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

The Gear Cart Exchange

I had to say goodbye to my wonderful Gear Cart this last week.

I exchanged my gear cart for a wife.  Yup, I got married.

My wife will be my support vehicle for the remainder of the Awake My Sole journey.    

In regards of the exchange, my grandmother stated, "A most excellent exchange."

My amazing brother John bought this gear cart on Craig's list and rigged it up for me to run across Iowa with.  He rigged it with rechargeable lights, a platform with clipboard, and a phone charger. 

I covered over 1000 miles with this gear cart.  Had a lot of good memories with this cart.

Some of you may have known of it by other names, like "Baby Jogging Stroller."

My favorite story with the gear cart back in February...

It finally happened. Was stopped by a Police officer today while running with Awake My Sole to Storm Lake Iowa.  

The officer said, "Just got a call, and the caller said 'A lady was running with a baby along the highway.' "  

I responded, "I'm definitely not a lady and I have no baby in this baby jogging stroller."  

Got a good chuckle out of the officer.

Here are some pics of the gear cart

photo shoot with the gear cart

fort dodge iowa

testing out the gear cart

Outrunning a storm

stop at the post office

blizzard

It's funny, cause last week I saw a guy running down the road with a kid in his baby jogging stroller.

I wanted to yell out my window, "Why is there a baby in your gear cart?"

Maybe I will bust it out in the future for giggles.  or if I have kiddos.  

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