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A Year in Running

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As 2017 is winding down, Steven and I have been talking about all the races we did and the training we did to get there and thought it would be fun to take a picture of all of our race shirts/medals. That led to us talking about how much we have run overall. And that led to us deciding to do a brief recap.

This year we ran quite a few races. All but one had shirts and most had medals. Here's how it all went down:

January - No Races

February - Run 4 Love 4 Mile


March - No Races

April - Iron Girl Clearwater 5k - Kristen Only
            IOA Corporate 5k - Steven Only
            RunDisney Star Wars 10k




July - Watermelon 5k


August - Celebration of Running 5k


September - Battle of the Bands 5k - Steven Only


October - U Can Finish 5 Mile


November - Turkey Trot - Steven Only


December - Reindeer Run


I did the Iron Girl alone (with my mom and sis-in-law) because it is women only. Steven did the Battle of the Bands alone because it was the week after Hurricane Irma and I had taken the kids to my parents' house because we were still without power. He ran the Turkey Trot alone because I had to prep Thanksgiving dinner that day.

With 2017 winding down, we are talking about our race schedule for the next year. This year we hope to return to the same races minus the Disney race but we plan to add a 5k in January and a 10k in March. I think it would be pretty cool if we could figure out how to do one race a month (minimum) but summer races are harder to come by in Florida so I don't know about finding a June one. We will look though. We have been considering running the Bridge of Lions 5k in St. Augustine in July but we would have to figure out the timing with people to watch the kids. I don't think strollers are allowed since it is over the bridge... but even if they are, I don't know that I would make it over it with the double stroller. Especially since it isn't actually a jogging stroller which makes the entire thing a bit more difficult. Regardless, it should be another fun year of running. And hopefully another year of trying to meet goals.

Here's our numbers on the year:
Steven:
     Miles Run - 205.84 (Biggest Month - January @31.36)
     Miles Walked - 278.46 (Biggest Month - January @34.89)

Kristen:
     Miles Run - 176.5 (Biggest Month - June @37.1 miles)
     Miles Walked - 60.27 (Biggest Month - May @17.34 miles)

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