I've been thinking about running 365. And that doesn't mean that I've been eating, sleeping, dreaming, thinking running 24x7. I've been thinking about running every day for a whole year.
What? you might say. Well, I've been looking for something to do as a physical challenge. Marathoning after really not being able to run more than 18 minutes at a stretch just seemed out of reach and the time committment (@Lara is an outlier :)) just too much for the rest of my life.
So I have thought a lot about running every day for a whole year as a good challenge. There's a couple more ideas under the hood there, but more later if I really light this up. The inspiration for this idea comes from a buddy who did it last year and the whole story behind it is pretty funny (and below).
I'll keep you posted.
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One of the guys challenged us to last year to run @ least 3 miles a day every day for the entire 2010.
Now keep in mind, this crew of guys has been heavily focused on just about anything other than running of recent, so almost everyone except for the guy who owns a running store thought he was crazy.
At the time, what I didn't know until this year was the back story on why this guy was so fired up about this. This guy is in sales and so he's constantly making rounds to business offices.
On one call he runs into a gal I think he knew from college and she says 'Hey, you look great!'.
He says thanks and then she says 'Yeah, you've really filled in quite nicely.'
Well.... That was it. Like a little teenage girl, he loses it. "I'm a fat load" is what he was thinking. (I think he was 197 lbs -- keep in mind he is I think 6'3"). Dieting,working out and hence the challenge.
So when all of us blow it off, two guys don't and a couple of hilarious/unbelievable stories come out.
* These two dudes live in the same apt complex a floor above each other. When the guy realizes the other hadn't run -- Text goes out at 12:01 -- you run yet? To which he hears a groan and starts laughing.
* This guy got married this year and went on a delayed honeymoon far away. When they land it's 10:45 (East Coast Time I believe) and so as soon as they get to this pretty sweet hotel, instead of a glass of wine or checking out the hotel, he laces them up and out the door for 3 miles. Check.
* He and his wife also became parents for the first time near the end of the year. And you guessed it, you can see where this is going. his wife's water broke right in the AM around 7 so tells her to get cleaned up, get her bag and coat on and he'll be back in 30 minutes (that's right to get the run in).
His reasoning, which is some what spot on, is that that late into the year was he will probably have another kid but he will never run 365 days in a row again.
Amazing.
Now this is the same guy who used to say that during the season, if you gave a day off every week, at the end of the year, your competition was 52 days better than you but he never came close to running every day and actually was in relative 'normal" rather than 'runner' shape when he started this thing.
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