May Miler Marathon

On Pink Dumbbells we're about to start a small challenge. No, it's not to run a whole marathon. Not exactly.

This isn't one just for the long distance runners, this is for everyone! The goal of the challenge is to run a marathon (26.2 miles) over the course of a month, by only running one mile a day!

May has 31 days. A marathon is 26.2 miles. The challenge is to run 1 mile per day, until you reach 25 miles. Then the last day is a 1.2 mile SPRINT. You are NOT allowed to log more than one mile a day. The 31 days gives you leeway for rest days. The goal is that at the end of the month everyone will have run a "month marathon".

The rules are:

1) You can only log one mile a day. If you run more, that's fine, but you can't claim it.

2) You cannot count any mileage from your scheduled workouts. This must be in addition to your normal workouts. So, say you run a mile to warm up for weights. You cannot count that as your daily mile. You must go out and run another mile for it to count.

3) The only exception to the no counting workout miles are for those people training for a race. I don't want people throwing extra miles into their race schedule on a long run day and hurting themselves. So the only extra miles those people will add will be on their non-running days. On their running days, they can count 1 mile of their scheduled runs towards this challenge.

4) The mile must be run. It's ok if you need to stop. Or if you need to run it in small portions, but the whole total of the mile each day much be logged as running it. So, if you have to take a walk break, that's fine, but don't count the mileage on the walking portion.

So there is the gist of it. Everyone is welcome on PDB to join us! :) Even I am going to be doing it, because it's only a mile a day - I believe my foot injury will hold up for it.