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Wow - it's been quite some time since I last posted on here.  This spot in the past has given me the platform to write down my goals and the process to which I set out to achieve them.  I'm about to turn 40 in the next few months and have a couple of goals that I feel realistically I have about 2 years to achieve them.  If I stay rather injury free - I'm hoping that those happen.  So what are those goals???

Run a sub 90 min 1//2 marathon!

Run a sub 40 min 10k!

Those 2 above goals I believe go hand in hand with each other in that if one happens - ideally the other will happen as well.  In 2013 and 2014 my training was on pace to accomplish the 1/2 marathon goal but the race days just didn't pan out the way I wanted too.

The last 3 years have been spent with some injury and running just because it makes me feel good:)  Now I feel like I'm ready to tackle some goals and run at a faster pace than I have been for a while.

My current fitness state is not optimal to even really start "training" for either of those goals.  Infact I'm planning (hoping) to run a "dust-buster" 1/2 marathon in the early New Year to shake the cobwebs off.

I have so much appreciation right now for where my fitness has been in those 2 years where I was going after the sub 90.  Today I ran 8 miles on the treadmill with 6 of those at the "dust buster" pace and WOW was I breathing heavy and red faced when I was finished.  But I got it done!  It's feels weird having to "get in shape" to start a training program and having a "training program" to start the one that I really want to be on, BUT I need to start somewhere.

Adding a couple of pics because the running one reminds me of strength and that I can run fast and the other is my absolute favourite place to run.  I feel very fortunate to live where I do and be surrounded by the mountains and water.  It really never gets old to me.

Cheers!