I used to be in shape, I used to be a runner, not anymore. Now I’m a father, a husband, a BI Consultant for Pragmatic Works, and seriously out of shape. But something happened this week that made me think that I could give back some of the pounds that I’ve gained. You see I’ve started using Twitter for professional reasons, and I follow a lot of people it the SQL Server community and I noticed a bunch of tweets going around about #runwithsteve and @way0utwest. In a nutshell Steve Jones just crossed the 1000 straight days of running. That is a seriously impressive feat.
They say that Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so here I go. I’m not going to try to run for 1000 straight days, I’m just going to try and run everyday, one day at a time, one mile at a time. I’m starting today.
Here are the parameters I’m setting for myself.
- Dressed appropriately for the run, meaning shorts t-shirt and running shoes'
- Must run at least 1 mile straight. Cannot breakup the run into 1/2 in the morning and 1/2 at night
- Even if I do another form of exercise that day, I must still run.
That is it. Its not complicated, it just takes a commitment, and in part that is what this blog will be my commitment to myself to post once a day with the results of my run for the day, with a link to map my run.
I also plan to schedule some races here and there just to keep things interesting and measure my improvement. The big one will probably be the Half Marathon in Jacksonville in 2012 @262withDonna, with some random 5k and 10k races along the way. If you have any tips or encouragement you want to pass along, please feel free to leave a comment. Wish me luck and follow my progress here.
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