The End of a Run Streak
At the start of the year, I decided the time had come to end my run streak. (For the uninitiated here, I'm talking about a streak of running for consecutive days without a break - nothing to do with nudity.) I had reached 108 days, the longest run streak I have ever done, and the streak had served its purpose. It had kept me going throughout the autumn months and the run up to Christmas when I realised that, after a slow start, I could still just about reach my yearly target of 1000 miles, as long as I went out every day and upped my mileage a bit. I felt fitter as a result of it and I noticed that my parkrun times consistently improved when I was running every day. However, once my target for 2022 was reached and we were into New Year, I quickly realised that the daily run streak was becoming a bit of a drag, an annoying thing to be ticked off every day. I began to wonder why I was still doing it, what it was actually achieving. The crunch came when,...