Too Soon? 2017 Final Goal Checkin/New 2018 Goals.

[wawa]

Are we ready for this yet?  Are people thinking about it?

Here's the thread from roughly this time last year:  pandce.proboards.com/thread/563483/goals-plans-2017
And here's the mid-year checkin: pandce.proboards.com/thread/578592/2017-goal-check

[cinco]

I made my 2017 goals about a month post 50 miler, so I was pretty wishing washy. I actually have felt the whole year has been a weird “I don’t know what I want to do” mess. Looking back, that is probably normal after tackling a big goal. I did survive my first Olympic distance triathlon (my main 2017 goal), and ran 4 marathons. I’m definitely most proud of my 5th place finish at Blue Ridge Marathon! It was one of the hardest physical things I’ve ever done. I should be close to 2500 running miles again for the year, and 850 miles of biking. I had never ridden anything other than a kids bike in my youth and a beach cruiser before this year.

I’ve already started working towards 2018. Putting in the work for MB Marathon (3.03), and will probably race once a month. I’ll have to think about whether I want to put time goals to those races. I’ve worked hard to be the youngest in my age category so I should take advantage (lol)

ETA, I’m thinking:
1. Sub 1:10 at RRCA 10 miler (Feb)
2. Sub 3:25 at Myrtle Beach (March)
3. Course PR at Blue Ridge (April)
4. Sub 20:30 5k (Summer or Fall)
5. Sub 3:20 Marathon
I’ll be happy if I come close!

[gt7301b]

I'll go first, cause I am still on my post marathon high

Goal 2017: Train for a marathon and keep a small child alive - CHECK and I managed to set marathon, 5k, and 10k PRs.

Goal 2018: Half marathon and 10 miler PRs.... maybe another marathon, but I am not sure I want to commit to that one just yet.

[G22]

My only 2017 goal was to solidly run my first post baby marathon. It didn't go as well as I hoped, but I finished with a smile on my face.


2018 - as always, I'd love new full/half PRs. I'll shoot for a new full PR in May again. I picked a flatter course this year lol

I'm starting the year off with a bang though and doing the Goofy Challenge at WDW right after New Years. I just want to have fun and enjoy it the experience, since it's not the type of weekend for PRing.

[kams]

I didn’t make any 2017 goals which was smart

2018: I would like a sub 6:00 70.3 and a sub 1:50 half.
If I can achieve both of those, I’d like to try for a 3:45 Marathon, probably at Kiawah, and from there a BQ (3:35).

[mrshandy]

2017
1. NO INJURIES - Mostly complete. The calf strain was poorly timed. But it feels pretty much 100% now so I'm pretty happy about that.
2. BQ at Richmond Marathon (if possible PR) - Yep and yep
3. Complete a Sprint or International Triathlon - Yep
4. Sub 1:40 half - Gah! This is the one that still haunts me. Next year I swear. I got really close this year with a 1:40:26.
5. PR my 5K - twice!

2018
1. Sub 1:40 half
2. PR my 10-miler
3. Complete an Olympic triathlon
4. Complete a half ironman
5. Improve my swimming

[wawa]

2017
New distances - a half marathon, half century a sprint WITH AN ACTUAL FOR REAL OWS where I can't touch the bottom, A ragnar and an oly tri.  Feel happy and strong through each.
New PR - sub 25 5k. Shave some more time off my bridge 10k time, but that's not till late fall.
More Nebulous - commit to weight training in form on a consistent basis. At least one day a week. Still working on details of this one.

I ended up cutting way back on running, did almost no road racing and got no new PR's.  Instead I rode my bike 100 miles, so that was pretty cool.  Rocked my tris, but I KNOW I can do better.  Actually did start weight training!  It took till October, but it happened.

2018
Run a half. finish happy.
"Run" a marathon. Finish happy.
PR Oly at Rock Hall.
Beat MH at all Tri's. (his goal for the year is to be faster than me at all three legs, rather than just hoping his lead off the bike is long enough)
Keep up once a week strength/weights.

