It was roughly four months ago when I dis­cov­ered that my fit­ness level had reached the point where I could run a mile with­out stop­ping. That was a major achieve­ment for me, and it rep­re­sented an achieve­ment so large that I ended up, slack­ing off, and idling in my life chang­ing and weightless.

Enter Novem­ber. The month of ama­teur novel writ­ing, unshaven hea­then, and turkeys. And now run­ning a mile every day.

This month I will be hit­ting the gym and run­ning at least a mile every­day for the entire month. I fig­ure if Dean Kar­nazes can run a marathon every day for 50 days, I can do some hard-to-find frac­tion of the work and do a mile a day.

I am going to run at least a mile every day this month. So it’s ‘Trick Runs a Mile a Day Month’ or ‘TriRuMiDaMo’

— Patrick Jar­rett (@trickjarrett) Novem­ber 1, 2012

I posted about it largely as a joke, giv­ing it the name “TriRu­Mi­DaMo” (Trick-Runs-a-Mile-Daily-Month) to spoof NaNoW­riMo, and after a few peo­ple responded that they liked the idea and were going to join in, I have offi­cially renamed it “RuMi­DaMo” (Run-a-Mile-Daily-Month.)

This also rep­re­sents the first time that run­ning has been a major part of my weight­loss. Sure I’ve done it some, but never more than 2 – 3 times a week. So we will see how this impacts my body!

I’ll post back once I fin­ish the month and let you all know how I do!

//Trick

P.S. — Appar­ently yes­ter­day, Steve over at Nerd Fit­ness posted about walk­ing every­day. GMTA it seems!