2016 Sports Review

Yet another 2016 review post—sports and activities in numbers, figures, photographs, and videos :)

2016 in Infographics

2016 in Videos

Strava has made an animated visualisation of my sports data:

2016 in Photographs

February

In 2016 I ran again the Laufen hilft 5K race.

May

Tri 4 Fun — Sprint Race @ Vienna City Triathlon

August

November

2016 in Strava Challenges

While 2015 had me discovering not only Strava but Strava challenges and led to quite a few issues due to over-challenging myself, in 2016 I was smart to compete in less and easier challenges (and only the one with the fun not-regular badges):

This was an easy one: cycle to work that day.

Another easy one: run at least a few hundred metres that day.

This one I almost completed even though it was right in exams time. In the end I missed it by just a few kilometres. Much like my final exams. Much like the road bike I tried to order on that occasion.

The Reebok challenge had me running my first ever mile run test in 6:33 or 6:06 per mile or 3:47 per kilometre.

2016 in Numbers & Figures

Overall, 2016 was a very relaxed year—sportswise. No racing apart from a 5K and a for-fun sprint triathlon. With my studies for massage therapy, our co-housing project, and last but not least our wedding preparations going on I decided to do sports just for fun and stick to a kind of natural sports flow. The following diagram shows this pretty clearly:

Training duration by training zones per month in 2016.

August was our holiday month and thus most of my “training” took place in that month. Similar to 2015 this year’s focus was on recreational activities and strength and mobility training while at the same time neglecting the training as compared to 2012–2014/15:

Training duration by training zones per year 2009–2016.

In fact, 2016 saw me logging the most activities and hours in both, strength training and mobility stuff. Perhaps this is a focus thanks to my newly gathered knowledge in anatomy and physiology. Anne and I also sticked with video workout programmes and discovered a really cool new YouTube channel. We will surely keep working out with fitness blender in 2017 and perhaps some of this stuff:

After my 2015 sports review I decided for 2016 to just go out and have fun. Well, that is what I did. In 2017 things might change a bit. For one thing I will be a cycling courier for at least a few months which will have me cycling a freight bicycle five days a week. This might have a huge impact on my base fitness. And if my daily business allows I would like to continue the current weekly threshold interval run meeting with my old Team Reblaus Racing friends and maybe throw in a Wien läuft-Run every now and then, at least the Fun Cup-Series. And if things go really well why not try the Ljubljana Marathon end of October? We’ll see…