Saturday, January 1, 2011

B2. New Year's Resolutions 2011

Resolutions for 2011

A.  Fitness / Running
      1.  Resistance / Weight Training once a week
      2.  Timed 5 miles once a week (can substitute 5K or longer race)
      3.  Hill training (1/2 mile). Sprint training (1/2 mile), or bicycling (2 miles) weekly
      4.  Run 300 miles in 2011 (avg. 25 per month)
      5.  lose 3 lbs. to return to 117 lbs.

B.  Read at least 10 books


How Am I Doing?     complete/incomplete

January  (sick 1-2 weeks)
          A.1. 0 times
             2.  2 times
             3.  3 times
             4.  13.45 miles
             5.  116.5 lbs.
          B. read 3 books

February
          A.1.  0 times
             2.  4 times
             3.  4 times
             4.  27.1 mi. (YTD 40.55)
             5.  117.5 lbs.
          B. read 1 book (YTD 4)

  
March
          A.1.  0 times
             2.  4 times
             3.  4 times
             4.  35.47 mi. (YTD 76.02)
             5.  117 lbs.
          B. read 3 book (YTD 7)


April
          A.  1.  0 times
                2.  2 times
                3.  4 times
                4.  25.5 mi.  (YTD 101.52)
                5.  117.5 lbs.
          B.  read 2 books (YTD 9)


May

          A.  1. 2 times
               2. 0 times
               3. 4 times
               4. 24.08 mi. (YTD 125.6)
               5. 117 lbs.
          B. read 1 book (YTD 10)

June

A.   1. 4 times
      2. 0 times
      3. 4 times
      4. 25.44 mi. (YTD 151.04)
      5. 117 lbs.
B. read 4 book (YTD 14)

July

A. 1. 4 times
    2. 1 time
    3. 4 times
    4. 25.1 mi. (YTD 176.05)
    5. 118.5 lbs.
B. read 2 book (YTD 16)

August

A. 1. 4 times
2. 1 time
3. 4 times
4. 21.53 mi. (YTD 197.58)
5. 117.5 lbs.
B. read 3 book (YTD 19)

September  (giving knee recovery time)

A. 1. 2 times
    2. 0 times
    3. 2 times
    4. (13.3 mi. walk/bike) (YTD 197.58 + 13.3)
    5. 116 lbs.
B. read 4 book (YTD 23)


October
A. 5.  115 lbs.
B. read 2 books (YTD 25)

November
A. 5. 115 lbs.
B. read 1 book (YTD 26)

December
A. 5. 113.5 lbs.
B. read 3 books (YTD 29)

A Look Back at 2010

Highlights:
Ran 300 miles
Ran 7 5K races (placed in 3)
Spoke at BSMC/SUCC (Feb.), SMC (Sept.), EMU (Mar., Nov.), EBC (Nov.)
Painted house


Read:
Once Upon a Speech (Cathy Cook, 2010)
I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine (Carol Ann Duffy, 1992)
A Slave No More (David W. Blight, 2007)
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter (Sue Monk Kidd, 1996)
Women's Uncommon Prayers (2000)
Eerdman's Book of Christian Classics (1985)
Little Bee (Chris Cleave, 2008)
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein, 2008)
I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Volavkova, 1994)
The Oxford Annotated Bible (RSV 1973)
Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists (Jean Baker, 2005)
Church History in Plain Language (Bruce Shelley, 1995)

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Read in 2011:  Preaching without Notes (Joseph Webb, 2001), *Storycatcher (Christina Baldwin, 2005), The Preaching Life (Barbara Brown Taylor, 1993), The Lacuna (Barbara Kingsolver, 2009), Glimpses of Fifty Years (Frances Willard, 1889), Woman in the Pulpit  (Frances Willard, 1888), Leaving Church (Barbara Taylor Brown, 2006), The Women's Room (Marlyn French, 1977), In the Name of Salome (Julia Alvarez, 2000), This Is What a Preacher Looks Like (Pamela Durso, ed., 2010), Native Tongue (Suzette Haden Elgin, 1984), *The Help (Kathryn Stockett, 2009), Faith: Confidence and Doubt in Daily Life (Martin Marty, 1995); Songs without Words (Robbi McCoy, 2010); Think (Lisa Bloom, 2011); A Timbered Choir (Wendell Berry, 1998); To Believe in Women (Lillian Faderman, 1999); Do You Have Alligator Arms? (James Moore, 2011); All We're Meant To Be (Scanzoni & Hardesty, 1974); *The Story of a Pioneer (Anna Howard Shaw, 1914); The Last Days of Dogtown (Anita Diamant, 2005); *Yo (Julia Alvarez, 1997); After Dark (Haruki Murakami, 2004); Writing Out My Heart (ed. Carolyn de Swarte Gifford, 1995); Caleb's Crossing (Geraldine Brooks, 2011); Voices from Cemetery Hill (Allen Paul Speer, 1997); Sisters in Providence: The Search for God in the Frontier South (1843-1858) (Allen Paul Speer, 2000); The Wonder of Christmas (Daniel Partner, 2003); Inagine a Woman in Love with Herself (Patricia Lynn Reilly, 1999)

2011 Highlights:  Spoke EBC (Jan.), Spoke HBC (Feb.), Spoke EMU (Apr., Nov.), Spoke TUCC (July); Washington DC trip 3 (July); back to the classroom full-time after 10 yrs. as program head (Aug.); began Blogger blog in Jan. (28 posts) and Salisbury Post blog in Sept. ( 6 posts); ran two 5K races

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