Howdy fitness freaks. Today marks the 30 day countdown till my long awaited TT surgery. Damn I'm excited. To Celebrate, I'm going to spend the next 30 days doing something I've never done before.....I'm going to run 100 miles in the next 30 days. Certainly other people have done it...even people on this forum have done it. But it will be my biggest monthly total to date. I never ran a step voluntarily until last year. Since then, my life and body have changed so much.....I can't imagine not having this great gift I've found. To me running is like a newly found super power....one that I never thought I'd have.

So I'm going to run 100 miles total between now and my surgery date of 9/30. If anyone wants to join me...walk, run, hike, bike .........whatever you can do.

BTW Laura-Ven has agreed to do the 100 miles with me.....so I'd appreciate y'all's help in making sure she does it. She needs your "motivation".

Already 10 miles in. Although I am walking cycling. Bad knees for running

Ok 8 miles the hard way today!

Total 14.7

Ok 8 miles the hard way today!

Total 14.7

Those are the best kind of miles.....the kind you have to earn.

I downloaded the "Map my Walk" app on my phone. My wife and I went and walked at a track not to far from the house. We walked .78 miles. I know that doesn't put a dent in the 100 miles, but it's a start. I felt good and wasn't as tired afterwards. How do I go about sharing or is this the honor system...lol?

It's a great start! I'm trying to get motivated for something today but honestly my whole right side is sore!

Gee...I wonder why...lol Hope you feel better soon. Hard falls do suck.

Gee...I wonder why...lol Hope you feel better soon. Hard falls do suck.

Lol. Yup I'm staring at an ugly chihuahua that needs to be walked... That might be the extent of my exercise today

**** I put that picture up then decided I didn't want to embarrass her that way! That's right after a "procedure" she had done a couple of weeks ago! Poor baby she's. pretty most days!!!

Sorry butter hijack over!

OH CRAP! My husband is loading up mountain bikes!! I guess I'm riding.... 0_O

So far for today I have in 12.6 miles. Not the 20 I was hoping for, but the day is still young.

I think I will participate in terms of running.

Currently my warmup is about 3 miles for 4 days a week and 2 miles for 2 days a week. That puts me at 16 a week or 64 in 1 month. I could add 2 miles of running after each workout to add another 48 miles over the next month. That would push it a little bit over 100 and certainly not too much cardio when split up into 2-3 mile increments before and after cross fit or power cardio (cardio with body weight exercises or light weights) at home. My body is very conditioned to running 3 mile increments without much effort (about 5 k), so it should not be a problem combining it with whatever my daily workout is.

So far for today I have in 12.6 miles. Not the 20 I was hoping for' date=' but the day is still young.[/quote']

Good job!

I rode a creek path today and logged 7 miles and some change!

So my total is 21.7 miles!

My legs where like rubber today I think I need a rest. I might do that tomorrow.

My husband just came in from unloading the bikes and told me my front tire had a "profound" rub from the brakes so it was like I was riding with the brakes partially on today

Maybe that's why it was so much harder

New bike for me!!!!

Fiddle glad your joining!!!!

I'd like to join! I'll be walking 100 miles. Aug. 30 walked 6.5 miles; aug. 31 walked 5 miles; Sept 1 walked walked 6.25 miles.

I track with a fitbit device. What a great challenge.

Thanks for the link LV... and thanks BTB for starting this!

I'm going to join in! Mine will be mostly treadmill and spin class.

My treadmill does NOT count distance/miles, etc. (I know how crappy is that? People don't believe me when I say that.) It only counts heartrate, time, incline, and speed. So I need to find an app for my phone that will count the miles. I'm not used to carrying my phone with me either but I will give it a whirl!

Spin varies b/c the instructor does different things each week, but I try to go 2x a week and we usually log between 14-20 miles per class. It's an hour long class and she does an "advanced" class that is an hour and a half (which I'm too chicken to try...but maybe I will try that too someday this month!!)

Excited to jump in! Thanks all...

Wow.... So glad so many of you are joining in. Thanks to all of y'all. I must admit that part of my reason for doing this is the challenge, but it's also part dread that after surgery I won't be able to run for quite a while. I'm already feeling the angst of that. Running is definitely my cross over addiction. How sick is that?

I ran 5 miles on the trail this morning to get up to 22.8 after 4 days. The next 3 days will be kinda light for me due to work but come Friday I can kick it into high gear.

This Saturday will be another 10K race in Temple, TX. And I have at least 1 more planned later this month.