The Miles are Piling Up

I’ve been keeping track of my steps and miles since Friday, January 9, or for about two months now. I use a week starting with Friday and ending with Thursday.

I’ve not reported on this for some time now, but thought I would jot out a quick post about my mileage for the last month. Since I have decided to train for the half marathon, not the full, the training miles won’t be totally outrageous. Here are my miles for the four weeks between Friday February 6 and Thursday March 5:

Week ending Training Miles Total Miles
2/12 -------------- 28.3 ------------ 50.8
2/19 -------------- 32.3 ------------ 58.6
2/26 -------------- 26.9 ------------ 53.0
3/5 --------------- 23.7 ------------ 49.5

For that four week period, I trained 111 miles and traveled on foot approximately 212 miles. The later includes my training miles and all my miscellaneous walking during the week – up 7 flights of stairs at work multiple times a day, walking to points in the office, taking a quick walk at lunch, and so forth.

The rate that my training miles are accumulating tells me that I may need a new pair of shoes by the time of the half-marathon, something I would dearly love to avoid if at all possible. I bought my shoes on February 1, and the majority of those 111 training miles are on these shoes. At this rate, I will have nearly 300 miles on the shoes by the date of my race.