100 Up Challenge - Day 1 - Benchmarking

So I'm going to try the 100 Up Challenge, found here:

http://hundredup.com/

My friend Justin Owings Tweeted about this the other day and I thought it sounded really interesting. I've been wanting to start running and this seemed to be the perfect opportunity.

So I haven't ran since 2006ish. I have pretty bad exercise induced asthma. Running is going to be a bit of a challenge.

So my thought with this challenge is what would happen if someone starts using this exercise from the beginning? What if a person who is WAY OUT OF SHAPE starts running by trying to have proper form?

So as the video shows, I can't run much at all right now. But I can only get better from here.

So I'm off and running.

100 Up Challenge here I come!

~Ivan

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[IvanBickett]

@imnotscott Good call! My wife said the same thing. And in terms of total distance, I ran / walked around 1.25 miles (two laps of approx .66 miles each).

I'll be sure to add on a little distance the next effort. The whole not being able to breath things sucks (both out of shape and asthma issues). But I'm going to see if I can't push through it some.

Thanks for jumping in, Scott!

~Ivan

[imnotscott]

Best of luck Ivan. My 2 cents worth for helping you to get started would be to try for a little longer distance (maybe 2 miles?) even if you have to walk part of it. Keep at it and HAVE FUN!

Cheers,

Scott