Do you ever wonder...

emmab0902

What you could do if you put your mind to it?? What you could achieve if you focused and pushed past mental blocks and self doubt.

I often think what it would be like to just decide to run a half marathon and push myself to finish it even if it took a long time and other similar things that most of my barriers are self doubt preventing me from doing. Or swimming Cook Strait!!

What's your outrageous goal??

somerisagirlsname

My non fitness outrageous goal would be to put my everything into my music and get discovered.

My fitness outrageous goal is to drop 100 lbs...at least it seems outrageous right now.

Ejourneys

Go for it!

I was training to do my first half-marathon and had managed to run the distance inside the time limit (barely!) on an indoor treadmill. Then my cat went missing and got deathly ill, and then my father died, plus I came down with a whopper of a cold. Then Life happened. I've spent the past decade-plus as a fulltime caregiver.

Still, just being able to do the distance within the time limit on an indoor treadmill was a thrill.

Several years before that, I trained for and did the first Boston-New York AIDS Ride, bicycling 261 miles in 3 days. That was my first outrageous fitness goal and I had a blast.

Last month I did our local hospital's 9/11 Memorial Fitness Challenge, climbing 110 flights of stairs -- an awesome and exhausting experience. :-) I took it slow, but I finished! It was the first fitness event I had registered for since the half-marathon 11 years earlier, and I was tied for sixth oldest among the online registrants.

I found this site of NZ running events:
http://www.runningcalendar.co.nz/

Connect with other runners and get support. Get good running shoes (very important!). Find local places to train; start with shorter races and build up from there, because every step along the way will build your confidence and knock down those barriers. If you have medical concerns, talk it out with your doctor so that any worries can be taken care of. Above all, have fun!

I currently have no "outrageous" goals, but within the constraints of my caregiving I am exploring new things. I recently purchased a pen tablet and am learning digital painting. I'm also taking a Neuroethics course on Coursera, which is my first foray into online learning. It also relates to my caree's health issues. I'm having a blast with those because life's too short. :-)