If you were to tell me on Dec. 31, 2007 I’d run more than 1,800 miles during 2008 I would have questioned your sanity.\u00a0 If you told me I’d BQ — twice — I most certainly would think you were nuts.\u00a0 And if you told me I’d run not one, not two, not three, but eight — EIGHT — marathons during the year, I’d have you committed then and there.<\/p>\n
Yet here we are one year later and I’m accomplished all of those things.\u00a0 Whew!<\/p>\n
Goals are a funny thing.\u00a0 I hesitate to set them since circumstances could change, yet I’d still feel a sense of failure for not accomplishing them.\u00a0 For example, last January I said I wanted to get down to 150 pounds.\u00a0 I came close (155), but then realized I like myself with a bit of meat on my bones.\u00a0 (Of course, should I get down to 150 I’m sure I’ll justify it!).\u00a0 And despite running far more marathons than I ever dreamed possible, I’m still beating myself up for not getting to the gym as much as I’d hoped.<\/p>\n
However, I’m not going to dwell on that.\u00a0 After all, I learned so much about myself — what motivates me, how best to train.\u00a0 I’m a certifiable marathon junkie, which means I need to make recovery my No. 1 priority.\u00a0 If that means taking a day off from the gym, so be it.\u00a0 That said, I do want to get back into my stretching\/core work routine.\u00a0 I was doing so well goals for maintaining front and side planks (I was up to 97 seconds for the front, 57 seconds for each side), but as it got tougher I found myself avoiding it more.\u00a0 So now my goal is to do them more frequently, but hold them for less time (one minute for the front, 35-40 seconds for the side).<\/p>\n
As for my weight, once again I’ve put on a few holiday pounds, but fortunately I’m starting the year off about 6-7 pounds lighter than last year.\u00a0 I hope to get back down to my “race weight” of 154-155 by Boston, and then maintain it (at least until next holiday season).<\/p>\n
My original mileage goal for the year was 1,000 miles, which I adjusted in July to 1,600.\u00a0 At the miles piled on I adjusted the goal again; I hoped to finish the year with 1,000 more miles than the 821 miles I had run in 2007.\u00a0 While I came close (1,810.25 miles), Mother Nature kept me from reaching that goal (not only was running outside out of the question, I couldn’t even drive to my gym to run on the treadmill).\u00a0 The snow has since cleared, but I was faced with having to run too many miles in too little time.\u00a0 I’m running yet another marathon tomorrow, so I decided to give my body a rest.<\/p>\n
So what’s in store for 2009?\u00a0 Marathons, marathons and more marathons!<\/p>\n
With the Pigtails Run on Dec. 20 I earned a second star with the Marathon Maniacs (6 marathons in 5 months).\u00a0 I’ll earn a third after running Disney (4 marathons in 37 days).\u00a0 While I’ll take a bit of a break after Disney (no full marathons until early April, although I’ll run the Mercer Island half in March), I hope to run my first ultra AND my first double (Saturday\/Sunday) in June (which will earn me 4 stars).<\/p>\n
Goal races:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Jan. 1: First Call to Run Marathon \n May 10 — Kirkland half (maybe) So there you have it.\u00a0 I’ll report back on my progress mid-year.\u00a0 In the mean time, please pray for me (and perhaps send any extra Ibuprofen you may have).<\/p>\n Happy New Year everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you were to tell me on Dec. 31, 2007 I’d run more than 1,800 miles during 2008 I would have questioned your sanity.\u00a0 If you told me I’d BQ — twice — I most certainly would think you were nuts.\u00a0 And if you told me I’d run not one, not two, not three, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,28,74],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2009-marathons","tag-marathon-maniacs","tag-new-years-goals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJan. 10-11: Goofy Challenge
\nMarch 22: Mercer Island Half
\nApril 4: Yakima River Canyon Marathon
\nApril 20: a tiny little marathon back east \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
\nMay 17 — Capital City Marathon
\nJune 6 — Green River Marathon
\nJune 13 — Lake Youngs Ultra (28.8 miles)
\nJune 14 — Light at the End of the Tunnel
\nJune 27 — Seattle Rock ‘n Roll
\nAugust 28-29 — Hood to Coast
\nOctober 4 — Portland Marathon
\nNovember 29 — Seattle Marathon
\n(I’m sure I’ll add races in September and December as well).<\/p>\n