<p>Last year I set a ton of goals… too many, in fact. I also didn’t follow <a href=”http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_90.htm”>The Golden Rules of Setting Goals</a> (primarily #2). This year, I will do better. Without further ado, I present you my goals for 2011:</p>
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<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Visit another country. I’m doing it. You can’t stop me. Caribbean and/or Europe are looking like strong possibilities.</li>
<li>Bike 100 miles in a day. Cake.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Go sub-19 in a 5k. I’m already at 19:45 on little to no training. This should be easy.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Get married. I kid, I kid…</li>
<li>Acquire a 3rd regular client (more than just designing a website or something) for my consulting business.</li>
<li>Read 12 books. One per month is a good number.</li>
<li>Review 12 spots on Yelp. One per month… yeah, still a good number.</li>
<li>Get another certification. IT-related? QA-related? Training related? I guess I ought to figure that out.</li>
<li>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.</li>
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<p>… and I think I’m done. Everything is well-defined and reasonable. Questions? Comments? Concerns?</p>
<p>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.</p>