30 runs in 30 days - who's with us? (Page 181)

Originally posted by TRIMAN413

Congrats Brad!! I had to end my streak towards the end of the year at 205. My Plantar Fasciitis was just getting to bad. I was down to 1-1/2 miles a day just to keep the streak going and was not getting better. So I had some time off.

I am back at it again. just hit 19 days and I am working on building my miles back up slowly. I have a half marathon in March that I am preparing for and hope my PF does flare back up.

Great job and keep Streaking!!!

Originally posted by MSU_Brad Sorry to hear your streak came to an end. Good luck with the restart! Yesterday was 3 miles of speed work for #3488.

Originally posted by MSU_Brad

Sorry to hear your streak came to an end. Good luck with the restart!

Yesterday was 3 miles of speed work for #3488.

Originally posted by jmhpsu93

Sounds like the hammy is getting better.  Nice!

Originally posted by TRIMAN413

Great job Brad!! Keep it up!! Sounds like an incredible trip. Glad you were able to keep the streak going.

I have fallen off my streak again. Starting to think that my body is just not built for streak running. This time I was sidelined with what I think was a stress fracture. I took 5 weeks off with no running at all. That was a lot harder than I though. Really was missing running during that time. I am slowly getting back at it but taking it really easy to make sure I didn't come back too soon.

Originally posted by alltom1

I can't imagine how many times over the last ten years something was getting in the way of keeping the streak going but you went running anyway. How many sore throats/lousy weather days/jet lags/etc./etc..? Mentally tough!

This milestone is a great inspiration for the rest of us..congratulations.

Originally posted by MSU_Brad


Thanks!

The funny thing is that it just became second nature. There were definitely a few times in there where I wished I didn't have to run on a given day, but not necessarily on the types of days you listed.

Sore throats / being sick - sure, those suck, but I would take them real easy and use them as a distraction, in a way. I can remember early on in the streak feeling so crappy once (I think it was the flu) that I would run for a quarter mile and then sit down for a few minutes, and repeat. I probably really wanted to quit that day, but most of the rest, not really. I figured that even if I was going slow, it is not much more than 20 minutes out of the day.

Jet lag / travel stuff - I would nearly obsess about upcoming trips, especially big ones (French Polynesia, Africa), to the point where I would have it all planned out and would know how it was going to go long before the trip arrived. Sure, I might be tired on arrival, but I would look at is a bit of recovery / adaptation after traveling.

Lousy weather - Sometimes I would enjoy the challenge of running in the weather, or trying to beat the storm. Outside that, I had memberships to a few different gyms over the last 10 years, so generally weather wasn't an issue since I could just go run on a treadmill. I even paid extra for one membership for a while because it gave me keycard access to enter the building at anytime, rather than just regular gym hours. The last few years, we had a treadmill in the house. The closest I came to snapping the streak due to weather was early on. There was a bad snowstorm which accumulated a lot of snow in a short period, and roads became dangerous to travel. This was in the period where I was generally running after work. I ended up having to work a bit late, and by the time I tried to pull in to the YMCA, they had already closed for the worker's safety. My secondary gym also closed right as I pulled up to the building. So at about 8:00PM, in driving snow, I went out and ran 2 miles along sidewalks on the nearby major road. I was running through a couple feet of snow. I think that was easily my slowest run of the entire streak so far by some time. Very very hard work just to keep moving forward, but it was worth a good story!

The day after my only marathon was one where I really wanted to quit. I had such bad plantar fascitis during the second half of the marathon (side story - the first half was a PR for me at the time, and then it took me over an hour longer to do the last 13.1 miles than it did the first due to how painful it was). It was about all I could do to get out the door and trudge out a couple miles.

Mostly, the days you want to quit are just something mental, like man, wouldn't it be nice to get up and watch college gameday and then sit on the couch watching football from noon until midnight? Or a terrible day at work and a happy hour with your friends sounds great...moving to morning runs eliminated those post work concerns for the most part.

Either way, sorry for writing a novel here. It was actually kind of fun to start reminiscing about the good days and bad days!

Originally posted by mrheathen

#2922 - Eight years and one day. I don't have any momentous running achievements during the streak. Indeed, Runkeeper says I've done a paltry 5675 miles in that time. That said, starting a new streak helped pull me out of the worst year and has sustained me through mostly great but occasionally terrible times. Thank to those who were here before and those of you still around.