Friday, June 13, 2008

Goals

I just ran with the girls. We went for 34 minutes; that's a ten minute walk to warm up, then 3 x 4 minute runs and one 3 minute run for a total of 15 minutes. That is almost quadruple the time that I was running four weeks ago! Knock on wood, my foot may be healing up.

When I run well, then I start to dream. So, here are my goals, exercise-wise anyway:

1. Continue to build back my running form, slowly.

2. Lose 5lbs. by the end of June, and fifteen by the end of the summer. Target weight: 150lbs.

3. Train for the Pioneer Run 5k. Goal time: 19 minutes, a 47 second lifetime PR.

4. Following the 5k, start a marathon training plan.

5. Run the Eugene Marathon (which should be) the first weekend in May.



7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good luck with your foot... As for the rest, luck probably won't have much to do with it, eh?

Great goals. You can do it. Go Jeff Go!

Jeffrey J. Sparks said...

Thanks Jeff, that is just what I need to hear. Allez, allez, allez!

Anonymous said...

Pioneer run? Details, please.
Mimi

Anonymous said...

I love the goals. Thanks for the correction of the mountain. I saw that mistake yesterday when I was looking at the Pacific Crest Trail on the map.

When are having dinner or some wine?

V

Anonymous said...

Just curious if you did something to your blog 3 hours ago... all of your posts now say they were done 3 hours ago, including ones from weeks back.

I need to know, because it looks like you might have stumbled onto a way of updating your blog without actually having to write anything!

:-)

#Debi said...

Hi, I'm looking for an old friend, and saw a mention of one of her books on an older post of yours. Do you know Sandy Bacon (Harding)? I illustrated a book for her some years back, and would like to re-establish contact. If you know her, will you let her know that I've tried to contact her? You can forward my info to her if you like...

Thanks!

Debi Warford

#Debi said...

Jeff, thanks for the info. Hopefully, it'll be helpful...