After I started looking at my mileage by month - I realized what an Idiot I really am. You be the judge - check this out - see if you can tell what I mean...
Got it? In case you missed it, the graph starts in June of 2011 (I bought my Garmin then). I started running again in April of the same year after having been a coach potato for about 8-9 years. No friggin' wonder why I was always dealing with some sort of nagging injury! Granted, the graphs for 2011 are incomplete, because I interspersed treadmill running in there (which was not captured), but COME ON! I deserved to get injured.
In hindsight, I feel lucky that I even made it to the Philly Marathon at all, let alone finish it! Good grief, I was either too stupid, or too stubborn, to realize what I was doing at the time, but you know what they say about hindsight...
On a brighter note, it seems evident to me (post Marathon), that I've gone about this quite differently and much more responsibly...
Hints and Allegations:
I'm thinking about running that R. Falls Playground Run this Saturday. It would be fun to obliterate my course PR there - even with a DS I think I could shatter it. Other things in life might prevent me from running it though. We'll see...
OK - give it to me, tell me how dumb I was/am - or share your pride vs. intelligence stories...
