40 year running streak - today

And this is me feeling not so proud of my measly 12 miles before work today.

This is simply amazing - just awesome.

What would be awesome is if he was laid twice a day as well! Sorry everybody, I couldn't really help myself, I mean this IS a LR message board

Run much?

often much!

Thanks for posting that. I had filed that away in my fecund brain, but it withered. Mark is also #1 streak runner in America according to the Streak Runners site, which keeps an active list. There was one fellow ahead of him for years, but the guy (Bob Ray?) voluntarily ended his streak last year I think.

I wonder how many times Mark Covert has gotten arrested for streaking at least 3 miles every day for 40 years?

no arrests documented in 70s - pretty fast guy

80s unlikely as well

I don't think he'd claim that his runs in the 90s or 00s would qualify as discrete 'streaking' events, more like 'directed movement' faster than slow but slower than fast. Therefore I'm guessin the cops were probably afraid of him.

I can't read fast enough!

Impressive streak no doubt; but not taking a day off in 40 years?? That's just retarded

Retired after that many miles. Hats off to this guy I'm fatter than a duroc hog.

erouadjs wrote:

Impressive streak no doubt; but not taking a day off in 40 years?? That's just retarded

Why?

A running streak is not something to glorify. Running is like baseball: You can obsess all over the little statistics as much as you want, but at the end of the day, the only statistic that matters is the result of the game (or race).

BTW this is the list as of about three weeks ago.

http://www.runeveryday.com/lists/RunningStreakList.htm

777 wrote:

A running streak is not something to glorify. Running is like baseball: You can obsess all over the little statistics as much as you want, but at the end of the day, the only statistic that matters is the result of the game (or race).

Using your baseball analogy, should we not 'glorify' Cal Ripken Jr's amazing streak of consecutive games played? Just think about the whole concept of sport...it's not just about winning. That is an amazing thing he did. No, we shouldn't put him next to Pre, or Shorter, or Mills but that is something that is definitely worth recognizing and admiring.

btw - Mark ran his miles this AM with Jon Sutherland and some other guys I don't know - nor do they know me. While many of his miles have been solo - Mark values his time with his running friends ... running.

no one wrote:

...Miles were not ‘jogging’ or ‘easy’, until later in old age...

He started his streak while in community college in 1968, so if he was 20 then, he is around 60 now. 60 is not old age, but as a fellow old guy, I think you knew that.

erouadjs wrote:

Impressive streak no doubt; but not taking a day off in 40 years?? That's just retarded

Wow, I'm impressed, no doubt, with how retarded you are. This streak is just one of the many reasons that Mark Covert is legend and you are nobody. Do you understand what it means to accomplish something that nobody in history has ever had the discipline to do? All of that aside, even if it weren't any kind of accomplishment at all, why would you call it retarted to do something that you love doing every day at nobody's expense? The only reason I can think of is some kind of bitterness for not measuring up.

no one wrote:

40 years ago today Mark Covert began an improbable journey that would lead him on a number of 'adventures'

And today marks ... 40 years of running without missing a day ... running at least 3 miles. Most days were much longer. 10 year span of averaging 15 miles a day ... thru all tapers and race days.

13 years straight in which he ran over 4000 per year

9 years straight of over 5000 per year

3 years over 6000 per year

Lifetime miles = 149,876

Miles during the 60’s = 7,742 70’s = 55,202 80’s = 34,152 90’s = 24,361 00’s 18,589

So, long may you run, Mark. What a guy. Never do things half way.

Epic stuff, clearly. Thanks for noting Mark's milestone day, my friend. It tickles me to recall being on the same stage w/Mark a time or two in his early days of the streak...when the streak was well down his list of priorities. I have one 5 1/2 year streak & am working on a 4 1/2+ year streak now. Streaks have lives of their own are satisfying in ways unique to each owner.

Sounds like a guy who wasted a good portion of his life. You have to keep things in perspective people. It's only running!

777 wrote:

A running streak is not something to glorify. Running is like baseball: You can obsess all over the little statistics as much as you want, but at the end of the day, the only statistic that matters is the result of the game (or race).

Not very many people got game results as good as MC's were. Think consistency and determination might have factored into those results?