Run # 317 - The End of the Streak Run

While I feel defeated and mostly in shock, I must come to grips with the fact that I just didn't accomplish my goal of running at least one mile every day from May 20th, 2007 - May 19th, 2008.

It's hard to write about how/why the streak ended, so I'm choosing not to elaborate at length right now.

I'd have to pull out the measuring tape to see if I actually made it a mile and the streak really is intact (I honestly think I made it .8 miles before the freefall), but it's probably in the best interest of my body if I just realize it's over, rest for a few weeks, and maybe start a new streak.

It's the price you pay for sprinting down a hill, headphones blaring when you lose your footing, literally tripping over yourself and you end up diving back into the safety of the sidewalk after you had spilled onto a street with a 45 MPH speed limit - cars coming at you down that very same hill. Talk about life flashing before your eyes.

My ankle is probably just severely sprained, I'm icing it as I type, and I hate the idea of paying a doctor to tell me it is (or worse) and then sitting out, all the while realizing I came within 48 days/runs of something I really wanted to do.

Life goes on I guess. This streak doesn't.

Tomorrow would have been Run # 318. I guess Run # 1 will be whenever I can muster it.

Run # 316 - The Mohave Run

Run # 315 - The North Mountain Run

While I didn't actually go up any hills, I found a way to run through/around North Mountain in North Phoenix.

I'm not 100% sure that's what it is called, actually I don't think it is, but the name is good enough for me.

This was about a 2 mile run in 84 degree heat and I was spent.

San Francisco Marathon training starts Thursday.

Run # 316 on Sunday.

Run # 314 - Another 20th St. Run

Run # 313 - The Lifetime Run

Ran with Chuck around a loop that goes to and from Lifetime Fitness.

A quality workout day for me since I ran and I also did what appeared to the unsuspecting as lifting weights.

Run # 312 - The 20th Street Run

Run # 311 - The Near End of the Streak

I barely made this one I was so tired.

I honestly pondered just not running as I took a nap at 10 pm and barely woke up at 10:50.

I started the run at 11:30, running over one mile or so in about 12 minutes.

Brutal.