It occured to me that I post a lot about running without necessarily talking about how many miles I’ve been doing day-to-day. Mainly because I think my posts would be a bit repetative – ran 3 miles, missed a training session etc. So to prove that I have been putting in some miles and that I’m not all mouth and no trousers – here’s how my year of running is shaping up.

The graphs (courtesy of the guys at Fetch Everyone) show this year’s mileage broken down into weeks and this years mileage Vs last year’s mileage month by month.

The first graph shows how I’ve found it hard to get back into a regular rythem since the marathon. A lot of people describe having ‘post-marathon blues’ and I definately felt I lost my mojo for a while. And I’m not quite sure I’ve got it back yet.

The second graph is interesting from a half-marathon perspective. I’ll be doing the same October half-marathon as I did last year but I’m hoping to knock at least five minutes off my time – so the yellow bars need to be bigger than the red bars in order for me to do that. This July I clocked up just three more miles than July ’09 which won’t be enough. Although – if I’d have done my 10 mile run on Saturday as planned instead of Sunday it would have been in July. So in Auguest and September I need to be clocking up more than 70 and 80 miles. Watch this space.