{"id":5786,"date":"2010-12-02T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T17:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=5786"},"modified":"2010-12-02T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T17:20:10","slug":"december-goals-last-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=5786","title":{"rendered":"December Goals – Last Chance!"},"content":{"rendered":"

November was a pretty decent month. Despite the setbacks of an injury, I think I accomplished my November Goals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1. Try the Spinning Bike<\/a> at the new gym. CHECK!<\/span><\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Take a Turbo Kick<\/a> boxing class at my gym.\u00a0 CHECK!<\/span><\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Do NOT gain weight during the holidays! Meh…..<\/span><\/em>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

The verdict is still out on whether I gained weight from Thanksgiving. I don’t weigh in for another week or so. I’m trying to reign in the calories for the next month to keep with the “don’t gain during the holidays” theme.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>November was a cool month because of the fun things I did. Lots of cooking<\/a>, trying new recipes<\/a>, holiday treats<\/a>…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Even with the holiday treats (Halloween, Thanksgiving), I maintained my workouts and focused on strength training.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’m happy that I stayed on track and didn’t get too derailed from the over-indulging or potential slacking off…<\/p>\n

This summer I made some monthly goals for myself. According to that, my December Goals would be:<\/p>\n

1. Improve my 5k Race time.<\/p>\n

2. Register for 2011 running races!<\/p>\n

3. Lose 2 pounds.<\/p>\n

Hm. Then I got myself injured. Fail. Pretty sure those goals aren’t going to work for me right now. So along the same lines as November, I’m keeping my goals simple and achievable.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>December Goals<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

1. Maintain current weight. Don’t gain weight.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2. Try one new recipe each week that challenges me.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3. Continue the hip strengthening exercise and strength training.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

4. Try to live in the moment and be happy with what I have, not worrying about what I DON’T have.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

5. Begin training for my first Century Ride!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Starting this month I’m going to get on the bike trainer once a week to get used to the bike again. In January I will increase the time I spend on the bike trainer and hopefully my IT band will cooperate and I can continue my training.<\/p>\n

The Portland Century<\/a> is in July. I know that I can do 55 miles with minimal training<\/a> because that’s what I did for Reach the Beach. I sort of half-assed the bike riding during the spring and then two months before Reach the Beach<\/a> Michael and I started biking every weekend.<\/p>\n

He commuted to work by bike as many days a week as he could. I wasn’t. I was running for my workouts during the week because I was training for Hood to Coast at the same time. The weekends were the only time I had available for the long, all day bike rides<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Century? I need to be more focused in my training. 2011 will be structured and focused!<\/p>\n

QUESTION: What are you looking forward to most for 2011? What are your goals for December?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November was a pretty decent month. Despite the setbacks of an injury, I think I accomplished my November Goals. 1. Try the Spinning Bike at the new gym. CHECK! 2. Take a Turbo Kick boxing class at my gym.\u00a0 CHECK! 3.\u00a0Do NOT gain weight during the holidays! Meh….. The verdict is still out on whether […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,101,104,115,317,318,319,1663,1468,295,297,298,299,301],"tags":[8599,1976,8628,1977,8815,1813,8792,1975,8825],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5786"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9737,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions\/9737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}