I'm doing 21 things
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3 years ago
I ran the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon yesterday, and it was great! Read all about it here.
girl222's Life List
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1. meditate
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2. go out on "date nights" with my spouse on a regular basis
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3. keep a clean home
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4. Enter sweepstakes regularly
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5. Read one book a month
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6. take a class
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7. Write a book (nonfiction)
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8. learn to dance
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9. sing karaoke
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10. Learn to rock climb
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11. digitalize all the family photos
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12. visit all 50 states
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13. create a board game
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14. practice creating
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15. be proud of what I create
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16. Complete my living will and advanced directives
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17. stop biting my nails
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18. become ambidextrous
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19. Complete "The Artist's Way"
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20. improve my memory
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21. Have adventures
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Recent entries
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3 years ago
Just got back from our 2-week trip to Europe. Had a great time—highly recommended!
500.1 Miles!
3 years ago
I just finished running 500 miles, and boy are my legs tired!
Oh, okay, so today’s run was just 3 miles. But it put me over my goal of 500 miles for the year. At an average pace of 11:11 minutes per mile, that means I’ve spent 3 days, 21 hours, 28 minutes, 35 seconds running this year.
As soon as I got back from my run, I registered for the OKC Marathon, which I’ll be running in a little over 4 months. I’m sure I’ll rack up quite a few training miles between now and then. Once I sit down and really look at the training schedule, I’ll set a mileage goal for next year. 500 may not be an ambitious enough goal for a year when I’m training for a marathon—by the time I ran the half-marathon on April 24th of this year, I had already logged about 250 miles. In fact, I would have easily finished 500 by October if I hadn’t had knee problems for a couple of months.
Overall, I think a long-term goal like this works well for me. If I hadn’t had something big like this I was working towards, I might have just slacked off after the half-marathon. Having a goal also encouraged me to go ahead and see the doctor about my knees and get back to running. For a while there, I wasn’t sure it would be possible. But I think that just makes it more exciting that I’ve done it!
