goals- the finishing year and the new year

[Veronica]

Well, I've got some big stuff I want to do in 2012, but mostly I just want to continue to have fun.

April - White Rim trip and Thom and I are planning on doing the Devil Mountain Double together.
May - Angel's Camp Tri - I just want a better time than last year. Should be easy if the swim buoy stays put this year!
June- Tri for Real, it better not rain. Improved time from 2008 should be easy. I'm 15 pounds lighter!
July - Barb's Race - HIM. Still looking to break 7 hours on this one.
August - Rev3 Maine doing this as a relay with Thom. I plan to swim hard for a change , hang out for three hours (or less!) while he bikes and then I want to run a good half marathon. Key word being run. I don't care what my time ends up being, I just want to run the whole thing. I hope my family shows up to cheer me on.

Veronica

[indysteel]

V, when are you doing the White Rim (I assume you mean the one in Canyonlands)? DH and I have plans to do it in later with Rim Tours.

[Veronica]

We' re going over my spring break - closer to Easter. Haven't picked a company yet. We've done tours with three, including Rim, and have been happy with all. Probably going to go with Western Spirit. Their tour, the week I have off, starts the day before both Rim's and Escape Adventures.

Veronica

[indysteel]

Have a great time! This will be our first trip to Moab. We opted for the three-day WRT itinerary; I sure hope it doesn't kill us. We wanted to have enough time to get some hiking in as well and the dates worked better all the way around. The only hitch is that there's a classic car showing coming into town about the time we're leaving. Hotel rooms were hard to come by, so it's a good thing I started planning this as early as I did.

[Veronica]

It's a beautiful area, hard to see it all in one trip I think. We did Arches over Christmas one year, did a Maze trip one year, went back just for some mountain biking one year...

What hotel did you decide on? We've always splurged and gone to Sorrell River Ranch. It's expensive, but very quiet.

Veronica

[indysteel]

It's a beautiful area, hard to see it all in one trip I think. We did Arches over Christmas one year, did a Maze trip one year, went back just for some mountain biking one year...

What hotel did you decide on? We've always splurged and gone to Sorrell River Ranch. It's expensive, but very quiet.

Veronica

It's the Adventure Inn Moab. It's nothing fancy. I don't know that we've ever splurged on accommodations. We tend to go with something middle of the road and/or use my government rate. We're also spending a week in Maine (Acadia) next September. Both of those trips, even on the cheap, are going to add up. One of these days--maybe our next trip to Paris--I'd like to stay in a more upscale hotel.

We spent a week in Zion last year; I can't wait to return to Utah. I imagine this won't be our last trip. The state is dense with possibilities.

[kcmpls]

For this year, my goal was to hit 1000 miles. I hit it in September and put on a couple hundred since then. I also had a goal of losing weight, which I totally failed at.

Next year my goal is 2000 miles and to lose 80 pounds. Since I'm riding all winter this year, I should get off to a good start.

[OakLeaf]

This year was kind of a bust for me. I started the year injured, and after I healed up I still struggled emotionally pretty much all year. Still, I managed to set some times at shorter distances that I was really happy with, which has to have been all a matter of experience. It means a lot to me that my times have dropped even when I'm out of shape physically.

My goal this year is a sub-4-hour marathon, which would be a BQ for my age. This time, if I qualify, I'm running, before they change the qualifying times again! I'm signed up for the Champaign-Urbana Illinois Marathon the last weekend in April. If I don't BQ then, I may try again in Columbus in October - but then again, maybe not.

[GLC1968]

I can't find where I recorded my goals for 2011 but I accomplished a lot in the year, so I'm sure I hit most of them. I did my first Olympic tri, I dropped 5 minutes off my sprint tri 5K time, I completed my first half-marathon, I did my first sub-30 min 5K, I bested all my previous tri times (not that there were that many!) and I lost more fat.

This year, the goals are similar:

• Continue on the fat loss - should meet my overall goal in 2012.
• Keep running - continue to PR on running events, particularly half-marathons.
• Ride more. I seriously missed this last year and I want to do much more of it this year including the Crater Lake Century again.
• Hit 1:45/100y swim times.

Stretch goals:
Sub 2-hr half marathon
Ride up Laurelwood without stopping

[deeannef]

Hi, my min. goal of 8000 miles was hit at the start of December, I should hit my goal of 8400 miles by the holidays and end with a metric century on New Year Eve day. I managed to climb of 110,000 feet this year. These are both personal bests. For 2012, I want to ride at least the same amount of miles, but do the Crater Lake century ride in Oregon, ride around the circumference of Lake Tahoe and do a double metric century, with hopefully several other centuries thrown in for good measure.

[Chile Pepper]

I didn't have any riding goals this year, as I was tired of missing them! As it turns out, I am about to hit 3,000 km on my next ride, which is the goal I kept missing (and way more than I rode in previous years). Needless to say, I'm chuffed!

I was down to my ideal weight mid-year, but I've put on five pounds since then that I can't seem to bring myself to lose. I'm using Veronica's sig line as a mantra lately to try to focus my efforts. Finally, I found a great anusara yoga teacher in Santiago. I'm hoping a weekly class will help me stay focused on my other (nonphysical) goals.

[OakLeaf]

Oh, I love Anusara! My favorite teacher is Anusara trained (though not certified yet), and when we visit my in-laws there's an Anusara studio just down the road from them. I pretty much slacked off yoga all summer - I had a few poses I practiced fairly consistently, but didn't keep up a real practice. Yesterday I went to my first class since April and I am sore all over.

[maillotpois]

April - ....and Thom and I are planning on doing the Devil Mountain Double together.

Glad you're still planning this. I've encouraged several friends to do it to take their doubles up a notch. Let's see how many are speaking to me after.