2018 Goals Progress (July)

I made a post with 2018 goals and I have updated about my monthly progress a few times .

For 2018, here are my exercise goals:

1. run 72 miles (that's 6 miles a month) with a reach goal of 100 miles * --- I ran19.45 miles in June so I've run 60.18 miles so far this year. 
2. complete 4 Beachbody programs - I completed 3 phases of 80 day obsession but still only count that as 1 program. 
3. Exercise in some form 208 times (that's 4x/week) - In June I typed: I exercised 150 times the first half the year. (In my head my goal is way higher than this so I thought I was behind. I haven't counted push-ups for push-up challenge to the 150 number either.   (30, 36, 47, 17, 19, 16 = 165 so apparently I didn't document everything in my app)  This month I have done 44 more exercises.  My app says I've had 175 workouts out of 213 day. 

Random other goals related to exercise -- I haven't done anything there!

1. Have a photo shoot while running
2. Have a photo shoot while doing various forms of exercise
3. Combine random exercise files/videos to one spot on my computer

For inspiring others, I plan to

1. Run 6 free challenges - I ran 2 in February and another in 2 March. I ran 2 more in June!
2. Run 3 month long challenge groups - I am part of groups so I keep not running one!

I need to work on a Beachbody program!  I feel like 2 of my 3 main goals are going to be so easily met and 1 is not. But if I didn't move to CA I don't think this would be the case at all.  I guess I better run a month long group starting August 27. (That's close to Sept 1 but not so soon that I don't have time to get people into it.) 

2018 Goals Progress (June)

I made a post with 2018 goals and I last updated in March about my progress.

For 2018, here are my exercise goals:

1. run 72 miles (that's 6 miles a month) with a reach goal of 100 miles * --- I've run 39.93 miles. 
2. complete 4 Beachbody programs - I completed Phases 1, 2, and 3 of 80 day obsession (It's halfway through the year so I marked this as red but I should be able to get back on track.)
3. Exercise in some form 208 times (that's 4x/week) - I exercised 150 times the first half the year. (In my head my goal is way higher than this so I thought I was behind. I haven't counted push-ups for push-up challenge to the 150 number either.   (30, 36, 47, 17, 19, 16 = 165 so apparently I didn't document everything in my app) 

Random other goals related to exercise -- I haven't done anything there!

1. Have a photo shoot while running
2. Have a photo shoot while doing various forms of exercise
3. Combine random exercise files/videos to one spot on my computer

For inspiring others, I plan to

1. Run 6 free challenges - I ran 2 in February and another in 2 March.
2. Run 3 month long challenge groups - I am part of groups so I keep not running one!

When I last updated running was red and now it's green but doing Beachbody programs was green and now it's red!

January and February Exercise

I don't know how this happened but I never posted my January miles!

As a reminder each month my goal is to run 38 miles and my reach goal is 42 miles.

I ran 46.25 miles in January! (yay)  I ran 27.68 miles in February. (boo)

My bonus miles in January aren't even enough to cover what I need in February.  I really need bonus miles in March now.

The screen shots are slightly different than last year because I now use google sheets instead of Excel.

I barely went on any walks. I don't really keep track of them.

December Exercise

I met my December goal but I had to run 2 days in a row at the end to do it. Then I ran twice on December 31 and got some bonus miles.

My goal was 36 miles. I ran a total of 38.6 miles.  I did intervals twice (December 1 and Dec 31)  and all the rest were running straight through.

Ella is getting less content with runs so I never add on at the end like I want to.  My goal this month was to have all runs be at least 4 miles but I did not succeed.  My goal was 4 miles per run because I thought I wouldn't run that many times so 4 versus 3 would really help me out.

For January, I hope to have at least 1 run with a pace of less than 10 min per mile. I hope I can do it.  I also hope to have some pictures taken while I'm running. I keep wanting to do it and don't get to it!

It was cold this month so we didn't go to the park as often on Wednesdays so I went on fewer walks than normal. I also hurt my toe so wasn't going on walks for awhile.

November Exercise

I met my goal but just barely. I wanted to have extra miles because I didn't make it in October.
Ella got sick so it was more difficult to run. Then I did a little playing with my toe to work on an ingrown toenail and I messed up and hurt my toe so that hindered running too. The first half the month were great.    I ran 1 time without Ella and that was the last run of the month.

