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# 1,000 1,000
- URL: https://vaughan.ai/blog/1-000-1-000/
- Published: 2012-12-19T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-07T23:20:50.000Z
- Author: Vaughan Fergusson
- Tags: Startup, Self Improvement, #medium-import

Next year, 2013, I am doing something I am calling my 1kk challenge.

“What’s a 1kk challenge Vaughan?” I hear you ask. Well, as you asked…

Every year I do a mad challenge. A few years back it was [cycling the length of NZ solo](http://nzuphill.8degrees.co.nz/?ref=vaughan.ai), this year is going dry for a year, a couple of years back it was starting some [startup thingy](http://www.vendhq.com/?ref=vaughan.ai). I have quit watching all televised sports for a year (now into my 6th year), quit all mainstream news media for a year (into year 3 now). Sometimes it is quitting things, sometimes doing new things. I try and alternate. And so next year I am doing a 1kk.

The idea is simple, you can run, walk, swim, ride, pogo but you have to do it for **1,000k’s** (1k-k). Or **1,000,000 meters**. Woah, that sounds a lot.

#### ONE MILLION METERS!

You don’t have to do it all at once, that’s a lot of running or walking and would be MAD, but the aim is that over the course of a year (or a bit longer or shorter) you clock up 1,000k’s.

I am going to run it. The aim is a daily 3km run, or a weekly 20km run. 1,000km is far enough that you would need to keep to a regular commitment to do it, and obviously measure it. Doing something 3km a day is achievable by almost anyone, and get’s you into a good regular fitness pattern. Well that’s what I figure anyway. Ask me again in July if it is a good idea.

You should do it to. If not only so I have someone who can hold me accountable, but more importantly ’cause I think it would be awesome! We can become best buddies on RunKeeper.

You may just walk it, that’s a 3km walk a day (2.74km to be precise). Rollerskate? Might be tough. It is a WHOLE YEAR, and trust me, that’s a long time to do something EVERY DAY. But the rewards from doing something like this are huge, HUGE! How great will you feel at the end? AWESOME, trust me.

I will post how I go here. If anyone is keen to do something similar let me know. Think twice about that xmas ham.

#### UPDATE:

Nailed it. I clocked up the last k at 3pm on 31 December. I had to take the last 3 weeks slow just so I could hit the last KM on NY eve.

![](https://vaughan.ai/content/images/2026/11/0b1ae0c31008.png)

*Originally published at* [*www.8degrees.co.nz*](http://www.8degrees.co.nz/2012/12/19/1000-1000/?ref=vaughan.ai) *on December 19, 2012.*