While planning a lesson on goal setting for my 8th graders this past year, I came across this video about New Years Resolutions. New Years Resolution Video. Before watching this video, I was always a “fake” goal-oriented person. I always pretended to set goals, or I thought about them, but I never really outlined them or stuck to them.
This video explained the psychology behind setting a goal, specifically a “New Years Resolution”. So I showed my health class this video, and had them write goal/New Years Resolution.
The next day, we finished the term and I was free — off to enjoy winter break! A few days before New Years Eve, I started seeing the #2016in2016 movement appear on twitter. This goal is to run 2016 miles in 2016… Impressive! I wanted to do it! But I asked my calculator … I mean husband 🙂 how many miles per day that was, and he told me 6 and change $ . I can run 6 miles on a good day, but I knew that 6 miles a day everyday is far stretched for my body!
So I got back to the drawing board. What could my goal be? What could be as cool as #2016in2016?
Finally, I had it, I could ride 2016 miles in 2016! Thats about 100 x 20 mile rides … MUCH more manageable for me. So I set it! And to go one step farther, I set a goal to run 216 miles in 2016 🙂 That may not seem like a lot, but I am more of a boot-camper/weightlifter/groupX junkie, so both of these goal are out of my comfort zone. 
Here is how the first week(s) went:
Training!
Friday, January 1st – 1 hour boot camp with colleagues
Saturday, January 2nd – 1 hour spin class (first 20 miles)
+ 10″ hair donation 🙂 ❤ 🙂 #locksoflove
Sunday, January 3rd – 1 hour boot camp
Monday, January 4th – 1 hour spin class @ 5:45am (20 miles – feeling strong – #nevermissamonday
Tuesday, January 5th – Weight lifting (total body)
Wednesday, January 6th – REST DAY 🙂
Thursday, January 7th – TRX (total body) & 1 mile run
Friday, January 8th – 1 hour spin class @ 5:45am (18 miles – tired…but completed!)
Saturday, January 9th – 1 hour spin class (20 miles – PACKED CLASS! WHOOO)
Sunday, January 10th – 1 hour boot camp
Monday, January 11th -1 hour spin class @ 5:45am (20 miles! I am SOOO happy I did not keep hitting “snooze”)
Total Miles Biked = 98 (1918 to go) * Total Miles Ran = 1 (215 to go)
Food!
Weekday Breakfast =
- 1 hard boiled egg
- 1c. generic all-bran cereal
- 1c. almond milk
Weekday Lunch =
- Loaded salad with greens, peppers 1c. diced chicken, 1/4 c. black beans/chickpeas, salt & pepper, balsamic vinegar and 1 Tbsp pesto
- 1-2c fruit (honey dew, grapes, granny smith apples, etc.)
- 1 prepackaged plain FF greek yogurt
Weekday Dinners =
- Chicken Chili
- Thai Curry Chicken over green beans
- Dal over barley and Chana Masala
- Whole wheat pasta and green beans with Trader Joe’s Turkey Meatballs and spaghetti sauce
- Homemade whole wheat pita pizza (with ricotta cheese and turkey pepperoni)
Weekend Breakfasts (post workout)=
- 2 egg whites & 1 whole egg sunny-side-up with 1 Tbsp ricotta cheese and 1 Tbsp sugar-free ketchup
Snacks =
- Granny smith apple w/1 Tbsp peanut butter
- 1 c. all-bran cereal with 1 c. milk
- 2 c. popcorn
- 1 c. plain FF greek yogurt
Heres to another week of my favorite mantra – “Never miss a Monday” ❤
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