2013 Year in Review

I know, I know, I know – haven’t updated the blog in a few – SO

2013 – I can some it up in one word = SUCKED
Very disappointed year for my running after coming off a great 2012

I’ll summarize the list of my yearly misery

Knee – 4 months very little running trying to figure out the pain in the knee which ended with surgery
(For every week not running – it takes a week to get back to where you were - you do the math = misery)
No TRI season – spent the time ramping up my base running after surgery
No Taylor Swift sightings while running on the beach although I did have fun scouting for Tom (Hi Julie)
Plantar Fasciitis – week before Surftown
Funk in the fall – felt like I had to run instead of wanting to run. I was really in the funk.
Back pain in the late fall

Favorite race:

Blessing of the Fleet 10 miler in Narragansett (July) - This was the best I felt all year and for about 8 ½ miles the company was great. I ran with Jeff, Matthew and Justin Kane for about the entire race. Great atmosphere and a must do for 2014.

Worst race:

Suftown – My overall time was good but I wanted better. Remember I ended up getting Plantar Fasciitis week before the race. Although on race day I was two days pain free until mile 11 when it started to swell up again – very disappointed. Sorry I was not able to join Muddy and crew in his moment of glory.

 The good in 2013:

Back to running with the group, meeting Beth finally, Chris, Nate and Ryan as they joined the rest of us in this sufferfest of running, bloging, stava world.
Fun Runs – that right FUN runs were you actually run with someone and have a conversation with instead of racing. I enjoyed the conversations with Steve S at the Westerly FUN runs.

2014

First goal - stay injury free, everything else will come like PR’s

Get back to doing a TRI or two (Crabman & the shark invested waters of Block Island)
I’m not one for keeping track of every mile of every run so I don’t have an overall goal on how many miles I want to run. I believe in rest days. I do enough data gathering for my job, so I don’t want of do data gathering for my running. Some days I will run with the space watch others I will run on tread mill – so JUST RUN

Races – no one specific race that is out of the norm for me, so I’ll keep in local and do the usual/typical schedule

Then there is the one thing I’m really looking forward for in 2014 – that is mid-July. Not because it is my favorite time of year (summer) but because Jeff will be turning 50 and going into that other age group. Racing with Colburn and parking in the handicap spot.

Happy New Year everyone and I hope everyone stays injury free for 2014