Stats

Days to go: 119 (33%)

Miles completed today: 3

Total miles completed overall: 687 (69%)

Miles to go: 314 (31%)

Miles required per day to meet goal: 2.6 

Total time run today: 21 minutes, 01 seconds

Total time run overall: 3 days, 12 hours, 37 minutes and 46 seconds

Average time/mile today: 7 minutes, 0 seconds

Average time/mile overall: 7 minutes, 23 seconds

Total Pledges to date: $9,628.72

Pledges/mile to date: $9.62/mile

Money raised to date: $6,608.94

Day Two Hundred Forty-Six Notes

I have been thinking about what I wrote about Obi yesterday, about how I had once thought that running him more would tire him out, make him a little more mellow.

Applying the same theory to myself, it would follow that running every day would take the edge off of my anxiety, mellow me out too. I am sorry to say that it has not. I still chew my nails. I still awake on weekend mornings looking for a task to accomplish. I still find it difficult to sit still and listen. At almost 40 years of age, I find the more public nervous habits like the nail chewing to be a little embarassing and as such am in a continual state of quitting. Most recently I have taken to pausing when I catch myself, pausing and looking for proof of wonder in the world. It never takes long to find something unexplainable and something about that sense of amazement soothes me. 

Obi is a puppy, full of puppy energy. He will mellow as he ages. It will occur as gradually as a sunset.

Thank you for your support.

Chris Chiacchierini 

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