A look back at 2012

I often make goals and plans…  but far less often do I go back and reflect on how things went.

From January 2012

I think that I will give myself a grade for each

2012 Focus and Goals

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Things I would like to focus on

1.      Suppleness (B – mostly because of what I learned – I worked at this for the first half of 2012 then slacked off later in the year…)

2.      Flexibility (C – I worked hard on this for the first few months of the year then let it slide a bit…  and have paid for it)

4.      Swim for exercise…  not to be a fast swimmer or competitive triathlete(I – Incomplete - I did not swim  at all…  :-\     )

5.      Bike – find a way to ride outside more…  might play into moving and where we move (B- we moved just a few miles away and in so doing, now not only can we get out to ride without driving somewhere…  we have found hill repeats 5 minutes from our front door *in Florida*)

6.      Yoga – make it part of the routine – at least once a week (D – in spite of the fact that I am certified to become a yoga instructor this activity has fallen to the wayside for me.)

7.      Try to average 5 posts a week…  it's the only life I have… why not chronicle it?(F – let's just mark that down as overly ambitious J)

8.      Be in shape and ready for Cross season…  that means some power and threshold work in the fall when I'm normally a runner and tapering for triathlons (B+)

9.      Ride that bike trainer…  like I have in years past…  it's good training…  it's good base..  and good therapy mental and physical.  (A – lots of trainer rides especially in my 100 rides in 100 days streak)

10.  Read more books (A+ - I'm back being a book nerd- having an iPad and an iPhone with numerous readers and audio books is *sweet* at one point this year I was in the midst of reading 3 books at a time)

Goals:

1.  For both of us finish RATS (C – neither of us ran the whole race but we had a fabulous time out there)

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2.      Sub 5 at the ACT ½ IM (F – we did not even train for it)

3.      Do the local cross series w/o getting lapped (A- not only did I stop getting lapped actually placed in the next to last race of the series)

Overall final grade A+++++

How could I possibly get any lower when I got married to the most fabulous, wonderful, sweet, loving, athletic, giving lady on the entire planet?

2012…  my favorite year!