{"id":3401,"date":"2012-12-31T02:01:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T02:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2012-12-31T02:01:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T02:01:40","slug":"out-with-the-2012-in-with-the-2013-new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/out-with-the-2012-in-with-the-2013-new-years-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Out With the 2012, In With the 2013 – New Years Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s my favorite time of the year!\u00a0 Ok, not quite better than my birthday.\u00a0 Or triathlon season.\u00a0 Or patio weather.\u00a0 Ok, fine, it’s a time in the winter that I hate less than others, let’s all get excited!\u00a0 IT’S RESOLUTION RECAP TIME!<\/p>\n

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Last Years Resolutions:<\/p>\n

1. Take care of the weight problem.<\/p>\n

–Totally unspecific and total FAIL.\u00a0 I’m the same weight as I was last year.\u00a0 July and August were nice on the scale but September, November, and December put it all back on.\u00a0 Boo.<\/em><\/p>\n

2. Play more games, read more, make a pitch doc<\/p>\n

–Games – check-ish, at least later in the year when I decided to start working my way through Telltale Games library of adventure games on the PS3 and especially now that we have the office set up this last week or so.\u00a0 Read more, big check.\u00a0 I’ve read more this year than I have since I was in college.\u00a0 At least ~20 books.\u00a0 Pitch doc – total FAIL.\u00a0 My brain is just not there yet.\u00a0 However, I have big plans with the office being set up!<\/em><\/p>\n

3. Race goals:<\/p>\n

Finish a marathon, a century ride, and a half ironman.
\n—Check, check, and check!\u00a0 (I may have INTENDED a imperial century but I did 2 metrics so I’m totally counting it…)<\/em><\/p>\n

Note that with this goal, I\u2019m NOT making the next goal to PR everything.
\n—CHECK. Glad I said this.\u00a0 My running this year was DISMAL compared to when I just focused on it, but I pulled some other PRs out this year.<\/em><\/p>\n

Really concentrate on my bike times.
\n—CHECK. My short game improved a little, but I got MUCH faster at longer distances.\u00a0 My first 50+ ride was under 12 mph, my half ironman pace 6 months later was about 16 mph.<\/em><\/p>\n

Complete all TX Tri Series races (6 tris in 5 months).\u00a0 PR at least 1.
\n—CHECK!… and PR’d the two I did last year, 40 min Olympic PR, and since I did my first 70.3, that counts as a PR too!<\/em><\/p>\n

Take at least 3 months of the year not in training (off season) to mentally and physically rest.
\n—Well, 7 weeks between my marathon and the start of prep is not quite 3 months, but it’s definitely ENOUGH.\u00a0 Calling it CHECK.<\/em><\/p>\n

Stretch after every workout.
\n—Ha!\u00a0 Ha!\u00a0 Hahahahahah!!!! Ha- oh wait, I was serious.\u00a0 Dang it, I REALLY need to be better about this.<\/em><\/p>\n

Strength train 2x week (catch another crunchtime class at lunch?)
\n—Up until September, total check.\u00a0 Usually 3x.\u00a0 Fell off after vacation though… glad to start back up next week once my back is fixed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s try this again.\u00a0 Run a race somewhere outside Texas.\u00a0 I\u2019ll have some opportunities next year, very likely San Diego.
\n—CHECK!\u00a0 America’s Finest Half Marathon, check.<\/em><\/p>\n

Volunteer at more races.\u00a0 I was able to volunteer once this year and while I think it\u2019s what got me sick for vacation, it was a great experience.
\n—Ooops.\u00a0 Racing 24 times really made it hard to volunteer (excuses excuses).\u00a0 Next year, I already have at least 2 races that since I’m not racing, I want to volunteer at.<\/em><\/p>\n

4. Start one major house renovation this year.<\/p>\n

—Windows (new through the whole house), check!\u00a0 Started AND finished.\u00a0 Chigidy check!<\/em><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 One liners (these seem strangely familiar)<\/p>\n

Get the office set up as an office\/craft room
\n—Check-ish.\u00a0 Office is finally set up, there’s more work to be done, but it’s finally in a usable state.\u00a0 Hooray!<\/em><\/p>\n

Decide what to do with the savings now that we have some
\n—Errrr.\u00a0 We’ve done a little but we could do more.<\/em><\/p>\n

Do more batch cooking so having healthy lunches and dinners available is easier.
\n—Big fat fail except one experiment in December which rocked my socks off.\u00a0 This is a huge goal next year though.<\/em><\/p>\n

Learn to sew.
\n—Kinda hard to do without a sewing machine, but now that I have one… yeah.\u00a0 2013 on this one, bitches! \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

-Learn the party rock anthem dance.
\n—Yeah…no.\u00a0 But I’ve definitely gotten drunk and PRETENDED that I knew it a lot in 2012 so I’m calling it CHECK! \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n

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So, I hit some pretty big goals last year, but some things definitely fell to the wayside pursuing all those races (note that it actually wasn’t in my resolutions for 2012, because Zliten decided on that one…).\u00a0 Next year I’d like to be a bit more centered, focused, and balanced.<\/p>\n

Without further ado… 2013 Resolutions!!!<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Be a serious, focused, well and specifically trained triathlete following the Triathlete’s Training Bible plan.\u00a0 Make a plan and stick to it. I want a shiny new PR for each tri distance at least, which shouldn’t be difficult.\u00a0 The goal is to just to do better in each repeated race than I did the year before.\u00a0 This will be discussed in detail on this blog because this is what I do – so for now we can leave it at that.<\/p>\n

2. Probably the single most thing I can do to improve my times is improve body composition.\u00a0 I’ve had a few false starts at this, but 2013 is my year, I think, partly because I’m finally really getting it in my head that it’s not about looking good in jeans, it’s about PRs – which actually matter a lot to me.\u00a0 Instead of vague goals, here is what I would like to do:<\/p>\n