Boy, the Steering Committee sure had a hard time deciding on a winner.
There were 17 participants. Of those, Baldwin, Carlos, Craig, Gary, Keith, Sibylle, Andrea, and Ean submitted a final evaluation. We eliminated Sibylle and Ean for obvious reasons. Keith gave himself 85%, but didn't really justify his grade; Craig gave himself 75% and did justify; Baldwin gave himself a B+ for 5/8 goals met; Gary gave himself 65% with reasons; Carlos rated himself 7/10; and Andrea rated herself 7/12.
In the end it was a close call, but Craig had the highest percentage of fullfilled resolutions accompanied by an explanation. Congrats to Craig! He will receive a pair of runners kindly provided by our sponsor North Shore Athletics.
This is bizarre for a last-minute, non-committal kind of guy to actually plan out a year in advance! Here goes:
Running events:
Apart from the running events, I aim to:
That's 25 resolutions. Yikes!
OK, I"m a newbie to the club but am a big "goals" person, so here's my preliminary attempt to lay out 2006...
That's the initial list, I'll see what else I can come up with over the next 2 weeks...
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
A sub 4:00 marathon and I'll have two cracks at it: Penticton (May) and Portland (October) (why only sub 4:00? Well, thereby hangs a tale...)
60 days (of continuous) Bikrams Yoga Challenge (Yes, it's the hot one)
As many CFA events as I can manage and justify it as training: FA 50, Mardi Gras Night run, Mtn Highway Madness, etc.
and finally...
Put less noodles in my chicken noodle soup cooker, as it absorbs valuable sodium and use 2 cloves of garlic rather than 2 bulbs.
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. (What could be better than to start your working day with a 2 hour blast of the 'hood.) Cut down on the caffiene and get to sleep by 23:00 at the latest. Ultra races:- Lord Hill 50K Snohomish, WA (Feb) Mountain Highway Madness (Gold?) Chuckanut Mountain 50K Bellingham, WA Diez Vista 50K E/B Ultra 50K Skyline XTC 50K Great Walk 64K ultra.(going for a three-pete win.) The Full Monty 50K.(I'm not doing it alone!) Great Lake Walk 56K.(Lake Cowichan) Javelina Jundred (100 Miles in Arid-Zona.) H2H (maybe?) Plus as many CFA events as I can squeeze in, i.e. the Bunny and the M&M If I can do all of those I will be one happy Jackal. I Love This Sport!
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:
As Carlos says, I love this sport!
Cheryl Johnson
Here's my 2006 athletic wish list. A long time ago I thought I wasn't very competitive ... but apparently I am so watch out!
1) Do at least 1/2 hour of heart raising activity six days per week, for the entire year, including: Run, walk, swim, hike, snowshoe, bike, lift weights, etcetera ... does sex count? If it does I'm golden.
2) Achieve a new Personal Best time at the Knee Knacker (working toward a sub 7:30h) ... better luck next year.
3) Do 50 pushups in a row ... I'm pretty sure I did 50 push ups this year ...
4) Do 10 complete full body chin-ups in a row ... I'll give myself 10 pretty good chin ups in a row with room for improvement.
5) Think longingly about doing the Forbidden Forest Run and hopefully be in good enough shape to accept an invitation ... favourable intuition prevailed ... I passed this time until a better opportunity arrises ;)
6) Do the Fluffy Bunny Trail Run and not be concerned about getting lost (it's a CFA event after all) ... something about this being "the toughest trail run ever" hasn't scared me off. I'm feeling good enough to think about doing it still for the first time.
7) Dirty Duo 25 Km ... oh ya baby! number 2 on the new course.
8) Do the CFA Vancouver World Run 50K on March 26 with Jesper Olsen ... yup but a shortened version 'cause I'm just not a road runner after all.
9) Crew the Crew and run one section at the new CFA Vancouver 100 trail run in June ... it was allll goooood!!!! I watched the guys have a super day and joined Mike for the section between Cleveland Dam and Mtn Hwy.
