100 Days Of Running! (Plus, A New Look)

• Posted: September 9, 2008
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• Author: Shéamus
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• Filed under: Motivation, Observations, Workouts
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• Tags: 100 Days

Wow, we got here pretty fast, didn’t we?

Today marked my one-hundredth day of consecutive running. This - whatever it is - all started back on June 4, when I set myself the fairly humble challenge to run 28 days in a row. Well, I knew pretty quickly that 28 days was not going to be sufficient for my needs, and it only seems like yesterday that we reached day fifty on this quest.

Where is this all taking me? To be honest with you, I’m not really sure. I can tell you that it feels right. That it feels natural. That it feels like something I was supposed to do. But where I’m ultimately going to end up - bar probably sleeping for 24 hours on day 366 - is, at this moment in time, yet to be seen.

I ran three miles today. To be honest with you, I was completely exhausted, both from yesterday’s reasonable effort and a really poor night’s sleep. Still, they were three good and pretty fast miles - my average was 7:32.

They were important miles too, because another milestone was reached today - I passed the 400 mile mark overall! That’s right - it’s taken me 100 days to reach 402.35 miles. I’m quite proud of that, actually.

Splits and chart:

(My average pace for those 400 miles, incidentally, is a quite-pleasing 8:06.)

What Have I Learned In Those 400 Miles?

A few things, actually.

1. My body is actually quite resilient. While I get the odd ache and pain most of the time I’m good to go 24 hours after my previous workout, irrespective of length or difficulty
2. You can, if you really, really want to, run in any kind of weather
3. Heavy gales are murder on your knees
4. Bodyglide is a total life-saver
5. A very hot bath, post-run, works better than a very cold one
6. It is quite possible to run a few miles, at a reasonable pace, even when you are physically and mentally exhausted, sleep deprived, and ill
7. No matter how difficult the previous X miles have been, you can always find a reason to sprint the last one
8. Nobody (friends, family, etc) really understands what I’m doing when I talk about this
9. I’m not sure I do, either. I just feel like I need to
10. Always, always, always give yourself one more yard than you’ll think you need when passing a dog

You’ll also have noticed a few little changes I made to the theme of this blog. I spent a fair bit of time doing this and I think it looks pretty good, even if I do say so myself. I’ve tested it in the four main browsers, and it works perfectly in all of them except, of course, Internet Explorer 7, which almost renders it accurately, but struggles with one of the background colours. I’ll have to look at that and try and figure out the fix. I haven’t tested it with IE6 - I’d imagine it’s a potential nightmare on there.

Hence, I could do with some help here. Play around with the site a bit. Make sure it’s all working okay. If you discover any bugs, certainly anything major, either write something in this thread or drop me an email. Please let me know what browser you are using, including the version. Thanks!

I’m happy with most of it - certainly I think it’s very easy on the eye and the colours compliment well, as do the images. However, it still needs a few small tweaks - I don’t like the way the ‘Recent Comments’ are displaying, and I’ve still to activate a few of the plugins (like Flickr), but for the most part I’m pleased.

Here’s to the next 100 days!

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