The Twotim47 Podcast

What you'll hear on this episode:  This is Gene Dykes' 2018 running year in review - in his own words: My running year in review! I've had a few requests to post both an overview of my 2018 running season and a preview of 2019. This post looks back on 2018 and in a few days I'll post what I'm looking forward to in 2019. Normally, I schedule a year ahead of time by picking the really fun adventures I want to have, and then I'll schedule competitive races into the remaining time. However, I turned 70 in 2018, so being at the top of a new age group, I decided to let competitive races take priority and limit my adventure runs. It turned out well! (I set nine US age group records, and I won 10 USATF national titles) And now, lots of boring statistics, with a little commentary thrown in: Miles run: 2,597 (no, I wasn't tempted to go back out New Year's Eve to run 3 more miles) Races run: 43 races in 40 weekends for a total of 725 race miles Even though I ran more races in a year than ever before, because I ran