[wambam]

If my knee/leg starts getting better and I'm able to get back to running more consistently: run the marathon I wanted to run in September. Flatter course and less humidity I believe will be the key.
FUCK YES I DID.


If not: meh, just keep doing what I'm doing. Lifting, yoga 5+ times a week, and run short distances as tolerated.
But also this, lol. I lift, I do yoga maybe too much, I run when I want. 


I've been hard charging for six years now and I think I might be in a place where I just want to coast for awhile.
I am coasting post-marathon.

ETA: 2018 goals. Learn to play the guitar. This sound non-H&F but it is. My goal for 2018 is not to set enormous H&F goals. My goal is to do what I want and pursue other hobbies while still maintaining fitness. 

[moreace01]

Apparently I didn't make any 2017 goals. I would say it was probably finish a 70.3. Depending on who you talk to, I did that. Rematch cause it was godawful is set for 2019 probably.

But for 2018, it's get faster. Will find out if I'm in Chicago marathon tomorrow and that's my goal race.

Will do a couple of half marathons in spring maybe. And then there's Kiawah - verdict still out on if I'll do a half or full there. Probably a half since I have to head to Philippines after the Chicago marathon and then there might be a Nicaragua trip in there somewhere.

[labbie]

2017 Goal Check in:
Crushed my A-goal which was my 50-miler in October. So by default my other goals were met (figuring out new normal given changes in home/work schedule, and staying healthy, yay knees!). I did not keep up with journaling my workouts so trying a different approach for 2018.

2018 Goals: still developing, but I'm looking at a summer Ultra as my A-race, and possibly a late fall trail 50K.  Some fun races sprinkled in- a du relay with a friend, possibly a sprint tri, etc.

[chw57]

2017 was a big year for me! 15K PR, sub-3:30 birthday marathon, shiny new 50K PR 3 weeks after that, and completed my first 50 Miler in August. 

So far for 2018, all I have planned is the memorial day 50K I ran last year. Since my IT band basically made it impossible to run downhill for the last 10 miles, I'm thinking I can probably PR again this year (I'd love to be under 5:45). I may try to run a road marathon or I may just stick with trails. I haven't been feeling road races as much lately...

[bostonmichelle]

2017 Goals
1. Have a healthy and active rest of this pregnancy. Only 13 weeks and change to go! - CHECK
2. Work on speed work to try and get back to my 5k/10k/half PRs not sure I can set any in 2017 but I'd like to try - No new PR's but getting close on the 5k and 10k front, if I actually raced those distances that would help. I was seconds away from an 8k PR though.
3. Get back to prepregnancy weight if not a little bit under. - Pretty close on the weight
4. Do a sprint and maybe Olympic distance triathlon. - CHECK

2018 Goals
1. 5k/10k PR
2. Sub 1:55 at Tobacco Road Half Marathon in March 2018
3. If not pregnant, PR at Kiawah Island Half Marathon in December 2018
4. Do more triathlons, I'd like to PR some courses
5. Get into a better swimming and biking habit

[luckystar2]

2017: take it easy...lol, I got injured and was sidelined all summer...I guess I hit that goal!! I also wanted to work on getting faster, which I didn’t have the opportunity to get to.

2018: injury free?!? Settle into a new normal of how much I can run without my hips flaring. I would love to pursue a 5K PR this summer! But I really just want to run and not be injured. This past year sucked. I don’t want to miss out on another whole summer of running!

[irene adler]

Dec 28, 2016 12:08:50 GMT -5 irene adler said:

Dec 28, 2016 12:08:50 GMT -5 irene adler said:

1. full marathon (napa in march)
2. Trail half (may)
3.bike a century (?)

1. DONE!

2. Done-ish ? I ran a half put on by the local running club that typically does trail runs BUT! This one was on a paved access road so not *truly* a trail. But I'm counting it unless another one comes up at a convenient time.

