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In December I wrote about my 2022 goals. Let me tell you how I plan to achieve these goals.
✅ Stay injury free. Being injured is no fun. The two worst ones I’ve had were a calf strain and plantar fasciitis. But I can say that the latter one was more painful. The first time I experienced this (that I can remember) was during the Missoula Half Marathon in 2019. I was miserable towards the end because my feet were hurting. It wasn’t until a month later that I got an official diagnosis. Anyway, my plan is to do more cross training, use my massage gun, and my mom’s foot and calf massager. Any other suggestions?
✅ Buy a house. Besides looking, I need to expand my search area. Right now I am looking at a specific area and nothing. Well, there have been a few but either someone else makes an offer before me or they make an offer way more than I am willing to spend. It is ridiculous how expensive it is. Something else I am doing is looking for a house with an unfinished or semi-finished basement. At least with that option I can customize it and hopefully more available to buy.
✅ Travel. I have a new passport. I am ready to go. I guess I don’t really need to travel internationally. 🙂 My sister is planning to visit from Mexico in May. Then the plan is for me to go for 2-3 weeks there in the Summer. I don’t want to go during Spring Break for just one week. To me it isn’t worth it. I want to go for a longer period of time. But before I can travel I need to make sure my siblings can stay with my cats. A tentative trip I am also planning is to Fargo for the Fargo Half Marathon. I still need to run in 8 states for my 50+1 state goal.
✅ Continue to be patient at work and at home. Pick my battles, step away, and not keep quiet. I think I am doing OK with it. I remind myself that sometimes it isn’t worth getting all frustrated and annoyed. I don’t have access to my work email on my phone and that has helped. I also think about things that make me happy like coffee, my family, my cats, etc. Watching TV has also helped me relax.
✅ PR in my 50k. Just run and follow the plan? I may have to switch my race because I’ve missed a lot of runs due to the weather. Yesterday was my first time running in 2 weeks. It ran 2 miles and it felt hard! By picking a race later in the year will give me more time to train and hopefully get a PR.
✅ Run 1,200 miles. In order to do this I need to run an average of 100 miles each month. I am not starting off the year correctly because for this month I have 7 miles. Hopefully once it clears up then I can bump up the mileage. Plus I know training for a 50k will add lots of miles there too.
✅ Complete 300 Peloton rides. I started off the year with 136 Peloton rides. Yep, I was slacking. Now I’ve done 157 rides and need 143 to meet my goal. With 11 months left in the year, I will need an average of 14 rides a month, 3-4 per week. It is hard to fit in a bike class while running 6 days a week but thinking of doing a 20 minute ride in the evening on the days I do a hard run. I will need to talk to my coach and see what he thinks.
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