The first year I did it (winter of 2006-2007) it was part of a stupid "training streak" that started 2 days after Kona 2006 where I worked out at least 30 min every day, then starting Jan 1 it morphed into running every day at least 30 min, then after the 50 day point, I upped it to running minimum of 10K every day. That year I had a few 50K ski ski race and even a 100K XC ski race and I still ran 30 min either before or after (there was no concept of splitting up my quota)....dumb dumb but I actually was not doing it because I was trying to make any particular fitness gains, rather I was relishing the challenge of seeing if I could get to 1000 kilometers in 100 day without taking a day off. My friend Ray Zahab was running across the Sahara Desert running pretty well 1 marathon per day. I figure if he was going to run around 4200K in 100 days, I should aim for 1000K around real life, so there was no judgement involved, just bone headed stubbornness.
My grievance is that my body can no longer cash checks that my stupidity writes. Stupidity works much better at 49 than 41. In any case, from 2 days after Kona 2006 to December 31 2007, I did not miss a single day of exercising at least 30 minutes. On Jan 1 2008, I forced myself to take a day off because the streak had taken on a life of its own. I remember one particular day when I got up at 4 am in Ottawa Canada to run before going to the airport to catch a flight Tokyo.....then travel to Tokyo took me from Monday morning to Tuesday night. I finally got to my hotel in Yokohama and it was Tuesday at 11:15 PM and I had time (after 23 hours of door to door travel) to cram in a run before midnight. Then the next day (Wed), up at 5 am for a "normal" 70 min run before breakfast a ton of caffeine and a day of work that was supported by the entire supply of caffeine that the island of Japan had on hand....then of course the next night I was up at 4 am on account of too much caffeine so took the opportunity to do a long run on the ITU Yokohama run course.....then fortunately Japan had restocked its caffeine supply and I proceeded to clean it out and that's quite the challenge because that nation has to be the most caffeinated nation on the planet....and so the cycle repeated itself.
....and this is why I had to take Jan 1, 2008 OFF even though it was in the middle of the next year's 100/100 challenge that by then we had expanded to 100+ victims. In that year, we added the concept of days off and doubles being allowed. In the first year, I had zero days off. Sometimes the biggest achievement is getting through the entire gig without getting sick....so I have another grievance....why does flu season always strike during the 100/100 season? Why can't they just schedule flu season at another time of year?
I am fairly new to this forum, and triathlon…but this post might be the best post I have read on ANY forum that I frequent. You are a BEAST! I too will be accepting the challenge. I just hope that it does not interfere with the Marathon I am running in January.
Good luck to all. When is the challenge actually posted in the challenge link?
My grievance is that my body can no longer cash checks that my stupidity writes. Stupidity works much better at 49 than 41. In any case, from 2 days after Kona 2006 to December 31 2007, I did not miss a single day of exercising at least 30 minutes. On Jan 1 2008, I forced myself to take a day off because the streak had taken on a life of its own. I remember one particular day when I got up at 4 am in Ottawa Canada to run before going to the airport to catch a flight Tokyo.....then travel to Tokyo took me from Monday morning to Tuesday night. I finally got to my hotel in Yokohama and it was Tuesday at 11:15 PM and I had time (after 23 hours of door to door travel) to cram in a run before midnight. Then the next day (Wed), up at 5 am for a "normal" 70 min run before breakfast a ton of caffeine and a day of work that was supported by the entire supply of caffeine that the island of Japan had on hand....then of course the next night I was up at 4 am on account of too much caffeine so took the opportunity to do a long run on the ITU Yokohama run course.....then fortunately Japan had restocked its caffeine supply and I proceeded to clean it out and that's quite the challenge because that nation has to be the most caffeinated nation on the planet....and so the cycle repeated itself.
....and this is why I had to take Jan 1, 2008 OFF even though it was in the middle of the next year's 100/100 challenge that by then we had expanded to 100+ victims. In that year, we added the concept of days off and doubles being allowed. In the first year, I had zero days off. Sometimes the biggest achievement is getting through the entire gig without getting sick....so I have another grievance....why does flu season always strike during the 100/100 season? Why can't they just schedule flu season at another time of year?
I am fairly new to this forum, and triathlon…but this post might be the best post I have read on ANY forum that I frequent. You are a BEAST! I too will be accepting the challenge. I just hope that it does not interfere with the Marathon I am running in January.
Good luck to all. When is the challenge actually posted in the challenge link?