I’m really excited about 2010! This is going to be another incredible year. I predict even better than last.
2009 was one of the best years of my life. On January 1, 2009 I was overweight and in a huge amount of stress with a struggling business.
I decided that day 1 year ago, that I was no longer going to let my financial stresses ruin my life and my health. So even though nothing changed with my business, I changed the way I was living. I started working out every day and made a goal to lose 15 pounds.
I immediately felt better about my life, and it immediately resulted in progress in all fronts including my business.
I did lose 15 pounds last year, but it didn’t take losing 15 pounds to feel great. All it took was living differently every day.
Today I’m a much different person than I was 1 year ago, I live a much more healthy, balanced life, and I’m so much more happy. And my business is thriving now which is a great side benefit.
At the end of 2009 one of the greatest things happened to me though, I FINALLY LEARNED HOW TO RUN! That was just the icing on the cake of a fantastic year. Now that one little fact has changed my life completely and opened up new worlds of possibilities and fun goals and adventures that I want to tackle this year and in the coming years.
So here are some of my fitness related goals this year:
- Live a healthy, injury-free, balanced life, always taking care of my body and spirit.
- Run 30 miles on February 23, 2010 (My 30th birthday)
Things I’m strongly considering doing this year if they can be balanced in with my other family goals:
- -Run a road marathon barefoot sometime this year.
-Do the Breckenridge trail 10K on July 3rd followed by Firecracker 50 mile mountain bike race again – this time under 5 hours.
-Run a trail marathon and/or 50K. This one looks really cool and I’m STRONGLY considering signing up…Golden Gate Dirty Thirty. Also, Jun’s “Quest for Kings peak” in august sounds really fun.
-Ride the Leadville Traill 100 Mt. Bike race 8/14/2010 (I hope I get in in the lottery)
-Do a 50 Mile Mountain trail run sometime in the fall – doesn’t have to be a race, but maybe it will be if I’m ready and there’s one around me at that time. TheSteamboat Springs 50 looks pretty enticing on 9/18
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Oh yeah, here are my December 2009 mileage results:
108.97 running Miles total
77.51 in Vibram FiveFingers – 31.46 in Bare feet
Hi Aaron,
It was great meeting you, even better running with you and learning about your adventures. I can put some of the things you told me to use right away in my running. Your blog, business website and insights your share are great!
Maybe we can meet up at a race this year, maybe even the 50 in the fall.
Happy running.
Hey Pat, nice running with you too, and thanks.
I may be interested in doing the Greenland trail 50K, that looks pretty fun. I’ll have to see what the schedule looks like, but I’m pretty sure I can be ready for that. Are you going to sign up for it?