Goals for 2008.

Here are my goals for 2008 divided into sport, learning and life.

Sport

• Ironman UK - Looking at 1:12/6:30/4:00 for a sub-12.
• Do a performance test every training cycle - Every 3 or 4 weeks depending on the protocol.
• Run everyday - It's called a streak run and I have to run at least a mile every day. I've actually been doing this since the 18th of November last year. I need to focus on my running and this is an easy way to do it.
• Keep a training log - To track progress.
• Get down to a low racing weight - 80kg or 17% b.f. by Watford Half Marathon (first weekend in Feb) and then 74kg or 10% b.f. in time for Ironman UK in September. I'm 84.2kg and 21% b.f. at the moment.

Life

• Start a wedding fund with Ann-Marie - We've got until the 3rd of October 2009 so we should be able to get a decent wedge together.
• Blog everyday - I'm going to use this blog as a training log and a diary. I'll aim for at least a sentence everyday and try and post a picture too. If I don't have access to the internet then I won't bother!
• Grow some veg - I've got a nice big garden now and I intend to use it.
• Cook more - If you're going to grow your own veg then you might as well do something with it.
• Start teaching beginners guitar lessons - I'll advertise and see what happens, but first I need to refresh my chops.
• Watch less TV - I'm going to try and only be in front of the TV if I'm doing something else. e.g. eating, blogging, coding, etc, etc
• Sort out our new house - I don't like to be so general, but there's so much to do it's unavoidable. Find a plasterer for the living room, modify the fitted wardrobes to take our kingsize bed, unblock the drains, convert the loft.......... No point having a specific goal, I'll just keep chipping away at it though.
  

Learning/Tech

• Learn some new technologies - Things like Python, Ruby, PHP, F#, WPF, etc, I'll set a couple of tasks for each one. Things like a Hello World program, mandelbrot set and a classic computer science problem. For January I'll look at Python.
• Look for a couple of side projects - I've got a couple of coding ideas rattling around in the back of my head that I'll start to implement this year.
• Pass my motorcycle test - I've done the CBT. Next up is the Theory Test.
• Learn some Greek for our holidays - I've got a Pimsleur course and it would be nice to finish that before we went to Crete in September.
  

Obviously these all break down into smaller goals and there is a lot to do