"Small"?
He is full of pun.
That is so amazing, congratulations George.
Congrats!! I just have another 49k to go to catch up.
Wow. Congrats, George.
Are we there, yet?
Thanks, everyone. One of the reasons I don't consider this a BIG milestone is that it's well within most people's capabilities. All it takes is a lot of time and persistence. If you work out the numbers, it averages slightly less than 4.5 miles per day and slightly more than 1640 miles a year. While I haven't checked people's logs, from what I've seen in the goals for the 2014in2014 game, there are a lot of you that plan to run that much this year, some much farther. As long as running is a life style and life long habit, quite a few of you could reach that number.
2024 Races:
03/09 - Livingston Oval Ultra 6-Hour, 22.88 miles
05/11 - D3 50K 05/25 - What the Duck 12-Hour
06/17 - 6 Days in the Dome 12-Hour.
Barking Mad To Run
After I recorded my mileage today, 45 years, 8 months, and 8 days after I began running as an adult, my total mileage logged was 75,000.2 miles.
WOW! My 45K is nothing compared to that! And 45 years running too, way to go! Both of those are definitely not SMALL milestones!
Here's to your next 75,000 George!
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt
Congrats on a BIG milestone!
Life is good.
No more marathons
Late to the party but wanted to get my congrats in George.
Boston 2014 - a 33 year journey
Lordy, I hope there are tapes.
He's a leaker!
Congratulations on a wonderful milestone George!
How many pairs of shoes did that involve?
Overcoming sarcoidosis one step at a time...
Congratulations on a wonderful milestone George! How many pairs of shoes did that involve?
Hard to say how many pairs of shoes. When I was a poor student I'd wear shoes until they almost literally fell apart. I remember using ShoeGu, gluing pieces of the sole from worn out pairs to rebuild the heels, and using athletic tape to hold the uppers together. So the net result is that I've gotten as much as 3000 miles out of one pair, though I've also had shoes I had to pitch after 600 miles. It's probably only about 50-55 pairs of shoes.
Labrat
Congratulations. I would ecstatic to reach half of either of those milestones.
5K 20:23 (Vdot 48.7) 9/9/17
10K 44:06 (Vdot 46.3) 3/11/17
HM 1:33:48 (Vdot 48.6) 11/11/17
FM 4:13:43 (Vdot 35.4) 3/4/18
Mmmmm...beer
That is outstanding George!! I hope I have that many years/miles ahead of me.
-Dave
My running blog
Goals | sub-18 5k | sub-3 marathon 2:56:46!!
Holy cow! That is a crap-ton of miles! You're a ROCK STAR, George! I wish you many, many more decades of delightful running!
But The Smile That I Sent Out Returned With You.
wow. That is very awesome and inspiring. Congrats!
Uffda
Congratulations George. Keep on keepin' on.
- Andrew