lucKY2b wrote:
*Week 446*
Last week I posted this resolution for myself: Resolve to do at least 3 miles (running or walking) every day? Happy to say I've gone 8 straight days of getting in at least 3 miles of mostly walking but generally at a brisk pace (15-ish min/mile) and including some hill repeats and strides.
All the Best!
Re: LucKY2b
I hope you are still on track with your 2020 daily run streak. Consistency in training can be (and is) a powerful tool. I embrace that belief more than most runners would ever I consider.
Today I had good speed workout at the local university’s indoor track. A good workout of 200s repeats and strides at mile race pace. It is the same facility that as five year in 1962 I sat in the bleachers with my grandparents and watched my mother go through her college commencement exercise. As weird as it sounds, I remember asking my grandfather why there was a 'road' (i.e. the track) inside the building. He patiently explained that it was for people to run on. I did not fully grasp the concept, but thought it was interesting.
13 years later (1974) during the Christmas break of my senior year of high school I ran my first indoor race at that same field house. I remember is that was pretty exciting with a couple hundred other high school kids packed in there that cold windy night. BTW, I got thoroughly thumped in my heat.
Later in my senior year of college at that same facility, I won a two mile racewalk in around 14:10 +/- and qualified with a decent NAIA indoor nationals pre-race seed. (I faded badly at nationals and missed All-American status – still bummed about that).
All of these memories brings me back around to today's workout. Just about seven miles total with warm up/cool down with jog recoveries between repeats).
Today's workout in that same familiar facility marks 10,000 days of running daily of at least three miles a day. It seemed appropriate that I marked this mini milestone there - that and the fact that is 25 degrees, windy, and too icy to do a decent speed workout outside.
I am not fast, but I am persistent (and stubborn). I starting keeping track of this 'streak' on the first day my wife and I ever went out on a 'date'. Just haven't had enough reason to stop.
Hope all of you that can (and want to) can get a run in today as well....