It started in mid-December and ended on March 19th - the goal - 175 miles in 100 days. That's only an average of less than 2 miles per day. So we figured if you run more on some days it would all even out.
Throughout the months the "pressure" of doing this challenge hung in the back of my mind. Every day we didn't run it was a little bit of added stress. The times we accidentally overslept and missed a morning run. All of these turned into a month of crunch time putting in sometimes 2 runs a day. And putting in longer runs than we had done since Worlds.
Along the way I kept asking myself "Why does this matter? I don't really care about the medal, no one will know or care if we finish so why are we stressing out about getting all these miles in?"