End of the Year Stats
2019 was a great year for me, personally and professionally. I record all of my tracks in GaiaGPS for navigational purposes, but I also record my activities through a fitness tracker (original a Fitbit but now a Garmin Instinct) that syncs with Strava. Strava has a paid subscription called Summit which offers three types of additional features: Training, Analysis, and Safety. Since I have an inReach, I don’t pay for the Safety pack, but the Training and Analysis packs are useful in my conditioning plan.
Strava runs a cool little program annually called “Your Year in Sport” which summarizes your stats for the year in a flashy little presentation. Here’s the summary of my stats for 2019:
- 153 active days: This would be higher if I counted things like walking Daisy, but considering there are only 104 weekend days in a year and some of those weekends had garbage weather, I was happy with this stat. It averages out to about 3 days per week.
- 394 Total Hours: Works out to about 2.5 hours per activity and 7.5 hours per week. It’s probably not a coincidence that my average Tiger Mountain conditioning hike takes about 2.5 hours!
- 1,003 miles Total Distance: I’ll admit that I peeked at the stats near the end of 2019 and saw I was just shy of 1k miles, so I used my time in Texas to get some last-minute trail runs in before the end of December! Still, I think a thousand miles is a nice milestone and it works out to only about 20 miles per week, which is totally doable!
- 314,095 ft Total Elevation Gain: This may be the number I was most happy with since you can only get it in the mountains. Time on the stair climber may improve your health, but it won’t do anything to budge this stat! This works out to just over 6,000 ft of gain per week.
- Sunday – Most Active Day: This just made me wonder what the hell I was doing on Saturday?
My main takeaway from this is that, at least for Washingtonians, stats like these are well within reach for the average “weekend warrior”. Of course, in the end, what matters is that you are enjoying the time you do spend outside and that it is enriching your life.
Here’s to a strong 2020!
