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Year (click to view)	Total Mileage	Number Runs	Average Milage	File Size	Comments
Summary				11k+	Mileage Summary
by Month				60k+	Mileage by Month/Year
2010	-	-	-	00k+	current year
2009	-	-	-	00k+	current year
2008	-	-	-	134k+	Third year running
2007	-	-	-	136k+	Second year running
2006	-	-	-	109k+	First year running

As a New Year's resolution in 2006 I decided to take up running. I'm doing this as a form of cross-training since most of the time I ride my bike(s) for exercise. From what I read and hear it's good to have a form of weight bearing exercise in your regime. So we shall see how the knees hold up to the pounding of running. Most of my early running was done on a rubberized track at the local junior high school ( Hixon Junior High School). More recently I've been creating routes all over my local neighborhood and various other places while traveling out of town.

I keep a log of all my runs for grins and for reference. Each log represents a year's worth of run. The logs are kept in Micro$oft Excel and webpages generated through Excel. The comments usually indicate what route I took and note anything interesting that might have happened along the way.

Run Speed Matrix:

Run/Walk Speed Matrix - shows speed in minutes and seconds per hours and total time for the most popular run distances.

Saint Louis Area Resources - Calendars:

Big River Running:

• Race Calendar
  
• Race Results
  

Columbia (MO) Track Club:
Run Calendar
Fleet Feet Sports:
Race Calendar
Race Results
Go Saint Louis.org:
Race Calendar
Prairie State Runner:
Illinois Race Calendar
Saint Louis Track Club:
Race Calendar
Swim Bike Run St Louis:
Race Calendar

Tracks I've Visited:

Hixon Middle School - Webster Groves MO
630 South Elm Avenue
Webster Groves MO 63119

St. John Vianney High School - Kirkwood MO
1311 S Kirkwood Rd.
Kirkwood MO

St. Louis Community College at Meramec - Kirkwood MO
11333 Big Bend Blvd.
Kirkwood MO

Southwestern College - Winfield KS
100 College St.
Winfield KS 67156

Dacula High School - Dacula GA
123 Broad St
Dacula GA 30019

Northeast High School - Kansas City MO
415 Van Brunt Blvd
Kansas City, MO 64124

Salida High School - Salida CO
905 D Street
Salida, CO 81201

Lindbergh Senior High School - Sappington MO
4900 S Lindbergh Blvd
Sappington, MO 63126

Parkway South High School - Ballwin MO
801 Hanna Rd
Ballwin, MO 63021

Organized Runs I've Participated In:

St. Patrick's Day Parade Run - Saint Louis MO
Jim Schoemehl 5K Run - Webster Groves MO
Make Tracks for the Zoo - Saint Louis MO
Ivory Crockett Run 4 Webster - Webster Groves MO
Kirkwood/Webster Turkey Trot - Kirkwood/Webster Groves MO
Erin's W.I.N.G.S. 5K - Saint Louis County MO
Annual 5K/1M Run/Walk and Community Health Festival - Saint Louis City MO
Run for Congo Women 4.2M - Saint Louis County MO
I64 Run - Fun on the Freeway 5K - Saint Louis MO
Big River Christmas Lights Run 5.3M - South Saint Louis City MO

Useful Links:

All Sport GPS - provides fitness training enthusiasts with a revolutionary new way to track their workouts and performance via GPS.

Mapping Tools - Collection of useful online web based mapping tools. Very helpful for laying out routes for walking, hiking, bicycling, running etc.

Track Lane Distance Calculator - This script gives runners and track officials the offset distances for a given lane on a multi-lane running track. From a position on the inside lane to a parallel point on the outside lane, there is a difference in distance. Therefore, a staggered start with different starting points yields a finish of the same distance for all lanes. Enter the designated length of the race, the lane number and the lane width (usually between 1.2 and 1.28 meters).

Track Calculator - North American Racewalking Foundation --- promoting racewalking throughout the United States and Canada. Have you ever been frustrated by having to use the outer lanes of the local high school or college track. You know what you want to do in Lane 1 but are not sure how to adapt your plan to the outer lanes. You could give up on using the track, you could bully your way onto Lane 1, OR you could use our Track Calculator to develop confidence in using any lane of the track for almost any workout.

Quotes:

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
- Martin Mull

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse
- Ann Trason

Somewhere along the line, we seem to have confused comfort with happiness
- Dean Karnazes

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!! What a ride!
- running buddy of Dean Karnazes

Exercise is for people who can't handle drugs and alcohol
- Lily Tomlin

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
- Ray Bradbury