I did pretty darn well with my 2010 goals. I'm no longer setting myself one for my weight -- having maintained myself at 135 pounds for about a year and a half, I'm pretty sure that keeping a healthy weight has become a habit for me, and not something I need to give myself a mental reminder about any longer. (I continue to use Lose It!, the food- and exercise-tracking iPhone app that helped me get down to this weight, in order to alert me to any upticks in my weight so I can correct the problem before it gets bigger.) But I still have some running and nonrunning health-related goals:
- Blog on ReasonPharm at least once a week. My temperament is very much fits-and-starts; I often work obsessively on a project for weeks, then abandon it for weeks, then return to it. You can see it in my 2010 posting pattern, where I'd post every day, sometimes twice a day, for a few weeks, then fail to post for a couple of months. This is not how to keep readers coming back, duh! I am capable of disciplining myself to do a thing regularly, as I've shown with my ability to maintain a running schedule of 4-5 days a week for four years now. (I don't reduce frequency in the off-season, just mileage.)
- Give CrossFit a try. Endurance is, obviously, not a problem for me. Strength, however, is. I've never in my life been able to do a single unassisted pull-up. I would like that to change, and I've heard nothing but positives about CrossFit from fellow Objectivists. I'm planning to attend a teaser class at CrossFit South Brooklyn, which is a quick jog away from my apartment, in January, and probably sign up for private Foundations training (basically the onboarding stuff where they show you how to do the moves) after that. Assuming all goes well, I'll be able to attend classes after Foundations are done. I'm excited, and a little scared -- my typical workouts as a distance runner are long and work me somewhat hard, but rarely to a very high level of intensity. Am I going to be able to hang with the tough guys? I hope so!
- Pick a really damn cool marathon to run. I have now set a personal record every time I've run the marathon. I certainly wouldn't mind doing so again (and running a 4:22:35 PR in 88-degree weather begs the question of what I could do if the conditions were better), but chasing PRs is no longer my primary goal. My husband and I may want to have a child in the next three to five years, and once that happens, I am probably going to have to give up marathoning. I won't give up running, but maintaining the mileage load I need to run a successful marathon doesn't really go with the time and energy needed to raise a child. Which means I can count the number of marathons I have left in my lifetime on one hand (since I don't plan on running more than one a year, and can't necessarily count on getting back into marathoning once any children are older). That means I want every race I have left to be a special experience. Right now option one is Berlin, which is a city I've desperately wanted to see again ever since I visited ever so briefly in 1999. It's an enormous race -- one of the five World Marathon Majors -- and would thus have great crowd support. Plus, it's a nice flat course, so I could chase another PR. Other possibilities: San Francisco (for a serious challenge) or Marine Corps, which I might be able to run with a friend, something I've never done before.
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