3. DONE

Time to find new goals

I never did find a true trail half to sneak in, so I'm re-upping that goal for next year.  

and HOLY SHIT I BIKED 100 MILES.  That is the distance from my parents house to my college dorm exactly.  I'm still a little bug eyed that happened (mostly because I didn't really train specifically for that, but still felt well prepared with my few road rides and copious amounts of spin. )

As for new goals:  I'm pretty sure my turkey trot was a PR--I haven't run a 5k in a long time (since my pre-garmin days), so I'm sticking with my current time as my official PR.  I was really proud of that. 

[jene]

Those links pull up threads from 2012 for me. Weird.

Anyway, I'm going to guess my bar was pretty low on goals for 2017. I managed to grow another human and H and I managed to keep both of them alive, so 2017 has been a great success!

2018:
Be kind to myself about losing the rest of the baby weight
Keep working on HR training
5k PR
10 mile PR
Do a couple of duathlons
Maybe a half and maybe try to PR, we'll see how training goes.

[hurricanedrunk]

2017
1) 2017 miles between running, biking and swimming - Nope will be shy about 200 miles
2) Continue to incorporate strength training and stretching my routine regardless of what I am training for. - sort of successful at this but enough to complete #3
3) Stay healthy. - check
4) Half/marathon PR's check plus! PR'd two half's and one marathon
5) Sprint or Oly tri in spring. - Nope - my schedule got too crazy with marathon training/ kitchen remodel in summer to fit one in.

2018 - working on some of these yet.
1) 2018 miles between running, biking and swimming- If I go into the year to tackle this I know I can do it vrs waiting until the end.
2) Fall Marathon - sub 4:00 (depending on the race)
3) Sub 1:50 half
4) Improve swimming/ take a class
5) Oly or sprint tri or both
6) PR 10k or 5k distance
7) Race in a new state
8) Keep up with strength training

[Susie]

Oh wow, these goals are from only one year ago? It feels like I've lived a lifetime since then.

1. Wean Hobbes in a way that works for both of us. We are actually almost there, down to one nursing session/day. (She is 13.5 mo.)  Done; she must have self-weaned shortly after I posted this!  It has really only been a year!?

2. Goal weight = my pre-baby healthy off-season weight, also my weight when I got pregnant. I need to lose about 7 lbs. which have stuck like GLUE while nursing.  Done; the weight did in fact come off after I weaned, although I did have to work at it.  I still don't feel happy with my body shape, but this is a good reminder that I have, in fact, made good progress.

3. Regain overall fitness.  This wasn't such a big win.

4. Train for and run a healthy and enjoyable Covered Bridges Half in early June.  Total flop due to long term injury, stemming from complications of combining of a ~20 year old lumbar spine fracture and carrying a baby (first onboard, then on my hip).  

5. Figure out where working out consistently fits the best in my life now that I have a LO, and make it a permanent priority to balance.  Ongoing struggle.  But at least I'm still in the struggle!  I worked out 3x last week.

ETA:  6.  I am starting a mini-yoga streak on 1/1:  I will do a sun salutation every day, as a way to guarantee that even on days I don't workout, I am moving and using my body, and stretching.  I didn't even remember that I was doing this, so obviously I've been off that wagon for a good long while.

I guess for 2018, my goal is... try again at #3 and 5?  I'd like to run a HM too, but I didn't register for CBHM, so it won't exactly be #4.  Any races I do will be low key/sign up for just beforehand type events.  We are hoping to TTC #2 in 2018 too, so it's a big fat "we'll see."  The holidays as a working mom are a hard time to prioritize myself or H&F.

[emilyj]

2017:
1. Napa Valley Marathon Done
2. Ragnar Cape Cod Oops
3. Muncie 70.3 Done
4. Triathlon nationals Done
5. IM Louisville Done
6. Stay happy and healthy through it all.  Mostly!

I also pulled a PR in my half marathon, a 5K PR, and I'm looking to re-PR my 5k in another couple weeks.

