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Day 4,394—Full moon and Results from my Pushup Goal for April—

          If you look at my picture today, it will look like the sunrise, but it is not the sunrise; it is the moon, which was a shade of orange/red this morning. I knew the picture wouldn’t capture the moon's details, but there is something beautiful about that. I completed 7,515 push-ups in April! That’s an average of a little over 250 pushups a day! I also did 1,801 Leg-lifts! I ran 234 miles, which isn’t bad. I am still on track for my yearly goal of over 3,000 miles, but I was down from my average. The goal for miles is at least 250 per month, so I am happy with this month. At the same time, April is my lowest mileage month of the year so far. I am really happy I was able to run the 32 miles last weekend, and the trail miles I put in during April were key. If I could have done something differently, I might have tried to keep my Monday-Friday average up rather than focusing only on those long runs on the weekend. Still, I had the Greater St. Louis Marathon ...

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