Its about the journey: December 2012

Holly Molly!! Its been a while I updated this blog. Its time to reflect and say good bye to 2012 !!

Since this is mostly a training/racing blog I will focus only on those. I had few goals that I wanted to hit before the year ended

Things that went according to plan:

Learn how to bike properly..how to use cleats (without falling), gears etc properly
Finish a century ride
run in minimalist shoes
run a sub-2 hour half marathon--(bonus--1:50 half marathon)
run a marathon

Things that did not go according to plan:

Learn how to swim
Do a triathlon
Run a sub-4 marathon

Miles on saddle and in shoes:

Bike: 1,963.10 miles
Run: 716.07 miles

I started the year with the hope of doing an olympic distance triathlon by the end of the year. Only caveat was I had never biked or swim before. While my biking and running has come a long way, my swimming hasn't. Somewhere in the middle of the year I dropped the ball on swimming out of fustration and focussed only on biking and running. If I ever want to do a triathlon I will need to put lot more effort in water and be really PATIENT. I think that is going to be key for 2013. Swimming has not come naturally to me and its going to take lot more work in the pool. The other goal that I did not hit was running a sub-4 marathon. To be honest, I had high hopes of nailing that one at MCM but that did not happen. I am hoping to nail that one this year either at Oakland Marathon or more realistically at Chicago marathon.

Few wonderful moments from 2012