2008 Year in Review

In my mind, 2008 was the year of the marathon for me. Looking at the results, it doesn't seem to be that way at all though. Stretching out the Great Alaskan Maritime Marathon into 3 seperate events, I completed 12 races this year. I PR'd at the Chicago Marathon and ran a 10 miler PR by default as Ten for Texas was my first race at that distance.

2008 was also the year of the achilles for me as I reinjured my left achilles tendon in early February and nursed it for most of the year. I do think I found a solution to my problem with custom orthotics that I started running in late in the year. Time will tell.

Here are the distances and months:
2 5k's {May and June}
1 5 miler {June}
1 9k {January}
1 10k {June}
1 10 miler {November}
4 1/2 marathons {January, February, April, June}
1 marathon {October}
1 200+ mile relay race [23.4 miles total for me] {February}

February and April races were run injured; no fun at all.
No March, July, August, September, or December races. Guess that's where the marathon training took up all my time and miles!

I'm looking forward to running the Houston Marathon next month and getting back to shorter distances for the remainder of 2009. The latter part of 2009 will have me running long again prepping for my January 2010 39.3 mile Goofy challenge weekend in Orlando.