DAY 15

For the past few years Lisa has set herself a challenge: to run every day, come rain or shine, for x number of days. The x number of days depends on how old she is going to be. So this year she will be 36; so 36 days prior to her birthday she begins this challenge and challenges friends to join her.

It is quite hard to do this – there is stuff to do and you end up juggling things to make sure you can run every day. Lisa knows a guy in Hong Kong who has run every day for the past 15 years - isn't that totally amazing?

This year I took up the challenge. I am not running, only walking and really getting into the swing of it - it is now 15 days of walks every day. And I must confess, getting a tad obsessive about it. I said to Lisa the other day that while we are in transit in Abu Dhabi we can do a quick speed walk around the transit area for an hour! We finish the challenge in Ireland on the 18^th June – Lisa birthday and we will probably carry on walking everyday for a bit after that.

Someone commented that I shouldn’t find this difficult having walked every day for 6+ weeks on the Camino last year with a lot more mileage everyday than I am doing now…but all I had to do then was walk every day. Back home one has to deal with TIME…fitting everything in. It gets difficult.

And the thing that keeps me going? Well, there is nothing like a challenge, a mission, a goal to keep you focused.