For me, 2007 will mean turning 39 years old! Oh man, that was hard to write and it is even harder is hard to read. It seems like a good year for a mid life crisis… so here are my goals:
Increase weekly mileage – I have averaged only about 30 miles per week in 2006. Actually, much less than that in the early part of the year. I would like to increase my average weekly mileage with some peak weeks pushing 50 miles. I ran about three days per week this past year. In the first half of 2007, I will increase to four days per week between January and June. In July, I will evaluate my progress and try to go to five days per week. I don’t have it perfectly mapped out, but I’m thinking the four day run week will be Tue/Wed/Thur and one weekend day.
Decrease body fat – I dropped a little bit of body fat in 2006, but only a little. I am carrying about 22 percent right now. And I think I weigh about 192 pounds. I would like to weigh in the 170’s. So my plan is to try to remain even through the holidays and drop one pound per week starting in January. I am not planning on going on a “diet”. I intend to do this by avoiding dietary fat wherever possible, eating plenty of carbs, and a sufficient amount of protein. I don’t think it will be terribly hard to drop some pounds once I get away from fatty foods. They aren’t helping anything anyway. More on fatty foods later…
Relentless Forward Motion for 50 continuous kilometers – At some point in 2007, I want to do a 50KM run. Tomorrow morning, the Way Too Cool 50KM opens registration. The event is March 10th. How convienent for that mid life crisis I mentioned. If I can pull it off in March, I will have it “done” from my list of 2007 goals and that will mean I can do other events in the fall… perhaps things that are more social, like running the Marine Corps Marathon with my wife or something. If I fail to pull it off in March, I will have at least tried and I will have a better persepctive on what it will take to do it in the fall.
What are your goals for 2007? Define them for the whole world to read. I am thinking I will make a page dedicated to the fitness goals of the main contributors to this blog. That way we can remain aware of each others goals and track our progress. We can also look for opportunities to make our goals overlap.
Did you notice I made a page dedicated to Camping Photos a couple weeks ago? You can access it via the sidebar.
