Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Running to Afghanistan - Not going to happen!

I decided - just for the sake of curiosity to see if I could "run" to Afghanistan while my hubby is gone. I thought that would be a nice goal to work on - symbolic, distracting and health oriented. So I googled a distance mapper and found some devastating news. It is 5,474 miles from where I sit typing to the far away city he will be working in. That means that means I would have to run 14.99 miles every day to make it from here to there in 365 days. So I decided to try and find something more achievable. I searched for towns named "Soldier" thinking I could run to my soldier that way. The closest is in Iowa - still well over 2,000 miles away requiring a daily 7+ mile jaunt. Also NOT going to happen. So I've decided maybe I'll go with something fittingly more appropriate and run to "Chicken" Alaska - 321 miles away - and less than a mile a day. I'm exhausted already.

2 comments:

  1. You can do it!! I will run with you. Even when I leave I will be by your side.

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  2. I'll help you run! If enough of us run and add up our miles, we WILL get you there! We'll do it for your soldier, YOU, Brynne, Lynn, and Dani! Afghanistan, here we come!

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