andrewdoak

I no longer have any idea what I am doing. My original goal was to reach 200mi in a month. Then to break an 8min mi average run. Then to run for 100 days straight. Then I guess I figured since I wasn’t taking sick days off from work I could continue to run as well, so why not try for 120 days. Here is it. I don’t know what else to do now? Do I continue for another 120 days? I’m not sure if my body can continue at this pace. I feel great, but my lower abdominals are so tight I can’t do a sit-up without sever pain. Seriously. No joke. When I cough, it hurts. When I sneeze, holy shit, hold on, cause “wince” doesn’t begin to illustrate the visual uncomfortableness I am feeling. Other than that, I guess I could continue, but I’m tired. Not unlike the nickname a few of you have labeled me with (Forest), when he got tired he simply stopped. I’m not sure I am there yet, but I really feel close. Anyway, by the numbers:

• 120 days straight of running “at least” a 5k a day
• 778.6 total mi
• Average of 6.48mi a day

So, I have this running addiction. Healthy or not, it is what I do every day. It has been what I have been doing every day for the past 110 days. That whole time I have been well. Today I am sick. Not sick of running, but sick in general. Earl Grey hot tea with honey sick. I am debating wether I run or not today. Why even question it? Well, I am trying for a clean 120 days straight of runs. Not sure yet. If I do later, you wont know about it cause the wife would kill me. if I post something about 120 days straight later in the month, you’ll know what I ended up doing later today.

I didn’t plan or set-out to do this; it just happened. I didn’t say to myself “..I”m going to run at least a 5K every day for 70+days..” I just wanted to run at least 3m a day (little more for the 5K obviously). Today marks the 70th day of doing so. I might have that change that to at least a 10K a day, since I have been trying to run twice a day, typically at 10m+ combined. Here’s to 30 more days.