Today, I passed a milestone – almost literally. Since I started keeping track on April 22, 2007, I have run 1,000 miles. 1001.87 to be precise. That first recorded run was 5.5 miles at a 12:00\/Mile pace. Today’s was a 4.66 mile run at an 8:19\/M pace. <\/p>\n
That’s only about 250 miles per year. Averaging less than 5 miles per week during that period, I certainly haven’t been one of the most active runners. But, I’ve been slogging along and have really come to enjoy the activity more and more over the years. I’ve gone through a few long stretches of inactivity from injury and then some drop offs due to not wanting to bother with cold weather. Either my body is getting more used to the activity or I’ve been lucky, but the last couple of years, injuries haven’t been a huge factor. (Knock on wood.) <\/p>\n
Like any other exercise, it can be a bit of an effort to get going, but in the middle and after I’m finished, it’s a good feeling. I remember trying to run a couple times over the years before 2007, but I always ended up feeling miserable and basically hating it. Pacing made all the difference. I’d just had no idea what speed I had to go if I was going to sustain the runs for any distance. Knowing people who ran a lot made all the difference – my wife and her sister, most notably. In the past several years, I’ve run 4 half-marathons and a variety of 5ks and 10ks. <\/p>\n
Hopefully, I can keep it going. I’m not a speed demon by any stretch, but I like the fact that I can run a lot faster and further now than I’m pushing 40 than I ever could as a younger man. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today, I passed a milestone – almost literally. Since I started keeping track on April 22, 2007, I have run 1,000 miles. 1001.87 to be precise. That first recorded run was 5.5 miles at a 12:00\/Mile pace. Today’s was a 4.66 mile run at an 8:19\/M pace. That’s only about 250 miles per year. Averaging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-fitness","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masson.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masson.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masson.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masson.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masson.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.masson.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7210,"href":"https:\/\/www.masson.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions\/7210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masson.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masson.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masson.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}