On a whim, I registered for the 2015 miles in 2015 with RunTheEdge.  I had originally planned on attempting 2000 miles for the 2015 calendar year but then one of my “friends” had to go and point out to me that if I registered with RunTheEdge and run 2015 miles, I would score a very nice medal.

#WillRunForBling

I signed up.  I’m such a sucker for a gimmick!

To be honest, I was pretty tentative about this lofty goal.  Last year I barely, and I mean BARELY made my mileage goal of 1600 miles.  2000 was going to be a pretty big stretch!  Like my “friend” said, though, what’s another 15 miles!?!

I had a huge mileage December. A little over 200 miles, so I went into this year pretty tired.  Ran as well as I could in January but ended the month a little below the miles I needed to make the 2015 goal.

February.  Wow.  The entire month of February was one giant taper.  PLUS, Feb is a short month!  Yikes!  My taper was pretty lame.  I kept piling on the miles while trying to catch up with myself.  Ran a marathon on Valentine’s Day and did a quasi taper for a 50K the first weekend of March.

So, here we are at the end of March.  The first quarter of 2015 is drawing to a close.  Time to tally things up and see just how things were stacking up with this goal I let myself be talked into.

My mileage total for March was 184.40 miles.  This was a pretty hefty month as far as miles go.  I added all three months together.  I really, really, really wanted to be close to 500 miles but didn’t know how short I would be.

If I was super low, I didn’t know how I would be able to catch up my miles in April.  So, I grabbed a piece of paper, a pencil and started counting…

509.15 miles.

Sweet!

I am right where I need to be!

This also means that I can and will take a rest day tomorrow!

Rest Day…has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it???

Nice to know that I’m not going to have to be frantically playing the catch up on miles game.

Whew!

*Next race:  April 11.  Columbus Pilgrimage Half Marathon.  Columbus, Mississippi.