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2017 Goals

✅ Find my fucking keys - Found by Lillian. They were in my work bag.

Run 1500 miles

Bike 1500 miles

Win a race

Sub-20 5k

Sub-6 mile

BQ

Races (italics if registered):

Broke Man’s Winter Warmup HM

Choo Choo 9-Miler

Big Sur   

Cleveland HM

New Moon Half Marathon (Pace)

Columbus 10K

Coughlin 5K Series (if happening)

Run With The Pack 5K

Cardinal XC (x4)

MingoMan Triathlon (Oly)

Westerville Gameday 5K

Portage Lakes Triathlon (sprint)

Defend Your Friend 5K

Columbus Marathon

Columbus Turkey Trot (5M)

Pay off cards

Read 25 books

Weekly training sessions (strength, hills, speed, flexibility)

Clean and organize basement

Create a budget and use it

Bike to work at least once

Push-ups every day in January (3x5-8), continue r/AdvancedRunning challenges

Bike from Columbus to Cleveland (or Cleveland to Columbus)

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2016 Stats

Total miles:

Running: 1398.25 (god damnit)

Cycling: 535.67

Swimming: 17.71

Hiking: 19.65

Races (PR’s in bold):

Broke Man’s Winter Warmup (HM)

Base Tri Fitness Winter Run (15M)

Little Miami 10-Miler

Choo Choo 9-Miler

Step Up For Stephanie’s Champions (4M, Pace)

Little Kings Mile

Toyota 10K

Tri-State Running Company 5K

Flying Pig Marathon

Cleveland Marathon 8K

Cleveland Half Marathon

New Moon Half Marathon (Pace)

Columbus 10K

Run With The Pack 5K

Central Ohio Multisport Festival (Oly)

Cardinal XC (x4)

MingoMan Triathlon (Oly)

Westerville Gameday 5K

IM 70.3 OH

Emerald City Half Marathon

Kaua’i Half Marathon

REV3 Tri Cedar Point (HM, relay)

Portage Lakes Triathlon (sprint)

Defend Your Friend 5K

Big Bad Wolfe Run (10M)

Steamtown Marathon

Columbus Marathon

Columbus Turkey Trot (5M)

Total race miles:

Running: 284 (267 + 17 pacing)

Cycling: 118.32

Swimming: 3.56

States visited: OH, MI, NY, PA, NV, HI

Books read:

George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones (meh)

Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games (decent)

Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire (decent)

Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay (decent)

Clifford Simak - Way Station

Walter M Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz (great)

Robert A Heinlein - Starship Troopers (decent)

William Gibson - Neuromancer (dense)

Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age (dense)

Connie Willis - Doomsday Book (horrible)

Robin Sloan - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (decent)

Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game (great)

Cixin Liu - The Three-Body Problem (dense)

Isaac Asimov - Foundation (great)

J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter (all of them) (fun)

Birds acquired: 3

Meal boxes tried:

Green Chef

Hello Fresh

Blue Apron

Most Expensive Meal: $715.00 (603.48 + 111.52) @ é by José Andrés

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2016 Goal Review

2016 Goals:

✅ Read more books (>1/month) - Read 21 total

Run/bike more miles (>1500 each) - I did run and bike (and swim) more miles, but I didn’t hit 1500 miles in either. Cycling was way short, and I was on-track with running until I had to take time off after fall marathons. No big; I’d rather not injure myself for a mileage goal.

PR Goals:

Sub-6 mile - Just barely missed my mile PR goal (6:00.2)

Sub-20 5K - came within 10 seconds of a 5K PR (20:19)

✅ Sub-43 10K - Ran a 10K PR during the Little Miami 10-Miler

✅ Sub-1:35 HM - PR’d twice in the HM

BQ - Marathon PR, but still a long way to go

Strength training, cross training, yoga, climbing, pull-ups

✅ Eat better: less red meat, less sugar, more tea, more veggies, less beer

Watch more films - I watched more Netflix series, but that’s not really what I was going for here

Listen to more records - Eh, some, but not really

✅ Cook more

Pay off cards - Nope

Keep up with calendar pictures - Nope, did it all the night before

Clean out basement, organize everything - Someday

✅ Build chicken coop, ❎ maybe a fence

✅ Get married

Learn a new programming language and build automation - I did some stuff with Angular, but nothing major yet

✅ Go to more cultural events (gallery hop, plays, museum exhibits) - Not as much as I’d like, but more than last year

Deploy something to my Apple Watch - Why did I put this on here?

