RunningAHEAD - Topic: What are your goals for 2008? (page 4)

rvelich

Another Passion

posted: 12/13/2007 at 9:59 PM

Quote from LisaMDJ on 12/11/2007 at 7:10 PM:

2007 was just such an amazing year. I started changing my life in July of 2006 and I went from an obese 275-pound woman to a runner, 115 pounds lighter. I even became a cross country coach! It would be hard to have a year with as many changes as 2007 had (in addition to weight loss, I completed a 10k, several 5ks, and a half marathon, and I hit my goal of a sub-30 5k). Here are my 2008 goals so far: *Run a marathon -- no time goal, just finish. *Run two half marathons (April 5 and August 31) -- no time goal for these yet. *Run a 10k under 1 hour. *Run a 5k under 25 minutes. *Lose approximately 15 more pounds.

That's so AWESOME, Lisa! Congratulations on the successes from your hard work and diligence. May it continue in 2008! Big grin

As for me for '08: - Learn to stop eating when I am full Blush

- Stay healthy - Complete the Glass City Marathon (Toledo, OH), April 13th, hopefully in a respectable time Confused

- Run a sub 24 5k (25:03 current PR) - Run a sub 50 10k (54:34 current PR) - Complete either Detroit or Grand Rapids half marathons in the fall - Log 1000+ miles - Meet some awesome RAers at some races - Learn to stop eating when I am full (deja vu) Blush

Did I say learn to stop eating when I am full yet? Big grin

Rick
"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." - Juma Ikangaa
"I wanna go fast." Ricky Bobby
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trentman359

posted: 12/14/2007 at 2:18 AM

To be more consistent.

LisaMDJ

posted: 12/14/2007 at 6:48 AM

Quote from rvelich on 12/13/2007 at 9:59 PM:

Meet some awesome RAers at some races

That's one of my goals too! And thanks, everyone, for all the congratulations! This site has been part of the success I've had so far, certainly. I'm inspired by all the other runners here every day.

rgreen45

posted: 12/14/2007 at 8:02 PM

I've been catching up on the posts. We certainly have a motivated bunch here and 2008 should be a banner year for one and all. LisaMDJ, you are a magazine success story if I ever saw one. Free lance authors often post on internet forums looking for success stories. I frequent numerous other forums and, with your permission, should I ever see one of those posts, I want to point them towards you. Successful Slimmimg Magazine did a story with photo shoot on me back in '97 because I lost a lot of weight on a cabbage soup diet and kept it off for 2 years. I've now kept it off for 13 years.

At the end of the day, be happy with where you are and what you've accomplished.

LisaMDJ

posted: 12/14/2007 at 10:29 PM

Quote from rgreen45 on 12/14/2007 at 8:02 PM:

LisaMDJ, you are a magazine success story if I ever saw one. Free lance authors often post on internet forums looking for success stories. I frequent numerous other forums and, with your permission, should I ever see one of those posts, I want to point them towards you.

Thanks! Feel free to point them toward me. I get a lot of people telling me I should be in a magazine or something because of how much I've lost and how rare it is that people do it without surgery. The running thing makes it noteworthy, I guess, too. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of good "before" pictures because I avoided cameras like the plague when I was obese. I have one pretty hideous one that shocks people, though!

lasdinaub

posted: 12/15/2007 at 1:51 PM
modified: 12/15/2007 at 1:51 PM

* run at least 4 times a week * 2 or more 50k (or marathon length) trail runs - locations TBD based on travel costs * lose weight * yoga 1 per week, as schedule allows * strength train upper body

Next up: A 50k in ? Done: California-Oregon-Arizona-Nevada (x2)-Wisconsin-Wyoming-Utah-Michigan-Colorado

