4,000 cumulative miles running

[John B]

This week I finally went past the 4,000 miles running mark and I'm pretty happy about it. It took me several years and a helluva lot of injuries and recovery time. But I never thought I could do it because I used to be a smoker and never ran at all. I could hike all day and never get tired, but I couldn't run. I've lost 36 lbs in not quite 3 years, too. Now half marathons are easy, and barring injury I'm looking forward to my first 50-mile ultra race this fall.

If you want to run and keep a log, you can go to www.runnersworld.com (http://www.runnersworld.com) and get one for free. Enter your daily run miles and time, and it will calculate pace, etc. It also keeps cumulative stats and lots of other stuff.




Distance:

4003.3 Mi



Time:

662:58:39
(27 days, 14 hours)




To give perspective:
New York to LA: 2,777
Lexington, KY to Anchorage, AK: 3,947
New York to Paris: 3,722

[Energizer Bunny]

That is awesome!!! Congratulations!! My husband starting running about a year ago and he just hit his 1000 miles. Right now he is training for a 50k trail run. I'm not a runner - the Army cured me of that - but I respect those who love it :-)

[WhiplashEm]

That's awesome! I quit smoking and started running earlier this year and I've been going through a rough patch lately so this is very encouraging. Thanks for posting!

[Mags]

Woo hoo! Good stuff!

[Spirit Walker]

Congratulations! I started running a year ago, then got sidelined for 5 months due to injury (sfx) but have started again. It has proved to be a lot more fun than I expected. I'd still rather go backpacking, but since that's impossible right now, running fills the need to be out there moving.

[mudhead]

You figured out how many pair of shoes that took?

[Winds]

One question arises though: If you run from New York to Paris, do you need really good snorkeling gear?

Outstanding John, thank you for the motivation!