June 8, 2011: Steve Jones (blog | twitter) ran for the 1,000th day straight.
That is amazing, inspiring, and hardcore.
Here’s his “I did it” post: http://amileaday.blogspot.com/2011/06/day-1000.html. And then there’s my favorite, his recap of the 1,ooo days: http://amileaday.blogspot.com/2011/06/looking-back-at-1000-days.html.
I challenged all the runners, walkers, bikers, swimmers and, well, everyone I know to run with Steve on June 8. My goal was to get people to log 1,000 miles for 1,000 days. Personally, I was able to log 6 miles – 4 miles at 5:30 AM, when it was already 80° and humid, and 2 at 8:30 PM, right after a thunderstorm, with lightning all around and the roads steaming.
I am not at all disappointed to say 90 people recorded 454 miles. That’s awesome! Thank you to everyone that supported Steve. I know it meant a lot to him.
Steve works for a really cool company, Red Gate Software. On Wednesday, they posted this message for him:
In addition, the big surprise for Steve was that for every mile we recorded, Red Gate will donate $1 to a charity of Steve’s choice! Thanks, Red Gate! Steve chose Habitat for Humanity.
With that, I have one final challenge, from Karen Lopez (twitter) and Rob Drysdale (twitter): through Twitter, they agreed to donate $1 to Habitat for Humanity for each mile they ran, and encouraged all of us to do the same. You can donate here!
Again: Steve, you’re awesome. Thanks for sharing this huge milestone with all of us. Everyone that ran, walked, biked, swam or, heck, unicycled: thank you for celebrating with Steve in a really fun way. I love both my SQL community and my running community. I think both are made of a caring, motivated, wonderful people. Thanks for making my day, and Steve’s.
Great job in setting this up, Jes. We donated for each kilometer we ran, but still encourage others to donate for their distance.
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Thanks for setting this up, Jes. It was quite a surprise and very touching.