50k Birthday

Does anyone remember when I suggested running 31 miles on my 31st birthday?? Lolz. I don't think I've managed 31 miles in the last 31 days, let alone in a 24 hour period. Needless to say, that did not happen, nor did it get attempted. Someday!

I woke up super early to go to a sculpt class, and then saw this adorable baby Jerbear picture of my 2nd birthday. And then I did the math and realized this picture was 29 years ago, and I almost had a heart attack.

The day was super lowkey full of lots of snuggles with Ollie.

I met some friends out for dinner and drinks.

Sometimes it's necessary to have multiple drink(s) yourself.

We had fun and still managed to be home and in bed by 10:30. I consider this an all around win.

And Kyle surprised me with flowers. 3 yellow for 30 years, and a pink for the 1 extra. Yes, he had to explain that because I didn't get it.

Birthday Run

A few years back, Krista did a birthday run, where throughout the day, she ran a mile for every year she'd been alive (I don't remember which birthday it was) but I've always thought it was the coolest idea. A couple of years ago, Jenn did the same thing and did 26 miles throughout the day. ON A TREADMILL. Whoa.

I've always wanted to do this and possibly "train" to do this, but with my birthday being the day after Christmas, it's hard to commit to doing this not knowing what the weather would be. I could *not* run on a treadmill for the miles (kudos to Jenn).

Is this insane?

What would the breakdown be? 15/10/6? 14/10/7?

That'd be a solid 5-6 hours of running, not to mention showering after. Hmm....

Feel free to chime in on your thoughts. I'd definitely like to do this some year if not for 31, but every year I wait it's just more miles!

Katy Perry singing Birthday in Fargo.

Edited to add: Since thinking of this harebrained scheme, I've been running a lot less and working on my strength and flexibility issues, so unless some magical things happen with my running mileage over the next month it'd be d-u-m-b dumb to attempt this, but I STILL want to do it some year so I'd appreciate feedback. :)