A journey of a thousand miles...

Well, here's the start of my little blog. This thing is vaguly inspired by three sources. First, a bit of motivational advice I've heard, namely that to really get something accomplished, a person should get a big calendar and make a big red "X" on it every day they've done what they wanted to do. Lacking a ginormous wall calendar, or any place to put it for that matter, a blog is the next best thing. Second, the "Julie&Julia" movie. It planted the idea of using a blog as motivator in my head. Who knows, some people might even want to read this some day, but this is mostly for me. :-) Third is the song "I'm Gonna Be" by the proclaimers. In case you haven't heard of it, the singers talk about how they would walk 500 miles, and then they'd walk 500 more "just to be the man who walks a thousand miles to fall down at your door."

I've always loved that song, especially when I had a girlfriend who actually was just about 1000 miles away from me. However, I never reall attached it to any concrete sort of objective. Since I'm massively unfit, and in order to do pretty much anything in my life I'd want to be more fir, I've decided to actually try to walk (or run, once I'm more fit) a thousand miles before I get out of college. Counting today, I have 266 days until I graduate. With the amazing convenience of a indoor running track in my school's newest building, I walked a total of 5 miles this evening. So, with just 265 days and 995 miles left to go, I'm happily a bit ahead of track, which is where I want to be in case of any major illness, inconvenience, or just plain lack of time.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to take care of my blisters...