Sarahatherton

posted: 12/15/2007 at 5:04 PM

Finish first HM in March PR 5K <28:00 :o)>

~Sarah~ My 2008 Goals: Little Rock HM (just finish it :)) Nike Women's Half Marathon San Francisco 10/19/08 5k < 30:00>

dmiller23462

posted: 12/15/2007 at 5:11 PM

Great post! I just put up a post on my blog the other day about this same subject (http://www.crzydjm.com/blog/2007/12/09/the-one-aboutmy-goal-for-2007/) If you don't want to go over there though, I'll just copy n paste what I said in the post... I’d like to break a 6:00 mile sometime in 2008 (I’m currently around 6:25-6:30 for my mile time) I’d like to do pushups/pullups/situps EVERYDAY in 2008 (trying to crunch some numbers to see how many I could actually pull off for 2008) I’d like to either run a full marathon, or possibly a sprint triathlon or something (I’m doing the Rock N Roll Half-Marathon in Phoenix in January) I want to stay active and reverse the “I don’t have time to work out” statement to something more along the lines of “I don’t have time to watch tv, I’ve got a *INSERT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY HERE* planned

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stfuandrun

Lush Extraordinaire

posted: 12/17/2007 at 3:08 AM

This is officially my first post. Hope you don't mind if I just jump in. Big grin

My goals for 2008 are: -Continue to eat healthy and keep the weight I've lost off. -Run my first 10k on May 4 in Weott (Ave of the Giants) -Run a 5k at the end of May (date unknown) locally So far that's all I've got. I've just decided to jump into the race scene since I've only been running for about six months. I just want to finish a race right now. I'm excited! Yay me! Smile

5k - 23:30

10k - 49:00

Half - 1:48:34

Full - 4:01:28

Working toward hip nirvana.

evillee

posted: 12/17/2007 at 3:46 AM

My 08 goals are to complete the Philly trifecta - Broad Street (10 miles), Distance Run (HM), and Philly Marathon. Of course this would require for me to get off my ash and run.

sakula

posted: 12/17/2007 at 8:13 AM

Non-Running - goal 15 credit hours at IU Non-Running - goal buy a house. More consistent training Run my first marathon in June.

runpd

Eye Lick Two Rhune

posted: 12/17/2007 at 9:24 AM

Goals for 2008 Running: - run 2000 miles - 2 Marathons under 4:00:00 (April, Sept) Nonrunning - Start Masters in Teaching Science (fall)

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift" -Pre

Gig

posted: 12/17/2007 at 10:01 AM

Run 1,000 miles Set PRs in all distances: marathon: 4:22:00 (10:00 pace) 10 miles: 1:30:00 (9:00 pace) 10K: 52:42 (8:30 pace) 5 miles: 42:30 (8:30 pace) 1 mile: 7:00 This year's goals were to run 1,000 miles and to run a 7 minute mile. I should make it to 1,000, but I fell very short in my 1-mile race in June. I was hoping to try again toward the end of this year, but I've got some healing to do (hammy, knee--I'm also making a resolution to be more cautious of those park benches that jump out in front of you) so I need to be smart about that. I hate being smart. Cool

veggies on the run
Martial Artist Runners

Gig

posted: 12/17/2007 at 10:02 AM

Quote from Run_nena_Run on 12/13/2007 at 9:00 PM:

Hello everyone, my name is flower, and I live in venezuela, believe it or not , I have 34 years. I have 6 months running, and I have already 2 races of 10 k. When they started to run, I thought it was too late and old to do this, but I believe that age is a state of mind. And the more I run I feel better, now I´m addicted to running, how bad is that come with running injuries, but we must overcome the obstacles, my goal for 2008 is improve my time in 10 k and to be able to do half marathon I hope to recover from an injury in my leg to be able to make the race. I hope to have your support in this site and I wish you all achieve their goals, good luck to all, and GO

Flower, you'll find nothing but support here. It's a fantastic group.

veggies on the run
Martial Artist Runners

joe_h

The voice of mile 18

posted: 12/17/2007 at 10:45 AM

Quote from evillee on 12/17/2007 at 3:46 AM:

My 08 goals are to complete the Philly trifecta - Broad Street (10 miles), Distance Run (HM), and Philly Marathon. Of course this would require for me to get off my ash and run.

where do you run at? I'm down the road from you in Southampton and will be doing at least 1 of those races next year

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