One mailbox a day update after six weeks

Map My Run screen shot
After six weeks, this is our current daily run distance.

 

We began on Halloween 2015, six weeks ago. Run one mailbox a day for a week. Each week, add another mailbox (100 meters).

We are only at five mailboxes because in week two, we kept the distance at one mailbox (100 meters).

It’s interesting to watch how two, three, and four mailboxes no longer seem like a big deal. Each time we add a mailbox, we are running farther than he’s ever run in his life. Each new distance becomes a big deal – literally groundbreaking.

And then it becomes no big deal in a week or two.

 

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Slow and steady isn’t a theory

High School courtyard
High School courtyard.

 

Slow and steady isn’t a theory.

We just finished week six of becoming a runner. Our daily mailbox total is five, so far. Next week we will run six mailboxes each day.

 

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Didn’t start out thinking negative splits

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Yesterday, didn’t start out thinking negative splits, it just happened.

 

Since i missed Monday’s run (an intentional miss because of work), during yesterday’s run i was more rested going into it.

i only run M-W-F, by the way.

In the process, the run turned into eight consecutively faster (negative) splits. The final mile is always a slow, cool down mile.

i had to smile at what blossomed from nothing. i had intended to have a leisurely pace the entire way.

On the eight mile, i wondered if i could go sub-eight minutes, without overdoing it.

No problem.

 

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i didn’t want to stop

Magic Kingdom Main Entrance photo at Christmas
Arrived at 8am yesterday.

 

Map My Run screen shot
To Magic Kingdom and back yesterday morning.

 

i didn’t want to stop running yesterday, but i knew there was no need to push it. It’s the off-season, winter, time to just be.

 

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Running to Disney’s Magic Kingdom this morning

Disney license plate
Yesterday at a red light: i love Disney…me too, so much so that i live next to it.

 

Running to Disney’s Magic Kingdom this morning. Why? Simply because i can. And because i love Disney.

 

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