April Self Locomotion Update

We're 4 days into May, and I haven't published the updated results of our self locomotion quest.  I'm sorry for the great impact this has had on all of your lives.  Spring is slowly working its way to Michigan.  A very warm March was followed by a cooler April with lots of wind.  45° temperatures with steady 25mph winds do not make people want to go outside and self locomote.  The month splits pretty easily into 10 days of awesome, followed by ten days of not, and finishing up with ten days of "pretty good".  The graph shows this pretty clearly.  I've been slowly lengthening my runs, but still haven't done anything over 4.4 miles, which means we're still attacking the goal with many small chunks.  April was easily the best month so far, but we expected to do better as the weather improves, and I was a bit disappointed that we didn't do better.  Through the first 3 months of the year we were on a 700 mile pace, so we need average a 1300 mpy pace through the next 3 months to hit 500 miles by July 1st.  Then, we'll just have to mirror that through the second half of the year.  I'm amazed that 4 months in, 1000 miles still looks like a very challenging yet achievable goal.  Not bad for just picking a very round number out of the air.

The numbers:
April total: 88.50 mi
Total through 4/30/12: 261.93 mi
March pace: 10800 mi/yr
Pace YTD: 792 mi/yr
Current Deficit: 68.67 mi


The chart:
This chart nicely breaks things into months.  You can see how much ground we lost in January and February, how we nearly held even through March and the modest gains in April.