- Savings & Investment
Primarily to work hard for a good bonus and pay rise so that dearie and I can be even more financially stable. I do hope we can start an investment account to diverse our savings by year end of 2008.
Action:
- to start monthly budget and expenses tracking starting Feb 08, in order to enable better monitoring of cash flow and plan for future savings.
- Start a joint account with dearie to set aside more money monthly.(DONE!)
- Not sure how much I can save because there will be more spendings for travel (as mentioned below), but I’ll still make sure to set aside a reasonable amount monthly.
- Travel
Dearie and I plan to go 2 places for this year – Phuket & Melbourne. I really want to bring my mum along to
Action:
- start buying tickets early to get them cheap.
- Start researching and finding out more details of the places.
- Save more!!
- Personal Bests & Races
5km – we have plans to go for the mr25 time trial and I really hope I can qualify. I know I’ve never been a fast twitch runner to begin with; tricia has never been put next to side with the word “fast”. But for a change, I really hope I can say I’m a mr25 runner. Perhaps in my little myopic world, it is my short term goal to achieve that name for myself. I’ve been doing my hills and speedwork, in hope to one day complete that 5km in macritchie under 25mins.
Marathons – tall call but I hope to shave off more time off my current marathon timing. Give me a few more years and my mid term goal is to go under 4 hours.
Not expecting any personal bests in tri but just want to get back into action with my biking and swimming to be in a decent shape to attempt the A’farmosa, PD and desaru tri.
Ultra marathons – my goal is to beat 7laps to go for 8laps in this year’s mr25 ultra. I’ll not be doing the sundown even though that’ll be a good spring board to give me a gauge on how it’ll feel running 80km non stop. Nonetheless, I’ll be doing the north face 50km off road so that’ll be the 2 ultras for 2008.
Adventure racing – not main focus for this year per say. It’ll be more for the thrill and fun rather than aiming to do that well. Reason being ar has too many disciplines we seldom get to train on – kayaking, ascending, mountain biking. There are too many things to do hence ar has to take a back seat. However, if eco-extreme is on, we’ll be there. In addition, we’ll be game for some local races like ace adventure, which was a lot of fun last year apart from the double jumma.
In short, yr 2008 our major races: marathons (phuket,
Actions:
- continue to do speed and hill training religiously. Chase dearie on run if necessar
- Ramp up mileage with ample runway for major races
- Run more at macritchie. Train as at race day condition.
- Bike at least twice a week: Sunday morning + 1day on trainer
- Swim at least twice a week: got to start my interval swim training I don’t fancy. But what to do..must get faster so must work harder.
- Find time to do LSD, probably on Saturdays. Run to rl maybe?
- Health and Fat Loss
I want to be in good health, lose more fats and gain more lean muscles. I think weight is not a good representative of health. Therefore my goal is to be more lean and lose more fats.
Action:
- be more controlled with my junk food intake (up till this point in time still quite hard to curb).
- Do more gym. On top of swim, run, bike, I’m going to include 1 session of gym work per week. I need to build my core strength as well.
- Work
I’m not that ambitious but if given an opportunity I would want to be daring enough to take the challenge. i hope to do well enough to deserve more performance bonus. Show me the money!! –chuckles-
Everyday in itself is dynamic. We choose to welcome the challenge or shrink off in denial. I choose the former. May the above not be a wish but become reality. Let’s race the year and complete it well. At year end, let’s review and take stock..we shall see how we’ve fared.
Off we go!
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