Today’s run: 4.75 miles, 51:48 minutes. YT: 420.54. I didn’t see any elderly Chinese men running backwards today. Maybe yesterday I was hallucinating.

Today is July 2, and so we are officially in the second half of the Thousand Mile Year. I’m noticing that having a year-long project has an impact on your perception of things. It’s kind of like a tattoo: It anchors you to this person you were six months ago who said, “I think I should do this.” And I can tell you, that person who sat in Cayucos, California, whipping together this blog in the final days of 2009, never thought that six months later, she’d be sitting in her 5th floor walk up on the island of Manhattan pecking out this post on a sunny July day after a cheerful run through Chinatown. How did this happen?!

Have you noticed that I’m 80 miles behind? Yep: I’m going to have to increase my average weekly mileage to 25 miles a week. Doable – but easy to screw up. It means that the long run can never be tomorrow. It’s always got to be today. The “power month” can’t be next month. It needs to be this month.

While I don’t see another move coming – and I’m still surprised at how much this one turned me over and squeezed me out – I’m sure there will be other challenges before the year is up. In particular, snow and sleet and wind and rain, probably not in that order.

Let’s see what we can do.