This has been an unusual year in terms of biking. Never before have I biked so far, climbed so much, or went so fast. The intense training paid off with better times this year for almost every event I tackled and also completing some very difficult events for the first time. But to achieve this I have had to let running slip as can be seen on this chart.  This is also due to that this is the first year in several that I have not ran a marathon.

So this morning Ann and I ran 6 miles.  That was difficult.  Some of difficulty might be due to my legs still recovering from the Furnace Creek 508 last weekend, but it is also true that I have done little jogging in the last several weeks. I does seem odd that I might be in the best physical shape of my life but find it hard to run only 6 miles at a 10 minute pace.  I now feel I need to get back more into running and bring some balance back, although I will likely still focus on cycling for most of my physical activity.

I am now thinking to look for a marathon or half marathon in the Spring as a way to get me to start to run more.

Just to show that the lack of running was not from doing less. Here are the same charts for my biking this year, both miles and feet of climbing.  If you click on the graphs you can see that in both areas I did more than any time in my life.

I have one method of trying to equate running and biking.  It is just an approximation by using estimated calories for each sport and then converting everything back into equivalent of miles of running.  Using this approach I get this chart.

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