I have a bit of an obsession with distance. No, I’m not talking about my inexplicable drive to run farther than common sense would allow, though that probably counts as an obsession, too.
No, I’m talking about my equally odd desire for each run to end on a “nice” number. My favorites are multiples of 8 and multiples of 5. So if I’m at 31 miles and dead tired I’d still rather go another mile than stop. There are a couple exceptions: 33.33, for example, is another “natural” stopping point, as is 26.2, for obvious reasons.
Am I the only one with this problem? I see some runners on dailymile with runs that end in fractions of a mile, and besides the two exceptions I mentioned I just can’t do that. At worst it has to be a full mile, if not one of my multiples.