Another perspective on running streaks.

consciously refuse, to even try starting a modest streak. With everyone assuring me that must be a major reason for my serious injury problems, from then on I made sure to take many rest days. For me, it was a flop, as I spent the decade on abortive short-lived attempts to get back to good running shape.

Things only turned around in September 1995, when I decided to ignore common sense, and try the streak system again. Clearly, taking a lot of days off had not helped me re-establish a successful running program. I was almost positive this idea was a vain hope, and I fully expected that I'd last only a couple weeks at most, before having to back off from training every day.

It worked.

To my surprise, after a rugged start, I eventually got back in tune with streaking. And I haven't missed a day since then! I'm around 1,240 days in a row at present. (I may be the only person who's had three SEPARATE streaks over three years apiece.) I don't kid myself that I'll be able to keep it up permanently. I expect some injury will crop up (maybe tomorrow, maybe in five years) that will sideline me again, yet this system is still superior for me in best maintaining my general running health.

As an aside, I consider Ron Hill's streak to have ended long ago. When I read how he crawled out of a hospital bed and hobbled around on crutches, I could appreciate that he may have had the will to run (and the effort was no doubt harder), but sorry, if you're on crutches, you're not running.

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