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_{Happy Birthday again to my colleague and running buddy. This is us before we set off today for run #50}

When I first learnt about this challenge set by @theaustrianguy in this post, I had my doubts. Yes, I had been more active and consistent this year, but I also knew that the weather could change everything and the famous words ‘Winter is Coming’ were freshly etched in my head 😒

Last winter had been difficult to keep my activity levels up, I did 47 runs (including 2 times cross-country skiing) between 2^nd October and 30^th April. So it was possible, but I would have to increase my activity levels and hope that the winter would not be so bad.

I could not have been more wrong. We are having a hard and difficult winter so far. Those of you who have followed my 50 runs know the conditions I’ve had to endure. I’ve had everything from strong rains, snowstorms, 30 cm snow, icy conditions, hurricances, different environments due to holiday and work trips, adjusting my running routes due to storm damages and so on, but …

I’ve done it!!!

I can’t believe I did it with another 3,5 months left to go, but I did it!!! Along the way the way I also convinced 3 people to join the challenge:

@toofasteddie on the 14th October
@romaincrx on the 25th November
@shazza on the 9th December

My posts helped convince @runningturtle to join the challenge.

Overall I did 462 kilometers, that's the same distance as from my home (as the bird flies) to well into the Czech Republic or Dortmund or Paris or Florence or close to Ljubljana where our friend and running mate @ervin-lemark lives ... it's a ridiculous distance. In total I spent well over 47 hours running or skiing.

_{Very grey today with the occasional rain bothering us during our run}

Here are my stats for todays' run:

• Weather: 5 degrees, grey and windy with a storm coming
• Distance: 10 kilometers
• Time: 55 minutes
• Pace: 5:31 min/km
• Training Effect: 4,6 = Overreaching

To mark the occasion of the 50^th run, we decided to add another 1,5 kilometers to our run today. So we did 10 kilometers in 55 minutes, which is a very decent run with a nice pace of 5:31 min/km.

_{We stopped for a selfie under way!}

It was actually a very good run, we managed to set a nice pace and we both felt like we could've upped our pace even more. The weather wasn't ideal, but on the other hand, that might've also helped us enjoying our run more. So we did not feel any worse for the additional 10 kilometers. We also made a slight change from our normal course today, which added to more incline in our run today ... all to our benefit. It would have been nice if more runs would've been like the one we did today.

_{That's me done - 50/50 runs, this is when we returned after our run from today!}

_{My last running stats for 50 runs till May, if you want to see more indepth statistics or want to follow me in Garmin Connect, just follow this link}

_{This is how I got to 50}

For those of you who hear about this challenge for the first time and you run on average more than 3 times a wek, you can still join the challenge:

_{As you can see if you started now and ran 3 times a week, you wouldn't make it, but if you did a bit more than that, there's still time. To join the challenge follow the instructions in this post.}

I know many of you will be asking ... what are you going to do now? Well, I have something in mind of which I will post very soon and I will also do my best to help and promote the @runningproject among runners over here on steem. Growing together makes it more fun and will only benefit the community.

I will also focus a lot more now on promoting @qurator & their bot qustodian. It's very easy to join, they're very helpful, they even have a tutorial chatroom for those who are illiterate with formatting like me and you get an upvote every day for only 2 SBD. So for those of you who don't want to use bots for upvotes, this is a more secure and certain way of gaining revenue, votes and a following on your posts. I am in Tier 5 myself as I have delegated 300 of my SP to them. Once our running bot is up and 'running' 😉 I will also start delegating SP there, to support that project.

That's it from me. Good luck to all of you who are still doing their 50 runs! I will keep posting occasional running blogs, but not as much as I did for my 50 runs and feel free to ask me anything if I can be of help.

Like I mentioned above, if you want to stay up-to-date with my runs, you can go to this link and see all my activities since I started using my Garmin Fenix 3.

On a final note I want to thank @theaustrianguy for setting this challenge. Without that I probably would've done about 50 runs max between October and December. Anytime being away or having bad weather would've been a good reason to stay inside or don't run. But thanks to the challenge and the support of all of you I kept going and the love, attention and challenge has kept me going to #50! So a big thank you to @theaustrianguy, but also to each and every one of you who supported me.

Doron

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