New Year's Goals

[ilanarama]

Since December's about over, I figured it would be a good time to think about/imagine/dream/plan goals for 2011.

Any running-related goal is valid, whether it's to run a 100-mile ultramarathon or to run 2 miles in a row. It can be to complete a distance, or race a distance, or attain a speed, or run a certain number of miles per week, month, or year. No judging anyone else on their speed or their slowness. These are all personal goals, relative to where we are now and where we want to be.

Feel free to put your goals in comments, or to post them in your own journal and link them here. This is mostly a placeholder and reminder so you can come back in a year and see how well you succeeded!

Comments

[temve]

My goal for the new year is to finish a half-marathon, and possibly finish an Olympic-distance triathlon. No time goals on either, because just finishing them will be an achievement for me.

Other goals: be a support vehicle and general cheerer-onner for my girl when she does her crazy tri thing on our honeymoon, and feel less bad about being a big runner with, you know, hips.

[ell]

♥ by the way I love your hips. And the rest of you.

[ilanarama]

Get a room, you two. :-)

[thalia]

Yeah, I just had lunch with them on Monday, and they were too cute for words. [g]

♥ you both

[nanila]

My goal is to run a 10k competitively. I did my first competitive 5k last year, so I want to up the ante! I would also like to do it in under an hour but I don't mind that so much. It's more about being less afraid to run when other people are around, and to push myself a bit instead of tootling gently around like I do when I run on my own.

[shadowkitty]

I'm aiming for a 5k around march (hopefully getting under 35mins), a 10k around June, and to do the 5mile cross country series starting in November. I hope it's not too unrealistic!

[sophinisba]

I want to run a half marathon. No time goal and it's okay if I walk a bit, and if it doesn't work out for me to do an actual race I would count running 13.1 miles in a day as a win, but I want to do something like a half marathon.

I also want to do a 10K race in less than an hour. This June I had resolved to do the 10K in 60 minutes October and I didn't even come close, but it still seems like something I can work toward.

[afrikate]

My goals for 2011:

1. Keep running!
2. Complete a race longer than 10K.
3. Get faster--up to a 12-minute mile for longer distances and a 10.5 or 11-minute mile for shorter distances.

[thalia]

My first goal is to get back up to 15 miles/week and maintain that for more than, you know, two weeks. 2010 was pretty much the year of derailment. By September I'd like to do a 10K and be running at least 20 miles every week.

[gnomad]

Hm. Well, I suppose my big running goal is to run my half-marathon in March. I'd definitely like to do it in under 3, but I'm wondering if I will get fast enough to do it in 2:35-2:40. I'd also like to get my 5K time down to 30 minutes. My PR is a 36:29, so I've got a lot of work to do, but I'm hoping one day a 10 minute mile won't seem so hard.

My triathlon goals for the year are still in flux, depending on what races I get into the lottery for.

[blnchflr]

My realistic goal for 2011 is to go running more than once.

[ilanarama]

Aw, Skuf. :-(

[blnchflr]

I haven't run for weeks and weeks, and after messing up my knee with the spill on my bike, let's say I have respect for the current weather/road conditions (which is snow/slush/ice in varying proportions). Going running twice will be more than I did the vast majority of years of my life, so it wouldn't be half-bad. And I've learned setting my goals as attainable as possible works by far the best for me, *hands*.

(I miss running like whoa, though - if I didn't suck at running on a treadmill, I'd scrounge together the money for a gym membership, but I unfortunately run very unstable-ly on treadmills, to the point where I think it's not good for the knee).

[lyras]

My aim for the year is to get faster; my goal is to run a 9 or 10 km race by October. I've been running (well, plodding) for ages, but can't seem to get any faster, which means I've been too scared to enter any races. I'm in a proper running routine now, and back from my month's holiday, so it's time to get working. :)

[mansikka]

I'm signed up for two marathons this year, and want to break 4 hours. If not that, then beat my PB of 4:21.

[ilanarama]

When are your marathons?

I can tell you that when I first broke 4 hours (my previous times were 4:33 and 4:07, I ran 3:54) I used the Hal Higdon Advanced I plan which is on his website. I saw you were running your LR at 9:30-9:45 and that's about where I was then. (Actually I did a lot of running at 10 minute miles! I still run my LRs at 9:00 to 9:30 and I'm shooting for 3:30.)

[mansikka]

I'm doing Helsinki on 8/20 and Chicago on 10/9. A little close together, sure, but after talking to various folks, I think it's doable (just so long as I don't run Helsinki hard).

I am conflicted about training programs, since I like (read: feel a strong compulsion) to run longer distances really regularly -- pretty much ten miles a day, more on weekends. If I don't do that, I feel like a total lazy bum. Running's a drug, what can I say. :)

[ilanarama]

My goals:
1) run more miles this year than last year
2) sub-3:30 for the marathon
3) sub-1:36 for a half marathon
4) sub-22:40 for a 5K
5) get better at trail races
6) stay uninjured