Happy New Year

Well, clearly I am the worst "blogger" ever because I haven't posted in a while. HA! I'm sure that there is rules and ways to do this "properly" but I clearly don't know them, or care.  I shall continue on my sporadic, ( but hopefully a little more frequent ) posts.

2014! Holey COW.  Where did that come from.  2013 was a pretty darn good year for me.  I finally took my health back in my own control, dropped 50lbs!!  I ran my FIRST half marathon and in Las Vegas to boot.  Perhaps I'll dedicate a post to that soon too, after all it really deserves its own post.

Now, to the New Years Resolutions.  I know that a lot of people think that the whole new years resolution thing is a waste of time, or silly.  I think "to each there own" and I like to make a couple of goals come the start of the new year.  I like the idea of a fresh clean year that YOU get to make of it what YOU want.  You get 12 brand new months to make goals, reach goals and do the things that make you happy.   Sure, there will be obstacles, and plain shitty days on your journey to whatever the goal is you set, but that's all part of the magic.  I often see that saying in the running forums etc " if it were easy, everyone would do it" and I think that applies to everything! 
My "Goals" as I prefer to call them for the new year go something like this:
1: Run as often as I can, but no less than 3 days per week.
2: Drink more water, ALOT more water.  80oz minimum a day
3: Clean up my diet. Eliminate excess sugar, processed JUNK, and just eat good whole clean foods.
4: Achieve my goal weight. at this point that means to lose 15 lbs.
5: Incorporate weight lifting back into my life
6: Run at least 2 half marathons in 2014
7: Have fun, stress less, practise meditation/yoga to teach myself to be a calmer person.


I am looking forward to where I can take my body fitness wise this year.... Lose a bit more weight, tone up and be in the best physical shape of my life.  Running has given me and outlet, strength and pushed me further than I ever thought I could push my body.  Its not for everybody, and some days I don't even feel like its for me!, but its changed me for the better and that's the most important part of it all!