Happy 2008 to Everyone!

Workout notes 3100 yard swim. 10 x 100 free (on 2), 10 x 100 free (on 2; flip turns, 1:41-1:45), 4 x 100 IM on 2:30 (slow), 400 IM in 8:44 (pathetic), 300 cool down.

2007 in review: athletics. Not a great year. I totaled 1794 miles of running and walking, previous years were: (2003) 2514, (2004) 2714 (2005) 2778, (2006) 1498, (2007) 1794. I was hampered by a very long lay-off and couldn’t start running/walking again until April of this year.

Performance wise, this was my worst ever, with 34 miles in the 12 hour walk (did 41 miles on my own at a later date), 9:25 for a 33 mile trail walk, 66 and 58 miles for the 24 hour, and a DNF in a road marathon.

Swimming: I did swim pool 5Ks (5500 yards) in 1:36:49 and 1:36:51, which are PR’s, and I did get back to 16:13 for the 1000.

Yoga I took teacher training and that was about it. Some of my basics (triangle, camel) have improved.

Injury Speed work tends to make the outside of my left hip tingle; but it is now away from by butt; more in the bike crash area.

Professional One rejection (due to style; they liked the result); I need to rewrite that and work on my three outstanding projects.

Reading My list is here. I have yet another stack of books to tackle.

Social I’ve talked about this too much; it meant something at the time but ended up not amounting to much. But it did help me make some new internet friends and for that I am grateful!

One other personal remark: late last year, I had a friend get diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. He was “due to die” this summer, at the latest. He is still with us, and still works out frequently!

A bit of humor: Can you name these guys? I’ve read three of their books, and regularly read three of their blog/websites. The other two books are on my reading list for 2008.

Goals for 2008 Submit three quality mathematics articles for publication, make 100 miles at the June FANS 24 hour walk (injury heal-up will determine if this goal is feasible), break 1:40 for the Big Shoulders 5K (or other open water 5K), run a marathon/50K (sub 4 hour goal for the marathon, sub 5 hour for the 50K).

Yoga: Get control for “peacock feather” and improve my crane pose.

Social goals: volunteer to sub for yoga classes, help new runners at Building Steam, volunteer for 3 college XC races and 4 public ones.

But we all know about the best laid goals for mice, men, and recreational endurance athletes.