Summary of 2008

2008 was a great year for me. As I have mentioned before I spent the year focused on running and qualifying for the Boston Marathon. I achieved that goal at the Chicago Marathon and also qualified for guaranteed entry into the New York Marathon. All of the running really helped my triathlons also. I just rode and swam as recovery from the run workouts and did two tris and PR'ed at both. Additionally, I changed my eating habits early in the year and was able to drop about 15 pounds which greatly helped my running.



Race Results:

• Marathon: 2:58:15 @ Chicago Marathon - 342nd out of over 30,000
• Half Marathon: 1:21:50 @ Chicago Half Marathon - 53rd out of 10,483
• Half Marathon: 1:23:10 @ Rockford Half Marathon - 8th out of 692 - 1st in Age Group
• 5k: 17:15 @ Dan Gibbons Turkey Trot - 12th overall
• 5k: 17:51 @ Schaumburg 5k - 7th overall
• Half Ironman (70.3): 4:40:24 @ Spirit of Racine - 116th out of 1921 - 7th in Age Group
• Olympic Tri: 2:15:19 @ Chicago Triathlon - 35th out of 4089 - 7th in Age Group
  
  

Training Totals:

• Swim - 293,230 yards in 87 hours, 4 minutes - 1:47 / 100 yd
• Bike - 4472.2 miles in 244 hours, 45 minutes - 18.27 mph
• Run - 2402.33 miles in 310 hours, 9 minutes - 7:45 minute mile
• Total Hours: 642 Hours or 1.75 hours a day average