August Summary

279 miles on the month with about 15k of gain.

I hit 2037 miles on the year this morning, which is more mileage than I ran in four of the last five years, with four months left in the year. Unless I get hit by a bus in the next 10 days or so, this will be my biggest year of training since 2017, when I was doing almost no workouts of any kind, just long days in the mountains. 

I have never run more than 3000 miles in a year. Not when I was training for ultras. Not when I ran in college. I had big blocks of 70-100 mile weeks back then, but there were always injuries in my big years that kept the yearly totals down. Since I’m already more than 2/3rds of the way there, hitting 3k has become a bit of a mini-goal for me this year. 

Another very long-term goal is hitting 100k lifetime miles. Even though I’ve never been a high mileage guy, I have been consistent runner since I was 12. I’m over 57k lifetime now, so I would need some degree of mileage focus to get there. But projecting out 15-20 years with my current volume or something close to it, it’s not that crazy of a thought.