Even with my adjusted increased goals I already hit the total for the year. That doesn't mean I can slack off in December. I still need to hit December on it's own.

I have gone on fewer walks this month. I don't even think I did anything else at all besides walking or running. I need to branch out.

October Exercise

Well I finally didn't hit my monthly mileage goal.  I ran 34.5 miles and my goal was 36. (A few months back I changed my goal from 30 miles to 36 miles for each month for the rest of the year.)  I had so few runs this month but I had longer runs.  I can throw out excuses as to why I missed my goal but my goal is on the lower side so even with a few mishaps I would still hope to make it and I did not do that.  For future reference my excuses are I started the month out sick, I traveled for 10 days, and the month ended with Ella being sick.All probably legitimate excuses.

I almost hit my goal too but it started raining. I brought Ella home since Dave was home from work and I was going to run for 1.5 miles in the rain but he decided he was going into work after all so I did not get those last 1.5 miles in.

I am 93% towards my yearly goal and based on numbers I should be 75% to be on track.

This month I walked a lot more directly after runs. I went on a few walks. I don't remember doing other forms of exercise though.

September Exercise

I didn't run as many times this month but I had longer runs!

I increased my goal from 30 miles to 36 and hit 52.88 miles!  Now early in runs it takes longer to get in the groove but I can keep going. I've also gotten faster without a stroller. I only ran 1 time this month without a stroller. I really want to do it more but I can never make it happen.  I got sick at the end of the month or I would have had even more miles.  October will be tough to meet my goal because of starting the month sick and then traveling so I won't update my goals at all.

I ran one time over 6 miles and Ella didn't like it so much. She didn't like being in the stroller so long and she even had a nap.

I went on a few walks. Actually quite a few. I half walked Dave to work a lot. I also half walked to work to meet him and walk home with him a lot. I don't write on my calendar anymore but I try to document it in Strava. I dead lift Ella a lot. I also carry her a lot but I haven't actually lifted weights for a workout.

How have your workouts been?

August Exercise

I did a lot of running this month. I only walked a half dozen times or so. I went to one bootcamp. I didn't lift weights at all. I also did some shopping while wearing Ella and other times while carrying her but I didn't even count that as exercise.

16 times not 17 (updated after screen shot taken)

I hit my mileage goal too early this month then I slacked off!  I think I should increase my goal. I made my goals for the year prior to my first run of the year.

So far this year I ran 181.86 and all last year I ran 205.31 miles. In 2012, I ran 600.68 miles. In 2011, I ran 522.06 miles.

I pushed the stroller all times but one this month!  I run way less on the weekends.

Should I update my goals to make it so I have to work harder to meet them?

July Exercise

I worked really hard the second half of the month to hit my goal. My goal was 30 miles and running over 5 with Beth on the 30th really helped. I was too sore on the 31st to run again though.  This month was tougher than June. June I just slacked but here I was not allowed to run at the beginning and then when I was allowed my neck held me back. My neck would start throbbing and I'd have to quit. Sometimes it was worse than others. My neck did last longer the more times I went out to run so that was good. Sometimes just slowing down to a 12 minute pace really helped.

I ran 4 times this month without pushing a stroller. Two of those runs were after Ella went to bed and there was still a touch of daylight so I went running.   I ran with Beth twice and Tiffany three times.  I only ran with Kathryn one time all month and that run is the most convenient but Ella didn't cooperate and she went on vacation so it was only 1 time. I started a Monday run meetup on the mom group. This past Monday there were 4 moms and 4 babies. It's a fun time.

July was also a tougher month because it was so hot. I either had to run in the morning or in the evening. It was even too hot to run by late morning.

I didn't use my printed calendar for workouts at all so now I forget what all I've done. In addition to running I did at least 1 core workout and I went on a bunch of walks. Oh I also lifted weights once and lasted all of 6 minutes before my neck was throbbing a lot. Then lifted again today.  I found my calendar and I also went on my bike once this month! I guess I did a variety of workouts but I was not consistent.

