Arbitrary Goals

First of all it is important for one to have a goal. In my case, I want to run in the Stonewall Jackson 20 Miler. For some reason, that one has spoken to me ever since I heard about it 5 years ago. I didn't know if I could run 2o miles. Now, I am fairly certain that I can do it.

But one thing that I found distracting is this Nike Plus goal. I set the bar pretty high, that I would complete 100 miles. I like the way that it records the miles that I have run. It has always been important to me to know how far I have run. So much so that I have often driven the exact course that I ran in order to determine how far I had gone, on a particular day. When I looked at how far I had run, I wanted to complete the 100 mile goal so much that I had run 95 miles as of last Friday. I thought I can certainly run 5 more miles to reach 100 on Saturday. However, due to the long run the day before, I was sore. I didn't run Saturday or Sunday. I was becoming upset that I was not going to reach my goal. Well, in the end it took two days instead of the one to reach my goal. Regardless, I reached my goal. It may not have been on the day that my head said that I was supposed to but the day my body said OK. Of course I am now past it, and on my way the next goal. I want to see how long it takes me to run 200 miles. It took 20 runs to get to the 100 mile mark.