Hardware hacking (3d printing, arduino) - No, but I did get a kit for this for Christmas, so here’s to 2017

Take DSLR with me - Lillian did this more than I did

✅ Take more walks

Races:

✅ Broke Man’s Winter Warmup    1/17

Cedars Frostbite            2/6 (maybe)

Seamus O'Possum                3/19 (maybe)

✅ Flying Pig                    4/29-5/1

✅ Cleveland Marathon            5/14-5/15

✅ MingoMan                    7/10

✅ IRONMAN 70.3 Ohio            8/21

✅ Steamtown Marathon            10/9

✅ Columbus Marathon            10/16 (maybe)

Marine Corps Marathon        10/30 (possibly)

NYC Marathon                11/6 (probably not)

✅ Columbus 10K (probably)

Coughlin 5K Series (if happening agian)

✅ HFP Tri(s) (probably, at least 1 or 2)

✅ Otterbein XC Series (if happening again)

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2016 Todo’s

Read more books (>1/month) Run/bike more miles (>1500 each) PR Goals: Sub-6 mile, sub-20 5K, sub-43 10K, sub-1:35 HM, BQ Strength training, cross training, yoga, climbing, pull-ups Eat better: less red meat, less sugar, more tea, more veggies, less beer Watch more films Listen to more records Cook more Pay off cards Keep up with calendar pictures Clean out basement, organize everything Build chicken coop, maybe a fence Get married Learn a new programming language and build automation Go to more cultural events (gallery hop, plays, museum exhibits) Deploy something to my Apple Watch Hardware hacking (3d printing, arduino) Take DSLR with me Take more walks Races:

Broke Man’s Winter Warmup 1/17

Cedars Frostbite 2/6 (maybe)

Seamus O'Possum 3/19 (maybe)

Flying Pig 4/29-5/1

Cleveland Marathon 5/14-5/15

MingoMan 7/10

IRONMAN 70.3 Ohio 8/21

Steamtown Marathon 10/9

Columbus Marathon 10/16 (maybe)

Marine Corps Marathon 10/30 (possibly)

NYC Marathon 11/6 (probably not)

Columbus 10K (probably)

Coughlin 5K Series (if happening agian)

HFP Tri(s) (probably, at least 1 or 2)

Otterbein XC Series (if happening again)

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2015

Miles run: 1502 Miles biked: 295 Books read

Andy Weir - The Martian

Frank Herbert - Dune

Chris McDougall - Born to Run

Neil Gaiman - American Gods

Scott Jurek - Eat & Run

Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness

Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars

Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase

J.R.R. Tolkein - The Fellowship of the Ring

J.R.R. Tolkein - They Two Towers

J.R.R. Tolkein - The Return of the King

Haruki Murakami - After Dark

John Morelock - Run Gently Out There

Gregory Maguire - Wicked

Robert Heinlein - The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles

Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous With Rama

Arthur C. Clarke - The Fountains of Paradise

Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle

Pete Pfitzinger - Advanced Marathoning (in progress)

George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones (in progress)

Places visited

Cleveland

Cincinnati

Dayton

Philly

Chicago

Rock City

Orlando

Ft. Lauderdale

St. Helen

New England

Las Vegas

Jamaica

Races

KDF

Cap City

Flying Pig

Cleveland Marathon

Columbus 10K

Otterbein XC (x5)

RnR Chicago

Stingray 5K

Alum Creek Tri

Gameday 5K

Oktoberfest 5K

Portage Lakes Tri

Defend Your Friend 5K (4K)

Broke Man’s HM

Columbus Marathon

Hot Chocolate 15K

Philadelphia Marathon

Columbus Turkey Trot

Santa Hustle HM

Music

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love

Neat Beats

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly

Joanna Newson - Divers

Bjork - Vulnicura

Boots

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

Death Cab For Cutie - Kintsugi

Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Paper Mâché Dream Balloon

Other Lives - Rituals

Shakey Graves - And The War Came

Big Grams - Big Grams (except for the last track)

Wilco - Star Wars

Magnetic Eye Records - Electric Ladyland [Redux]

LCD Soundsystem (not new, but new to me this year)

Movies Seen (in theaters)

