1 year, 1000 miles

I'll give it a try. :=) I got 4 miles for 2013 already.

Only 996 to go. 

Set your goals where ever you need to. For me it's 1,000 miles. That's enough that if I don't keep up on it I'll fall really far behind really fast - but not so much that it takes forever. I'm pretty slow, but even for me three miles is less than an hour a day. So depending on how you want to break it down:

1,000 miles a year

83.333 miles a month

19.23 miles a week

2.74 miles a day

If you run 3 miles a day instead of 2.74, you can miss almost 32 days and still meet the goal. So there is some flex room. Just depends on what works for you.

I'd say we should check in with the group at least weekly, any less often and it's too easy to get left behind. Also, if someone wants to join in the middle, I'm cool with that. We can either prorate miles, or your year can start whenever you do. 

Good Luck!

Good job so far everyone! 

I need a judgment from the panel.  I have been dealing with an Achilles tendinopathy for the past month-ish.  Have been doing PT, and it has been going well, I started run/walks just before Christmas.  Then I got sick, didn't do anything for a week.  On Jan 1, I went for a 6km walk with no issues.  Last night, I did 4.5km run/walk and my Achilles was 'niggly' during the run.  This morning I have crepitus and PT says no running or doing my Achilles exercises until that is settled down.  I am *hoping* that this is a minor setback and I will be back at it (albeit slowly) next week.  In the meantime, I am ok to do aquajogging.  Since I can't calculate distance 'run' in the pool, I am wondering what everyone thinks about this: my recent run/walks have been about 8min/km.  Would everyone be alright if I counted 1km for each 10min of aquajogging?

I realize that probably no one cares but me, but I would like to keep the integrity of the challenge intact.  And I don't want to drop out of the challenge either!  I await the ruling

Looking back a couple of posts - it started with this 

Set your goals where ever you need to. 

If you are going to be on the shelf (or in the water) for a while, maybe calculate how much time you project 1000 miles would take you and make it a time goal for the year instead.  (i.e.   I average 8:40 miles which is 6.9 mph thus 1000 miles would take me just over 144 hours)

I think I have blocked out how aqua jogging compared.  Last July I majorly pulled a calf muscle.  I was already way behind on half mary training for a race Aug 11.  I didn't run all month but did manage to get 5 aqua jogging sessions.  I really believe it helped.  I generally did 24-30 minutes and it seemed comparable to a 5k training effort for me.  

Ok, 1 year 1000  miles  you are just doing 3 repeats of it 

Thank you, I was trying to say this as well, but couldn't get the words out. You said this much better than I could. So...ditto!

I am in.

Thanks for the motivation!

I think Peto's got it right. It's like you were thinking -- count the time you think a mile would take you. (Did I say that right?  You know what I mean!)

Well, despite waking up 3 hours late I still managed to get my run in. 3 more down. 988 to go. 

So many people jumping on board - awesome, I'll put together a list for everyone in the next few days so we can link to everyone's board. 

Have fun and happy running!