A pre-New Year's resolution

Run 100 miles before January 3rd.

Why 1/3? I'll be going back to Japan that day for one week. That means a month of averaging just under four miles a day.

I love jogging - got a pretty nice road course just outside the house, going down a hill and back up - and I figure this is where I make my stand to get a base going to do what I always wanted to do every time I see it on TV: run a NYC marathon.

I will need lots of granola bars.