I Broke The Streak

After 35 consecutive days of running I broke the streak. I didn't stop running, just decided that a streak was not necesserily a healthy goal to try to achieve or maintain.

Through all of January the weather held out and I didn't have to face the choice as to whether to run in the rain or the snow. Over the same month nothing came between me and my daily run. Even when it got late into the evening I still took a couple of runs late at night.

Starting February moving from 3.5km runs every day to 5.9km runs every day I started to feel a little uncomfortable. Not physical, no pulls or strains yet. What was uncomfortable for me was that I was wanting to run instead of doing other things. What was uncomfortable for me was that frantic search for clean running gear. I could invisage a situation where, through no fault of my own, I'd not be able to do a daily run, thus threatening my "record", and this didn't feel healthy. So I stopped.

I still walked more than 10,000 steps yesterday but I didn't run. I'm not so much interested in how many days consecutivly I keep up more than 10,000 steps, more that over a month the average is high, activity is high.

I need to work in time for exercises other than running and I don't feel that setting ever increasing goals in just running will fit with this.

Today I have been for a morning walk which was over 10,000 steps in itself and on finishing this post I'm going for a run with Maia. I wont be labelling each run with it's number in a sequence. I'm happy that I was able to run 35 days consecutivly but ultimately that's not a target I'm going to attempt to beat.

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Tags:Running, Strava, Exercise

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This update was first written by Darren Wall
on Sunday 6th Feb 2022.
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