Continuing along with my ocd 2009 year in numbers moving on to the year in swimming.

In 2008 I went 290,000 yards, 162 miles, and this year I set myself a goal of going at least 200 miles. I didn’t want to set the goal too much higher then 2008 since I knew that at the end of February we would be having Caroline and I wouldn’t be in the pool to much after that.

Things went much better then anticipated and I managed to go 387,000 yards, 240 miles.

January and February were really strong months and as expected after Caroline was born I didn’t get in the pool for over a month. Then things picked up again and in July I managed to post an all time high of 32.9 miles. October through December were pretty slow months starting with a week off for Amanda and Ben’s wedding, then I got sick in November, and finally the holidays in December.

In addition to keeping track of yards swam I also kept track of hours in the pool. I swam for a total of 112.5 hours or 4.69 days. Holy cow that’s a lot of hours in the pool. If your doing that math that works out my average swimming speed of 2.14 miles per hour.

The other thing I kept track of was the break out of swim vs kick, vs pull.

Obviously the swim is going make up the majority of the yards but I was surprised by the 46,000 yards kick. You can see that I’m not a real big fan of drill since it barely registers on the graph.

Other numbers for the year.

• Netflix movies – We rented 52 movies this year. Certainly no record based on how many I hear other folks go through but that works out to one a week which isn’t too shabby.
• Jen drives about 1,400 miles a month, and since I’m now working much closer to the house I only drive about 650 miles a month.