2009 in Review, ONE Goal for 2010

Here are my 2009 year-end totals, to keep me honest:

- Swim: 72,882.92 yards (or 41.41 miles)
- Bike: 808.94 miles (outdoors)
- Trainer Rides / Spinning: 19:58
- Mountain Biking: 2:00
- Run: 607.37 miles
- Lifting Weights / Core: 118 times
- Weight: 156.6 start, 156.6 end, 158.8 high, 150.4 low

Some notes on those numbers:

- Swim: better than last year, thanks solely to Julia!
- Bike: quite a bit better than last year (yes, 800 miles NOT including trainer time is MUCH better than last year). But I still need to do much more bike work.
- Run: 100 miles short from 2008, but I was training for a Grandma’s Marathon in 2008.
- Lifting Weights / Core: similar to 2008.
- Weight: similar to 2008.

- Duathlons: 5 total (3 individual, 2 team)
- Triathlons: 6 total (1 Half Ironman, 2 Olys, 1 sprint, 2 indoor)
- Half Marathons: 1
- 10 Mile: 2
- 5K, 4 Mile, or 10K: 5

Highlights:
- Ran my first ever stand-alone 10K.
- Biked in my first ever Time Trial.
- Smashed my previous Olympic Distance PR with 2 olys in 2:23 this year (2:23:06 and 2:23:00).
- Won my first “triathlon.” (Triathlon is in quotes because it was an indoor event with 60 athletes.) And had my first triathlon AG finish (2nd in the 20-29 AG at the St. Croix Valley Olympic Distance Triathlon).

Looking back, I think the best part of 2008 was watching the students from the College of Visual Arts “Triathlon Club” finish their first event. I don’t know how many times I’ve went back to look at the post where they all tell their story of their first sprint triathlon. Click here to read their stories and see them in action in their first triathlon.

So this past year, I put up this image and was going to try to avoid finisher’s photos that looked like this:

I was sick of seeing me finishing with one leg (a “one-legged pirate finish" as I call it), and I hated seeing photos of me stopping my watch as I hit the finish line. I did NOT do a good job of fixing that in 2009 because I still came up with all these photos below!!

First, here are some of me hitting my watch:

Winter Carnival 10K


Ironman New Orleans


MDRA Mudball


Chisago Lakes Triathlon

And here some of me as a “one-legged pirate” during my final kick:

Cannon Falls Duathlon


Gear West Duathlon


Monster Dash 10 Mile

Finally, here are some of BOTH a “pirate” finish AND hitting my watch at the same time:

Winter BeGone Duathlon


Apple Duathlon


Twin Cities 10 Mile

I’m DONE trying to avoid these photos! So my single New Years Resolution is to get a photo at the finish line of every race this year with me as a pirate, stopping my watch, or (the best possible image) as a pirate WHILE stopping my watch!

Screw you, 2010. If I can’t get the finisher’s photo I want, I’ll start “wanting” what I get. Bring it. ;)