The Plan.

As I type, snow is falling outside my window. Being the day after Christmas, snowing falling should not surprise; however, the fact that my house is located in the sandflats of rural Eastern North Carolina - a place that hadn't seen a white Christmas since 1947 - makes it quite unusual. A seachange is coming my way and it feels that the very weather is participating.

The Plan, as my husband James and I have come to call it, is to run 1000 miles in the year 2011. (Well, I'm shooting for 1111 miles to make it snazzy.) Seasoned amateur runners, we both felt we need a new challenge when we hatched The Plan several months back.  What I didn't expect was the quickening momentum that even speaking The Plan aloud would have; family, friends, and coworkers have jumped on the running bandwagon and the energy we are creating - independently and together - is intense and inspiring.

For me, The Plan requires this blog; a perennial procrastinator and champion rationalizer, I need some way to hold myself accountable.  In all honesty, The Plan itself is designed to be procrastination-proof (1111 miles in a year averages out to 3 miles per day), but I'm not taking any chances. For once, I want to focus on the process and not the end result.

When searching for a quote for my (newbie runner) mother's iPod, I stumbled upon Team RaceFast...LiveSlow and their t-shirts. Here's to a year of working on both.