So far this year I’ve run the distance from Southern California to Chicago. This is the most important feeling I experienced.

And that’s after missing several weeks of running because of an injury.

Over two thousand miles, like this:

Precisely, I’ve run 2,006 miles:

The driving distance from Irvine in California to Chicago is 2,028 miles according to Google maps so I’m cheating a little in this story — I still have another twenty miles to run to “make it to Chicago”. I will get this done over the next couple of days.

Last week I ran 82 miles — my most miles ever in a single week.

I wrote about it here:

Breaking down my first 80+ mile running week

Let me talk about my running routine, about what it means to have run two thousand miles this year and almost twenty miles every day in the past week.