AMS STATS

Final stats from the first Awake My Sole journey:  

January 9, 2012 --- December 22, 2012

347 days
29,980,800 seconds
499,680 minutes
8328 hours
50 weeks

Spoke a total of 317 times to 15,225 people

Day #128 @ Fulton Reformed Youth Group near Clinton Iowa.  Around speaking Spot #100

Day #240 @ Central Iowa Christian School in Grinnell Iowa.  Speaking Spot #200

Day #332 @ MOC High School in Orange City Iowa.  Speaking Spot #300

Ran a total of 1339 miles 

Day #14.  Running in a BLIZZARD to Orange City Iowa

Day #209.  Running to Clinton Iowa.  Attempting to outrun a thunderstorm.  VIDEO HERE

Day #238.  In the middle of running to Grinnell Iowa.  Using ICY POPS to down in the EXTREME HEAT of  IOWA

Day #252.  Running to Des Moines in the rain.  The last run before Jim got married.  

2,678,000 steps taken on the journey

Quote written on the Awake My Sole gear cart.  Jim's mantra.  

35.23 miles per run

51.1 marathons

418 5Ks

Used 5 pairs of Brooks Running Shoes

Brooks Glyerin 9s:  Pair Number 1 (Green) and Pair Number 2 (Red)

Pair Number 3 ... Brooks Glycerin 10s

Pair number 4.  Brooks Ghost 5

Pair number 5.  Brooks Ghost 5

9728 ounces of Gatorade

114 Clif Bars & 76 Clif Gel Packs

Numerous Snickers Bars consumed

Running Recap #3 - Orange City

Start Time :  810am  End Time : 445pm

Weather : 20 degrees (Not sure what windchill was).  20 mph winds from North-West.

Number of Dogs who barked and chased me:  1 (Most dogs were inside)

Total Mileage : 30.1 miles

Overall, a chilly-windy day for running.  Left my Kingsley host home early this morning.  Ran in wind all day.  It was tough and gruesome.  About an hour into my run all my liquids were frozen.

HERE are some pics from the run today

4 miles into my run and my powerade was already slushy

getting ready to head west for a couple miles.  

cold

on K64

Iowa landscape, AKA cold terrain 

stop at Carnes (Cheryl brought me some hot tea, it was grand)

Water Bottle Mark brought me, already starting to freeze only an hour into running with it.

Hot Tea

Mark joined me for some miles.  Here is a pic of Mark jogging with the stroller.  

Arriving in Orange City.  A good good feeling.

at my host home.  signs and all.  so good to be here. 

I'm safe and sound at my Orange City host home.  My body is feeling great after running 30.1 miles.  Just got done eating some amazing lasagna, gonna head to bed soon.

NEXT RUN will be next Monday.  I will be running from Orange City to Sanborn. 

Cool story from my run :  Like I mentioned earlier, my liquids froze.  I tried calling my emergency contact for the day, but couldn't get a hold of them.  I was a bit worried until a nice elderly gentlemen helped me out.  He stopped me, and I asked him for water, or if he lived close by so I could get some water.  He said he lived near by, so we attempted to load my cart in his truck.  In loading my cart it tipped over.  At first I was a bit bummed, and wished I wouldn't have stopped.  However, he gave me a 4-mile lift to where I was going to meet some friends who had some water for me.  I was blessed greatly during my 4 mile riding with him.  Will be blogging about my encounter with him tomorrow.

Last week's running Recap 

Last week's end of week wrap up

last week's blog post