I Made It!

 What a year.

Last year, I earned the social distancing run’s 100 mile medal: the Corona Lisa.

This year, since I started when the year began, I entered the 300 mile challenge. I figured I could go a mile a day, and that left 65 days of wiggle room.

Well, I managed 300 miles in 350 days:

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AAAAAAAH!! AAIEEEEEEE!!!! YEAAAAAAH!!! 

CONGRATS ON REACHING MILE 300! PLEASE EXCUSE US WHILE WE OFFER YOU A CONGRATULATORY SCREAM!! 😱 😱 😱”

Thank you to OKM for getting the final push of 2.6 miles with me last night.  And giving me someone to be with as I opened the medal. She made me put it on:

I have said no more year-long goals. This was tough - like commitments I already have, a marriage, a job. It takes work to renew and keep those commitments, and it’s all a bit too much in addition to the work of getting it done. So, another “one and done” for my life’s scrapbook! 😀

When I was healthy and feeling good, I thought about trying for 500 (even better medal, Van Gogh self portrait with ‘you can Gogh the distance’). When the hip posed problems this summer, I thought I’d never make it. I had hoped to return to running short distances; that didn’t happen.

But I am here now and happy to take the remainder of the year ‘off’, or at least easy.

Oh, and the no more year long goals? Oops, I already have two resolutions in the hopper for New Year’s: trying gratitude every day (haven’t figured where to post/publish - likely FB or MFP), and no vending machine purchases. I’m not terribly serious about either one - I’ve always been a New Year’s restaurant lotion skeptic, acknowledging they’re frequently discarded - but SparkPeople evidently worked my personal calendar around to this, so here I am! On to 2022!