I don't know about you but 2013 is shaping up to be a pretty awesome year: yoga classes + new projects + more traveling = fun.
I am diggin' it.
However I did not feel the same way about 2012 at all. Emphasis on the AT ALL part!
I remember last year getting together with my friends to write down our New Years resolutions. We started this tradition a couple of years ago but last year I think we did it as a pep-talk & moral support activity because we were all kind of down. I remember we all had a hard time coming up with our resolutions trying to hold on to our faith that 2012 would be a good year.
I can't even remember why we were all feeling so beaten-up back when 2012 started and after all the anxiety it turns out last year was pretty great for all of us.
This year I'm shifting my goals though and...everything is getting logged in my Le Petit Prince Moleskine special edition!
I almost cried when I saw this at the bookstore. I love am obsessed with Moleskine products and every year I always get a new daily planner from them. Le Petit Prince is one of my favorite (if not my favorite) book of all times. I even have the elephant&boa drawing tattooed so to have a Moleskine daily planner with my favorite book...COME ON! I can only take this as a sign.
Back to the goals.
Let's start with running.
I had thought I wanted to run a second marathon but that is no longer in my plans. Instead of having a marathon as a goal my main objective this year is to have an injury-free year.
How will I achieve that?
You see I would always get injured. Even when I wasn't in "training mode". The problem? over-a-chie-ver Ruth.
Yes, I was my own problem. Running started out as a "safe" zone where I felt free and most important...I felt happy.
Don't get me wrong it still is but having back to back injuries can leave you burned out.
Somewhere last year running lost its fun. I would gear up and it would take me forever to get my foot out the door. Antichafer, hydration, power gels, putting on those darn compression sleeves, setting up my Garmin, pace, distance...it all became too much.
I know I came to yoga because I'd heard it would help me with my running injuries and it did. You would think that it was all the stretching that helped me but actually it wasn't. Yoga has helped me in giving me the confidence to be...moderate. For me this means I don't have to push myself anymore. It means I don't have to prove myself through races or PR"s to call myself a runner.
This year I'm taking my yoga practice off the mat and bringing it into my running. I will do this by setting how-I-feel- goals. You can call them intentions because I will.
I will run for fun and I will -only- run for fun. That's it.
No more losing weight related, no more pace & distance related shizzle. I will just have fun.
Will I wear my Garmin? Well of course! Specially because I got a new -fancy- one for Christmas.
Black...but fancy. Apparently more sofisticated means less colorful. Garmin needs to pimp them up.
But I will wear it to set myself a goal, I will wear my Garmin to get to know my body.
I will check what pace my body feels more comfortable in. I will check it to see what distance my body loves to run.
I will use my Garmin as a learning tool not as a measuring tool. Nope, not this year.
This year I will not measure my running in how far or fast I can run. I will spend this whole year learning.
I will continue to share distance and numbers here but what's most important to me is that I will share whatever it is I learn.
The same goes into my yoga practice.
My goal is to discover. DIscover my body, my emotions, mindsets...and you know...learn.
I do want to continue my trainings. I really want to make it to the Self Awakening Yoga training in March at the Nosara Yoga Institute.
I think it may happen :)
I hope you stick around this year. Not only to read whatever I mumble but to share your story too. Let me know what YOU are setting your mind to, what your struggles & your achievements are. Let's all make this 2013 great. Don't leave me alone in my fun quest. Join in. Let's have fun together.
