(3 Times) Around The World In 80 (+16,398) Days

 

It took me a lot longer than Phileas Fogg did in the 1956 movie and the two most recent remakes of Jules Verne's classic 1873 novel. It was a loose goal of mine from undergraduate days while in a statistics class. I had figured the chances of making it 4 times around the world somewhat remote. And I am probably correct with that...

But 25,000 miles x 3 seemed realistic and worth running, jogging and now slogging toward. (Actually it's 24,902 x 3 = 74,706 miles.)  

There are some in our Universe with more, even if they never kept track (the sane among us!) In the lead is coach John Lucas with more than 160,000 miles.  If I am wrong, let me know.

So, the statistics for me:

• 75,001.25 miles in 16,478 days
• 4.55 miles per day since June 1975, when I started keeping track. There were probably 2,000 miles before that do not count.
• With 90.14% of days run, that's 5.05 miles per days run.
• Longest run in one day was 40 miles.  Longest continual run was 35 miles.
• Longest streak of days with at least one mile run is 2,022 days (5.6 years)
• Longest streak with no run is 42 days (fibular neck fracture)
• Best race (according to IAAF (World Athletics) points is 10 miles in 51:11 in 1977 with 1978 Johnston road 10K in 30:47 second, and 1980 PSU Track 10K in 30:54  third. (891 points, 889 points and 888 points)