My mission: to run one mile a day everyday for one year.
Can I do it? I have given myself projects before, personal and professional and without hesitation know that I can accomplish them. I am making this one public to force myself to at least try to accomplish this through any weather (there is always the treadmill), any mood (always my husband to help remind me this is an important goal for myself), and anything else that comes up!
It's 2:30 pm now and sitting with a sick child, but sometime before midnight I will need to get today's mile in.
Yesterday's mile came close to the end of a seven mile walk and was shared with my daughter Eden so it was a nice way to begin my year long project that way. Plus the sun was shining, though it was cold.
Why this project? I gave my staff a home work assignment a few weeks ago. Each week one of their names will be pulled and that person will "show or tell" their own special "thing" during our Tuesday morning staff meetings. I said to them:
Everyone has their own special “thing” whether it be an activity, an object or story. Outside of work,
bring to the next staff meeting your special “thing” to share with your co-workers. Be creative, think
of your passions, your five senses, and surprise us. Please do not share your ideas with your
co-workers.
All of a sudden I nervously realized, "What is my thing?!" A few years ago it was a given, it was running. Without a doubt running was my thing for over ten years. But after February 2007 that changed due to pain and other issues.
Though I continued to try to run for the last 2 years and 8 months (whose counting?) it has never been much more than 5 miles here and there and rarely that, sometimes 3 miles, sometimes no miles. Sometimes barely a walk. And so I have tried to supplement my "thing" which was really so much more than a thing, but rather a love, a passion, a religion for me... I have tried to replace it with walking, biking and even snow showing and as much as I do enjoy those other outside activities, it has not "yet" filled in the hole of missing the act of running, more so the long distance run. Though one mile a day everyday for one year won't fill the loss of long distance running, it will allow me a few moments (heck, quite a few minutes, since I am agonizingly slow now) to enjoy the run and clock in 365 miles ... eventually...
