Where'd the time go?!

Wow, nearly the end of Feb already. Where the hell is the time going?
No posts for over a month - fortunately the blogging desert hasn't reflected a lack of activity but rather a lack of time/opportunity/desire to get down to the writing. Much has been going on and it will take a few posts just to get up to date.
First things first though - have some administrative duties to attend to before the saga of the first winter proper in MI can be recorded.

(i) review of 2009! Bit of a strange old year - most of the year was spent considering, then organizing and finally surviving the relocation from MD to MI. Realized that was considering the move as far back as February - when I did the George Washington Birthday marathon - geez that feels like more than just twelve months ago! The chaos didn't make for a particularly productive year race wise. One marathon (though did manage a PR and a 4th place overall and 1st Vet), one ultra (Hat run again) and a somewhat disappointing 10 miler, Baltimore 10 miler. So with the exception of 64 miles running not other competitive miles! To keep my life a bit interesting I initiated the Mi 1000 on my fixie and finally finished the year with 1038 miles on the fixie! The cyclometer registering a rather anticlimactic 968 miles when I ceremoniously replaced my cyclometer batteries to start 2010 with a clean slate - as a result of 70 "lost miles" from my first weekend in MI (courtesy of a dropped computer!). On the other hand there have been some pretty outstanding bits to 2009 too! Rode in CO for the first time ever! Converted the Big Dog to a fixie! Not a bad year on the whole. Now then DB get out there and take 2010 by the horns!

(ii) New Years Rezzies - bit late but wtf! The year of sub 180/160 to bracket the easiest and hardest of my resolutions! Sub 180 is a bit on the optimistic side refers to target marathon time! Been 26 years since my first marathon and with the passing of the years the time is now or never probably if breaking 3 hours is ever going to happen. Means dropping over 6 min from the PR! Sub 160 is my target weight in lb! Prob the easiest of the resolutions - though not been as easy as originally though and the weight remains a solid 10 lb above this target despite two months trying to shed the excess weight! Other resolutions reflect usual race targets - another 50 miler and one race of 12 hours or longer. Last one is actually to start the DFL sportswear line I have been considering for the last two years. Designs done just need to pull the trigger on first run of shirts - the T-shirts will be advertised here if it ever happens.

O.K. so the posts for 2010 have restarted - time for a beer!

Cheers

DB