10) Run the CFA Pure Satisfaction 24K in December ... short and fast for me this year and feeling awesome. Since there was one more event added after mine (Galbraith Mtn Run) I did it for good measure as well. Nothing like a good run in December and it was awesome too.
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
Morning "sun salutations" up to 4 days weekly by March and maintained in 2006
Complete my first 100K (H2H) in November
These are my goals for 2006.
1) No injuries-This means implementing a stretching regime and yoga into my weekly workouts
2) Running with Team Snowrunning.com Snowshoe Racing Team
b) Yeti Snowshoe Race Series-Mt. Washington, Mt. Seymour, Cypress Mountain and Whistler.
c) Grouse Mountain Snowshoe Race
3) Diez Vista 50km Trail Race-April-Sub 4:50:00-Port Moody
4) Miwok 100km Trail Race-May-Sub 9:15:00-Marin County, California
5)Knee Knacker
6) Secret Run-involves 100km/day for 4 days-July-location known but I'd have to kill you
8) Various Fat Ass Events. Andy's 6 Hour, Go Deep or Go Home, Jackson's Night Runs, Mountain Hiway Madness, Secret Fat Ass Run, Go Home
9) I want to have someone run my Fat Ass Go Deep 50 mile run
10) Piece together potential course for Whistler to Squamish 100 Mile Race
Training goals
Run 6 days per week, Stretch and Yoga 2 days per week, bike 3 days per week, gym 3 days per week. Average 2 workouts a day. Focus on heart rate training and recovery workouts.
Keep working on daily nutrition knowledge and implementation. Try and reach race weight for every race (less beer)
Motivate three people to run their first ultra
Make 3 out of 4 Wednesday night groups runs per month
Secure financial sponsorship for Team Snowrunning.com
Get into the mountains 4 times per week
My resolutions for 2006 will be to do 3 of these events( hopefully getting faster with each one).
i would like to take a finish photo of gary (boyfriend) winning a race.
get a second job to support garys racing costs.
learn a new hobbie.
thats about it for me ... good luck
donna turner
My main goal for 2006 is to have my team on the finishers list for Primal Quest. This promises to be the biggest and badest expedition adventure race in the last 5 years, we are going in with a team of complete rookies! We have already started training and no matter what happens, we have to finish. Something interesting is that my personal total adventure racing experience to date is a culmative 700k, PQ will cover 800k through 8 disciplines! I honestly think we will have a shot at top 30 (out of 90) if things go well for us...this is an outside goal we are shooting for.
I haven't had the time to think beyond PQ yet, so I'll be improvising as I go here:
-Complete a 100km ultra run, and have a respectable finish time
-Break the single lap record for Mountain Highway Madness, presently 1h0m20s, and throw in a second lap if feeling up to it after this. This is something I told Jackson I'd do in 05 but my race schedule did not allow me to do either of the runs. MHM is the first trail run I ever did in 2004, my life hasn't quite been the same since.
-I would set a goal of a 5h25m KKer, but since this race is just four days after PQ, I will regretfully have to withdraw my name from the entrant list, event though I was the first person to sign up for 2006. This will be my goal time when I next get to do KKer.
-I will hopefully be taking part in Diez Vista, and as long as I get in I am setting a goal of a top 5 finish. As long as the 'top guns' aren't out I might have shot, but ya have to aim high!
-To outright win a race, whether an AR or trail run, it doesn't matter, I just wanna win!!. I promised my girlfriend that I'd win a race for her in 05, unfortunately I did not get to do as many trail runs as I would have liked. I am focused on building a solid adventure racing base and this often takes me away from my strongest discipline of running, and puts me on my bike or in a kayak. If I can find a trail run that Ean, Andy and Dom don't know about I may have a shot!
-Dirty Duo, solo (run/bike). Top five finish, with fastest run time.
-Vancouver Sun Run, beat last years time of 37m51s
-Climb/scramble Mount Curry in Pemberton, Sky Pilot in Squamish and The Black Tusk in Whistler
-Significantly improve my navigational skills
-Siginficantly improve my kayaking abilities
-Stretch regularly...well at least more than last year!
