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The top searches that led to my blog in April were:
- hillsboro roubaix [2009][results]
- bicycle commuters blog hardman
- my name is rob
- frederick marathon
- dahon helios
- mathematica 8
Interestingly, Mathematica 8 does not exist and I’ve never mentioned it on my blog (before now).
Cycling
The Hillsboro Roubaix road race was at the the beginning of the month. Aside from that I took it pretty easy on the bike last month, only doing four hard rides. I’m a good 500 miles behind where I was at this time last year. I can think of at least two reasons for that…
April 2009
| Bike | Distance | # Rides | Avg per Ride |
| Bianchi | 56. Mile | 10 | 5.6 Mile |
| Big Red | 1.97 Mile | 1 | 1.97 Mile |
| Pocket Rocket | 55.23 Mile | 9 | 6.13667 Mile |
| Thundercougarfalconbird | 258.98 Mile | 7 | 36.9971 Mile |
| Total | 372.18 Mile | 27 | 13.7844 Mile |
January – April 2009
| Bike | Distance | # Rides | Avg per Ride |
| Bianchi | 245.5 Mile | 51 | 4.81373 Mile |
| Big Red | 3.97 Mile | 2 | 1.985 Mile |
| El Fuego | 39.92 Mile | 5 | 7.984 Mile |
| Pocket Rocket | 113.73 Mile | 23 | 4.94478 Mile |
| Thundercougarfalconbird | 752.72 Mile | 17 | 44.2776 Mile |
| Total | 1155.84 Mile | 98 | 11.7943 Mile |
Running
The Illinois marathon came and went. My running mileage was down a bit in April due to the pre-marathon taper and the post-marathon recovery. Looking at these numbers, even I’m fairly impressed that my average run length this year is 10 miles. Compared to this time last year, I’m 135 miles ahead. That’s one of the reasons my cycling mileage is down.
Anyway, I’ve decided that I want to try to run another marathon this spring. I’m just not happy with the race I ran at the Illinois marathon. I can do better. I’m leaning towards the Rockford marathon on May 17.
| Month | Distance | # Workouts | Avg per Workout |
| January | 109.34 Mile | 10 | 10.934 Mile |
| February | 55.83 Mile | 7 | 7.97571 Mile |
| March | 108.792 Mile | 10 | 10.8792 Mile |
| April | 74.85 Mile | 8 | 9.35625 Mile |
| Total | 348.812 Mile | 35 | 9.96604 Mile |
Swimming
I even cut back on the swimming around the marathon, but I’m back at it now. My first triathlon of the season (Tri the Illini) is this Saturday on campus.
| Month | Distance | # Workouts | Avg per Workout |
| January | 1.87452 Kilo Meter | 3 | 0.62484 Kilo Meter |
| February | 14.9504 Kilo Meter | 6 | 2.49174 Kilo Meter |
| March | 19.5224 Kilo Meter | 7 | 2.78892 Kilo Meter |
| April | 13.3502 Kilo Meter | 6 | 2.22504 Kilo Meter |
| Total | 49.6976 Kilo Meter | 22 | 2.25898 Kilo Meter |
W O W ! ! !
Great job.
mom
I’m afraid Brett and I might have searched for #2 often and always ended up with your blog.