The 2011 numbers are in

This Sunday my “2011 season” is over! From Monday and the next couple of months I will move slowly into a more winter oriented training schedule that entails a lot of core work and a lot of swimming with the occasional run/bike ride thrown in, in order to keep me sane.

With that in mind I had a look at my training log for the last 10 months. I have kept track of most of my training with my trustworthy Garmin 305 and some of the more interesting numbers are:

Training sessions:

All in all I have done 200 training sessions, give or take a few that have been without the Garmin.

From January to April I trained for the Rutgers Half marathon and I did 17 training sessions pr month, almost of of this was running.

From May to July I trained to the New Jersey State Triathlon and I upped my training to 25 sessions pr month (22 in July due to some tapering)

In August I started training for Philly marathon and did 29 sessions. Most of these were running sessions, which in turn immediately gave me injury problems so I had to cut down to 21 sessions in September. October has 8 sessions so far (only counting until October 9th).

Hours spent:

As I added bike rides the time spent training went from 14 hours to around 24-27 hours in May and June and the kilometers went up from 200-250k to 400-485k.

All in all I am pretty happy with my year.

My stats:

So – what has all this training meant for my stats.

January 2011:
5k fastest time: 25 min
10k fastest time: 48 min
Weight: 84.5kg
Body fat %: 21

October 2011:
5K: 20:28
10k: 42.30
Weight: 79.5kg
Body fat %: 12