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I did it!!!

With a 4-mile walk/jog during C's soccer practice this evening, I met my Runagogo goal of 100 miles between April 1st and July 4th. By 2.8 miles. And by just one day. Whew! I'm really glad that I challenged myself to join. It has motivated me to get out and exercise on some days when I would much rather have gone home to relax after work, or to sleep in on a Saturday morning. I wanted that progress bar to turn red, dammit!

I got a really slow start, not really getting on the ball with exercising regularly until the very end of April when we joined the YMCA. I walked on the treadmill a bunch, and started getting discouraged at how slowly the miles were building with only 3 miles here and 5 miles there. Realizing that I'd never make 100 miles in just over two months of walking, I hit the exercise bikes to get my progress bar moving. As you can see above, my totals ended up being just about half and half walking and biking with the walking miles being just higher, and I'm happy about that. It sort of felt like cheating to be on the bike knowing how much easier it was, but I was determined to make it to 100 miles and the bike was my way to make it happen. Twice now our 3-day team has gone on Saturday morning walks that ended up being over 9 miles each for me, so that helped beef up my walking miles.

I'm sure that there will be another Runagogo challenge starting on Thursday. Whereas I joined in April because I thought it would be good for me, I'll be joining the next round because I'm can't imagine not joining. Entering those miles after a walk or a workout and seeing the progress bar go up and up was really fun. I would definitely feel like I was missing out if I went on a walk and didn't have anywhere to record it. I'm definitely in.

Walk on!