RunningAHEAD - Topic: How'd you do on your 2009 goals? (page 4)

posted: 12/19/2009 at 5:22 PM

Congrats to those who met/ exceeded their goals.

For those like me who fell short, let's hope we can pull it together in 2010.

I trained soooooo hard for Boston and had such a mediocre race.

I trained lightly for New York and pulled in exactly the same performace.

I was reintroduced to Maffetone this month. Reminded me how I probably was doing too much for too long leading up to Boston. AHHH! Who knows?

I LOVED my 50K trail race - gotta do more. So nice to get lost in the woods for hours and focus on not killing myself intstead of mile splits!

Goals: Marathon: break 3:40 Half marathon: break 1:42 10K: break 45:00 8 K: break 37:30

Mariposai

posted: 12/20/2009 at 2:33 AM

The unplanned 50k was the high light of my year. I plan to do another one in 2010.

I ran the NYC marathon, which was a dream of mine for 34 years. Done

Run 6 marathons. I ran only four ...reality and LIFE got on the way.

Run a sub 4...I ran my spring marathon in 4:04...so I guess this goal will have to carry over for next year...

Run no less than 1800 miles. Done, YTD= 2,034 miles.

Run injury free...done.

Mentor one runner...done...my mentee just ran the Seattle HM.

Celebrate the gift of running every day...done

Great Thread!!!!

"Champions are everywhere; all you need is to train them properly..." ~Arthur Lydiard

skyedog

posted: 12/27/2009 at 8:33 PM

started year with leftover from 08 leg injury so only goal beg of 09 was to run more than 20 mns w/o shooting pains up my calf/legs. eventually got through & then increased goals as I went along 15mpw-20mpw-30+mpw. 100 mpm & then 1000 for yr (at 1050). wanted to just have fun, be consistent, injury free, & slowly improve times in race & place in ag. Accomplished!! beat 08 5k by nearly 5 mns 26:24-21:53 lowered 8k time by 3 1/2 mns. placed in ag 2x, just missed 2 other times by 15s. Ran first trail race (7 mile) & plan on more in 09. Will continue similar training increases in 09 which will lead to more miles/more (over 50) pr's.

Jarhead75

posted: 12/28/2009 at 5:12 AM

Finished the year in okay fashion. I had only one real goal this year and I did not find fulfillment. I only made it 60 or so miles in a100 mile race. I then took some time off and relaxed from running as much as I did in 2008. I finished the yeawith a short 1190 or so miles and am now battling MRSA so I am going to have a slow start to 2010. I am registered for Tokyo Marathon but may forego it due to lack of conditoning. I may also just go and jog it and say I did it. I will have to way the risk of injury from under training but w will see.

"You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas" Davy Crockett

rururunner

posted: 12/28/2009 at 9:21 AM
modified: 12/28/2009 at 6:24 PM

After increasing my mileage to minimum 100 miles per month last year, I was hoping to smash some PRs in 2009. Started a half-marathon clinic to prepare for a spring half. Discovered in April after sucking terribly at my first 2 races that I was severely anemic. Put my half-marathon on hold to the fall and restocked my iron stores.

Ran and PR'd a 15k by 8 minutes, finished my first half within the goal time then shave 8 minutes off with my second one.

Hit 2009 km in 2009 early on and will miss a secondary goal of 1500 miles by a hair.

All in all a good year!

Suffering Benefiting from mature onset exercise addiction and low aerobic endorphin release threshold. Hoping there is no cure.

milt01

posted: 12/28/2009 at 4:43 PM

I had two goals for the year. The first was to run 2000 miles. I will end up at about 1810. My second goal was to finally qualify for Boston. I hit 55 this year so my new qualifying time was definitely doable. I ended up qualifying at the Medtronic Twin Cities marathon in October on a perfect day with a pr time of 3:36. My goals for next year include running a sub 3:35 marathon and running five marathons. I would also like to try running two marathons one week apart. We'll see.

AmoresPerros

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posted: 12/28/2009 at 6:01 PM

Quote from the skootr on 12/15/2009 at 10:58 AM:

Well, I ran 3 marathons, including one that was just idiotic.

You monkeyed in your first marathon year? Congratulations, you idiot, and I mean that in the best way.

It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.

kenxc5

posted: 12/28/2009 at 7:15 PM

I personally didn't have any specific goals but I definitely am proud of myself for how far I've come in 10 months. I definitely got back to where I was before my injury and then some.. so I'm really happy with the year and next year I'm going to have some lenient, fun goals for smaller races that I haven't even tried yet unfortunately.

HappyFeat

posted: 12/28/2009 at 10:55 PM

I joined the 2000K Pace Bunny group for 2009 and will achieve that goal. It was challenging, but the Bunny is verrry motivating. I will definitely be signing up for that goal again in 2010. Also for 2010, I want to increase my average running speed and run a HM.

Don't make excuses for why you can't get it done.

Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.

bone_china

posted: 12/29/2009 at 1:20 AM

Quote from C-R on 12/15/2009 at 8:53 AM:

I found the joy in running - 2009 goal fully met

+1

In addition, I had set a goal for running 621 miles (1000 km) and achieved it. I am currently at 640 miles.

poutericky

posted: 12/29/2009 at 9:43 AM

2009 goals were:

- 1500 miles (got 10.3 to go).

- 2000 bike miles (surpassed that)

- sub 20 5k (19:23 back in Sept)

2010 goals

- run 1500 miles

- bike 5000 miles

- swim 250 miles

- sub 18:36 5k

- sub 1:30 1/2 marathon

- sub 40:00 10k

- sub 2:15 at Cranberry Country Triathlon; http://www.cranberrycountrytri.com

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