Bill, I assume you have now finished the book? How was it?

Running Goals for 2008 • Be Top 7 on the Whitman Women’s Varsity Cross Country Team • Help the team make it to nationals • Beat a certain someone in the Whitefish Lake Run • Have fun racing in the spring • Look and feel strong • DON’T GET BURNED OUT How to Achieve these Goals • Build mileage slowly following Malcom’s plan (15, 20, 18, 23, 21, 26…) • One long run/week (20-25%) • One or two hard runs/week (5-10%) • Doing at least 6 sets of abs/week • Lifting twice a week • Eat healthy food No excuses * * Taken from Jacob Fern’s December 5, 2007 running log entry

No excuses.

I think I said the same thing in my goals for next year... no more excuses.

I know. I actually stole that from you... I should have cited you...

click on the quote button above that person's post.... then you can take out what you don't want to quote, and it will look all pretty and stuff.

That seattle race is a great place to go after a new pr in the 3000 (3200 pr less approx. 40 seconds). It's a fantastic track and a good time to show off your winter training. Bloomsday. Wow, maybe we'll see you in the throng on 40,000 runners. It looks like a nice schedule to me. Lot's of opporunity to race. It will be fun to see what you can do in a 5000 on the track outdoors. Now, let's see if I have this figured out..... If a person were to run in the winter, they would be in a good position to race well in the spring, right out of the chute, so to speak. I think, I'm going to try that. Bill

I really wish I was around for bloomsday again this year... that was a really fun race. I also wish I could do the snow joke, but that's not really an option. So far, I have no plans for spring races.... there will be tons of weekend races put on by NYRR, so I'll probably do some of those. There really isn't any track program, so I won't be doing that in the spring, and in a way I'm glad. Like a lot of people who did XC, i was never a big fan of track. I hope to just be able to have fun with it, and get myself ready to really kick it up once running camp starts. As far as not burning out, I don't know if I'm the one to ask. Although, keep this in mind: last year, right about this exact time of year, I remember that we were both kind of struggling to keep motivated. We both made some goals for the new year, and that seemed to keep us going at least until track season. Are you going to make a goal to run every day again? I was telling Bill that I've never made that goal in the past because I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to do it. But even if you don't do it, you'll get a lot farther than you would have if you never made the goal in the first place, so in the end, it did what it was supposed to do: get you motivated to go run.