100/100 Airing of the Grievances Thread - 2024 Edition

That’s awesome! Congrats on the streak!! Keep on going!
Are you using any kind of software / website to track that would be available for others?

Nope, sorry; highly non-official = just my own amusement

Oh yeah, almost forgot (when people say “but how do we know your results are accurate?”)

EricTheBiking’s training log has an “official” 100/100 for 2025-26 - https://training.eric-jensen.org/ and click “enroll” in the challenge.

It started Nov 15th - plenty of time before Feb 22nd to catch up (or not, as you please)

I’ll probably go for 101 again this year. Now that I have 2 hockey games every Saturday night and coach hockey on Sunday evenings, it’s a little tougher to get doubles in

I forgot all about this. Here’s mine. I am just using a low tech logging approach by drawing a 10x10 grid on a piece of scrap paper to represent the 100 days. If I run, I fill in the square. If I do not run, then I leave it blank.

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The “Seinfeld Strategy”

Brad Isaac was a young comedian starting out on the comedy circuit. One fateful night, he found himself in a club where Jerry Seinfeld was performing. In an interview on Lifehacker, Isaac shared what happened when he caught Seinfeld backstage and asked if he had “any tips for a young comic.”

Here’s how Isaac described the interaction with Seinfeld…

He said the way to be a better comic was to create better jokes and the way to create better jokes was to write every day.

He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall. The next step was to get a big red magic marker. He said for each day that I do my task of writing, I get to put a big red X over that day.

“After a few days you’ll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You’ll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job is to not break the chain.”

He told me to get a big wall calendar

I considered a calendar, but the simplicity of a 10x10 grid just seemed appropriate for this event. :grinning_face:

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Let me also say that I love that you abandoned the “days-of-the-week” protocol, because that doesn’t really matter here

“Oh look! I ran three Sundays in a row” or “I always take Mondays off”

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We created a page on our site.

Challenge starts tomorrow (15 Dec)

Please feel free to DM me with feedback on the site if you see anything strange. We’ll add a results page ASAP as well.

Naturally the weather has left all trails and roads here in good ol’ Canada in a state the zomboni driver of the Vancouver Canucks would be proud of, so it will be a fun one from day one!

50 days in…halfway there! I’m at 86%. That’s a solid B :grinning_face:

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Seven tenths of the way there! I worked my way up to 63/70. Probably going to miss at least a day due to the big snowstorm coming in tomorrow though.

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That’s a nice streak you’ve got going there!!!

Yes, I’m planning on “taking a zero” tomorrow as well

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A blind friend of mine has asked me to go run with her from 5am to sunrise tomorrow morning, so of course my headlamp is on charge right now..

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Is that 5AM call part of a 24-Hour event or that’s just when she wants to go?

Her 8% vision works better in the dark - her handle is Batgirl :black_heart:

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I neglected to create/post a bib for yesterday’s annual event

Presidents Day Challenge
February
Any distance you want but route must include a street named for a US President (Washington Ave., Lincoln Drive, etc.)

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Looks like I’m taking a ZERO tomorrow - so I doubled up today LOL

not that it matters. I lost track sometime in January and never got back on

To quote Ben Gravy “What’s your claim?”

I’m gonna claim 87/100, just to say ‘something’

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Got my 100th in this afternoon (double today), so should finish right where I wanted with 101 tomorrow

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I’m somewhere in the 90s…will submit my final report later today after I run (or not run) :grinning_face:

101 does it - ended up being after dark because I got word as I arrived home from a hockey game that I had to turn around and go play another game from which I didn’t get back until 6:30pm. We also got a good dump of snow today, so a snowshoe run seemed appropriate (and was probably my best option really). I had 660km for the challenge as of this morning, so obviously did 6k to finish it off…plus a pinch, because the trail I ran isn’t exactly 6km ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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