How should I say it: Twenty Eleven or Two Thousand Eleven?

How fun it is to read everyone's 2010 reviews and 2011 goals!!! If everyone's doing it, so shall I.

2010 was a bit exhausting, so I thought that it would be really cool to not have any goals for 2011 and have a spontaneous year. Doesn't that sound fun?

But then I looked at the graph of my 2010 training hours per week:



That, my friends, appears to be THE definition of spontaneous and unplanned. Turns out that "spontaneous" isn't always a positive thing.

2010 brought a lot of unexpected things. One of them is surgery and news that running the way I used to is over. And, you know what, I did a great job of being spontaneous. I manned up and had the surgery. I was a rock start at recovery. I worked out when I could as well as I could. I faced the losses I've experienced as a runner and made significant steps to heal. I adjusted in everything as fast as possible.

So, I'm awesome at being spontaneous. Time to strive for something new.

As 2011 begins, I find it difficult to set goals and make plans. All I can do is ask. For more ups than downs. For true, honest, solid healing. For being able to truly listen to my body and not be appalled if what I hear is different from the high standards I set for myself. For having maturity to be open to new things and new beginnings and not turning it away because "it's not running". And, of course, as I do every year, I'm asking for more patience :)

I wish to all of you to reach all of your goals!!! Thank you for following me through all this nonsense :)