I Would Run 500 Miles...

...and I would run 500 more, just to be the one to run one thousand miles to fall down at your door.

So I changed the words a little, but that's the song that came on (my mp3 player was on random, no joke) when I finished my last lap to complete my 1000 miles for the year.
My goal is complete and I'm proud to say that I finished!

When December came, I knew I was about 45miles away from my goal. Seeing as I haven't run that little in a month since a year and a half ago I knew it would be easy to reach. I decided to not log any miles and have it be a surprise on Dec. 30th to see how close I came to the goal.

Yesterday when I got the miles totaled, I couldn't believe I had only run a piddly 43 miles for the month of December, and I was 3.3 miles short of my 1000 mile goal. I couldn't end like that, so today I finished at the over crowded Olympic Oval to reach 50.2 miles for the month of December

and 1002.63 for 2010!

That breaks down to 3.2 miles a day, 6 days a week for a full year!

Thankfully I didn't run every day and I had lots of help getting those miles in, including Chris who would roller blade with me and got me through some ugly runs. Of course I have wonderful friends to thank too, Heather, Em, Connie, Heidi, Krissy, and many more. I am so glad I could call on them or they would call me. And most of all Shauna for beating me into the ground, pushing me to my extremes and signing me up for some ugly races that deemed it necessary to run horrible, long, hot runs. I loved every minute of it!

What's the goal for next year? Still undecided, I have a few hours to come up with something...