10/14/2026
Today marks TEN STRAIGHT YEARS of running every single day for Christina Ogle, Westminster’s Iron Lady!
On October 14, 2016, milk cost a nickel, gasoline was free, and dinosaurs still roamed the streets of Westminster.
Okay, maybe it wasn’t THAT long ago, but ten years without missing a single day of running is pretty remarkable!
For comparison, Cal Ripken Jr., Baltimore’s legendary Iron Man, played in 2,632 consecutive baseball games. Christina has now run 3,653 CONSECUTIVE DAYS!
Christina’s running journey actually began a few years before her streak. She started walking for exercise and eventually challenged herself to run to the next stop sign, then the next, and the next. Her original motivation? Getting home faster so she could eat breakfast!
Those little bursts of running eventually turned into her first 5K. In October 2016, she started running every day. When she later read about a holiday running streak challenge, she realized she’d already gotten a head start.
So she kept going. And going. And going.
Ten years later, she hasn’t missed a day!
Almost all those runs have been in Altra Running, and in true Iron Lady fashion, Christina was already out running at 4 a.m. this morning to keep her streak alive!
Christina also happens to be the Branch Manager at the Westminster Branch of the Carroll County Public Library, just down Main Street from us.
So if you see Christina around town or at the library, give Westminster’s Iron Lady a high five!
Congratulations, Christina, on an absolutely incredible accomplishment!
TEN YEARS. EVERY SINGLE DAY.
