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That time of the year comes where I summarize my running activities. It's now 4.5 years that I resumed running, after nearly 10 years without active sports. Apparently, things continue to improve, though I'm logically reaching my limits in some way.

I finally missed the 2500km mark by 14 kilometers, mostly because of a cold I had during the last 2 days of the year.

The grand total is thus 2486 kilometers run, in 237 hours (9 days 21hours), at about 10.5km/h. The climbed height difference is 27700 meters, so about three times the altitude of Mount Sagarmatha..:-)

This was achieved in 294 "activities". That seems to be a lot (nearly 1 activity per day): indeed, there are days where I have up to 4 activities, when I run to/back work, which means two runs in the morning (3+4km) and two in the evening. If I count the number of days where I had at least one running activity, this lowers to 181.

In short, I ran about every 2 days. Indeed, along the year, the biggest timeframe between two runs has been 7 days. In short, I ran at least once every week during this year. The most active month was July with 272km and the less active was September with 163.5.

When counted by distance, this summarizes to:

• less than 5km: 169 activities, 603km, 11.2km/h average
• 5-10km: 38 activities, 308km, 10.8km/h average
• 10-15km: 43 activities, 507km, 10.6km/h average
• 15-20km: 19 activities, 330km, 10.2km/h average
• 20-25km: 13 activities, 281km, 10.8km/h average
• 25-42km: 8 activities, 245km, 9.8km/h average
• over 42km: 4 activities, 208km, 9km/h average

When it comes at results, I ran 8 official races during the year : two "ultra" races (70km Le Puy-Firminy in November, by night and 55km Paris Ecotrail), two marathons (Paris, two weeks after Ecotrail, and Berlin in September), one 35km trail race (Trail des Cerfs in May), two half-marathons and one 12km cross-country race in my hometown.

The seasons "peaks" were clearly the Ecotrail+Paris Marathon succession in March/April, the Berlin marathon in September and my longest race ever in November. Most were as successful as I expected, except maybe Berlin marathon, were I was secretly hoping to break my record (indeed, I can still be proud of running in the same race than Patrick Makau breaking the world record in 2h03'38"). An injured ankle unfortunately prevented me to prepare it as serously as I was hoping. This year was indeed the first year where I was trying to go beyond the marathon distance as another challenge. And, believe me, ultra distances are really fun (yes, running 9 hours by night *is* fun!).

Indeed, I only regret not breaking one of my best times (either half-marathon or marathon). I'll try to do that in 2012.

How about next^W this year? Well, my goals are currently being secured:

• increase distance again by running the 80km Paris Ecotrail race (and this time finishing at Eiffel Tower's 1st floor). That will be late March.
• run two marathons during the year and try to break my 2010 3h40'19" record in one of these. The marathons will probably be the "Courants de la Liberté" marathon near Caen and along the D-Day beaches, in early June, and Budapest marathon in early October
• run again the Le Puy Firminy 70km night race in November because I enjoyed it a lot (this race is such a "small" one that it doesn't even have a web site..:-))
• probably run 3 half-marathons in my neighbourhood: Bullion (February), Rambouillet (March, two weeks before Ecotrail) and Bois d'Arcy (September). The latter will likely be an tentative against my best time (1h37'20", same place, in 2010)
• start thinking about a possible 100km in 2013...:-)
• have good runs during my holidays that are likely to happen in Nicaragua in July (guess why?)

Busy program....I cross fingers for no injury to come and disturb all this.

This article could become one of my recurring "let's make noise about translators work" articles. You've been warned.

In Squeeze, a few languages reached full completion of debconf strings, those "questions" that are asked during packages installation or upgrades. This can be followed here (for unstable: we don't have an online status page for testing).. Many of you, particularly those who aren't bored at reading me, know that I like pushing this friendly "competition" as a good way to encourage progress in localization of that part of Debian.

As of now, we have really good and active teams that are able to maintain a great completion in this. Several of them are likely to reach full 100% completion for wheezy. Let's look at the current status:

• Seven languages are currently the best candidates for full completion: Czech, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, German and French. They will definitely reach 100% in unstable and I'm tracking the status in testing, which is currently excellent.
• The status for Japanese is a bit unclear to me. Though the completion is quite high, I don't witness a constant effort to bring what's incomplete to the complete status. So, I unfortunately doubt it can make it to 100% (Japanese translators, you know what to do to prove me wrong...)
• Vietnamese which is next in the ranking has a specific situation. Its main (by far) contributor, Clytie Siddall (who is a very well known figure in the l10n community for free software as she contributed to Vietnamese l10n of many end-user software), cannot currently do the highly dedicated work she was doing, because real life sucks. There have been tentatives by the local community in Vietname to take this effort over, but they're probably more focused on end-user software than Debian work.
• Dutch and Danish are the best suspects for joining the 100%-fighters club. Both now have at least one very very motivated contributor who's "jumping" on each and any pending l10n work. So, yes, Jeroen Schot and Joe "Dalton" Hansen, you can make it!
• Effort for Italian is not as constant as it could be. It is maybe missing a noisy and hardworking "leader". Still, I know that the team is very active in other areas of localization such as the DDTP (where Italian is leading) so, maybe one person could diverge his|her attention for debconf work..:-)
• A few next languages see a more hectic activity: Galician, Finnish and Basque used to have one very active contributor, but recent activity is much much lower.
• Brazilian Portuguese sees some effort but the situation is similar to Italian, here. The pt_BR team is more focused on the DDTP (and does well in this). It might only need a motivated volunteer, but 100% is quite far and the effort would be focused on wheezy+1
• Slovak is indeed one of the good candidates for "could be 100% some day". Progress is currently quite regular but Slavko is starting from very far away and it will take time. Keep going on!
• Other in the ranking are really mostly stalled, so if you language is among them....then, you known what to do!

I hope this maybe gave you the idea of joining these efforts. Please pop up on one of the i18n mailing lists if you're interested, and if you don't know where to start, then debian-i18n See you soon!