I'm really excited about 2010! This is going to be another incredible year. I predict even better than last.
2009 was one of the best years of my life. On January 1, 2009 I was overweight and in a huge amount of stress with a struggling business.
I decided that day 1 year ago, that I was no longer going to let my financial stresses ruin my life and my health. So even though nothing changed with my business, I changed the way I was living. I started working out every day and made a goal to lose 15 pounds.
I immediately felt better about my life, and it immediately resulted in progress in all fronts including my business.
I did lose 15 pounds last year, but it didn't take losing 15 pounds to feel great. All it took was living differently every day.
Today I'm a much different person than I was 1 year ago, I live a much more healthy, balanced life, and I'm so much more happy. And my business is thriving now which is a great side benefit.
At the end of 2009 one of the greatest things happened to me though, I FINALLY LEARNED HOW TO RUN! That was just the icing on the cake of a fantastic year. Now that one little fact has changed my life completely and opened up new worlds of possibilities and fun goals and adventures that I want to tackle this year.
So here are some of my fitness related goals this year:
- Live a healthy, injury-free, balanced life, always taking care of my body and spirit.
- Run 30 miles on February 23, 2010 (My 30th birthday)
- Compete in a road marathon barefoot (I'd like to continue to build up my barefoot running strength endurance because I feel like it really helps me run better)
- Do the Breckenridge Firecracker 50 mile mountain bike race again - this time under 5 hours, and followed by the trail 10K in the morning.
- Do the Laramie Enduro 111K trail Mt. Bike race on 7/31/2010
- Run a trail marathon (probably in August - Kings peak with some friends)
- Ride the Leadville Traill 100 Mt. Bike race 8/14/2010 (I hope I get in in the lottery or by pulling strings with the photo I shot of Lance Armstrong at last years event that is posted on lance's home page - the 3rd picture that scrolls through the homepage of finish line at www.lancearmstrong.com)
- Do a 50 Mile Mountain trail run sometime in the fall - doesn't have to be a race, but maybe it will be if I'm ready and there's one around me at that time.
Goal #1 supersedes all the other goals in priority. If at the end of 2010 I accomplished this, anything else will be an added bonus. Part of the balance will be Nan's racing and training schedule also. She has quite ambitious goals also and I'm really into supporting her in achieving them, so I am keeping myself flexible on my goals so I make sure I can support Nan in her goals and not hinder her progress in qualifying for the olympic trials marathon.
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Oh yeah, here are my December 2009 mileage results:
108.97 running Miles total
77.51 in Vibram FiveFingers - 31.46 in Bare feet
