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UPDATE: This article was first published when I completed 2 years of running every day on August, 1, 2022. Now I am going for 3 years!- <\/i>\u00a0@<\/b>javiermota<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 \u00bfQuieres correr todos los d\u00edas durante 1,000 d\u00edas? No sigas mi ejemplo, mejor escucha a los expertos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I said it before and I will say it again. I still don’t consider myself a true runner. I just run every day. There’s a big difference.<\/span><\/p>\n

A lot of people have told me that anyone who runs everyday for <\/span>1,000 days<\/b> IS<\/b> a runner<\/strong>, but I cook everyday too, and I am not a chef; I play the guitar almost everyday and, most definitely, I am not a guitar player. You get the idea.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t warm up, I don’t stretch, I am not training for anything, I don’t like to participate in organized races – I have only done 2 official 5Ks in my life -, I have not improved my times or distance in the past 2 years and 7.4 months. In fact, I ran much slower and shorter distances during the last 50 of these 1,000 days. More on that later.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I would even say that I don’t like running. I think it’s boring, but I really appreciate what happens when you run \u2026 every day, for 1,000 days. You feel better in every aspect, you sleep better, work better and\u00a0 can eat and drink more. And you feel great after every run, physically and mentally.<\/span><\/p>\n

For me, the best part is this running streak is the logistical challenge of it; planning ahead of every run and new goal, rather than the actual runs or the goal to become a \u201ctrue\u201d runner.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soccer on the other hand (or foot), I loved, but I was not a real soccer player either<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I played since I could walk, but I never got good at it. That’s why I played at every position possible, not because of my skills, but just to get a chance to get in the game. Nine fractured bones, 3 knee surgeries – 2 meniscus and 1 meniscus plus torn ACL, a severely dislocated shoulder and countless other minor injuries later, I stopped playing at an organized level at the end of 2012.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s when I dislocated the left shoulder at one of my last soccer games. I was playing in a 30-and-under-league at age 50 – or, as someone told me then, being stupid -, and I was also training to run the Miami Half Marathon<\/strong><\/a>, in January, 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On Sunday, November, 25th, 2012 I ran 10.18 miles in 1 hour, 49 minutes, and 58 seconds (10:48 minutes per mile pace), with no issues. The 13.1 miles for the half marathon seemed doable, but after the shoulder dislocation the next week, I stopped everything. No running, no soccer, no exercise at all for a little more than a year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, on Sunday, December, 22, 2013, I woke up and decided to go for a run: 6.01 miles at 8:55 minutes per mile pace. Again, no warm up, no stretching, no training. I just woke up and went.<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn\u00b4t run again until Thursday, July 10, 2014 (3.34 miles at 10:46 minutes a mile pace) and then, took a 3 year break! On Tuesday, September, 16h, 2017, I did 2.09 miles at 11:07 miles per minute.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since then, I started to be more consistent with at least 1 run a week and an occasional informal soccer game. I never learned my lessons!<\/span><\/p>\n

Then 2020 happened.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The start line for the streak<\/span><\/h2>\n

Because of my job as an automotive journalist<\/a><\/strong>, I travel pretty much every week – I was on the road for 320 days in 2019 -, so when we were locked down because of COVID, I started to run more often at home. I did 18 runs in June, 2020 for a total of 77.83 miles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s when I was invited to join the private <\/span>Facebook Automotive Industry Ragnar Relay Interest Group<\/a><\/b> for a 500-mile challenge in 2 weeks, around the 4th of July weekend. It sounds like a lot, but it wasn\u00b4t: 12 runners, 14 days, 3 miles a day each. We did it!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And then what? After a couple of days off, I added an individual challenge to keep running the rest of July, which I did (127.7 miles), and then I challenged myself to do 100 miles in August \u2026 under the Miami summer heat! I survived with a total of 110.9 miles, for the official start of the current streak.<\/span><\/p>\n

The next challenge became 100 days in a row, which I achieved in October, 2020 and then, to finish the year with consecutive runs every day. After that I have not found a reason to stop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n