Monday, February 7, 2011

100 Mile Club

Back in day, well just middle school, we had a little thing called "100 Mile Club." Not sure if other school districts honored the friendly competition between students. Basically it separated the athletic from the not so gifted in the athletic department kids. I thankfully, enjoyed running back in the day and especially that cold Sparklets water that waited for me after my 8th lap. So, the premise of the "club" was that by the end of your 8th grade year, which gives you three years, you were suppose to run 100 miles, so every week, we ran for 50 minutes and collected chips for every lap around the local park. I hated it, trust me, I rather dance for 3 hours then endure the pain of running, but I realized that it was a good thing.
Let me get to my point, this year, I'm going to try to run 100 miles. Little known fact, in my three years at middle school, I ran about 200 miles (I collected: an awesome pair of socks at 25 miles, cheap nylon duffle bag at 75, royal blue sweatshirt at 100, a fashionable white hoodie at 150 and forgot to collect my polo shirt at 175). So how hard can it be to run 100 miles in an year? Well let's see:

I have 365 and 100 miles to run. We are about 38 days into the new year. I have ran about 3 miles so far. So I have 97 miles to go! And tons of days to finish.