Today’s a big day for the small number of dedicated Smashrunners who set their sites on the Leap Year Sweep this year and successfully completed the challenge.
A year-long streak is never easy. There’s never a year without adversity. We all have bad days. We travel. We get sick. We feel lazy or down. And there are days when we don’t know how we’re going to get everything done—and yet, somehow, we also find time for a run.
When you’re running a streak, you have to run even when it’s the last thing you want to do. And that’s the magic of it. You discover that, almost always, even a short run makes you feel better—even when you’re convinced it won’t.
Running is universal medicine. When you leave the house and go for a run—no matter the pace, no matter the distance—you come home in a different, almost always better, place.
So, congratulations to all of you who sought out that medicine 366 times this past year no matter how bitter it may have seemed at the time.
UPDATE 1/1/2025
With (presumably) all of last year’s runs now logged, it appears that 3 of the 5 runners who completed 366-day streaks during the previous three leap years also earned the badge this year.
Of the two runners who didn’t complete 366 days this year, one made it all the way to the end of November before missing a day, while the other stopped logging runs in August.
An impressive 785 runners completed the Leap Year Sweep this year. Here’s the final breakdown:
- 3 runners achieved four 366-day streaks.
- 45 runners achieved three 366-day streaks.
- 298 runners achieved two 366-day streaks.
- 1,285 runners achieved one 366-day streak.
Thanks to the generous support of our users, we hope Smashrun will be here in 2029 to help you track your next Leap Year Sweep!