Day 1474 (ex)

Easy run with family coming in town.

14:00
1.42mi


www.mapmyrun.com/workout/220679606

Day 1573 (ex)

A good run today, before volleyball with the kids. All the reading of sword fighting and war in space from the In Her Name series has me motivated to lose some weight and get stronger.

20:00 run
2.1mi

http://www.mapmyrun.com/workout/216311032

Day 1572 (ex)

A good run late in the day. Between lifting and not sleeping right, I had a sore neck nerve, but some Aleve and Icy Hot this morning and taking it easy all day helped.

18:00
1.94mi

http://www.mapmyrun.com/workout/216072970

Day 1571 (ex)

Lifting day. I took my son to the gym and we did 18:00 min of biking, then 40:00 of hard lifting. Really tired after working with free weights.

18:00 (bike)
40:00 (weights)

http://www.mapmyrun.com/workout/216072800

Day 1570 (ex)

A good run today after 6 days off.

24:00
2.60

http://www.mapmyrun.com/workout/215555528

The End of a Streak

I stopped running last Friday.

After 1564 days, I reached a point where it didn’t work in my life. I was on vacation with the family, we’d skied all day, it was late, kids were hungry, and I needed to cook some dinner. I was thinking to take 20 minutes out of the late afternoon and run, but the hotel where we had booked a week didn’t have a exercise room. It was icy outside, which felt too dangerous to me for a run there.

I  could have driven over to a local health club, but interrupting every afternoon, especially when I’d worked hard on the mountain, just didn’t seem worth it. Delaying dinner was even a worse idea, to me. So I made the decision to stop, and move on with life. I knew this streak would end in 2013 with a week long scout trip on a sailboat, so I was prepared.

Putting aside my streak, I went to the store, bought groceries, cooked dinner and called it an easy night with the family.

And I was OK with it. It felt a little weird not to run, but I was tired from skiing and my body didn’t miss the exertion. The rest of the week I skiied hard, not worrying about saving anything for a run and enjoyed the time off. As of today, it’s been 6 days since I’ve run, though I’ll run today.

I was 234 on the active streak list that day, and ending at 1564 puts me at #114 on the retired list. I sent in my note today that I was done.

I may start another one, but not right now. I do want to aim for exercise every day, but I’d like to try a few new things. My wife has wanted to try hot yoga, and I’d like to give that a go. I am aiming for some swimming, more weight lifting, and perhaps even back into martial arts along with the skiing, baseball, volleyball, and of course, running.

Day 1569 (ex)

Light day on the mountain.

1:30:00

http://www.mapmyrun.com/workout/215509324