2000 to 2002..............2001 and 2002 saw a dip in mileage at 2,746.0 and 2,537.9.........a 7.5 and 6.9 average respectively.........2002 was and still stands as my least productive year since 1990.......I wish I had run that extra 17.1 miles to make it a round 7.0 average so I could say I have not dipped below 7.0 since 1990......I am obsessive that way. Sometime in 2000 marked what I consider my 4th era of running and my shortest to date........lasting into 2002 when I shifted into my 5th and present era of running. It is nice that during this period I have set some first and PRs in some areas.......once you get past 40....at least with me........the PRs come in the form of quantity and mile totals. In December 2003 I set a PR for highest mileage/average month by running 345.0 miles for an average of 11.1 miles a day.....this broke a record of 331.5 that had stood since January 1984......on month shy of 20 years. My new PR only lasted a year though.......I set new record in December of 2004 by running 346.0 miles also for an average of 11.1 miles a day. In 2004 I ran my second 10.0 average a day year by putting in 3,672.0 miles.......this was also a PR for mileage in a year.......breaking the previous record of 3,663.2 miles set in 1992. This lasted one year until 2005 when I ran 3,678.0 miles for my third year of averaging 10.0 miles a day. As of this writing on 10/23/06 I have run 3,011.7 miles for the year.........if I keep my present pace at 10.1 miles a day through the end of the year I will have run around 3,715 miles...........so I am on pace to set a record for the third consecutive year in mileage.........not bad for 46 years of age. I have done 46 runs of more than 20 miles.......13 Marathons of course and the rest in my daily runs.......I used to be better about doing long runs on a regular basis but slacked off in recent years......for example......my best year was in '95 when I did 10 runs of 20 or more miles........I did 3 in '99 and then did not do another until '03 and did none in '04 and '05........I am trying to remedy that and ran a 20 miles on September 22nd in 2:49:56......an 8:29 pace......... did my second of the year three days ago on the 20th of October in 2:44:37........an 8:13 pace. More on those and my plans later.