Monday, January 14, 2013

2013 Goals

I'm not big into resolutions. I don't want to "be a better person." Actually I do, but I'm much more of a concrete person than that so I need a few, very focused goals to work on in order to do this. So, although a bit late, here are my 2013 goals.

1) Run 85% of the days of 2013. That comes out to be a total of 311 days this year. Or roughly 6/7
    days on average.

2) Get back down to race weight. With the injury that I sustained last summer, my weight went waaaay
     past competition weight. I'm working to get back down to where I need to be. I have numbers
     attached to this goal, but I'm not sharing those :p

3) I would also like to run a sub-20 minute 5k this year. With the past seven years of focusing on the
    marathon I've gotten away from being able to run a solid 5k. My XC runners have inspired me to get
    faster so I can push them just a bit this year.

4) I want to take at least 1 grad class this year. The biggest question here is where and what in.

5) Finish the guest bedroom in our house. That implies that at some point I need to start too, eh?

6) Read 3000 pages this year. Sounds like a big number, but really it's less than 10 a day right?

7) I also want to clean up the basement so that it's an empty palate. Ready for someone who's smarter
     than me to tell me what to do with it.

8) Practice my trombone more.

9) Have athletes compete at state.

10) Spend more time with the family. Our kiddo is already growing up SO fast. I need to stay on top of
     grading papers, planning, etc, to free up time for this goal and other goals to happen!

That's the list. I'll check in from time to time to update you on how I'm doing