My goal is to live my best life.
Lofty, isn’t it?
Health & fitness are a huge part of how I feel about myself, how I feel about the world around me, and how I relate to others & myself. A year and a half ago I completed my first triathlon, the Danskin, in Seattle. I learned many things about myself on the way to that start line. I learned that the race was only a celebration of everything I had done to get to the starting line. I learned that I could do it. I learned patience. Patience with myself. With my goals. With my breathing. With the treadmill. With large goals and small steps.I also learned how good it feels to be healthy, to respect myself, to take care of myself, to follow through on what I set out to do. What that looks like, what that feels like, what that means.I’m excited to set this goal of running half a marathon. Race day will be a great milestone of what I will have done to get there. Everything that must happen between today, January 10 and race day, November 30. The commitment, the challenges, the learning, the exercising logs and food journals. Growing stronger and fitter and happier every day. And I’m happy to do this with Valria & Leslie. What better way to deepen a friendship than to pursue a positive, life affirming goal together.
Long range goals
To live my best life.
Mid range goals
To run a half marathon in 2008! To lose 20 lbs. To be sexy, healthy, confident, happy, beautiful and fit.
Short range goals
January
Start training and make exercise a routine part of my life. For the next three weeks, I will average 3 1/2 hours a week of exercise (30 minutes a day might be a more digestable way of putting that).
Start running training.
February
Continue running training.
Start tracking what I eat.
Lose 4 pounds.
March
Continue running training.
Continue tracking what I eat.
Lose 2 pounds.
April
Enjoy my time in Europe sight-seeing, walking and laughing. No guilt about training.
Continue tracking what I eat until I go to Europe on April 15th.
Enjoy the food in Europe but be good to myself too (i.e. cut down bad choices).
May
Begin running training by following the five week pre-training schedule on Cool Runnings program for the half marathon. The game is afoot!
Return to tracking what I eat.
Lose 4 pounds.
June
Continue running training.
Continue tracking what I eat.
Lose 2 pounds.
