Icebreaker Indoor Marathon Relay
so over the weekend i was lucky enough to be able to do some left turn racing with my teammates from hillrunner.com at the Icebreaker Indoor Marathon Relay. we settled on a strategy of evenly dividing up the race’s 95 laps among the four of us by taking two laps at a time then switching to the next runner. i think all four of us went out a bit too fast for our first leg and settled into a more manageable pace as the race went along.
our team was in the coed/mixed division and it wasn’t long before our competitive mindsets had us checking the scoreboard for who was ahead of us, which turned out to be a team of college students from Marquette University. we did what we could to keep tabs on them but in the end they finished a little more than three minutes ahead of us.
regardless, our finishing time of 2:42:53 was good enough for 12th overall and 2nd in the coed/mixed division. doing a bit of math, we averaged 6:13 per mile…which was much faster than i think any of us expected.
looking back to 2014, i was able to log a few miles more than my previous best yearly total. in a practical sense, those extra few miles really don’t amount to much. however, i do buy into the concept that i am competing against myself, so being able to better my previous best is good enough for me.
12/11 – 7 miles
12/12 – 7 miles
12/13 – 6.5 miles
12/14 – 10 miles
12/15 – 7 miles
12/16 – 5 miles
12/17 – 7 miles
12/18 – 7 miles
12/19 – 7 miles
12/20 – 10 miles
12/21 – 9 miles
12/22 – 6 miles
12/23 – 5 miles
12/24 – 7 miles
12/25 – 9.25 miles
12/26 – 7 miles
12/27 – off
12/28 – 10 miles
12/29 – 7 miles
12/30 – 7 miles
12/31 – 7.25 miles
MTD – 216 miles (29/31 Days, 32 Hours and 32 Minutes)
2014 Total – 2,610 miles (345/365 Days, 383 Hours & 53 Minutes)
1/1 – 7 miles
1/2 – 7 miles
1/3 – 7 miles
1/4 – 6 miles snowshoeing
1/5 – 7 miles
1/6 – 6.25 miles
1/7 – 7 miles
1/8 – 7 miles
1/9 – 7 miles
1/10 – 6.5 miles
1/11 – 6 miles snowshoeing
1/12 – 7 miles
1/13 – 7 miles
1/14 – 7 miles
1/15 – 7 miles
1/16 – 7 miles
1/17 – 12 miles
1/18 – 6 miles
1/19 – 7 miles
1/20 – 7 miles
1/21 – 7 miles
1/22 – 7 miles
1/23 – 7 miles
1/24 – 1.5 miles w/u, 12 x 886 meters with ~10 minutes rest in between
1/25 – 7 miles
MTD/YTD – 177 miles (25/25 Days, 27 Hours & 11 Minutes)
Odometer – 40,325 miles