NaNo '05 was breezier for me as well. Actually, I seem to recall that we were both pretty neck-and-neck with regards to word count; we both finished in about two weeks.

Last year, we'd just gotten Alex; this year, I'm working on this story that is more challenging somehow, so I'm happy with my current average of about 2200 per day.

I don't tend to outline but I do have an outline for the '05/'06 story simply because the plot is rather complex and I was terrified of forgetting a section. I have a bad memory for plots, so I wrote an outline to hopefully prevent this from happening.