2018:
This is going to be the year of the PR for me.
1. PR my half marathon
2. PR my Oly and 70.3 distances (I would say sprint, but I don't know if I'll actually do a sprint this year) 
3. Have a strong and kick ass showing at USAT nationals
4. Do the Ride Across Indiana in July 

[sadlebred]

1. Continue to get faster for time trials at the velodrome. I took some time off of both, so yep!
2. A medal at the Masters National Track Championships or a time trial PR. Done. 3 medals and 3 PRs in TTs and the Team Sprint.
3. Have fun and continue to be healthy! Mostly! I had some health challenges this year.

2017 racing just finished, so these are very preliminary for 2018

1. Continue to get stronger on the bike.
2. Have fun at the 2018 Cyclocross National Championships.

[secretlyevil]

2017:

Continue to incorporate yoga into the plan, yoga with Adrienne is interesting to me as I won't be able to continue at the yoga studio I am currently doing a weekly session at.

That was on and off

Figure out a new plan, meeting with potential personal trainer tomorrow to see if that might work for me. Not a big fan of traditional gyms but I need strength training like whoa.

Desperately need strength training on the regular, hanging a heavy bag in my garage, that should help.

Rock the planned races on the calendar

Sure, we’ll say that went well.

Get a new job

Yes! Two jobs in fact, one we just won’t talk about.

Be happy and healthy - we’re going to focus on this one in 2018 big time.

2018 Goals:

Be happy and healthy
Enjoy my runs and workouts
Find a fun late fall, early winter half to focus my training on.
Focus on cross training which incorporates strength and yoga

[Wines Not Whines]

I guess I didn't post my goals last year. If I did, I think I would've said my goals were to come back from injury, not get injured again, and run some races. I accomplished all of those goals.

My goals for next year are pretty simple:

1. Don't get injured!
2. Run a fall marathon
3. Maybe run a trail race in the spring
4. I haven't PRed at any distance since 2015, so it would be great to PR at something. Anything.

[katyintx]

2017 goals: Well overall it didn't go well... 

- Finish my Houston marathon sub 4:30. It's 30+ min slower than my last marathon, but my running has gone so downhill lately that that's seriously become my A goal. Haha so many nopes. It was so fucking hot and humid (in JANUARY). 
- After RnR NOLA, take a month off from running, and re-join a gym I pretty much took the month off and re-joined between Houston and NOLA so, yup! 
-Branch out and do a lot of lifting and different fitness classes so I can strengthen my body overall and maybe even get some glutes back! I did this!  Now I lift heavy with my H 3-4x/week and do Bodypump for my lifting. I'm no fitness model, but I'm gaining muscle for sure!
- Once it's time to start running again, kill it for MCM next fall. Got hurt so I just made a vaca out of it instead. 
- Quit drinking so much. We really only drink, like, 1x/week, but I want to do a major overhaul of my diet and it starts with that! I have no idea. I think we do better. 

2018 GOALS:
- run either a 5k or 10k each month (this is a different goal in disguise - to get my speed back)
- keep lifting
- that's basically it. I realized last week that I was really "over" distance running at the moment so we'll just see how 2018 shakes out. I don't want to set any endurance goals quite yet. 

[SallyJ]

Huh, I made goals?


1. Take the year month by month. 25 workouts in January
- done
2. Stay healthy. No surgeries!
- done
3. 25 workouts in January
- I think focusing on January was a great way to keep me on track all year.  done.
4. Go back to ballet in April (just barre). Full class by August. Perform in Nutcracker in December.
  - Didn't go back to ballet until August due to knee pain.  Performed 4 dances for Nutcracker.
5. Start running again in mid-March. Maybe a 5K for end of summer.
  Ran some during the summer, but changed my goal to keep focusing on strength.  Bought a bike too.