-Top five finish at a Yeti snowshoe race
-Canoe/kayak trip from Squamish to Anvil Island
-Remember that I have a girlfriend, she actually likes to spend time with me, and I have to fit her into all of this somewhere!
That's it, I just took myself out of the 'running' for the free pair of shoes!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL, AND GOOD LUCK TO ALL RESOLUTIONERS (it's a word, I made it)
GARY ROBBINS, SQUAMISH
I am going to use the same format that Jackson did... "events" and "other" goals.
Might be a bit ambitious to do all of them, but I've never really been one to set my sights low.
Events
Dirty Duo 50 km
Spring Highway Madness
Elk Beaver Ultra (event TBD)
Vancouver 100
Fluffy Bunny Trail Run (without getting lost)
STORMY
Walk in the Park 50km
Fall Highway Madness
Silvertip 50 km
Haney to Harrison 100km (at a faster time that this year’s run)
1 36-hour adventure race
2 marathons (I have to beat my dad’s PR)
Other
Keep a log of all running and biking training
Ride to school 3 times/week (average)
50 km/week of weekday running (average)
Acquire better eating habits (ok so I know this isn’t tangible, but I really do have to eat better)
Ok, here it goes...
I, Glenn Pace, being of (relatively) sound mind & (sorta) body bring forward the attached action items for the year 2006:
Stretch no fewer than 5 nights a week.
Cross train on mountainbike & tele-skis.
Cut out soda drinks & candies from my diet (except at aid stations when I am participating as a runner).
Continue to participate as course coordinator & run leader for the Knee Knacker.
2006 Calendar of events:
New Years Fat Ass 50 (with the requesit dunking at the finish), Vancouver, BC. Jan. 1, 2006
Dirty Duo 50k, North Vancouver, BC. March
Elk/Beaver 50 miler, Victoria BC. May
Vancouver 100, North-toWest-to-North Vancouver, BC. June.
White River 50 miler, Washington. August
Wasatch Front 100 miler (if my application gets through), Somewhere, Utah. September
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).
5. Stay injury free!!!
Well here is the assessment for my goals for this Year.
1. Leadville.......went and completed it first time out with 29 hours 31 minutes. I was very happy about that.
2. Run more with son. This one we did a little but not as much as I wanted. Work more on this.
3. Focus more on having fun. Done.....I had much more fun and less seriousness with training and running. Still got things done but did'nt stress over it.
4. Successful event.....it went so, so, with only 4 of us running it. But I didn't stress over it.
5. Stay injury free. Did it!! Very happy about it.
Thanks to all of you for your friendship and fun this year.
I know it's well into Jan but it's taken me this long to search and sift through all the amazing things there are in this city! This has been a great organizational tool for me. The only real "ultra" I'm signed up for is child rearing at the moment but here is the rest of what I intend to do this year!!
Complete all Yeti Snowshoe Series Races
Participate in at least 5 Fat Ass Events
Try an X-Terra Race
Dirty Duo Run-25km
Complete a trail run over 50km
Run- 3x/wk-Wed night intensity run group-weekend long run
Pilates-2x/wk
Swim-2x/wk
Mt.bike/trainer- 2x/wk
Eliminate licorice
Play in the mountains at least once a week
You may have noticed Ean likes list and checks them twice...He ran (pun intended) his New Years Resolutions by me, to give them a reality check in regards to time commitment and injury prevention (or should I say injury recovery). His list is ready to go. It's huge. It's wishful thinking...but as his supporting, loving wife I believe he can do it and promise to kick him out of bed on a rainy race morning...just so he will reach his goals for 2006.
When he ran his list by me, he implied I do the same. Problem is, I am half as organized and committed when it comes to New Years Resolutions. I am realistic about the time commitments it takes to train and the logistics involved taking a day of just for a run. Notice, I use "run" opposed to "race"...My nickname is Turtlepace...no racing here ;-)
So, taking a realistic look ahead my first running resolution comes easy, as I already announced it to the world, registered and somewhat trained (one might argue).
