Friday, June 28, 2013

The Bet

The morning of our first race together in D. C.

In another attempt at motivation, my brother and I are currently involved in a year long bet.  The bet is as follows: we each track the miles we've run for the year on an excel spreadsheet created by my super intelligent and sometimes geeky brother Ryan.   At the end of the year, the person who runs the shorter distance has to give a dollar for every mile difference.     So if Ryan runs 500 miles this year and I run 400 miles, I will donate $100.00 to his charity of choice.    (hypothetical example that will not reflect reality in any way, shape or form)

This is the second year we've done this bet.   The first time we had the bet was in 2010.  My first son, Grayson was born November 24th, 2009 and I foolishly thought I could juggle having a newborn child, a new job and running lots of miles.   Needless to say, Ryan's charity of choice received a nice fat donation in January of 2011.  I will not disclose the amount because it's embarrassing.  However, if I can get 4 people to comment on this blog, I will reveal the amount in a later post.  

This year will be different, though.   I currently am only 17.1 miles behind him with half a year to go.   Some may think that with two small children in my family and my brother beginning to train for a marathon this week, that I made a foolish mistake.  I disagree.

Here's my top five reasons while I'll be victorious this year.  

5. The weather in Colorado is way more conducive to running than the running in Kansas/Missouri

4. He just developed shin splints (yowzers!)

3. He's getting married in two weeks and I'm guessing he won't be running that much on his honeymoon in Hawaii

2. My charity of choice this year is HealthEd Connect and I really want to have him give money to such a worthy organization

1. I'm better looking



I'll try to keep folks updated throughout the year on this bet.  

Here's the ribbon that I'll wear on my lapel, when I win!
 

13 comments:

  1. don't you get some kind of handicap for being old?

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    1. I only get a handicap if I'm older than Gabe . . . which unfortunately I'm not . . . yet

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  2. If Karyn's comment counts, then this one takes you to 3 . . . this is way too easy to get to 4!

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  3. I totally agree with your last reason. That's the same reason I always think I can beat him as well. Good luck!

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  4. Maybe the next competition should be to see who can blog more which, by the way, is taking valuable time away from your running more. Unless, of course, you can blog and run simultaneously. What happens if you both run the same amount of miles? I'm rooting for my "favorite" nephew. You have to figure out which one that is.

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  5. I have nothing worthy to comment besides that I'm reading your blog! And in totally want to know how much you had to pay to that charity. Good luck running!

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    1. Thanks for reading and commenting Beth! You'll have to check back on this blog to see the answer.

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  6. Well I guess we got to 4 comments (I don't count Karyn's, Kathy's or my dad's). He beat me by 393.5 miles. Yowzers!

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  7. The only reason you've caught up to me at this point, is I took a week and a half off. But my legs are ready to go now...

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  8. Jeff- I'll give you a bit more motivation. If you beat Ryan in this year's bet, I will match Ryan's loser donation. For every mile you beat him, I will donate a dollar to HealthEd!!!!

    Keep blogging and keep on running.

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