Resolution time! Who is up for the 2021 in 2021 challenge? Will you go for 2021 miles, or like me will 2021km be the target?
Over the last few years as we have risen to the challenge of 2014 in 2014 up to 2020 in 2020, my trivia knowledge has improved enormously with interesting facts posted matching either the number left or the number completed. Look back at the previous threads for ideas.
On a personal note I turn 67 in a couple of days and have managed the challenge most years: if I can do it, you can! A bit of a close shave some years but the challenge was a major motivator in keeping the training going. You will hopefully find the thread a positive support! All are most welcome!
So, to put some figures on the 2021 in 2021 challenge:
To achieve 2021 kms, or miles, you would need to average 5.54 kilometres or miles a day for the 365 days! That averages out at 38.75 km per week, which converting from kilometres is 24.08 miles a week.
If you work in kms, like I do, you need to average 8.92km a day or 62.44km per week to achieve the 2021 miles.
On average about 168.4km or miles per month!
2021 miles is 3252.48k; 2021k is 1255.79 miles
If the targets are too easy for you, why not see how quickly you can get there?
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Happy New Year everyone.
I'm in for km's, too. I'd love to come up with an annual elevation challenge, but all the options I can think of either seem too easy, or impossible. Maybe I'll have to settle for 2021m a month - which is definitely a commitment to including hills regularly, but nothing too crazy.
Started off the year with a very fun run through the woods. To avoid people, I took some of the less trodden paths, through branches, over ditches, logs and other obstacles. The result was ducking, diving, leaping, some fancy footwork, and a few slips and slides where I was lucky to stay upright! I love looking at stats on runs like these: 250 max cadence and max vertical oscillation of 20cm (which I'm pretty proud of!) today for instance.
I left through the woods at the bottom of appropriately named Hell Hill, and did a couple of reps, which were tougher than I remembered! I tried to judge what I thought was a steady effort, but Strava reckons GAP was below 4:00min/k on that stretch, which makes me feel better about the heart rate. After that, on to another park for a little loop and back home.
8km and 150m elevation gain in all.
8 is considered to be a lucky number in many Asian cultures, symbolising various things like prosperity, good fortune, heaven and the infinite nature of the universe.
The square of any odd number (except one), minus one is always divisible by eight, a mathematically provable fact.
Today's run was a tour of the nastiest hills around Streatham, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Ended up doing a half, so lucky 13 for me.
Had intended doing this for 2020, but a combination of lockdown (busy at work) and appendicitis meant the middle 6 months of the year didn't really go to plan. Think I ended up just under 1500km.
Last month or so, doing about 40 miles per week, so we'll see how it goes this time.
6k today, only 2015 to go. In 2015, the Hatton Garden Heist happened, and the BBC fired Jeremy Clarkson
Do you run up Rock Hill? That one's much shorter but by god is it steep!
A four mile recovery run for me today, which brings me to 17. Which happens to be the date of my birthday (in June).
Reasonable here, also: now on 2006 to go. In 2006 Howard Grubb revised his WAVA talbes. Don't know where we would be without those! A big incentive for me, for one!
(alehouse, I run my club's Club Championship and I have quite a complicated spreadsheet that makes use of those tables. Well, the spreadsheet wasn't used much in 2020 and it's not been populated for 2021, with no races!).
3 January – strong winds and high tides bring flooding to large parts of Western England, Wales and Scotland
2001 was of course a film title: 2001: A Space Odyssey. Released in 1968, even before the first moon landing, it has been described as a game changer in the cinema world.
So 1998 to go. Seems like very recent history. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was released and the Euro became a currency.
In 1981 the first London Marathon took place with just over 6000 finishers.
In 1990
Namibia gains independence from South Africa
In 1977, the Ford Fiesta goes on sale in the UK.
+44 is the international dealing code for the UK.
6 this morning, taking me to 59 with 1962 to go. Dr No, the first James Bond film (if you discount Niven's Casino Royale) aired this year with the late Sean Connery in the lead role.