What’s up Goal Crusher? This is time of the year when people start to fall off the wagon with their New Year’s Resolutions. People may have started off with great momentum but around mid-February to march the momentum start to fade. That’s why I’m totally against New Year’s Resolutions and all about smart goals. So luckily for me I don’t have to worry about losing momentum because my goals are all plane out to the “T”. I’m here today to give you an update on my 2013 goals.
Let’s start with the fact that I finally pick the first marathon that I’m going to run. However I haven’t pick a half marathon to run yet. But I’m expecting it to be around spring break nor at the end of this semester. As far as my race schedule is concerned I haven’t made one yet and that’s due the fact that I’m planning on going to 4-5 conferences this year. I really don’t have the available funds for registration fee. (Y’all have to remember that I don’t make much from a graduate student stipend.) However in a perfect world I would run a race a month from March to November, but I don’t know how realistic that is going to be. Somebody suggested that I run a couple of race bandit… Well that’s not my style.
As far as training is concerned, it has gone great! I finally found a training plan that works well with my schedule and that’s the Runner’s World Smart Coach Free App for my IPhone. Maybe I will do a review of it in the near future. My training schedule mainly looks like this: Sunday is long run, 1 mile farther than I did the previous Sunday. This Sunday I will be running 12 miles. Tuesday is easy run low miles (2-4 miles). Thursday is mid-distance (4-8 miles) or speed day (hill runs, fartlek’s, Etc.). I stuck to the plan almost all the way, until the blizzard hit the northeast. Side note: When I was in Michigan never heard of the northeast getting blizzards and hurricanes. Now it happens every year. It makes me miss Michigan just a bit more.
When it comes to CrossFit this is where I have been the most inconsistent. This is mainly due to the fact that we are in the middle of data collection with this study for my Master’s Thesis. Most of the time the participants schedule and my box (CrossFit gym) schedule usually conflicts. Hopefully as the semester progress we will be wrapping up the data collection part of the study so I can start doing CrossFit more regularly. However many of know that I’ve start the #100DaysOfBurpees Challenge and I have done that day in and day out. On the real… I have a love/ hate relationship burpees but it gets the job done. You can follow my journey through the challenge on YouTube. Below you can find a video of me doing burpees throughout a WOD.
As far as blogging is concerned I’ve been a little irregular on that also. I’ve had high hopes of posting 3 times a week, but that may not be realistic for me and my schedule now. But I will try my best to post something at least every week.
Lastly I’ve notice that I’ve hit a plateau with my weight loss, I’ve been hovering around 300 lbs. for the past 4- 5 weeks. I think it might be time to change some things around with my nutrition. Yup it’s time to go see a nutritionist. I’ll keep you posted on what I find out.
That’s all I got for today folks! Leave a comment below answering these questions: Why do you think people fall off their New Year Resolution by March? How are your 2013 goals coming? What are some things that are hindering you from accomplishing you goals? What can you do to overcome that hindrance? What successes have you had since making smart goals?
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