Three Is A Magic Number

I can vividly remember spending Saturday mornings watching cartoons, especially the cartoons on ABC because they had The Superfriends (the others escape me in my old age). I can also remember in between programs they would show School House Rock.

You know, "I'm Just A Bill", "Conjunction Junction", "Unpack Your Adjectives", and one of my personal favorites, "Three Is A Magic Number" [an aside: if you're a fan of these then I highly suggest buying this album if for no other reason than the version of Conjunction Junction by Better Than Ezra and Blind Melon's Three Is A Magic Number]

So why the title and all this talk about educational cartoons from 30 years ago? Well, because three is a magic number. It takes three weeks to form a new habit, or to bring back a habit that you've been missing like an old friend from college you haven't spoken to in months (or maybe years). Three weeks to run consistently so that you can see improvements in fitness. THREE weeks of not missing a single run.

That's right, you read that right: for the last THREE weeks I've completed every training run on my schedule. I had to get up early some days to do it. I had to run on the treadmill some days after coming home from work to do it. I had really long days because of a crazy work schedule combined with my running, but I did it. For THREE weeks in a row.

For the last three weeks I've been kind to running, and now running is starting to be kind to me again. Welcome back old friend.