not a chainsaw.
ANYWAY.
I was looking at the Running Room website last night to see if they had the Kinvara 15s yet and they had ONE PAIR LEFT of the Kinvara 13s in my size. I have never gotten my credit card out so fast, haha.
So at least I’ll have one more pair of 13s before having to go back to an inferior iteration again.
I have not been having a good time with shoes lately.
Month 1: Mileage Check-In
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…)
MILEAGE CHECK-IN LET’S GOOOO
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
Screw it: 7,000 miles
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.
Look at these shenanigans
Cumulative walking/running miles by year, once again. 2023 didn’t stand a chance.
What the hell is wrong with me?
(I say as I plan on going even further in 2025)
Oh god, here we go again
It’s the annual walking/running stats blog! That nobody cares about!
JOY!!!!
Here are my walking stats for January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024.
Total number of days walked/ran: 366
Total mileage: 6,620
Total number of steps: 14,554,171
Total calories burned: 475,620
Total walking/running time (minutes): 97,325.05 [that’s about 67.59 days]
Average speed (mph) per walk/run: 4.25
6,620 miles is approximately the great circle distance between Calgary, AB and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, or between Mexico City, Mexico and Moscow, Russia.
Watch This!
It’s finally time to replace my old Garmin. He completely died on me on a run a month or so ago and so I implemented a “three strikes” rule. Three deaths during runs/walks = replacement.
And so after the third strike occurred, I decided to order a newer, slightly fancier Garmin: the Forerunner 165!
This thing has a touch screen, which is pretty wild, and a highly customizable watch face. This is what I currently have, but I’m sure I’ll change it like 200 times.
Hopefully he’ll last a long time!
Somewhat Mid-Year Mileage Update!
So I had to switch to a new pair of shoes today and it’s been a while since I’ve done a mileage update, so LET’S GO!
Not counting today, I’ve walked/run 4,264.57 miles so far this year. That’s approximately 150 miles more than I’d done by this time last year and almost 700 miles more than I’d done by this time in 2023.
The ultimate goal is still 10,000 kilometers (about 6,200 miles)…can I do it???
Huh…
I just finished another pair of shoes (500+ miles), which meant that in addition to starting the new pair, I saved and exported the old pair’s mileage from my iPod so that I could start the count anew with the fresh pair.
As mentioned somewhere previously on this blog, I’m not actively going for a new mileage record this year (which has been incredibly demotivating), mainly because I’m pretty sure my entire family would want to throw me in the river if I were to obsess over mileage even an iota more than I did last year.
So when I checked my mileage progress for this year so far as I entered the new miles in my little spreadsheet, imagine my surprise when I found this:
- Cumulative miles from January 1 to May 2 in 2023 (my record year so far): 2040.27
- Cumulative miles from January 1 to May 2 in 2024: 2125.24
UM.
But then I realized that 1) I had not yet bumped up my daily mileage to 18 miles in 2023 by this point in the year, and 2) I had not yet run a marathon distance in 2023 by this point in the year, whereas I’ve done multiple marathons, multiple 50 Ks, and a 60 K so far this year.
Still, though, I was not expecting the mileage to be that close and for 2024 to be (even a little bit) higher.
I’m going to have to try really hard not to use this as a sign from the universe to go for a new mileage record.
Really, really, really hard.
Also, I’ve taken over 101 million (recorded) steps since I moved to Calgary, which is pretty sweet.
A Vehicle for Death
Important.
There was a Tweet I read not so long ago about a guy who got into a car accident in his big-ass SUV and was saying how grateful he was that he had a big-ass SUV to “protect himself and his family.” Never mind the other guy whose car got totally wasted by said big-ass SUV…or any pedestrians that may get caught up in its grill and chewed up and spit out because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Ugh.
It’s Not Even a Contest Anymore
It’s time for that racing chart of my cumulative walking/running miles from year-to-year.’
Where’s the glitz? Where’s the glamor? Where’s the excitement?!
It’s not there. 2023 trumps all.
2024 will (likely) not eclipse 2023, so there may be some excitement next year.
But since it’s tradition, here it is.
Walk da Walk, Run da Run (2023 Edition)
Is it walking/running stats time yet?
YES??
WOOOO!!!!
Here are my walking stats for January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023.
Total number of days walked/ran: 365
Total mileage: 6,515.09
Total number of steps: 14,228,321
Total calories burned: 479,577
Total walking/running time (minutes): 95,233.67 [that’s about 66.13 days]
Average speed (mph) per walk/run: 4.55
6,515.09 miles is approximately the great circle distance between San Diego, California and Naples, Italy or between Helsinki, Finland and Cape Town, South Africa.
I beat last year’s mileage by almost 1,000 miles. Almost. I should have tried harder.
Anyway.
I’m pretty sure Nate will divorce me if I keep ramping this up, so I took the preventative measure of only walking 16 miles today, as the first day of the year basically sets the precedent for the rest of the year.
Edit: the fact that I’m not going to be breaking an old record this year has taken away a big portion of my already very tiny will to live. So that’s fun.
6×1000
Bros, I hit 6,000 walking/running miles today!
Remember back when 5,000 miles was my goal and how much work that was? Yeah, add another 1,000 miles on top of that.
Now I just need to do about 200 more to hit my ultimate goal of 10,000 kilometers for the year. And assuming I don’t die, I should be able to do that in the last month of the year!
Woo.
Flashback
Today I did something that I have not done since 2019: I walked to Westbrook Mall.
More specifically, I walked the route that used to be my absolute favorite walking route. I’d go out into Bowness and then come back, pass the bottom of our hill, and then walk on to 14th street. I’d then walk down 14th street to 17th avenue and head up towards Westbrook Mall. From there (usually after some shopping at the Walmart and/or Safeway) I’d take the #9 bus either home or to campus, depending on what I was doing the rest of the day.
Because of my class schedule in Winter 2020, I didn’t get a chance to do that walk before Covid hit.
And then Covid hit, which meant malls and buses were FORBIDDEN for quite a while.
But today, I finally got the chance (and courage) to give that walk another shot. Made sure I had my N99 for the bus back (plus like ten backup masks because I’m a weirdo like that) and headed up there.
It was a GREAT walk. I LOVE that walk.
And taking the bus back (to campus) wasn’t that bad, either. I was afraid I’d get motion sick because it has been so long since I’ve ridden a bus, but I was fine.
WOO!
Mileage Update:
I have reached 5,000 miles for the year!
This is WAY earlier than I usually hit that mark, haha, and it means that 6,000 and even 6,200 are within reach by the end of the year.
Let’s blow it out of the water!
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