Showing posts with label fitness goals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fitness goals. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

So Now What?

For the first time in the last couple of years, I don't have an upcoming physical challenge scheduled in the future to keep me on point. First it was my adventure filled trip to Costa Rica, then my first sprint triathlon, then my half marathon, mud run, longer triathlon and marathon. Sure I've got weekly yoga and bootcamp planned, as well as some general running in mind, but nothing really mandatory. Nothing that I've signed up for and committed to. Nothing that can't be changed to another day. I'm a little worried that I'm going to get complacent and sit around all winter...


So obviously I've been looking at upcoming events to do. I'd like to try a Tough Mudder this year and have started saving my pennies accordingly. Isabel drew the cutest picture for me to put on my "workout" jar to incentivize me to save up for it. (In case you are wondering, it's me on the monkey bars, me in an arctic enema, me on top of a Berlin wall, me crawling under a net and me with a giant hand trying to get up the curved Everest wall) But Mudder is more a logistical thing with my brother than anything else.

I'd like to do an Olympic length triathlon or two this year, maybe some half marathons or 10Ks. I've started looking at events, but my finances are tight until after the new year (that's what happens when your kid's birthday is two weeks after Christmas). I even looked at another marathon. I know, I said I would never do another one. But this is the Pocono marathon and it is almost entirely downhill. I do love running downhill. And you can do it as a relay, so I'm trying to gently persuade my dad to either do the full run or the relay (where we'd each do half) with me.

I looked at a few jingle bell jogs and such, but they were all a little pricey to be doing this time of year and hard to juggle schedule with everything going on. Oh, did I mention that there was a guy JUGGLING for the entirety of the Philadelphia Marathon... and he passed me? Yeah. Well, that's a challenge that for sure won't be on my list next year.

Any suggestions/ideas for what should be next on my list (funds permitting)? Let me know.