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A New Challenge

31st January
2009
written by Katie Harris

I have a new goal for the month of February.  

I read this motivating story a couple weeks ago and I recently started thinking of doing the same thing—only on a MUCH smaller scale, of course.  It’s about a Wisconsin man who has run every single day for over 10,000 days straight.  That’s before I was even born!  And that man doesn’t even hold the record.  

This guy does. Amazing.  Over 14,000 consecutive days of running.  (that’s since 1968 if you don’t want to do the math)

So my goal for February is to run every day.  Take into account my past 3 days of running, and that will be a total of 31 days straight.  Miniscule compared to these guys, but a big enough challenge for myself.

Let the games begin.

running

3 Comments

  1. Mindy Harris
    03/02/2009

    ok, so I don’t know if I’ll ever be a runner, but I’ll commit to exercising 30 minutes every day in February (I missed Feb. 1st so I’ll go til March 1st–I won’t let that ruin the fun plan though). Thank you for the neat idea. It’s less daunting than saying, “in 6 months I’ll be ripped like Heidi Klum.”

  2. kteharris
    03/02/2009

    I think that’s an excellent commitment, Mindy. And i have to say, yours is much more ambitious than my goal to run every day, because I have a minimum requirement of 1 mile, so I can just do that and be done in 10 minutes.

  3. Mindy Harris
    04/02/2009

    So far, I’ve had treadmill time the past 3 days. Today I was kinda sore so I only did 20 minutes, but then I did 10 minutes of crunches/stretching/weights. I hope that still counts. Also, it is hard for me to jog because I have to hold my now-mommy breasts with one arm, even with a sports bra on. :-) TMI? Oh well.

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