December 2021 Monthly Running Challenge

@rheddmobile I'm sorry your heart acted up again. I'm glad it's not life threatening but it sounds scary and horrible and I hope there will be a way to stop it or reduce the occurrence from here on.

Great end to the year everyone. Love your end of year log @polskagirl01 - fantastic year of activity! @quilteryoyo very nice of you to go in and log your miles for the challenge. i am happy for you to count walking if you would like to enter those but it's up to you and your time. If we have to swim a little bit to get to shore in the new year, we will Impressive work as a group this year!

Date :::: Miles :::: Cumulative
12/01/21 :::: 0.0 :::: 0.0
12/02/21 :::: 2.2 :::: 2.2
12/03/21 :::: 3.1 :::: 5.3
12/04/21 :::: 10.1 :::: 15.3
12/05/21 :::: 4.0 :::: 19.4
12/06/21 :::: 3.1 :::: 22.5
12/07/21 :::: 3.1 :::: 25.5
12/08/21 :::: 3.1 :::: 28.6
12/09/21 :::: 1.7 :::: 30.3
12/10/21 :::: 3.3 :::: 33.6
12/11/21 :::: 4.5 :::: 38.1
12/12/21 :::: 4.1 :::: 42.2
12/13/21 :::: 3.1 :::: 45.3
12/14/21 :::: 4.0 :::: 49.3
12/15/21 :::: 4.0 :::: 53.3
12/16/21 :::: 0.0 :::: 53.3
12/17/21 :::: 2.7 :::: 56.0
12/18/21 :::: 13.7 :::: 69.7
12/19/21 :::: 3.6 :::: 73.3
12/20/21 :::: 2.0 :::: 75.3
12/21/21 :::: 3.1 :::: 78.4
12/22/21 :::: 3.0 :::: 81.5
12/23/21 :::: 0.0 :::: 81.5
12/24/21 :::: 4.0 :::: 85.5
12/25/21 :::: 0.0 :::: 85.5
12/26/21 :::: 7.1 :::: 92.6
12/27/21 :::: 5.3 :::: 97.9
12/28/21 :::: 3.0 :::: 100.9
12/29/21 :::: 3.1 :::: 104.0
12/30/21 :::: 0.0 104.0
12/31/21 :::: 6.7 :::: 110.7/110 mile goal

I'm afraid I didn't take one for the team either and go for another half marathon to end the year. But I did make my goal of 110 miles for the month, my highest monthly total all year. It started raining at the end or I may have done a little more, but the cold rain helped me decide that enough was enough.

I end the year with 1103 miles, which is the least I've done since my first full year of running in 2016. I have an excel graph of my miles per month since I started tracking in Nov 2015 - so I thought I'd share that nerdery with you all. The call outs are just highlighting some of the months that were significant in some way - like the height of my marathon training mileage in September 2018 and when I ran the 48 hour challenge and had my highest mileage month in May 2020.
Also, my Strava summary gave me these interesting stats for total mileage and elevation for the year - this includes all my running, walking, and hiking activities. July was a big month! I did 7 high peaks that month and ran 93 miles
I'm happy to wrap up the year this way - maybe lower running miles but a lot of total miles and meeting a major goal of finishing the 46 high peaks of the Adirondacks. The year had its ups and downs in much more than those hikes, and I am trying to focus this end of the year on cherishing the "ups" and acknowledging but not being overwhelmed by the "downs".

May we all have a beautiful and fulfilling new year. Happy new year's eve friends.

December Totals: 96.1/100 miles

12/3: 3.1 miles
12/4: 6 miles
12/6: 4.6 miles
12/7: 4.7 miles
12/8: 3 miles
12/9: 5.1 miles
12/11: 9 miles
12/12: 4.5 miles
12/13: 5.1 miles
12/15: 3.1 miles
12/16: 5.6 miles
12/19: 10 miles
12/20: 5.1 miles
12/22: 3.1 miles
12/23: 5.1 miles
12/27: 5 miles
12/28: 5.6 miles
12/30: 3 miles
12/31: 5.4 miles

Close but not quite to goal. Was supposed to be 5 miles at HM pace. With the hills I knew I wouldn't be able to maintain the target pace but I tried to maintain effort. It was a hard run with very high humidity ahead of a mega cold front coming in tomorrow. But, got it done!
See you guys in January!