For my 40th birthday I decided to run just over a mile (1.66km) every hour for 24 hours for a total of 40km (almost 25 miles) from midnight to midnight. This challenge is inspired by Beau Miles’ video “Running a marathon, one mile every hour”, where he ran 26 miles in 24 hours and did various chores between miles. But instead of chores my goal was to knit an entire cabled hat between laps.

I also did 600 chess puzzles and slept almost not at all. I collected some data and made an interactive animated dashboard you can play with on my weblog: I ran 40km and knit a hat for my 40th birthday

The white yarn is left over Patons Classic Worsted from my Handsome Chris Pullover

The blue yarn is left over Cascade 220 Heathers from my Book Exchange Book Exchange Cardigan