Each Sunday I’ll post a summary of my #FinishYear goals by the week and the month. This works out really easily this year with this being a post every Sunday afternoon.
1. Complete 500 miles by running/walking/elliptical this year.
I completed a grand total of 3.3 miles this week. Most of that was done on an elliptical and it takes an unrealistic amount of time to cover distance. I think I’ll be switching to the treadmill more during the week to get my mileage up a bit easier until I’m able to start running again. Hoping I can start adding running back in a couple times a week by the end of this month. That will be about 7 weeks since the pain in my shin began, so hopefully I’ll be healed by then. If you use RunKeeper, let’s be on each others StreetTeam! You can follow my progress there or on Twitter.
2. Cut body fat to under 20%.
I won’t post regularly on this one since I have to work on my exercise routine and diet before I can really start on this one. I’ll update quarterly on this one, so I’ll be leaving it off the rest of the posts until April. Right now I’m around 24-25% which is higher than it should be. I’ve lost about 17 lbs in the last year, but only dropped about 2% body fat, so I need to work on some things.
3. Complete two more 5ks, my first 10k, and my first half marathon this year.
Again, these are all on hold until my shin is healed. Hopefully I’ll be able to schedule a 5k in March or April.
4. Read 15 books.
I just completed Dave Ramsey’s “EntreLeadership” book (Amazon affiliate link). I highly recommend this for everyone. I’ll blog about a few things from this book in the coming weeks. I’m starting “The Hunger Games” next. This will be all three books in the series.
5. Hand-write all of Proverbs.
I’ve done this every day this year so far and have posted a picture on Instagram (username: chrisrouse) every day. I’m tweeting the picture every day in January, but I’m also uploading them to Flickr. I’m into Proverbs 3 already. This goal probably won’t take long, but it’s definitely a cool way to work through the book of a Bible.
6. Tithe regulary
I got paid this week and my tithe check is ready to go with me to church tonight.
7. Become debt free.
I have just under $9500 left to pay off this year. I’ll be paying off the rest of my smallest loan in two weeks which leaves me with two loans after that.
Hannah…maybe he’ll be ready to run the next one in Nashville and we can come out too to help cheer him on and we can all get together! Chris…be sure you are healed well before you start running! Nice to see you writing again
and I really really really like the tithe part!! Keep up the great work and pass along the book series if it is good for me to read.
Sounds like some pretty good and ambitious goals. I look forward to reading your updates! Make that half marathon happen in nashville so you can visit some old friends.
Registration got a lot more expensive after Dec. 31 and your other half would never give me an answer about running it. And I’m not able to train this month and that would be a lot of training to put in in three months.