Last year I set a ton of goals… too many, in fact. I also didn’t follow The Golden Rules of Setting Goals (primarily #2). This year, I will do better. Without further ado, I present you my goals for 2011:

  • Run 1000 miles. I’m back to a point where I think I can run 20 miles a week without bringing my hamstring issues back. If I continue at this level, it will be no problem. If I improve, this will be cake. If things go bad, well, I won’t let that happen.
  • Bike 2000 miles. Relative to other cyclists, this is nothing. Factor in running 1000 miles and this will be a challenge. I did ~1500 last year as a cyclist only, but that was only in a fraction of the year, and I wasn’t very serious for much of it.
  • Visit another country. I’m doing it. You can’t stop me. Caribbean and/or Europe are looking like strong possibilities.
  • Bike 100 miles in a day. Cake.
  • Run a marathon. Not necessarily for time, but get through one. I’m actually eying the National Marathon in March with my trainees, but that might be a stupid move. We’ll see how training goes. A 3:40 (pacing them to Boston Qualification) isn’t too tough for me, but I’m not sure I’d recover well from it.
  • Go sub-19 in a 5k. I’m already at 19:45 on little to no training. This should be easy.
  • Compete in a bike race. I told myself I’d try road bike racing this year and I will… I’d also like to hop into an annual endurance mountain bike race again.
  • Get married. I kid, I kid…
  • Acquire a 3rd regular client (more than just designing a website or something) for my consulting business.
  • Read 12 books. One per month is a good number.
  • Review 12 spots on Yelp. One per month… yeah, still a good number.
  • Get another certification. IT-related? QA-related? Training related? I guess I ought to figure that out.
  • Maintain a body weight around 170. 172 seems to be where my body hovers when I’m in good shape. I’d like to take that a step farther and stay there. Post-holidays, I’m at 179… In one month, I tacked on what I worked so hard to take off last year. Oh well… the food was good.

… and I think I’m done. Everything is well-defined and reasonable. Questions? Comments? Concerns?

Honorable mention to “write an iPad app.” I have an idea for one, but lack the time necessary to give it a good shake, and need to do a lot of market research before jumping in… For now, it’ll stay on the nice-to-do list.