{"id":129937,"date":"2010-01-01T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T16:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feld.com\/wp\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2010-01-01T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T16:17:10","slug":"my-2009-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/129937","title":{"rendered":"My 2009 By The Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last year I did an obsessive experiment.  Every morning, as one of the tabs in my browser (then Firefox, now Chrome) during my daily information routine, I opened up a clever application called Daytum<\/a>.  In it, I tracked four things: the number of miles I ran, the number of books I read, the number of segments I flew on which airline, and where I slept.  Following is the summary and some commentary.<\/p>\n

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I had a disappointing running year.  I usually cover over 1,000 miles \/ year.  I lost about four months this year to either injuries (silly ones) or a cold (I had a multi-month bacterial infection that took a while to figure out and nail.)  Also, I didn\u2019t run any marathons which, while a bummer, was something I expected would happen sometime on my question for 50 marathons by the time I\u2019m 50 years old.  So \u2013 2009 will be known henceforth as \u201cthe lost year for Feld Running.\u201d  My goal in 2010 is six marathons and 1500 miles.  And I\u2019ll be tracking it obsessively with other software.<\/p>\n

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I typically read one or two books a week so 78 seems about the amount for a typical year.  I always find the categories interesting \u2013 I read less SciFi this year than normal (I\u2019d expect it to be on par with Mental Floss).  The business books read are higher because I\u2019m getting so many in the mail as \u201cpre-release\u201d or \u201creview\u201d copies so I\u2019m trying to at least read some of them.  No different goals for 2010 \u2013 just \u201cread what\u2019s in front of me that looks interesting from my infinite pile of books.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Airplane travel in 2009 was totally fubared.  I eventually decided to try to stop flying United and shift as much travel as I could to Southwest.  I expect the ratios to be very different in 2010.  I also took way too many short trips in 2009 and have decided to completely change my travel rhythm in 2010.  Specifically, I\u2019m only going to travel every other week \u2013 my goal in 2010 is to spend every other week in Boulder.  Now, I know there will be exceptions, but I\u2019ve already scheduled out my weeks in Boulder for the year so all I have to do now is be disciplined about scheduling.<\/p>\n

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I was fascinated to see the distribution of \u201cwhere I slept in 2009.\u201d  I expected Eldorado Springs (my main house) to be at the top, but I also expected Keystone (my mountain house) to be ahead of Boulder (my city condo).  The business travel is as expected \u2013 San Francisco, Boston, New York, Seattle, and LA.  Vacations and weeks off the grid were San Diego (tennis), Mexico and Nassau (beach), and Santa Fe.  The balance are short trips for specific things.  The one think that I will not do in 2010 is \u201c30,000 Feet\u201d \u2013 I\u2019m completely done with redeyes.  And \u2013 no Alaska in 2009 \u2013 I expect I\u2019ll spend 31 days there in 2010.<\/p>\n

In 2010, I\u2019m going to track an entirely different set of data \u2013 namely, all of my health and fitness data as part of my exploration around the idea of \u201chuman instrumentation.\u201d  I\u2019m currently using a Zeo, Withings Scale, BodyMedia BodyBug, a Fitbit, and a Garmin 305.  Look for more on this soon.  And \u2013 if you make a device that tracks anything about the human being, drop me a line \u2013 I\u2019m interested in talking to you.<\/p>\n

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Last year I did an obsessive experiment.  Every morning, as one of the tabs in my browser (then Firefox, now Chrome) during my daily information routine, I opened up a clever application called Daytum.  In it, I tracked four things: the number of miles I ran, the number of books I read, the number of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}