As I trained for Sunday’s second marathon in a month, I started thinking to the training plan I had developed that would allow me to run fewer days of the week. Since that time, I have found out that my son moves into college on July 30th. I will have more of my summer to run than I thought originally. Then, yesterday I saw a tweet from Runner’s World magazine about a summer streak challenge.
I have to be totally honest. I always thought these streak people were crazy. I am crazy to some extent. I always thought a streak needed to be followed with lots of cross training and other exercises. My training plan for my October marathon does include these.
I decided I am going to join the challenge. I am going to run at least one mile every day from Memorial Day until July 4th. This is a 38 day streak. I am sure I can do it. I can follow my end of May/June/beginning of July training and race schedule and run at least a mile a day.
Follow me and others who are streaking on Twitter by following the hash tag #RWRunStreak.
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I think I am going to try it too. I have been struggling with inconsistency for so long…don’t know what my problem is. But even on super-busy days, a mile is doable and better than nothing!
By the way, how do you follow a hash tag on twitter?
In the “discover” or search Area, you can put in a hashtag.
I did the #rwrunstreak during the holidays — it was a lot of fun and a nice challenge at a down time of the year. The “rest” days of just doing a mile are very key, and if you need to do 2 or 3 of those days, do it. I think doing from spring into summer is a nice springboard to a great fall race training session. Have fun with it!
I think those streakers are crazy too LOL but I’m going to try it from now until the 4th. Who knows, maybe I’ll become crazy too. There are way worse kinds of crazy!