Goals for 2010: How'd I do?

Now that year's end is approaching, time to see how I did, as I set up my goals for next year.

First, my 2010 goals:

• Maintain weight at 135 pounds. Done, and without a whole lot of difficulty. I've replaced just about my entire wardrobe -- it's such fun buying size sixes instead of tens and twelves. Also my husband brags about the fact that although the cliche is that a woman lets herself go after marriage, I look better than I did on our wedding day. Hah!
  
• Beat my personal record in the marathon. Also done, although in retrospect I should always have qualified this goal with "weather permitting." I sliced six minutes off my PR, but I did so on an 88-degree day in Chicago, at the cost of fainting from dehydration a few days later. Was it worth the medical emergency? Probably not, since next year I can try again. Then again, it was so hot that I'm not sure going out more conservatively would have saved me.
• Run a 5K. Done...twice! As expected, I slashed my previous PR (set before I started seriously running and before I pared my weight down to 135) from 26:47 to 24:09.
• Improve core strength. This is the one area in which I've failed miserably, mostly because I haven't held this goal in mind all year. I'll address this in my 2011 goals.
• Go injury-free. Hmm. On the one hand, I didn't injure any body parts. On the other hand, can we call a year in which I fainted from dehydration "injury-free"? In any case, the circumstances surrounding Chicago were pretty extreme, and it's unlikely I'll ever again be faced with running a marathon in such difficult conditions, so I do give myself credit for knowing this year when to stretch, when to lay off a prescribed day's training because of illness, etc.

Soon to come: Next year's goals!