My Porta-Potty 'Year in Review' and 2011 Goals

I looked through all my pre-race porta-potty photos from 2010, and I found 12:

Winter Carnival Half Marathon


Lake Johanna 4 Mile


Irish For A Day 10 Mile


Pine Line Half Marathon (in a McDonalds after)


MDRA Mudball 4 Mile


Cannon Falls Duathlon


Oakdale Duathlon


Gear West Duathlon


Liberty Olympic Distance Triathlon


Great Prairie Open Water Swim


Waseca Sprint Triathlon (I SWEAR I'm not drunk here... sheesh)


Mosquito Man Duathlon

Because I was bored 2 nights ago (and Pharmie had a "headache"), I combined all of my 2010 porta-potty images into one sweet composite. Here's the year in review in 1 photo:

Weird.

Pointless.

Anyway, here are my 4 goals for this year:

- Train up for Liberty Oly as my "A" race. Sub 2:15!! Around 2:13 would be a-m-a-z-i-n-g.

- Use the word "lollygag" more often. It's highly underused, and it reminds me of my Dad.

- Chocolate. That's all: chocolate. Eat more... eat less... whatever. We'll see where this one goes.

- Run more. This is the big one. In the past, I would ALWAYS say "Oh, I need to 'let my running go' a bit and focus on making my biking stronger." Well SCREW THAT this year. I enjoy running! I'm going to do what I like and run!! I still LOVE doing multisport events, and I'll still race them as much as I can. But if my biking slides a bit, so be it.

On that note, I'm pretty sure I'm going to do the Minnesota Distance Running Association Grand Prix series. I won't do all the races, but I'll do as many as I can (maybe 8 or 9 of the 13 in the series). The series has two 1-mile races, two marathons, and everything else in between. If you sign up to do the series, you get points for each series race you finish, and then you get ranked against the other MDRA Grand Prix series athletes.

The first race in the series is MONDAY NIGHT! It's the "Meet of the Miles" - an indoor track mile at the U of M Fieldhouse. I posted an Examiner article about it - CLICK HERE for more info. Come race with me! It's only $5! And there are heats for ALL abilities.


p.s. Here are some of my favorite Examiner articles from recent days:

- THIS IS A GOOD ONE: Here's another take on "New Years Resolutionists" at your gym.
- A local distance running coaching clinic.
- Changes in the MN Ironman Bike ride, including a "Gran Fondo" option.
- Next week is the kick-off to the MDRA Grand Prix series.

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