Ring in the New Year

I decided that instead of running my scheduled 12 miler I'd ring in 2013 with 13 on the treadmill.  

My goals for 2013:

• Run 1000 miles
• Complete a half-ironman
• do 2 unassisted pull-ups
• read 12 books
• pay off the minivan
• spend more time with the kids

2009 Goal

At the end of 2008 I decided that my goal for 2009 was to do a race every month in 2009. It kicked off in October of 08 when we did the 5K run for Nie Nie. At the time Sophie was 3 months old and that was a tough 5K for me. I also did the Turkey trot and Nutcracker 5K in 2008.

Here is a recap of my 2009 goal:

January
Frigid 5K (25:50)
Traci and I

February
UVU No Snow 5K
Tayson and I

March
Moab 1/2 marathon (1:58)
Leigh Anne, Gretchen, Traci and I

April
Inaugural Boston 5K (24:12)

May
Memorial Day 10K (53:27)
Jen, Jill and I

June
Riverwoods 10 miler (1:25)
Laurie, Stephanie, Leigh Anne, Jill, Me and Traci

June (again)
Little Red Century (6 hrs 20 min - 103 miles)
Gretchen, Me and Leigh Anne

July
Surf City 4th of July 5K (23:29)
Amy and I

August
Park City 1/2 marathon (1:58)
Jill, Traci, Leigh Anne and I

September
Top of Utah Marathon (4:02)
Leigh Anne, Gretchen, Traci and I

Sherry and I @ TOU Marathon

October

The following are my excuses for missing:

I did 2 events in June

I ran a freaking marathon in September and still wasn't motivated yet

Todd was in California the whole month training for his new job and was only home 2 weekends and I didn't want to spend my Saturday away from him

None of my family or friends did races to force me to be motivated

November
Earn your Turkey 4 mile (31:38)
Todd, Mark, Me, Danny, Timmy and Tayson

December
Nutcracker 5K (25:25)
big old group of friends, friends of friends and family members

I must say it was a great goal and I'm glad I did it. Next year however I will not be repeating this goal. It was very time consuming and at times a bit stressful and expensive (although I have lots of amazing cotton t-shirts now - ha ha). And I have lots of great memories, pictures, new friends and I still love running.

2009

This year instead of my typical New Years Resolutions I'm doing the following.

1. Setting a theme for the year. My theme is "Embrace your crazy". Everyone has their own brand of crazy, some are more pronounced and others are so similar to mine I don't even think they are crazy. But really we are all crazy at some level. When I look at other people's "brand" of crazy and see it as just that I am much less judgemental and enjoy other people more.

2. Sign up for races/events. Instead of setting a weight or workout goal I like to find races or events to do and then I meet any fitness goals while training for them. Here is what I have in mind for 2009.

• Moab Half Marathon (already signed up....now I must train)
• 2 Centuries (Little Red Riding hood and Heber most likely)
• A marathon (maybe Top of Utah or Deseret News)
• Run at least a 5K every month of the year

A New Year

I thought it would be fun to look back on 2007 and list my favorite things of the year. Rather than put them in order of most important I just ordered them by time of the year.

Our new house

Finding Chelsea – the best nanny ever!

My new bike

Finishing a century and half marathon

Being in better shape in my 30’s than my 20’s

Buying new “skinny” jeans

Phoenix – Amy’s wedding and spending time with old college buddies, not to mention shopping with Kati it doesn’t get much better than that

Tayson’s first day of school

My parent’s moving so close

Mark’s mission (it’s bittersweet having him gone, but I wouldn’t want him anywhere else)

Blogging – I love being back in touch with so many friends who have moved away

Thanksgiving

My hair being as long as Sherry's - for the first time in my life

Our Cruise

Reading (what a year…Harry Potter, Twilight Series, and about 20 other books along the way)

And of course my wonderful husband and kids!!! It just keeps getting better every year.

Looking Ahead:
I'm not big on setting new years resolutions. I love Kati's idea of creating a "theme" instead, but haven't been good at that either. I always tell my spin class at the start of the year the best way to do a fitness goal is to sign up for an event or race rather than say you're going to lose 5 lbs. However, I thought it would be fun to just list some things I'm looking forward to in 2008 then just sit back and enjoy the year rather than think of all the things I'm not doing. So here goes:

Spending the summer with my kids

Lots more reading

So many babies being born this year

Having someone else clean my house

Luke and Claire getting potty trained...hopefully!!!