Ten Thousand and 7

First all the boilerplate: A mile is a pretty much arbitrary unit of distance and 10,000 only means something because Humans have 10 fingers and hence a decimal numbering system etc, etc, etc.

But

It is what we are used to and see some significance to it and I will be musing on this milestone.

First some kudos to RunningAHEAD. The 10k represents just the miles logged onto this FREE (you can donate) site. The last site I used, VOOMAXER conked out after a few thousand miles and I did lots of running in high school as well as various bouts between HS and really solidly making a habit of it in early 2002.

Okay, so 10,000 miles, what does it mean? I am pretty confident that I will not make it to another 10,000. This one took me about 7 years but at current rates, it will take me about 10 more years to reach 20k.

1. I have been really lucky so far in that the site has lasted this long--I doubt it will go another 10 years.
2. I doubt I will still be running at all, ten years from now. I had a golden few years of injury free running but lately I am very inury prone, with my heels being in pain for about 17 months. Other injuries have come and gone, but the heels will always be with me, or so it seems.

The whole running total is likely to be these 10k, 10k from HS up to 2002 and the VOOMAXER years were about 3,000 miles, so that brings the total to around 23,000 miles.