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• Complete Fat Ass 50 on New Years Day. This will be my first one.
• After a week or so recovery from the New Years Run – start back on Tri training
• Bike Saturday or Sunday and do at least two indoor biking sessions weekly on my wind trainer.
• Continue to do core strength work out 3 days per week and try to increase to 4
• Continue to run 2 short (10 – 15km) fast & easy runs, 1 long and 1 interval run per week
• Improve my swim time to 45 minutes for 2km swim
• Do minimum 2 swims per week.
• Try snow shoeing – I received a gift certificate for my last birthday.
• Take pictures of all my buddies doing the First Half half marathon February 13^th and remember to turn the camera on this year.
• Capilano Canyon Night run Feb 18^th
• UBC Triathlon March 11^th –Sprint distance
• March 26th World Run 50 km (If I’m not swamped with wedding stuff since my daughter’s wedding is on April 1^st (Yep April Fools Day)) -  Try not to cry at the wedding!
• Ski at Whistler for a couple a days after the wedding
• Stay injury, crash and fall free and try to lose my nickname of “Crash Wells

Well, I hopefully have the Longest Title award wrapped up.

First of all, the Big Three,

Apr 1/06 - American River 50 Mile Endurance Run, Sacramento (guess I'm going to miss the Burnaby Mountain CFA event)

July 8/06 - Knee Knacker (if I get in) or

July 29/06 White River 50 miler, WA (if I don't. I really hope I get in)

Nov/06 - Haney 2 Harrison 100K (I'm gonna need a bigger boat)

Personal stuff

Complete new years day 50 K

Run in at least 5 Fat Ass events in 2006

Commute to work by foot or bicycle (sickness or mechanical failure excepted) Commute on fixed gear for at least 1 month in the year

Wow. The resolutions that have been posted are totally inspiring. Amazing and you are just the people to do it. But I have to say, don't wait. Do it now. Time goes by in a blink.

My main, number one 2006 goal is to run faster. I'm having fun but I need to work on that. It can be measured easily because I'm doing many of the same races, plus a few:

My top one for this year will have to be :

1. Go to Leadville and complete it.

2. Run more with my son.

3. Focus more on having fun.

4. Have a successful event here in Idaho (Kick Ass 50/25).

To get my goals set, I find it easier to tell someone what I'm doing, and then I really have to do it! So hear goes.... Training:- Forget about trying to convert unmeasurable training runs to Kilometres or Miles.(for us trail runners, it's just a hangover from our 10K days...) Up my average training hours per week to 12,throughout the year, with some more roads and trails. Make one of my runs at least 4 hours.(this will give me hours in the bank plus a couple of rest days) Get in some dawn running in the spring.

This whole thing about New Years resolutions is starting to cause me stress. Now that I've made a public comittment, I now have to make sure I achieve my goals. 'Got to fill out some applications. 'Got to come up with some cash. 'Got to get on the program and start training!