2010 The Goals

Well the year 2010 has arrived, and much to my disappointment the common car still fails to hover, x ray glasses haven’t hit the shelves and my apartment is not yet fully voice activated.  Fear not, technologies aside, the arrival of this year brings many great opportunities for all that choose to seize them.

I was reading the trainharder blog today and noticed the ‘New Years Resolutions Challenge‘ and while I try to steer away from the term resolution, anyone who has been reading this for a while knows that I love to set goals, and live for reaching them.

Pano’s challenge was the first opportunity I have had to actually type out the ideas that I have had swirling in my head for the last few weeks.  I’ll cut and paste below:

- Top 3 finish for Dirty Duo relay team
- Sub 5 hour Chuckanut 50k
- Sub 11 hour Miwok 100k
- Complete Transrockies Run
- Top 3 finish in coed couple category for either MOMAR adventure race.

Now, while this all seemed achievable in my mind, it was only when I put it on paper that I realised the magnitude of the tasks ahead.  Briefly an element of doubt started to enter, but upon revision, I do honestly believe that checking these 5 boxes will be a well earned achievement provided I put in the training required to get there.

It is a stretch, but there is no glory in the easy route, and as three of these goals include other people, It will be necessary to foster the team spirit, and I welcome that into my year for 2010.

My last thought on the above is – ‘tall order – better get on it’ and with that I welcome back in the full working weeks ahead to provide some solid structure around a training plan that I really need to get started on today, not tomorrow.

So there it is, its out there and its on the blog… it is real.  And now its your turn, time to throw down and become accountable, set some goals and then go out there and get them!