last year's accomplishments, next year's goals

[ilanarama]

A year ago I posted:

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!

So, how did you do? Did you achieve your goals? Did events conspire to prevent you? Did you completely punt on them? What have you learned about yourself and about running through your successes and failures?

What are your goals for next year?

Comments

[gnomad]

Hahahahaha. I was so cute in 2010.

2011 Goals
1. Half Marathon in under 3 hrs HA! FAIL!
2. 5K in 30 minutes HAHAHA! FAIL!

Hahahahahaha. *kof* Spent the late winter/early spring laid up with some ITB weirdness, nursed myself back to health in the late spring, and promptly broke my foot in May. AWESOME SEASON WAS AWESOMELY LAME.

This year I learned not to laugh at friends when they always make their first goal to start and finish their races healthy and injury free. It is now my first goal too.

2012 Goals

1. I will do a half marathon if it kills me. It is, at this point, a matter of pride. I had put the others off thinking that it wouldn't be fun if I was under trained and suffering unduly through run/walk hell. Fuck that. Now, I just want to complete one so it's no longer hanging over me. I can work on time goals and PRs in the future.

2. Get my base back. I also learned in 2011 that you can basically never stop running ever. I want to go back to the halcyon days where there was a painfully ridiculously slow pace I could hold for miles without getting too tired or out of breath. Where, yeah, most of the runs I did were a endless struggle to put one foot in front of the other at a respectable clip, but sometimes I could back off, downshift, and there was a beautiful coasting gear that let me travel for miles before things started to protest. Oh, Zone 2 HR, I didn't appreciate you until you were gone. *sniffle*

[ilanarama]

Sistah! Good luck with the injury free part. Yeah, me too.

I will say (in case you haven't been following along at home) that it seemed to take me the same amount of time to get back that I was down with the injury. So hopefully if you stay with it and stay healthy you will surpass your former level!

[gnomad]

*fist bump of solidarity*

I am seeing rapid-ish improvements in the speed department. I ran an 8K in November and another one last week and knocked more than a minute per mile off my time. Still painfully slow, but I'm definitely improving quickly. I think this would all go much better if I could just turn off the bit of my brain that is doing constant comparisons to where I was before I broke my foot.

[blnchflr]

The start of your post made me lol :)

I think maybe I should just sign up for a half, too, instead of always hoping one day I'll be in the shape for one - the first couple of 10Ks I participated in sucked, too, because I wasn't in proper shape, but I never regretted running them.

Still, looking at 2,5-3 hours of suck is more intimidating than just 1+ hour of suck :)

[gnomad]

Half marathons still take less time than an Olympic triathlon! That's what I tell myself, at least.