Totals.

If I run six miles tonight as I plan, I will have run 127.5 miles the month of January.

I missed one day due to weather, and two days due to strep.

I've lost almost five pounds this month.

The most I've run in a day has been 10 miles, on Jan. 15. The most I've run in a week has been 34 miles, the week of Jan. 9-15.

I'm not generally numbers-type person. I have two degrees in English, and anything more than addition, subtraction and multiplication is too much for me.

But running brings out the obsessive in me. The only "proof" I have to measure my success is through numbers -- mileage, pounds, etc. I can't prove that I feel great, and that my mood is 1,000x better than it was previously.

But numbers do not lie.