The Martian

Spectre

Jurassic World

Ex Machina

The Hobbit

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Run Free

Other fun events

GLBC Green Tour

Columbus Arts Festival

Pelotonia

RunFest

The Marriage of Figaro

Cleveland Oktoberfest

Lakewood Coop Tour

Bark & Co. Launch Pawrty

Concerts

Sufjan Stevens

Sleater-Kinney

Conferences Attended

CodeMash

Stir Trek

Rustbelt Refresh

Sports Events Attended

Cavs (Bulls, 76ers)

Clippers (w/ CRC)

Browns scrimmage

Teeth removed: 2 Notable Food

Guiseppe’s (Happy Hour, w/ Laurie)

Best Bites Burgers

Best Bites Tacos

Food Truck Fest (Columbus, Westerville)

The Barn

Rigsby’s Kitchen

Wine Bistro

Pier W

CBC

Weddings Attended

Mike & Corrinne

Julie & Keith

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"You can make about 75% more money with a cat on your head than you can with a cat on your shoulder."

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© 2014 Jillian Barthold

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A Softer World: 1055

(That’s my favourite insult. Die bored, motherfucker.)

buy this print

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"That’s the Grandmaster in the back. He doesn’t speak much English. He was number one in China back in 1980, so I knew of his name long before I met him. He’s very humble. A true gentleman fighter. He’s 68, but I’ve seen him put a spear against his neck, and use it to push a car." "So at what point can you call yourself a Grandmaster?" "A Grandmaster doesn’t say he’s a Grandmaster. Other people say it for him."

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Listasaurus

Stressed. Things on my mind:

Teeth tomorrow

Setting up new page at work

Not knowing what we're supposed to build at work and being way behind

Gotta fix metrics shit

Paying for eye exam and stupid insurance

My fucking leg has hurt since Saturday and doesn't feel like it's getting any better

Money

Food

I've been super fucking lazy so far this year, which is fine because I'm trying to let my leg heal before I start training, but it leaves me feeling like crap

Fuck this cold.

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2014 Highlights

Went to Vegas, the Grand Canyon, the Hoover Dam, and ran Bootleg Canyon Left HMB and started working for CareWorks Tech; Started at Victoria's Secret as front-end web developer Joined the Westerville Browns Backers; Browns weren't terrible for half the season Went to New York City to meet with VS creative; Ran in Central Park, ate a massive steak, visited Bleecker Street Records Ran Cap City and Cleveland Ran a Beer Mile with TNT; Got quoted in an article in Runners' World about it Ran a road mile Bought a house Got a stress fracture and had to take 2 months off running; Ran on a Alter-G treadmill for PT Biked to Food Truck Fest with Lillian Saw St. Vincent and Interpol (also Grouplove again) Saw the Blue Jackets beat the Pens in a shootout Got promoted to Front End Lead at VS

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Year in Review & Future Goals

2014 Goals Eat out once per check per person - failed badly Run 1200 miles - 200 miles short, but I'm happy with that considering I was injured for 2 months Pay off credit card - not there yet. I'll hit it with my tax refund Bike 1200 miles - Did 261 miles. Not even close, but better than last year, and now I have a trainer so I can bike in the winter Read 1 fiction book per month - I didn't read one per month, but I am on my 12th book of the year, so I got really close to this one Ultramarathon - Nope Finish recoding website - Technically done, but I have a couple things that I need to add to it Finish recoding EB site - No longer applicable Make art - Sadly, no Learn Ruby - Nope Re-learn Maya and make a 30 second animation - Ha, no. I'll probably need a new computer to make this happen, but I'll keep it in mind for next year Volunteer at a race - I was at the CRC aid station for like 30 minutes at the Columbus Marathon, so I will say I get half-credit for this Find a better house - Done and done! Our house is absolutely fantastic and I love it Learn a Javascript framework (Angular?) - I did a few Angular tutorials, but then I started at VS and leared Underwire, which definitely counts 2015 Goals Read 12 books Watch 1 film per week Critically listen to 1 record per week Take 1 calendar picture per month Do more pull-ups and strength training Do PT exercises and stretches consistantly Pay off cards (for real) Get rest of artwork on site Learn Ruby Do a triathlon

Running goals (time):

6:00 mile

20:00 5K

45:00 10K

1:35 HM

3:45 M

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