If you take the ratio of my actual to planned time spent training it's about 1.046. I call this the moose factor. I go out for a run in Kincaid and am heading home when I run into a moose on the trail. If the moose doesn't look like he's about to move, I find another way home. Or I'll be cycling along the coastal trail and come around a corner and... there's a moose. So I double back and forth until he wanders off the trail. I think that I may have discovered why Alaska has produced so many good skiers: they simply end up training more than their counterparts from non-moose country.