A New Year and a New Start

I've allowed this to fall fallow and my training has suffered as well. With the new year, I will make a renewed effort to keep this up and to train consistently.

Finishing up 2009:

• I do walk occasionally at work. I will likely do more of this in the new year, but I will also likely not report it with its own entry.
• On the 15th of December, I started seriously training again. I am now in my third week of this.
• With my final weigh-in, I am 6 pounds lighter than at the start of 2009.

Goals for 2010:

Not So Crazy Goals

• Stay healthy (without this, nothing else matters)
• Lose 15 lbs (155 lbs)
• Finish 1st Marathon
  (Completed, 2010 Mar 21, 11:58:38)
• PR 5K (27:39)
• PR 10K (55:25)
• PR Half (2:32:52)
  (Completed, 2010 Jun 6, 2:28:48)

Crazy Goals

• Lose 25 lbs (145 lbs)
  
• Sub 4-hour Marathon
• Sub 2-hour Half
• Sub 50-minute 10K
• Sub 25-minute 5K

Really Crazy Goals [I don't expect to get these in 2010, but they are out there for direction]

• Qualify for the Boston Marathon (sub 3-1/2 hour marathon)
• Sub 40-minute 10K
• Sub 20-minute 5K

Races currently in the plan:

• Reese Winter Race Series 10K (Jan)
• Reese Winter Race Series 10K (Mar)
• Bataan Memorial Death March (Mar)
• Trail Half Marathon (Apr)
• Bolder Boulder 10K (May)
• Dexter to Ann Arbor Run Half Marathon (Jun)
• City to Surf Half Marathon (Aug)
• USAF Marathon (Sep)

I am currently using low HR, slow speed, training. My next major event is the Bataan Memorial Death March where I am entered as Military Heavy. This works out to a full marathon in military utility uniform, complete with combat boots, and wearing a 50-pound pack, 35-pounds of payload plus water and the pack itself. As I plan to march, not run, this event, the slow pace of the current training is quite event specific.

Today is a rest day and I run a 10K tomorrow morning.

That's it for now.

[Edited 2010-03-28 to add tags, add goal weights, and note marathon completion]
[Edited 2010-06-08 to note half marathon PR]