2011 Goals

I’ve done much thinking about what I’d be happy accomplishing in 2011 in terms of goals and I am finally set on what I want to knock off. Here we go:

Running miles: 800+
-Last year was 600, this is a good addition with the other stuff I want to do

Running races: 1/2 Marathon, 5k PR, 50K
-The half is a good middle distance, the 5k is to ensure my speed work “works”, the 50K is because it’d be awesome

Running sweetness: Entire Appalachian Trail in CT
-I live right by it, it’s 52 miles. Not in one shot, I just want to have run every mile of it by year’s end.

Triathlon: any distance
-A simple one, just to see what it’s all about

Strength situps: 200
-My core is WEAK. I just did the initial test at 200 Situps and can only do 40…ouch. The core is fundamentally your greatest strength for running, for everything.

Strength pushups: 150
-Again, WEAK. I just did the initial test at 100 Pushups and can only do 33…’nuff said.

I feel really good about these goals and think they are challenging, yet very acheivable.

So what about you? What are your goals this year? I’d love to hear in the comments!

Training Plan For First Half Marathon

So yesterday I put the pencil to the paper and signed up for the Danbury Half Marathon on April 3rd. The first thought was, “hell yeah, finally I got something committed to drive my recently lazy ass towards…” Then I thought, “holy shit, thats like 8 weeks away…”

I’ve modified a training plan that looked decent from here:
http://www.halhigdon.com/halfmarathon/inter.htm

and by modified, I mean I lopped off the first 4 weeks!

So here’s the plan people:

I’m also running Ragnar in May then another Half in June – the first half of 2011 is coming together nicely!

I’ll keep you posted here, I look forward to training as I’ve just taken a 2 week hiatus to let the body recover and to avoid the 9 foot high snow in my town…spring, please come soon!