June Exercise

I made my June goal even with the bad start to the month and the bad end. (The beginning had no excuse. The end had my surgery.)  I ran 31.7 miles this month which put my total at 100.86 mi for the year. The only 2 runs without pushing a stroller were June 2 and the 1.08 mi on June 15 (label says June 14 but didn't change it)

I had 2 really good runs there near the end. I'm running further at runs now. It feels hard but manageable. Also it's warmer now when I'm running. If I run when it's cool it's so much nicer.

So far this is the first month that I didn't fill out my workouts on a printed out calendar. I also felt less accomplished this month. I think there is a correlation. I used strava on walks. I use nexercise to track my exercising too but I never check that log.

From now until the end of the year each month my goal is 30 miles. If I sign up for a half marathon that will change. I almost was signed up for one but I did not make the Nike Half Marathon Lottery.

Update: Should say 2014 not 2013

May Exercise

I've been posting each month so I figured why not keep it up.  This is a little bit late but I'm still posting.

I was rocking May and hit my goal and then didn't run again! I didn't mean to. Ella wasn't cooperative and I was busy doing a few other things. May 11 is the only time I ran without pushing a stroller. (I'm not even counting May 4 the half mile since that was after the 2.42 and I had to cut it short because I was limping.)

I've met my goals each month so far this year. (Note January had a goal of 0 miles because I wasn't cleared to run yet.) Now I feel like my goal has to be at least 3 miles over my initial goal. My June goal is 30 miles. I really increased it. I made all of these goals before I even ran 1 time this year. I just knew I would have to take it slow. I also knew I couldn't run with Ella in a stroller at first.

April Exercise

I posted in February and March so I decided to keep it up.

In March my goal was 15 miles. I didn't have a set number of runs I wanted to do it in.  I ran 19.73 miles.

I felt like I went on fewer walks this month but really it was more. I did the plank challenge only missing 1 day
I only had 1 day of no exercise. That happened because there were a few rest days for the plank challenge but on all but one I did other stuff. My fastest mile split is 9:53 so far. (It was during a 2.03 mi run and the second mile was the fastest.) I broke 10 minutes a few times but not consistently. I ran an average of 11:11 with Ella which was my best so far with that. On my spreadsheet I have noted if I'm pushing a stroller or not but I didn't display that. Each pace over 11 minutes was with Ella.

I've attached a screen shot again above of the details of the runs this month.

Last April was when I was getting lightheaded and had to stop running before the month was over. I ran 25.06  mi last April.

I've been running almost 3 miles more than my goal each month. These are like bonus miles just like I get bonus seconds as I'm running with my Garmin.

March Exercise

I posted about February and felt the need to keep it up.

In March my goal was 12 miles. I didn't have a set number of runs I wanted to do it in.  I ran 15.53 miles.

I also went on a lot of walks with Ella and did some core exercises (just like in February). I had 5 days of no exercise throughout the month but 3 of those were after the 25th. Some days we went on 2 walks. Some days I ran and walked and did a core workout, but most days I just did one thing. I am getting faster when I run. I don't feel my gut jiggle around when I'm running anymore. When I run a distance further than before I can feel my abs. I can tell they get really fatigued.  During the month my foot was injured but it recovered and my back was injured and still bothers me a lot.

During my 3.1 mile run, I had a 9:56 mile which is my best yet!

I just took a quick screen shot but you can see notes by each run if you are curious. (Clearly I didn't use any sort of spell check or proofread my notes at all.)

After my first run of the year where I only ran a half mile, I made my mileage goals for the entire year.
April is 15 miles, May 20. Then each month after is 30. This might be tough!

February Exercise

I was cleared to start exercising on January 31. I hadn't done anything in so long so knew that I needed to start slow. I decided to make a goal of running 8 miles in 8 runs.  I ran 9 times for a total of 10.87 miles.

I also went on a lot of walks with Ella and did some core exercises. I had 6 days of no exercise throughout the month.  Some days we went on 2 walks. Some days I ran and walked and did a core workout, but most days I just did one thing.

I feel so slow when I run. I also feel my gut jiggle around when I'm running.  It's surprising how I can feel my abs when I run. As I run more, I go further without feeling them so that's good.

I just took a quick screen shot but you can see notes by each run if you are curious.