{"id":558,"date":"2025-07-02T17:55:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d-410.com\/f2fwp\/?p=558"},"modified":"2025-07-02T17:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:55:25","slug":"47-miles-for-47-years-my-birthday-running-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d-410.com\/f2fwp\/2025\/07\/02\/47-miles-for-47-years-my-birthday-running-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"47 Miles for 47 Years \u2013 My Birthday Running Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the past 8 years, I\u2019ve set myself a unique birthday tradition: Run one mile for every year I\u2019m turning, starting June 1st and finishing by my birthday on June 29th. This year, the number was 47 \u2014 47 miles in 29 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But here\u2019s the catch: I can\u2019t change my schedule. That means no skipping work, no rescheduling podcast recordings, no dodging family or business commitments. I have to carve out these miles from my \u201cdown time\u201d \u2014 early mornings, late evenings, lunch breaks\u2026 whenever I can squeeze them in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"47 Miles for 47 Years \u2013 My Birthday Running Challenge\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qg5qTQDVO8E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Add to that this year\u2019s daily Florida lightning storms, and it became one of the most challenging years yet. But that\u2019s what makes it worth doing. Discipline, sweat, and showing up even when it\u2019s inconvenient \u2014 that\u2019s the whole point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow along as I share what it took to hit all 47 miles without missing a beat in life. \ud83c\udf99\ufe0f\ud83c\udfc3\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\u26a1\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2705 Like if you\u2019ve ever challenged yourself to do something big.<br>\ud83d\udcdd Comment if you\u2019ve got a birthday tradition of your own.<br>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe for more stories, podcast episodes, and life challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>For the past 8 years, I\u2019ve set myself a unique birthday tradition: Run one mile for every year I\u2019m turning, starting June 1st and finishing <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/d-410.com\/f2fwp\/2025\/07\/02\/47-miles-for-47-years-my-birthday-running-challenge\/\" title=\"47 Miles for 47 Years \u2013 My Birthday Running Challenge\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d-410.com\/f2fwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d-410.com\/f2fwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d-410.com\/f2fwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-410.com\/f2fwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-410.com\/f2fwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/d-410.com\/f2fwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/d-410.com\/f2fwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-410.com\/f2fwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d-410.com\/f2fwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-410.com\/f2fwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d-410.com\/f2fwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}