[Yo Sake]

<p>Time to review the Jan. goals and see where we need to go from here. </p>
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<p>January Goals:</p>
<p>1.  Clean up some poor eating habits   - <span style="color:#ff0000;">doing better but lots of room for improvements</span></p>
<p>2.  Finalize Boston marathon training plan - hopefully meet a running coach this week for consultation - <span style="color:#ff0000;">done. </span></p>
<p>3.  Start run speedwork. - <span style="color:#ff0000;">done</span></p>
<p>4.  Get down to <110lbs  - <span style="color:#ff0000;">Still at 112, haven't lost at all.  General consensus is runners lose some lbs during their maratahon training. Not me.</span></p>
<p>5.  2-3/wk swim - <span style="color:#ff0000;">done</span></p>
<p>6.  2-3/wk strength workouts - <span style="color:#ff0000;">done</span></p>
<p>7.  At least 1/wk spin or trainer workout.  This is a tough one.  I just don't have any heart into it.  I need a heart transplant....<span style="color:#FF0000;">Zero, nada, zipp. </span></p>
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<p>Happy to report the marathon training is going well.  Stayed near/above 50mpw for the whole month.  Pleasantly surprised to see how well my body is holding up, no specific areas for concerns.  This plan I am following have started making lots of sense to me.  When the long run is about <1/3 of the total volume, it doesn't beat you up as it is 1/2 of the total volume.  Your body adapts to the three key workout loads, without a real recovery between them.  No one workout is really hard, but just constant, gradual work load added to your body.  I don't go into a workout with remotely 'fresh' set of legs, but that is the key.  I used to replace 'recovery run (4-5miles)' with swim or cycling.  I think it makes sense to actually 'run' on recovery days to loosen up your running legs and yet keep adding more stress to them at lower level.  Even recovery week is not a big step back.  So I am still hitting high 40's this week, I think.</p>
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[juliemboyle]

<p>YoSake:  You are doing great!!!  Glad the training is going so well..............let's see how I did</p>
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<p>I am building my running base back up.  For the last 6 weeks, I've only been running about 2-3X week, avg 13-15 miles week. </p>
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<p>January goal is:</p>
<ul><li>75 miles running'<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>  61.8 miles for the month. Missed a couple runs due to a slightly sore knee and a couple more due to the stupid snow.  I'm pretty happy with this though.</strong></span></li>
<li>Lose 5 pounds  <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Have lost 2 but that's it.  I really need to let go of the wine, I know that's what is killing the weight loss but I can't stand the thought of giving up my wine!    I guess I would rather keep the wine and have a slower loss </strong></span></li>
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[mrscoby78]

<p>1.  Keep with my workouts....I've been doing a pretty good job of keeping with my schedule.  Stay focused on my long runs.  These suck for me.  I can go knock out 5 or 6 no problem.  But when I look at the calendar and I have 10 or 12 schedules, I get lazy. - <span style="color:#ff0000;">yeah um....I'm not doing so great with this; however, I can get 8-10 miles total on Mondays between lunchtime runs and evening treamill runs at the gym</span></p>
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<p>2.  Get under 150# - <span style="color:#ff0000;">nope</span></p>
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<p>3.  Get going with the weight training.  Which will help significantly with #2, I think.And make #1 much less daunting. - <span style="color:#ff0000;">I'm doing weights 2x's per week while the kids have tae kwon do, and I've already been able to add more weight since I started.</span></p>

 

[donskiman]

<p>My goal for Januray was to run less. Did that. I went from 305 miles in December to 177 miles in January. Overall pace has gotten slightly faster. Would have been much faster except for running on snow/ice covered roads for the first week or so. I still ran every day, and at least 4 miles at a minimum. I was tempted in the last week to bump it up so I could hit 200 miles, but managed to contain myself. I didn't get in as much speedwork as I wanted though.</p>
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<p>Raced 3 times. Did OK. 1st, 2nd & 4th in AG.</p>

 

[hobey]

<p>My goal was to rebuild my mileage to take on a marathon plan starting next week. Stated goal was 35 mpw by the end of the month. I hit 30 so not quite there but I'm poised this final week to be prepared by next Tuesday.</p>

 

[Tri-Tammy]

<p>My overall goal in January was to start rebuilding base. </p>
<p>Run 4x/week  <span style="color:#ff0000;">Ran 3-4 x each week. </span></p>
<p>Swim 2x/week <span style="color:#ff0000;">Swam 1x per week</span></p>
<p>Bike 1-2x/week <span style="color:#ff0000;">Only made it onto the trainer once... oops</span></p>
<p>Strength 2x/week  <span style="color:#FF0000;">Check</span></p>
<p>Abs daily  <span style="color:#ff0000;">Check</span></p>
<p>Getting back to eating healthy too!  <span style="color:#ff0000;">Check</span></p>

 

[MBannon]

<p>January goals:</p>
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<p>Swim 7,000 yds/week - <span style="color:#ff0000;">Did that twice.</span></p>
<p>Trainer 3 x per week - <span style="color:#ff0000;">More like two.</span></p>
<p>Keep running mileage up - <span style="color:#ff0000;">Success!</span></p>

 

[jenotter]

<p>Oh boy...accountability time. </p>
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<p>- lose the holiday fluff and get under 140    <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">Not quite there yet...but close!!!</span></p>
<p>- bike 1x/week and maybe swim 1x/every couple weeks (just to start getting ready for summer/fall tri's)  <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">Ummm...bike? Oops. Did get in the pool once.</span></p>
<p>- refocus the diet, starting with getting rid of the junk food  <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">Did ok here...not great, but ok</span></p>