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accountability on 2008 new year’s resolutions…

Okay, so I am not going to make any excuses or anything on my 2008 New Year’s Resolutions. I accomplished some, and didn’t accomplish others. I sorta started out strong and lost my resolve around March. But anyway, here are my resolutions from Dec. 2007 and how I’ve done on them.

1. Amassing a score of at least 285 out of 300 on the Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test. To do this I would have to average 19 (strict) pullups with my feet never touching the ground; running three miles in 18:50; and doing 95 abdominal crunches (situps) in two minutes. If I perform better than those standards one category I don’t need to do as well in another.

Today I did 15 pullups, and, later, 56 crunches in two minutes. Because a three mile run is a non-standard distance for running I reserve the right to substitute a longer distance and get its three-mile equivalent using the “average” score on this online calculator. On Sunday I ran a 44:19 10K which is the equivalent of a 20:27 three-mile run. (I would have had to run a 40:48 to score an equivalent 18:45).

Okay. So I just did 80 sit-ups in two minutes. Also just did 20 pull-ups. The last one I was kicking my feet a little, but I’m going to count it. And on the run … it looks like my best time was 19:13 on the treadmill back last January. Honestly, I’ve slowed down a bit. I had this lingering foot/ankle injury over the summer that limited my running, and since then I’ve been doing much more yoga than anything else. Hmpf.

Anyway — that is 80+100+92 =272. FAIL. Bleah! Well, I still have tomorrow to try again on the situps.

2. Getting my weight down to 168 lbs. and keeping it under 170. In the morning my bathroom scale/body fat monitor calculated my weight at 174 lbs. and in the evening the scale at my gym at work calculated it at 176 lbs. Most of my life I have weighed around 172-175 although at times I’ve ballooned up to 185 or so. I am 5-foot-11 and a tad, and (also according to bathroom body fat-monitor) 8% body fat.

Well, I got down to 168, but didn’t manage to keep my weight under 170. Currently it’s 172, according to my bathroom scale. But also 10% body fat. That’s not good. I think I may have lost a little bit of muscle from my biceps and shoulders as I haven’t been lifting weights as much. But I’m significantly more flexible as I’ve been doing more yoga. Not sure if that’s a good tradeoff though. Still, I think my “core”/abs is stronger from the pilates.

3. Become debt-free. Fail… this wasn’t a good year for me or I guess anyone else financially.

Tomorrow I will post some resolutions for 2009.

UPDATE 12/31: Just tried to do more sit-ups, but again only got in 80 in two minutes. Hmpf.

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