The ancient Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu, reputedly once said: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". Well, today, at my twelfth park run, I passed the 500 mile mark for 2019. It's 500 miles that includes 1 x half marathon, 3 x 10 miles, 17 x 10k, 57 x 5k and numerous other shorter runs. While I may only have reached half of Lao Tzu's 1,000 miles, the principle still remains the same, it all began with me choosing to take that first step when I embarked on C25K at the start of the year.
Being a bit of a stat fanatic, for me it's been fascinating watching the distances covered and the time spent running increase as the year has progressed; from running my first 5k in June, all the way up to my first (and to date, only) HM in November.
There is still at least one more running day left in 2019, so hopefully I will break the 100k for the month for the third time before December ends.
In the mean time, I wish you all health and happiness and many more miles in 2020.
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Fantastic distances and what a year you’ve had, you must be chuffed. I’ve just turned 100miles and that seemed an achievement. You definitely give me something to aim for in 2020. I wondered about the proclaimers being a Scot, but that was walking 500 miles, I could change the lyrics, sure they wouldn’t mind. Here’s to next year - chears
I was thinking of Auchtermuchty's finest as well. I may have run 500 miles, but there's no way I'm doing 500 more before the year is out. Will be interesting to see how 2020 fares.
That is a remarkable achievement sTrongFuse, considering most of those runs have been in the second half of the year, your first 5K having been in June.
Although I have ran 14 Parkruns since July and 4/10Ks you certainly have ran overall far more longer runs than I have, good luck for 2020 and have a wonderful running New Year for 2020. 😊 🏃🏾
Major achievement. 👏🏼🎉👏🏼 And looks like it was injury-free to achieve so much, so steadily. Well done you, and many congratulations. Big achievement just to keep track of all those statistics too. 🤔 Could we have a Running Nerd here? 👏🏼🎉😄
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