I was blogging on another site where we've used this 110 day thing as a challenge. And I'm happy to say that three other people picked up on it and are doing it. I mentioned to them that this becomes habit forming in a good way to the point where one day, one of two things will happen. First, you'll get up and say I just don't feel like running today. Or your day/life/everything will get in the way, it will be 9:45 PM and you still won't have done your run. You'll think to yourself "I could just skip it today- no one would care, I won't gain back the weight, etc., excuse, etc. excuse". And then, magically, you'll figure out a way to do that run. Because you don't want to break the streak. Because even if you posted it but didn't do it YOU would know.
Well that was me today. Somewhat unintentionally, I ended up running 18 miles yesterday broken up between a light morning run and deciding to do my long run in the PM to take advantage of the nice weather. So by the end of the day, I felt glad to have done it but I was hurting. I also woke up this morning not feeling much better thinking to myself, I just don't want to do this today. Well, at 11:45, I had to be out of the house by 12:30, I got on the treadmill in the stuff I was wearing, set the time to 20 and actually got in two solid miles with some decent inclines but I have to say that so far, today was the closest I came to just NOT doing it. But I did
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