Hi - I am 21 weeks pregnant (due early March 2025) and will hit my 4 year streakaversary next Thursday! Given that it may be possible to run throughout my pregnancy, but not after giving birth, I am trying to come to terms with my streak ending and whether I should intentionally end it before the birth or not. Any advice would be appreciated:) (btw I am of course happy to be pregnant and having a baby will be worth losing the streak but it's still been a big part of my life for a while and sad to lose!)

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##Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1. What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2. How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3. What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4. Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5. Anything else to share with the group?

Just in time for the hardest day of the week, let's hear your COMPLAINTS AND STRUGGLES!

Is that knee or hip still nagging you? Did that other person awkwardly match pace with you for a few blocks for the third time this week? Did they instead have the audacity to pass you while looking smug?

If any of that or anything else happened this week, here is the place to vent!! If your family and friends told you to shut up because your constant running talk is making them guilty, this thread is for you!!!

##Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1. What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2. How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3. What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4. Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5. Anything else to share with the group?

Just in time for the hardest day of the week, let's hear your COMPLAINTS AND STRUGGLES!

Is that knee or hip still nagging you? Did that other person awkwardly match pace with you for a few blocks for the third time this week? Did they instead have the audacity to pass you while looking smug?

If any of that or anything else happened this week, here is the place to vent!! If your family and friends told you to shut up because your constant running talk is making them guilty, this thread is for you!!!

##Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1. What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2. How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3. What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4. Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5. Anything else to share with the group?

Just in time for the hardest day of the week, let's hear your COMPLAINTS AND STRUGGLES!

Is that knee or hip still nagging you? Did that other person awkwardly match pace with you for a few blocks for the third time this week? Did they instead have the audacity to pass you while looking smug?

If any of that or anything else happened this week, here is the place to vent!! If your family and friends told you to shut up because your constant running talk is making them guilty, this thread is for you!!!

##Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1. What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2. How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3. What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4. Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5. Anything else to share with the group?

Just in time for the hardest day of the week, let's hear your COMPLAINTS AND STRUGGLES!

Is that knee or hip still nagging you? Did that other person awkwardly match pace with you for a few blocks for the third time this week? Did they instead have the audacity to pass you while looking smug?

If any of that or anything else happened this week, here is the place to vent!! If your family and friends told you to shut up because your constant running talk is making them guilty, this thread is for you!!!

Not sure if anyone is like me, but I've been trying to lose a little weight lately. I'm intrigued by the 4-2-1 method. Has anyone else attempted this and how did you adjust your streak running to the 2 days of cardio?

##Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1. What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2. How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3. What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4. Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5. Anything else to share with the group?

Hi, I’m working on a free Android app to make planning your runs a bit easier. You can check it here: https://weeklyruns.web.app/

The app allows you to easily share your weekly running streak on Twitter and celebrates each completed week of runs with confetti.

I created this app because I wanted a simple way to input my training plan, and easily change it when I get injured or have to cancel some runs and reschedule. I tried to use some existing planning apps, but I found them too complicated and more suited to advanced runners.

I was also often skipping warmups before my runs, so to help me stick to them, I recently added a Warmup Assistant that allows you to create your own custom warm-up plan, where you can add, update, reorder and remove any warmup step.

Let me know if you would like more features.

Eight years ago, I posted this on r/amileaday:

"Hey Guys, today will be day 3 :-). I've gone off and on running but always trained with at least a days rest. This week I asked myself "why not every day?". I'm going for it and, having just found this Reddit, you guys will be my inspiration and education, thanks! Any great tips for a #amileaday newbie?"

u/gunslingerroland and u/mwarvik responded with some encouraging tips (Thanks, guys!), and here we are... 2,923 days later, one (outdoor) mile or more every day.

I haven't been back here that often since my first year, but r/amileaday is where my runstreak got its start, and I'm grateful to have found this group.

Over the eight years, I've had months where I just ran 1.2 miles (my minimum) a day and months where I ran 3-8 miles per day. Months where I trained hard for 5ks (PR of 21:22 last year at age 56) and months where I plodded 1.2 miles at a 12-15 minute pace.

I held on to my runstreak through: Covid (2x), 100+ degree fevers, flu, foot injuries, a mile in an airport terminal at 11 pm, IT band issues, food poisoning (the hardest one to run through...), several days where I felt like just quitting, calf injuries, etc.

All of these "obstacles" will resonate with the veteran runstreakers in this group, and I'm sure most have overcome more.

"Somerset Maugham once wrote that in each shave lies a philosophy. I couldn’t agree more. No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough, and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act."

• Haruki Murakami, "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running"

Keep at it.

Just in time for the hardest day of the week, let's hear your COMPLAINTS AND STRUGGLES!

Is that knee or hip still nagging you? Did that other person awkwardly match pace with you for a few blocks for the third time this week? Did they instead have the audacity to pass you while looking smug?

