- I had to set myself a goal. I'm very motivated by such things and have a tendency to half arse it and mug myself a bit without them. If I'd just said "I'm going to run every day for 31 days" you can bet there would have been a dozen or so 1.5km "runs" in there and I would have got to the end technically having completed the thing but I wouldn't feel much of a sense of achievement.
- It had to be something that I could fit into any day regardless of what I am doing. I often work in London but don't live there because I'm not mental so this means I have long commutes leaving at the crack of dawn and sometimes only have 3 hours at home before I need to go to bed. For me 5km is a daily commitment of about 30 minutes. When you look at it like that doesn't seem so bad does it? Anyone reading this who might be inspired but still thinks that 5km every day is a stretch too far how about trying 30 minutes jogging every day?
- I read somewhere (I think it was Reddit) that 5km is simultaneously much harder than you expect and much easier than you expect. It's definitely that way for me, I know that I can run non-stop for this distance on any day but it isn't far enough for my body to stop moaning and just accept that I won't be stopping for a while. This fits my brief of being both a challenge and being achievable.
- I'm a novice runner and I wanted to do something that might inspire other novice runners to give it a go without being terrifying.
- 5km seems like it might be a long enough distance to attract donations to my chosen charity.
- Five K Every Day rhymes.
- The domain was available.
All that said I have a few more "interesting" organised runs going on this month. Keep an eye on the run logs, 5km is definitely a minimum daily distance!
I'm a novice runner who is attempting to run 5km every day in October as a childish reaction to that bloody GoSober campaign. Please visit my Just Giving page and bung a few pennies to Cancer Research if you can spare it.
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