As I did in in 2024, last year I tracked my running (in miles), my personal writing (by word count), how many hours I spent playing RPGs with friends, and how many books I read.
In 2025, I covered about 370.7 miles, which is significantly more than the year before (264 miles), and got me to an average of more than a mile a day. That said, the year was significantly front-loaded, since Jenn & Kelsey & I all ran the Brooklyn Experience Half Marathon at the end of April. Training for that packed almost 251 of my miles into the first four months of the year.
I still managed to run pretty regularly the rest of spring and summer – Jenn and I also did a four-mile race in downtown Cleveland which culminated in lap of the field at the Cleveland Guardians’ ballpark, and that was really cool.
My fastest mile of the year was a 7:30 on the treadmill in February. So was my fastest 5k of 24:34. My fastest 10k of the year was a 55:27 in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in early April. I did a lot of Planet Fitness treadmill time in the winter months, and again the vast majority of my outdoor running was in the CVNP or Cleveland Metroparks. I managed a few now-traditional outdoor miles in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin in March during Gary Con, and my also-now-traditional 5k during downtime at the Pittsburgh Dragon Boat Festival. And I put in a few more New York miles in and around Central Park in August.
On longer runs, I spent time listening to the audiobooks “Red Mars” by Kim Stanley Robinson and “Leviathan Wakes” by James S.A. Corey. But they’re for another post.
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