I never really make “resolutions” but I do always think it’s good to have goals for the year. Melanie asked me what my goals were on New Year’s Eve and I had to pause because I hadn’t put much thought into it. But it’s good to have them! So here are a few for the year: Fitness I always like setting some Time & Distance goals in Garmin In addition to those goals, I also plan to get back to some general strength training. I’d like to do an hour per week which seems very reasonable. I used to go …
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2013 was a great year but 2014 has the potential to be even better. First, lets get the goals out of the way for 2014: Sub 2hr Half Marathon Sub 3hr Olympic Triathlon Complete IMFL Sub 4:10 marathon 1300 miles running I wish I could have some biking goals but because of my travel, measuring bike distance will be tough. As I write this I already accomplished the first goal which will be in an upcoming race report for this past weekend. I knew I could achieve it since during my marathon I crossed the midpoint right at 2 hours. …
So I had a few goals set for 2013. Not resolutions but still things I wanted to accomplish. A big one was 1500 miles in the year. A fairly aggressive goal for me given that 2011, which was my best year of running in my 5 years on the road, was nowhere near that. I thought it was around 500 but I suspect it was closer to 400 as I look back at old data. That’s about 33 miles each month. I suppose not horrible if I’d been doing that consistently each month but really a huge chunk of that mileage …