Get your iron quads and golden calves ready. The 100/100 Run Challenge starts on November 15th, one month from today. You sign up here.

The 100/100 was the brainchild of charter Slowtwitcher Devashish Paul, and the last 3 years have been the biggest with 700-and-something of you participating each year. Last year “triordie1994” logged the most sessions at 250, while our own Herbert Krabel was second with 222. Herbert was the distance king at just over 1,200 miles over 100 days. In each of the last 3 years of this challenge Slowtwitchers log about 30,000 runs and cover about 150,000 miles.

The point is consistency. If you run 100 times in 100 days you get a platinum attaboy. If you run 90 times, or 80, or 70, you earn gold, silver or bronze respectively. The leaderboard will indicate the trophy you’re on pace for all along the way.

The point is not to run until you’re injured, but to teach you how to run in a way so as not to get injured. Honor tomorrow’s run today. Run every run as a bridge to tomorrow. Take days off when you need them. If you approach this right, you’ll be stronger in the second half than in the first.

My record is 80 runs. I don’t know if I’ll hit that this year, because my intention this year is to try to increase the average run length. The challenge is a way to help you achieve whatever your run goal is for the winter.

There is a new rule this year, which is, you can achieve a maximum of 3 runs on any single day.

How do you enter the 100/100 Challenge? You go to the Challenges tab on our Training Log, select Enroll under that 100/100 Challenge, and Enroll will change for you; it'll now say Leave (you can see what it looks like above on my screen, now that I've entered).

Of course, you must be a Slowtwitch Reader Forum member and you must be logged in. We have one common login throughout Slowtwitch, and if you go to our Reader Forum you’ll see a prompt to “Log In” and if you go there you’ll be guided to create an account. This is what you need to take part in this challenge. There is no cost for any of this, except the cost of being part of a community, with the accountability that comes with it. The accountability is the glue that makes the challenge work. Once you enter, you’ll see yourself on the leaderboard.

On our Reader Forum is a discussion thread that will have several hundred more posts, when we’re done, on this challenge.

You have a month to get ready.