The Goal

So let's lay it out on 'paper.' What do I want to accomplish and when? This is what I need to be accountable. I'll be honest, a personal trainer, particularly one who was at my house at 5:15 a.m. to get me out of bed, would be the most effective way to be accountable. But I'll settle for this blog/journal that I haven't made public...yet.

I am working with a training program for couch-to-5k that I found online. They set workouts 3x a week for 9 weeks and by the end, you'll be running 5k. I would prefer to workout 4x a week and I'm planning on doing that, thus shortening the actual weeks down to 6ish. I want to stay healthy, so I'll pay close attention to my knees especially and will take downtime as needed. But my aim will be 4 walk/runs a week. This will put me well within range of my first running goal.

#1) Complete a 5k run by the end of July.

I would love to be able to double that by my birthday. That's a 10k by September. Too much too soon? Maybe. I think I will wait to set my next goal until I reach my first goal. That's not usually my style. I am a planner! I love to plan plan plan. I love planners, I love writing everything in my planner. I love writing things I've already done in my planner so that I can cross off things in my planner. That can set you up for failure though. When I'm falling behind in the 70th goal while still working on the goal #1 it makes me quit before even giving myself a chance! So, not this time. This time I will be a reasonable planner and focus on one thing at a time to give myself the best chance to reach the goal!