Year long goals

I had a goal of running 1,000 miles this year. I realized early in the month that I'm probably going to fall at least 100 miles short of said goal. But it got me to thinking about all the races I have fun this year. So I tallied them all up here they are in chronological order.
Cobweb Chaser 3 Miler
River Road Run 12 Miler
3M Half Marathon
AT&T Half Marathon
Capital 10K
Charlotte Race Fest Half Marathon
San Antonio Women's 5K
Marine Corps Marathon (OORAH!)
Turkey Trot 4 Mile Run
Mission 10 Miler

Well after doing this I realized, if I run two more races I'll have run 12 races this year. Which well, is a pretty good year if you ask me. So I looked for two races, which is how I came about the Tough Ombre 10K that I wrote about last week. Then I really had my work cut out of me finding one more race. Most of the Christmas runs were the same weekend as the 10K. I did however find ONE more run in Austin, the MADD Jingle Bell run. So John and I drove up there on Sunday so I could accomplish this small thing of 12 races this year. And I ended up having my best 5K time, well probably ever of 33:30. Which is pretty impressive if you figure most of my runs are about 11:30, except for my fluke 10K last week. It's even more impressive if you know that I was at the 2 mile point 24:00 into the race. I saw the clock and that WHAT THE?!?! I knew that the last mile was downhill, my ankle was feeling really good, so I decided to see what all I had in me and put it in high gear. And what do you know, apparently I can run a 9:30 mile (when going downhill).
So that was it, my best 10k and 5K times ever and I ran 12 races this year. I think when it comes time to close the books on 2007, I can feel accomplished and hope for 1,000 miles next year!

On a marathon training note: I had a really lousy run on Saturday. We were doing a hilly 10 mile run and at about mile 6 my ankle said "we're done" and I had to walk in the last 4 miles. I wrapped the ankle on Sunday for the 5K and had no pain. So I might keep doing that. I still haven't registered for Austin. I think I'm holding out hope that i can run the full marathon. We'll see