Bicycle Brendan

1 year running everyday 🗓️🏃‍♂️
Exactly a year ago, I started a goal of running at least 1 mile everyday for an entire calendar year. This was exactly the day after I completed the first Stand Up Paddle Board of the CT River to raise money for
Over the course of the year, I found many creative ways to fit my daily bread in. Only succumbing to roughly 4 treadmill miles while being at work or in clinical time.
I learned many lessons through the past year. I ran hurt, sick and tired. This was not a cliche moment of making your own motivation though. That was something I had learned through years of training summer sports in New England winters.
This was actually a goal of radical moderation. Almost every year of the past decade, I was training to cross some vast landscape by human powered travel. This forced me to be able to say yes to a lot of other fun stuff.
During my year of running every day I also: picked up playing tennis with Olyvia, started to learn cross country skiing, added over 50+lbs to my back squat, taught myself a bunch of Olympic barbell lifts, started paramedic school, wrote 20 new songs and recorded 7 of them with two of my oldest/best buds amongst much more that would get lost in a social media post.
Maybe I’ll continue the streak, maybe I’ll stop running tomorrow to prove some other kind of point. Whatever I decide, I’m very glad to have done this. I truly love running.