Streaking with my husband

I thought I was going to jump right into the new year with excellent blogging habits.  Then I realized that I have started, and not finished, three separate posts.  Not so excellent.

I can say, in my defense, or just to brag because this is something that IS excellent:  My husband and I are on day 71 of a running streak!

We'd read an article in Runner's World and thought it might be fun.  We also thought it would help to keep us on track through the holidays.  So on November 11th we decided we'd run a minimum of a mile every day until New Year's. 

We ran a Turkey Trot in Fernley, NV the weekend before Thanksgiving.  We ran the Scheel's Turkey Trot in Sparks on a cooollldd Thanksgiving morning with my mom, brother, sister-in-law, niece, sister, brother-in-law and nephew.  Then we went home and cooked dinner for 36 people!

We ran every day...sometimes on the treadmill because of whether, sometimes slowly due to a chest cold I battled, with Coco, and for a week Shermy joined us.  We hosted 32 friends for a taco feed on New Year's Eve then went across the street for a cocktail party.  We left early to change into some warm running gear and, at the stroke of midnight, took off for our 6th annual self-imposed Resolution Run.  We've done it with friends and family over the years and this year it was Todd and I, Coco and Shermy, our dear friends Glen and Carol in Cove, OR, and my amazing niece Morgan (the same niece that ran the Turkey Trot with us) and her friend Amber.  As we headed out we were met with loud cheers from the group of friends we'd been partying with earlier.  Pretty motivating!

We did our New Year's Eve run early in the afternoon.  We ran at midnight and counted that as our run for January 1.  We sat around all day on the first looking at each other.  It felt like an entire day off!  Shouldn't we be heading out to run?  Oh wait!  We don't have to run! 

When the second rolled around we felt like we should be heading out for a run.  So we did.  And have continued to do so!  We even went to the Marina for a six mile "long" run Sunday!  We will build gradually for the 5K, 10K, half marathons and full marathon we have planned for the year.

What are your goals for 2014?  I'd love to hear from you!

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