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addiction (plural addictions):

1. The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
2. A habit or practice that damages, jeopardizes or shortens one’s life but when ceased causes trauma.
3. A pathological relationship to mood altering experience that has life damaging consequences.

His addiction was to courses vain. Shakespeare.

After yesterday’s terrible, painful, exhausting long run, I figured the best remedy to a bruised ego is another annoying year-end review. This time, I thought it would be fun to review how frequent and long I ran.

First, here’s a few charts that show my monthly and weekly progress. The first two graphs show my weekly and monthly miles. The next two graphs show my weekly and monthly average miles per activity.

That was fun! Here’s some more interesting facts about my addiction:

• 797 total miles
• 128:57:57 total time spent
• 45:47 minutes spent on average per activity
• 9:43 average pace
• 169 runs
• 4.7 miles on average per activity
• 31,116 feet ascending and 34,975 feet descending
• 96,196 calories burned
• 569 calories burned on average per activity

Wow, I can’t believe I spent that much time running. The odd thing about that is I am by no means a long distance runner. My core run is the tempo run which usually doesn’t exceed 6 miles. If I miss a run, it’s almost always the long run.

Another interesting fact you may have noticed was the huge downturn of time spent running from about March to May. This was the time that I spent preparing for a qualifier; running a 4 mile long run was an awful experience.

So this wasn’t too bad considering I only targeted half-marathons. I seemed to get by a whole year using SportTracks. pyTrainer seems to have stagnated. It’s a shame because I can’t stand closed-source applications. Maybe 2009 will bring a more active community.