If any of that or anything else happened this week, here is the place to vent!! If your family and friends told you to shut up because your constant running talk is making them guilty, this thread is for you!!!

##Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1. What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2. How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3. What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4. Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5. Anything else to share with the group?

Just in time for the hardest day of the week, let's hear your COMPLAINTS AND STRUGGLES!

Is that knee or hip still nagging you? Did that other person awkwardly match pace with you for a few blocks for the third time this week? Did they instead have the audacity to pass you while looking smug?

If any of that or anything else happened this week, here is the place to vent!! If your family and friends told you to shut up because your constant running talk is making them guilty, this thread is for you!!!

This post is primarily asking about whether there is a large, unavoidable tradeoff between running performance and run streaking.

Hi all! I am doing my first running streak, and it's going well! Just over 100 days to go to my goal of running every day in 2024! I also have a secondary goal of doing 1,000 miles this year, which I am just about on pace for!

I originally came to streak running primarily because I saw it as an exercise in commitment. The idea that I decided to do something, and will do it unquestioningly every day, is a great practice for me as a person naturally inclined to anxiety and indecision. I like that whether I run on a day is not subject to the weather, how I feel, how hard life seems to be that day, the amount of work I had, how I ate/slept, etc.

So, one could say I am optimizing for commitment/discipline in my run streak. However, today I hit 270 in a row, and some physical effects are becoming clear. Some of the muscles in my feet (particularly lower foot) ache, and I get very minor strains. Nothing very painful or that prevents me from running slowly, but they do prevent me from running fast.

Is anybody here both a streak runner, and also a performance runner?

I am wondering, aside from taking occasional recovery run days (which for me, look like approx. 1.25-1.5 miles run incredibly lightly/slowly), is there a way to improve muscle building and recovery, while maintaining a streak?

In addition, I am considering pivoting next year to optimize for running performance (potential marathon, trying to minimize mile time, improved agility for sports, etc). I know that at the absolute optimum for performance, you take true rest days. Is it possible to be a performance runner while run streaking? (Particularly for someone who did not come into the streak with highly developed running muscles/tendors built/strengthened)?

My theory is that since I have not historically been an athlete, and this is by far the most fit I've been in my life, my body might just not be developed enough to build into a performance runner, while maintaining a streak with only active recovery days.

As side questions, has anyone anecdotally (or through research) found any information about vitamins, minerals, nutrition that is most optimal for maintaining a run streak while recovering to performance levels?

Sorry it's a bit of a meandering post, but it's hard to phrase these questions! Thanks!

##Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1. What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2. How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3. What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4. Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5. Anything else to share with the group?

Just in time for the hardest day of the week, let's hear your COMPLAINTS AND STRUGGLES!

Is that knee or hip still nagging you? Did that other person awkwardly match pace with you for a few blocks for the third time this week? Did they instead have the audacity to pass you while looking smug?

If any of that or anything else happened this week, here is the place to vent!! If your family and friends told you to shut up because your constant running talk is making them guilty, this thread is for you!!!

##Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1. What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2. How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3. What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4. Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5. Anything else to share with the group?

Just in time for the hardest day of the week, let's hear your COMPLAINTS AND STRUGGLES!

Is that knee or hip still nagging you? Did that other person awkwardly match pace with you for a few blocks for the third time this week? Did they instead have the audacity to pass you while looking smug?

If any of that or anything else happened this week, here is the place to vent!! If your family and friends told you to shut up because your constant running talk is making them guilty, this thread is for you!!!

##Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1. What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2. How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3. What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4. Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5. Anything else to share with the group?

Managed a 130 day streak (minimum 2km) at start of year, from 1st January, then got sick - I have a chronic bowel condition which sometimes goes acute - so stopped on medical advice.

Having recovered I've been struggling with running consistency over the summer so I've decided, come 1st September, it's back to streaking.

Wish me luck.

Just in time for the hardest day of the week, let's hear your COMPLAINTS AND STRUGGLES!

Is that knee or hip still nagging you? Did that other person awkwardly match pace with you for a few blocks for the third time this week? Did they instead have the audacity to pass you while looking smug?

If any of that or anything else happened this week, here is the place to vent!! If your family and friends told you to shut up because your constant running talk is making them guilty, this thread is for you!!!

##Weekly Check in time!

How is everyone's Streak going?

1. What Number are you on and what was your mileage last week?

2. How do you feel it is going? Any injuries?

3. What are you doing to prevent/heal injuries?

4. Did anything fun, strange, odd, or otherwise notable happen on a run this week?

5. Anything else to share with the group?

Just in time for the hardest day of the week, let's hear your COMPLAINTS AND STRUGGLES!

Is that knee or hip still nagging you? Did that other person awkwardly match pace with you for a few blocks for the third time this week? Did they instead have the audacity to pass you while looking smug?

If any of that or anything else happened this week, here is the place to vent!! If your family and friends told you to shut up because your constant running talk is making them guilty, this thread is for you!!!