Three miles a day for fifteen years!

This coming Saturday will be 11 July 2009.

Skylab I tumbled back to Earth thirty years before this coming Saturday.

A Minnesota resident by the name of Joan Monson began walking three miles a day exactly fifteen years before this coming Saturday.

You read that correctly: This Saturday will mark the fifteenth anniversary of this now-69-year-old woman walking three miles per day every single day.

Impressive!

Looking back to 11 July 1994, there have been four leap days — in 2008, 2004, 2000, and 1998.

If you include 11 July 1994 plus 11 July 2009, that means that Ms. Monson will mark this coming Saturday a total of 365 x 15 + 4 + 1 = 5,480 days of walking three miles/day.

That works out to 16,440 miles walked through 11 July 2009 — all with a daily habit begun when Ms. Monson was 54.

How far have you walked or run over the past several years? Were you surprised by the total? And at what age did you start?

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