Run Streak Day 550

The last time I encountered a day that did not include a 1 mile run in it was on December 26, 2011.  I remember the day clearly. I had a part in Hawaii Kai with my high school girlfriends and our families.  It was a great day to relax, eat, and unwind.  I brought my running stuff with me in case I wanted to run.  I was already on a month long run streak at that point, my last day off being November 23rd.  I also knew that I was planning on going for a year long run streak in 2012.  Anyway, the day was filled with good times and I decided against running while at the get-together.  We got home late that night and I decided not to go on a run that evening.  Since that day there have been countless miles. I have no idea how much but I know I ran 1700 something in 2012 and have run 809 so far this year.  The numbers are simply CRAZY!

Run a mile every day. It is actually a lot easier than one would think.  It takes most people anywhere from 5-17 minutes to run a mile.  When you think about your day and all the minutes wasted 17 minutes is actually very simple to carve out. Some days are harder than others and a lot of planning has to take place.  This is especially true if you're a full time and part time working mom of 2 like I am.  But even with a busy schedule, 11 minutes to run a mile is Nothing.

And so I run and run and the question is always, "When am I going to stop?"  I said I would stop if I physically could not run or if squeezing it in was just too impossible.  Being too lazy or just don't feel like running have never been good enough in my mind to stop the streak.  But an end is near for sure simply because I don't wanna end up being the crazy woman who ran 3,000 day straight.  And if you know me, you know that I am crazy enough to end up doing it.

Anyway, today's run was a nothing special 3.25 mile run.  I did 9 miles yesterday and have been working hard on squats, lunges, and other plyo exercises so today's run was slow-mo all the way.  I could not for the life of me pick up the pace and because I got a late start (had to take a nap after my last day of teaching Kindergarten) the 5K is all I could muster before softball practice.

So another run day is logged and being the anal person that I am I will now work toward 600.  Who knows if I'll get there, we'll both have to wait and see!!