Seven Miles after work

Day 266 - September 23, 2009

Only 99 days to finish the first year of the current streak and break the old record of 364 days! I have to admit, as the amount of daylight each day gets shorter and shorter, I'm finding it harder to be excited about running. I just don't enjoy running in the dark and lately I've been doing a lot of late evening runs. Running in the morning has been tough to do with the sun coming up later and later each day. I've been telling myself I'll run at lunch or right after I get home, but inevitably, something comes up and it is after 8 pm before I get out the door.

Tonight, I wanted to run at least 5 miles and I knew that probably wasn't going to happen if I waited until after dinner, so I took my clothes and shoes to work so that I would run before coming home. Turned out to be a good idea and I ended up running just over 7 miles. I'm going to try and do this more often on Wednesdays, at least until daylight savings time ends.

When the streak gets tough

Phew -good thing I posted about the benefits of running at night the other day.

On Wed, I started a flooring project at a friends house that turned into a much bigger job than anticipated. On Thursday, I worked until about 8:30pm and finally got home to run at 9:30. I was sore and tired and barely managed to get 2 miles in. On Friday, I worked until 10:00pm and got home and out the door at 11:15 for a run in the rain - nice. Saturday was again going to be a busy day and we had family coming into town, so I knew an evening run was out of the question. That meant a 7am run before heading out to work on the floor. I was so tired and cramped from the last two days that I could barely stand, let alone run. It was the most pathetic 1.3 miles I have ever run. Thank goodness the first 25 days of February went better than the last three.

But, I kept the streak alive and I'm ready for March. Now I just need the wife to get home and watch the kids so I can go out and run in the falling wet snow - so much for spring.

Totals for streak through February 2009:

Days run - 59
Total Miles - 216
Total Time - 27 hours, 43 min, 02 sec

Geesh - I thought running 1000 days would be tough

Now this is impressive. I was doing a little surfing tonight and I came across JUST YOUR AVERAGE JOGGLER, Perry Romanowski's attempt to joggle at least 1 mile for 1000 straight days.

What is joggling? Well, joggling is what you get when you combine long distance running and juggling - yeah juggling. I have a hard enough time just not getting hit by cars - I can't imagine if I had to focus on three balls flying through the air.

The crazy thing - I was reading some of his recent posts and he actually tracks how many times he drops the ball while running. I guess when you don't drop them very often it isn't that hard, but for me, that would be like trying to remember how many cars passed me during a run.

I have to admit I'm really curious to see how it goes, so I added his blog to my reader feeds. Check out his site and read his story. I think it is pretty cool.