{"id":4208,"date":"2016-11-16T20:32:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T02:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2016-11-16T20:32:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T02:32:23","slug":"1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=4208","title":{"rendered":"1923"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thousand, nine hundred and twenty-three \u00a0That’s how many miles I’ve run in 2016 as of today.<\/p>\n

Last year I participated in the RunTheEdge run 2015 miles in 2015. \u00a0In 2014 I ran somewhere between 1600-1800 miles. \u00a0I’m thinking it was closer to 1600. \u00a0I could get up out of my chair and look it up but I’m too lazy to do it at the moment.<\/p>\n

I had decided towards the end of 2014 to try for 2000 miles in 2015. \u00a0A FB friend had heard about the RTE challenge and said I should do it. “It’s only another 15 miles. \u00a0You could do it!”<\/p>\n

I signed up.<\/p>\n

January 1 arrived and I hit the ground running. \u00a0I had some miles to cover and was already feeling the pressure of such a huge mileage goal. *huge for me mileage goal* \u00a0I ran and I ran and I ran.<\/p>\n

I was registered for a marathon in February and a 50K in March so I was training for those two races. \u00a0Once the 50K was done, I had a little “free time” to collect some miles.<\/p>\n

Berlin Marathon training was scheduled to begin in July. \u00a0I knew I’d be facing a taper for that and travel time as well. \u00a0It would take a big bite out of my miles so all summer I ran and ran and ran.<\/p>\n

I was soooo afraid of not hitting that 2015 mile goal!<\/p>\n

Turns out, I didn’t need to be afraid. \u00a0I think by the end of December I was just a few miles shy of 2400 for the year.<\/p>\n

I was tired. \u00a0Boy, was I ever tired!<\/p>\n

RunTheEdge offered the same challenge for 2016! \u00a0Everybody was asking if I was going to do it again. \u00a0It’s a great challenge but I had already decided that 2016 was going to be all about running because it’s fun. \u00a0I didn’t want the pressure of trying to hit a mileage goal.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, I love setting a goal! \u00a0I’m one of “those” runners who constantly needs a goal to maintain their motivation. \u00a0That’s one of the reasons I’m usually registered for at least 2-3 races at one time. \u00a0I’m weird that way. \u00a0LOL!<\/p>\n

In 2016 my goal has been to be well prepared for all of my events. \u00a0Which brings us back to my total miles for this calendar year.<\/p>\n

1923. \u00a0Good grief! \u00a0That’s a LOT of miles.<\/p>\n

You know what? \u00a0I’ve loved every. single. one of them!<\/p>\n

I’ve loved the easy miles. \u00a0I’ve loved the cold, windy miles. \u00a0I’ve loved the rainy miles and the super hard miles.<\/p>\n

There’s just something about lacing up your shoes and spending time on the road. \u00a0Doesn’t matter if it’s solo miles or with a buddy. \u00a0It’s just totally awesome!<\/p>\n

There’s about, what, 6 weeks left in 2016? \u00a0Do you think I’ll make it to 2016 miles? \u00a0I guess we’ll just have to wait and see!<\/p>\n

2016 has been a fabulous year!!!<\/p>\n

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One thousand, nine hundred and twenty-three \u00a0That’s how many miles I’ve run in 2016 as of today. Last year I participated in the RunTheEdge run 2015 miles in 2015. \u00a0In 2014 I ran somewhere between 1600-1800 miles. \u00a0I’m thinking it was closer to 1600. \u00a0I could get up out of my chair and look it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,6,8,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4210,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions\/4210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}