Portland, OR - Portland ME = 3,216

Hey family, WELCOME to our blog!

I want to start off by saying, I am SO excited about this! My favorite part is that even though we are all separate living out our lives, we can share a common goal. While the purpose of this blog is to log and total workout mileage, it can really be much more than that. If you have a thought of the day, scripture, prayer request, exciting news, a funny story, or just need to vent...whatever it be, share it here on the blog. I have supposedly invited everyone to be an author, so you should all have the authorization to post hopefully. You may post your mileage daily, weekly, bi-monthly...then I will total the mileage and it will appear in the left hand side. I have created three categories for mileage: running, biking, and other. "Other" can include elliptical, walking, swimming, hiking, you name it. Also when you post put your name in the Label so we can search by each person's post on the left hand side.

So...here is the challenge: Portland, OR to Portland, ME by April 2012

That is 3,216 miles or 536 miles per person. If everyone did 1 mile a day it would take us about a year and a half. Now, we don't have to each cover 536 miles, we are doing this as a team and some of us enjoy more mileage than others. My point however, is that even with as little as one mile a day we can complete this in a year and a half!

I've entitled our blog "Strides" because that is how we are going to accomplish this goal. One stride at a time. As we are making strides in our physical health I hope we make strides in life as well--emotionally, relationally, mentally, spiritually. That is what this blog is about...making STRIDES.