2018 Goals:
1.  Perform en pointe
2.  Go on bike rides with the fam
3.  Complete NROL Supercharged
4.  Complete at least one cut cycle, maybe two, and maybe a mass cycle with RP

[reginaphalange72]

These are great! It sounds like 2017 was a pretty fantastic year for H&F!

2017: Didn't make any, and really... didn't accomplish much.

2018:
H&F goals:
1) Complete a solid block of training and finish my scheduled races (2 50ks, a 24 or 48 hour race, and a 100 miler) with a smile on my face and minimal misery.
2) Finally lose the extra weight I've put on since starting the Ph.D. program and get to a point where I am strong and comfortable with my body
3) Be a more active member of this board. I've been mostly just lurking for the past couple years since most of my brainpower and energy was going towards school and I didn't really feel like I had anything to contribute. But it's such a great place and wonderful motivation to follow through on my plans and goals.

Non H&F goals:
1) Defend my Ph.D. this spring! Ack!
2) Find a job (see #1)
3) Plan and host a kickass wedding for FI and I
4) Learn how to really play the guitar (partially related to #3 above, but also because I've just always wanted to) - wambam, I just bought one and started today! Want to be guitar buddies?

[wambam]

reginaphalange72 - yes! I’ve been doing lessons for about a mi th and I suck lol. But I practice a lot!

[cole]

2017 goal: complete a triathlon. As I said in the midyear check-in: boom, done.

2018 goal: complete a half marathon

[libbygrl109]

2017:
- Find activities that will allow me to drop weight and improve strength, especially to support my back - Still working on dropping the weight, but have found kickboxing to be really helpful for my back and my psyche
- Get back to the activities I love, especially running. At this point, I would be happy if I could get to 8-10 miles - It's amazing what a year can do. I seem to have lost my running mojo, and it hasn't broken my heart. I've done 2 5ks in the last month, and that has been plenty for me. 


2018:
- Continue kickboxing 3 times/week
- Refocus my attention on my nutrition, drop the extra weight 20+ lbs that I've been carrying around for way too long
- Do other activities that may seem fun - biking maybe?

[mysticmuffin]

2017 Goals:

1. Finish my half marathon without injury.
Done!

And this is where my year took an unexpected left turn with an ATV accident and then the blessing of the impending MiniMuffin.

2. Finish my Oly in July feeling strong.
Nope.
3. PR the crap out of my sprint in October. (same course as my first tri)
Nope.


2018 Goals:

1. Solid training cycle for my deferred Sprint in October. 
2. Finish said Sprint, happy and healthy.
3. Lose the baby weight and then some.

[thom]

From last year...

1) Run April half marathon and train well enough for it that it isn't miserable. CHECK.

2) 5K stroller PR. I think I only need to beat about 28:00. CHECK. I did this solo on the bike path, but I actually did not race a stroller 5K this year.

3) Work back to a somewhat consistent running schedule that is agreeable for me, H, and Speedy. CHECK. I feel pretty proud overall of my running this year. Successful half in April and even with some rocky moments in training I finally got to run Twin Cities Marathon. And I had a 10K PR. Nearly forgot about that, but it was exciting and is my only true PR since early 2015.

4) Make my own mental well-being and physical fitness and goals a priority - 1 did ok on this one in spurts. Even though the last few months have been pretty rough I've got to appreciate what my body did get to do this year. I only made it to ONE yoga class this entire year. Bummer, but I don't see that changing a whole lot. I hope to find a better time to consistently do yoga everyday for myself.

[thom]

And for next year...

1) I hope to get pregnant in 2018. Just putting that up as number one - because it is my number one. Not announcing that to anyone outside of this board.

2) Run my 8th Earth Day 1/2 marathon in April. If I'm uncomfortably pregnant (which looks unlikely) or if training is wearing down my body too much I will re-evaluate. Maybe go for the 5K?

3) Make time for enough yoga/running/sweating to keep my sanity.

4) If I'm not pg by July I may consider a fall marathon. Probably Twin Cities again, but something in later October is better schedule-wise. We'll see.