I’ll be honest – Like most of my good writing ideas, this is straight from Jon. Were I making any money on this space, I’d send it his way in fealty.
But, let’s look at 2005 Reloaded:
So, for planning purposes, I am doing Mystic. – Done.
I’m going to be using the training plan from the New York Road Runners, specifically, the 18 week schedule starting from a 20 mile/week base. Done. I think I can still consider myself at the 20 mile base, BTW. More on that later.
My secondary goal is to avoid overtraining while still reaching achievable goals. Not sure that I really accomplished this one. I think that my tendency to blow off long runs contributed to my tightness in the calves which really really showed up in a mental toll. But, I established a new well to which I can go mentally, so in all, I’ll rate this goal a push.
(I have no clue what that previous paragraph means, but have few doubts that I’ll repeat it in a meeting in the next two weeks, with work-related buzzwords replacing the running-related words)
Hopefully I can find some time in the next week to dig into the HTML of the site and add a bar with the races I’m planning on doing over the year. – heh. No comment.
Weight – Mixed bag here. Yes, I’m down overall (won’t actually check on the Christmas damage until, say, mid-January, BTW) for the year, but closer to the start at 180 than the goal of 152. I did mark an entire year under 185, which is great.
Need to review prospective goals and get to work now…
I’d say you did well; a net positive year. Perhaps not to the secret overachieving standard you might have harbored for yourself but, mighty good just the same.
you did good, Jank! Here’s to another year of getting stuff done.
I do accept Blogshare dollars and chips. :)
I think you done damn good this year, Jank. Two marathons. That makes you King in my book.
Now have you ever run a race in Canada? I happen to know one coming up and I think they are easier because all the miles are in metric.
I’m with Jon, come to Canada in July (drag Jon along too). We’re having a great race and you could meet Karen and I. Twas a great year, 2005 and I bet 2006 will be even better!