2009 Here we Go!

A couple of goals for 2009:

• Run the North Olympic Discovery Marathon June 7th
• Run the San Francisco Marathon July 26th
• Ride RAMROD if I get in via the lottery
• Ride at least one BikeMS ride for Multiple Sclerosis (maybe Napa valley this year?)
  
• Run the Seattle Marathon (late November)

Time to get on the training!

Good Riddance 2008, a year of my life made for a bad country song

2008 is gone, and I can't say I will miss it.

• Both of my grandparents on my mother's side died this past year (we were very close and I miss them terribly),
• A wonderful uncle, Ralph Henery, on my dad's side of the family died (he had suffered the effects of Polio for many decades of his life but still managed to work tirelessly raising money and volunteering through the Shrine club to help crippled children get care in the shrine hospitals),
• My husband was laid off from his job the week before Thanksgiving (Microsoft had decided to discontinue OneCare, the product he worked on),
• Thanksgiving week I was laid off from my job and instantly brought back on as a consultant with a 3 month contract which I am told will likely be extended as long as the company is still surviving.
• December brought my 10 year old rottie mix, Mildred, a torn ligament in her knee while out on a trail run, and $2000 later it's now recovering
• On New Year's Eve day my husband was in a car accident to finish the year with a Bang, literally. Thankfully nobody was hurt and it wasn't his fault, but that of an old lady over 80 years old who decided to pull out into traffic without looking where she was going.
• 2008 was also the 1st year of my 7 year Marathon Monk NikePlus challenge and at times I was making good progress, succeeding at following a Hal Higdon training program to train for the Seattle Marathon Nov 30th. Unfortunately, 3 boughts of Bronchitis through the year (one in January, one in March, and one lasting through all of November and half of December) caused me to log only 600 miles (others in my challenge logged ~6000 miles for the year) and the last illness kept me from at least accomplishing the one great thing I could have had happen this year, the Seattle marathon.
• To top it off my Nike Plus shoe sensor died about 1 day after the 1 year warranty, and with the exasperating 3 faulty shoe sensors purchased and returned, purchased and returned, ad nauseum...I lost a month of mileage just trying to find the ever elusive FUNCTIONING NikePlus shoe sensor in the Apple stores.

Here's to 2009! May it NOT SUCK!