Real David H.

A little more than a month ago, I started a new approach to my goals. It’s pretty much a “rolling” strategy with flexibility. For example:

• When one goal finishes, a new one will appear.

• If I’m really struggling with a goal, it’s OK to adjust it or call it a failure and find something new.

• If I don’t hit a goal by my allotted time frame, I’ll mark with an X and create a new one.

The reasoning for this is to help me focus on the “right now” and not get too bogged down in what happened in the past or what’s coming up in the future. I explained this a bit more in a thread of tweets this week on my birthday.

So here’s what I have lined up for my goals now, with some explanations if necessary.

BY THE END OF JUNE

🔲 Develop a training plan for the Richmond Marathon (this is sort of done, but needs some more tweaking for the first few weeks before I “officially” start training)

🔲 Complete 500 push-ups (less than 100 to go)

🔲 Run 25 miles not at home (I won’t reveal my vacation plans, but this is a goal that is part of plans in June and July. And I’m 8.4 miles into it)

BY THE END OF JULY

🔲 Get my long run back to 6 miles (This was a June goal, but I’m not going to hit it. This really should be more, but I want to focus on getting to the 6-mile mark first early in the month.)

🔲 Run at the track 3 times (This was new as of my last post, but I didn’t clarify that it was a goal to hit by the end of July from the point of running at the track the first time. I ran a second time after that, so now I have just one more time to go.)

ONGOING

🔲 Write 3 more blog entries each month this summer (this is a change and something to help keep me focused on my running thoughts consistently for a few months)

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