I’m putting the push ups off until tomorrow, but I did head out early this morning for the longest run of my life: 5.37 miles in 54 minutes. So, even though it’s not a race, I just ran an 8k. I’m calling it the “Paul Didn’t Die 8k Road Race” and awarding myself first place. Next week I’ll finish up the One Hour Runner training with a 60 minute run without walking a single second of it. Pretty good for someone who only ran to the bathroom on occasion four months ago.

Early yesterday morning I crossed a milestone over at the Nike+ website. I’ve actually run almost twice as many miles, but the Nike+ site only counts the miles uploaded with their SportBand.

I realized that I didn’t blog a single time about this week’s hundredpushups.com challenge or my 8th week in the One Hour Runner training program, so we’ll just do it all in one post. Besides, that’s the way it should be since Friday’s a re ending days for the week-long segments in both programs. So, without further ado, let’s move on to the results. Envelope, please…

100 pushups W4D1: 27-20-20-17-[33] for a total of 117 push ups

100 pushups W4D2: 27-21-21-18-[35] for a total of 120 push ups

100 pushups W4D3: 30-22-22-20-[41] for a total of 135 push ups

So, it’s onto Week 5. I was surprised how well this week went because I barely got the required numbers done at the end of Week 3. I think I figured out that it’s better to do the push ups before I run. And speaking of running, I logged my last run of Week 8 in the OHR program. It was my longest to date – 49 minutes covering 4.71 miles. Very cool stuff. I was amazed how good I felt during the run, and I don’t think I’ll have any trouble competing in the Nike+ Human Race 10k at the end of the month. I can’t wait!