Most Runningist Year Ever - Day 1000

On the 2nd March 2017, I completed Day 1,000 of the Most Runningist Year Ever.  I achieved this feat on a skiing holiday in the French Alps.  Thanks again to Kata for making it special for me, preparing my deck chair and beers for my return.  The runs in Peisey were tough due to the altitude and the inevitable running up and downhill in the snow.  I felt really pleased to have completed 1,000 days though. 

1,000 Days, beers chilled. 

Once I got back from holiday, the Hunters Bog Trotters made the effort to tell everyone in the pub about my landmark and invited everyone to come to training and then have a beer with me to celebrate.  Very much appreciated and thanks to Kata (and then Captain Sarah) for organising it.  Beers in The Stockbridge Tap were great and a lot of people seemed genuinely interested to hear about how I ran for 1,000 days in a row.

I never considered when I started this madness that I might actually complete 365 days never mind 1,000.  The first two of The Most Runningist Year Ever was agony.  It was when I was 4 months in that I thought that I might actually do this, and only because I realised that stopping now would mean that I would have to re-start and 4 months of running is a lot to make up.  Then I kept going on the hard days because so many people were interested that I couldn't face telling them that I wasn't doing it any more.  Now running every day is like brushing my teeth, except there are probably some days when I don't brush my teeth! 

When I started this 1000 days ago in 2014, Ruby wasn't even an idea.  Now I am father to a wonderful, beautiful daughter and husband to a wonderful beautiful wife.  Throughout the most significant and astonishing period of my life, I have ran every day.  Kata was in labour with our daughter for three days - I ran every day, even managed to get a run in when I got home from the hospital on the day our daughter was born.  I ran on the morning of our wedding day.  Thank you to Kata for supporting me in doing this. 

It's an adventure and I am certain it has made some difference to my life outside of running.  I just don't know what.  I'll think about it sometime.