Up-to-Date Stats

Days to go: 242 (66%)

Miles completed: 436 (44%)

Miles to go: 565 (56%)

Miles required per day to meet goal: 2.33

Total time run to date (this year): 2 days, 5 hours, 18 minutes, 37 seconds

Average mile pace: 7 minutes, 19 seconds

Notes

It has been more than two hundred miles since my last post. Since then, 1001 Miles has gone on tour with snowy runs in Oakton, VA and humid, sweaty ones along the boardwalk in Miami Beach and at sea somewhere in the western Caribbean just north of Havana, Cuba. After two plus years, the 1,001 Miles road tour has now had enough stops to warrant a map on the website. 

All is going well with the run so far. I am ahead of schedule, am loving the new cold weather top I bought for half price at the Adidas store in December, am feeling energetic and most days am running with very little discomfort. This run continues to motivate me in ways that little else does, and I love it for that. I was speaking with our President (at work: Oregon College of Oriental Medicine) the other day, and when he told me about the bright orange sunrise he was fortunate enough to see while up early at the gym, I happily told him that I had seen it too from atop the Emmanuel Hospital parking garage and that if it had not been for the run, I would have still been in bed. I have come to depend on the run to energize me for the day and to give me a half hour's solitude to find the present, to get to a place of listening, to feel grateful.

Because most of the Friends of 1,001 Miles pay their pledges at the end of the run year, I do very little outreach at the beginning of the following run year, but now that I am 400 plus miles in to the third edition, I am planning on increasing my outreach efforts in the months to come. In addition to word of mouth, email blasts and Facebook posts, I am planning to make t-shirts available for purchase online and to start approaching small businesses for pledges in exchange for putting their logo on the website. For a minimum pledge of just a penny a mile (a $10.01 total), it is a great opportunity for inexpensive publicity. If you own a small business, please consider making a pledge. If you know someone who owns a small business, please let them know about 1,001 Miles.

Thanks,

Chris Chiacchierini