Like many runners, I am a compulsive record-keeper. I keep a little book on each of the 149 races I have run, with description and photos. And I also keep a running log in a small Day Planner - the same type I have used for many, many years - entering mileage run, conditions, and other notes, and totting up the weekly mileage in the back. At the end of the year, I add up total annual miles, and several years ago I went back and retrieved the mileage from all of my past running logs (which of course I keep in a secure location) beginning with the year 1995. I had run for many years since then, and even as a child, but that's when I began documenting my annual mileage in running logs.
As I was adding up my weekly mileage, it occurred to me for some reason to look up the circumference of the globe. According to Wiki Answers, that distance is 24,901.55 miles. One thing led to another, and after a little work with a calculator I discovered that on July 19, 2013 - during the course of an ordinary 9-mile run this summer and unbeknownst to me at the time - I crossed that threshold.
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