Success!  I have completed one entire month of running every single day (I started in January since February was short).  Final recap:

Day 28 – 4 miles

       29 – 1 mile

       30 – 2.5 miles

       31 – 12 miles

That’s a total of 104.3 miles for the 31 days….Whew!  

Oddly, I feel like this is the only challenge I’ve ever given myself that I have been 100% without a single doubt successful at.

And a much as I wanted to keep my streak going, I decided not to run today.  It’s March 1st—the first day in 31 days that I haven’t ran.  I felt kinda weird, like I should’ve been doing something important.  But I restrained myself and realized that I deserved a little break.   

Ok, mostly it was because I needed a break.  Not because I’m injured or exhausted, but if I keep going, at what point will I ever stop?  I would keep pushing for a lengthier goal—100 days, 1 year, 1000 days…— and the only beneficiary of it all would be my orthopedic surgeon, requiring weekly visits while we figured out how to do a double shin transplant.  So I delved into my seldom-used left brain and rationalized that I should stop this before it becomes an addiction or injury.

No rest for the weary, though.  Superfab right brain tells me that I love running and can’t stay away from it for too long, no matter what the costs are.  Plus, I just registered for this little puppy:

Let the real running begin.