January Recap and February Goals
My two big goals for January (you can read my original goal post here) were:
1) Run on schedule! (This was focused both on keeping to my run days instead of shuffling my schedule till the end of the week and on hitting my weekly mileage.)
2) Incorporate yoga into my cross training.
How did I do?
1) I think I did pretty good on this goal. As you may have noticed from my running posts I still did a bit of mixing stuff around (my run days were supposed to be Tues, Wed, Thurs, Sat, Sun and I ended up doing quite a few Monday and Friday runs) but my weekly mileage was fairly consistent and I did all my long runs. My training plan had me scheduled for 125 miles in January and I ended the month with 128 despite my lack of running this past weekend. This is the first time I’ve run a 100 miles in a month (my previous high was 95) so I’m pretty pleased with how I did.
2) I started off strong with this goal but kinda faded towards the end of the month. I definitely did a lot more stretching than usual though so that was a definite plus.
I think my goals for February will be about the same as they were for last month.
1) My running goal is to continue to work towards consistency with doing my run/rest/cross training on the prescribed days. I know it will really start to impact my energy levels and performance as my mileage continues to build. Overall though, I’m really proud of how the first five weeks of training have gone and hope to still feel this positive towards running at the end of February.
2) I want to be more specific with my cross training goal this month so I can more easily measure how well I do. So for February I’m setting the weekly goal of swimming 1 mile, attending one cycle class, and doing yoga twice (preferably on Monday and Friday).
If you’re just joining our awesome running club for February (or you missed my intro last month) you can click here for a little bit about me
