December check-in

[ilanarama]

Hey! How did it get to be December already?

How goes your running? And, since 2013 is coming up: did you meet your 2012 goals, if you had any? Do you have any 2013 running goals?

ETA: for those of you who need something to jog your memory, last year's goals thread is here!

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[ell]

Here are my goals from last year's post:
(I'm putting how I actually did after each goal in the list)

Races to finish:
Frankfurt 1/2 Marathon (Done, but slow - was anemic most of the spring)
Worms 111 Tri (Such a fun race, too bad it's not happening again this year, boo!)
Wiesbaden 70.3 (Hard! Also, sick during but still pulled a better swim and better run than last year's Eagleman. The bike was hilly and hard and took forever. But I finished, yay!)

Additional (read Time) goals:
Frankfurt Marathon in 4:10 or less (that's only 6 minutes less than the last one which was 12 minutes faster than the one before that) (4:02:30something !!!!!!!!!)

Write up race reports within a week of races :-) (well, for most of them this didn't happen, but I did write up Frankfurt and this year's Turkey Trot over at my running blog: lonwheels.wordpress.com)

Get a 5 km in under 25:20 (Mattituck Turkey Trot 24:42!!!! Another PR!)
Run the Frankfurt 1/2 in 1:55 (all my 1/2's hover between 1:56 and 1:58, so I think this is totally doable) Nope. Ran it in 1:59 and was happy to finish that well)

Train smart and take care of injuries. (For the most part I've done this. The second half of the year had no injuries (and the first part was a tailbone bruise from a bike fall rather than a stress injury. Since October I've been healthy again from the summer-long ulcerative colitis flare up that plagued my training. Still managed to get in and stay in pretty good shape overall.

GOALS for 2013:
Become an Iron(wo)man in Frankfurt.
Sub-4:00 marathon.
Keep blogging.
Get my little training group to races happy, healthy, and ready (that is right now, me, temve, and 2 friends just getting into triathlon)

[ilanarama]

Yay on making (many of) your goals! And yay on setting some good goals for next year!