I started running in May and last night I sat down and did some graphs showing how many miles I'd run per week and per month since May to now. These were actual figures so for December I have put in a target figure which is 25 miles for the month, which will be the most I have run in any one month since I started. This got me thinking about next year, what do I want to achieve?
Weight loss - to lose at least a stone
Park Run - 1 Park Run per month
10 k Run - too run at least 3 in 12 months
Mileage - up my mileage to 12-15 miles per week
Alcohol - January complete Dryathlon for Cancer Research and after that make Sun - Thur alcohol free days
Half Marathon - Possible TBC
Full Marathon (preferable New York) - Before I'm 50 (4 years 4 months to go)
I think these are all achievable with some will power and discipline
Get your thinking caps on what do you want to achieve in 2013
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They sound like great goals and totally do-able. If you do all the first 6 then the seventh will be a natural progression and you might get to do it sooner than you think.
I've signed up for a half marathon at the beginning of March, and for some inexplicable reason this caught my eye and interest: royalparksultra.com/
Hmmmmm.
The very best of luck with all your goals, morningglory - I bet that you'll smash all of them!
Park Run - 1 Park Run per month (from February, when we get a local park run)
10 k Run - sub-1 hour by the end of 2013 (the two I did this year both took me 1hour 9mins)
Mileage - increase my long run at the weekend (about 6-8 miles at the mo)
Alcohol - make Sun - Thur alcohol free days
Half Marathon - Ironbridge half-marathon 24 March (best get training!)
Full Marathon (preferable Keilder) - Before I'm 50 (4 years 1 months to go)
Gym - get to the gym regularly and concentrate on areas that will help me avoid injury
"Obstacle" type race - would like to do something quite tough with lots of mud and other challenges !
More off-road running/cross-country
I want to stick to my aim of always running when I am away from home but I also want to make a point of supporting local races and runs, I don't want to travel far especially for a race - it gets far too expensive and time-consuming.
I've been setting myself challenges for the past couple of years (mrqwest.co.uk/2011 & mrqwest.co.uk/2012) - most relate to web design which is what I do but in 2011, I wanted to lose 2st throughout the year, and I had planned on following C25K to do that. I completely failed on all fronts.
This year though, I was determined to do it again. I've run my 5k now and I *think* I've lost 2st (yet to weigh myself in a while) but I'm pretty close. But I've been thinking about 2013 this past week or so, and running related, here's my few: -
Weight loss - to continue and try to drop another stone in weight.
ParkRun - to get at least 3 park runs under my belt
Races - I'd like to run at least 4 races this year, one being the local Croydon 10k and one being the Pine Ridge 10k (pineridgerace.co.uk/) in Surrey with a few others as I see them
Distance - I'd like to up my distance. I'd like to ideally take in 10-15k at weekends with short 5k's during the week
And like sfb350, I'd like to do more cross-country and run a few of the routes over the North Downs.
Did you? Cool! I don't know much about it but from looking at the pictures and reading the 'undulating course through pine forests', it seems pretty nice.
Is it on track or paved paths? and is "undulating" or is it like attacking Ben Nevis?
It's track all the way. Its a mixture of sandy and muddy.
It is a bit undulating not to bad though, a couple of lung stretchers but its mostly pretty flat. As a bonus you can leave the family to have a much nicer dryer time at Wisley gardens and associated cafes whilst you run
I haven't set goals as such - for one thing I've no idea of my weight and my scales are broken and secondly, it seems silly to set running goals when I'm currently 'signed off'. I don't know why, but I'm a bit scared that my injury will return. I think once I know I can run 5k comfortably again, I'll start signing up for 10k runs.
I'd like to plan weekend travel around running events. There are several 10K races on the Hebrides (Tiree and Stornoway) and other really scenic places in Scotland (eg Balmoral) that I'd like to do.
Also, I'd like to do more off-road running, eg other sections of the Speyside Way and run circuits of several lochs.
Goals have to be flexible - I didn't start running until earlier this year and my initial goal was simply to get up to 5k and run regularly. I didn't expect to want to enter races at all. Once I'd done that, I'd hoped to improve my speed and stamina through the year. Various injuries and health issues meant that couldn't happened so I revised my goals to just not going backwards and giving up. I've managed that and had a good time doing so so I'm not too disappointed. When I suffer a set back I try to remind myself that it is better to take it easy now and still be running, however slowly, in twenty years time than it is to aggravate injuries. It isn't always an easy decision to make.
Ease yourself back into it gently and you should avoid injury and I'm sure you will get to run your 10k races.
Actually, that should be there at the top of the list - plan my training to avoid injury !
I re-read my earlier post and realise it sounds a bit pessimistic. This is so unlike me as I'm usually an optimistic person - especially in terms of my health and fitness. After the relatively easy progression over 4 months, when I went from running for 60 seconds to running for 2 hours (the one 10-miler I did), and thinking I could simply continue to see progress, I think I was put out to find I'm not indestructible after all.
Almost a week since my last run but I did do the "school walk" this morning - I think running would turn me into a coughing mess right now. I do intend to start agin soon though so here goes (similar to many others...):
Keep up with 3x runs a week, two of them 30 minutes
Bring 5k time down to 30 mins if possible (now on 34 mins)
Lose another 10 pounds from where I was 3 weeks ago (haven't made it to Slimming World for a while and have probably put a bit on).
Try a ParkRun (that one may be ambitious)
Start doing something for fine motor skills - eg play my flute in a band!
Try and finish books I start reading within 2 weeks.
Just added those last two to try and be a bit more well-rounded. After all, with less than 2 weeks left in the year this may as well become an official resolutions list.
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