I very much want to run a half marathon in 2014. There is one local one that has a lottery system. Registration opens in February so I'm going to try to get in. If I can't get into that I will find another one, but I'm looking at traveling 100+ miles so then I have to factor in lodging, etc. But still I'll do it.

I'm committed with my trainer until August. I genuinely love my trainer sessions, and anticipate signing another contract once this one expires. I started it as a way to lose weight, but it didn't take long for weight lifting to become a passion of mine (just as running has). I'm hoping by August to either have transitioned from weight loss mode to maintenance mode, or at least be close to that, so I'm not sure how that will impact the next contract. Maybe switch from three 30 minute sessions a week to two 60 minute ones - actually more minutes with Jason but one fewer day. For 18 months of my life I'm booked up Monday through Thursday evenings (3 nights with Jason & Pilates one night) so I'll have to consider in August how I feel about doing that for another year. I guess my goal there is to just keep getting stronger.

There's a 5K very close to my house on the 4th of July - a 10 minute walk to the starting line. It started 3 years ago, and I've walked/jogged all 3 with my friend. Last year we committed to running it and were both going to start training in May (it snowed all the way through April). I started C25K, and once a week incorporated hills into my training runs because it's a very hilly course so I wanted to be prepared. My friend told me a week before the race that she hadn't been running at all, so we walked it again. I was very disappointed, because I had worked so hard for that. This year I am going to run that race. I hope she doesn't feel bad, but I'm letting myself be selfish about it. The first year we walked that race I thought I was going to have a heart attack walking up the final big hill (I was so winded I almost couldn't catch my breath), so to run it in a race will be a huge milestone for me. I've run it in training, and of course that was gratifying, but I want to do it in race conditions. I'm less concerned about my time than I am running the entire thing start to finish.

Well...not really any "new years" resolutions, but I do have some goals. Got my first race on Sunday...a 3K off road course....which I am hoping to come in a good place in. But going to take it a little easy, because I have a 4 mile run after that. Had to break my long run up this Sunday, but it works. So I have some running goals. My biggest one is to maintain a high mpw running goal....around 25+.

I still find myself thinking that there is a good chance that I won't continue with my fitness, even though I'm enjoying the new lifestyle and keeping on track without problems. It's the old me coming through and one goal is to finally conquer that old-me voice and *knowing* that I will continue my fitness program and enjoy it.

That sounds like me. I'm always reminding myself that if/when I stop exercising I'm going to have to reduce the amount of food that I'm eating if I want to maintain my weight. I'm always prepared for the time when this strange exercising me goes back to the sedentary non-exercising me. I'm really enjoying the exercising and I really like that I'm getting stronger and fitter, but somehow, just like I keep thinking that I'm a lot heavier than I am now, I also think that this exercising is a fad that is not me.

So my resolution for 2014 is to end the year with the mindset that THIS is me. I am someone who is not obese and not even overweight any more (need to lose 10 more lbs to get out of overweight) and I am someone who regularly exercises and always will. The exercise might change as I age, but I am someone who exercises regularly and always will.

2013 was the get slimmer and start exercising year. 2014 is the improve the weight, improve the exercise, improve the mindset year. Hopefully 2015 will be the maintain the good habits year.

Is anyone setting any fitness resolutions for the New Year?

For the year... just 1.

To not give this up.

This time next year I will still be doing this, still be loving this, and I will be running a little bit further, a little bit faster and it will be a little bit easier.

My main goal this year is to run a half marathon, actually 2 of them. The first on in July and the second one in September. My other goal is to shed the last 40-50 pounds. I've only lost 15 in the last 6 months, so clearly I need to work on eating better. As they say you can't outrun a bad diet.

Plexgut, you were asking about mpw. That's miles per week.

This year I'm going to run in the local 10k series - usually held in May June and July. Ideally I'll run each of them in under an hour so I need to put some work into improving my time (need to shave off 6mins). It's about time I ran with some other human beings so this will be my push to actually enter a proper race!

I'm also going to work on my push ups! I'm not very good at them - I have little spurts of trying to improve then 'forget' for a few days ... sometimes weeks. So 2014 is the year when I'll be aiming to become the push up queen

This year I'm going to run in the local 10k series - usually held in May June and July. Ideally I'll run each of them in under an hour so I need to put some work into improving my time (need to shave off 6mins). It's about time I ran with some other human beings so this will be my push to actually enter a proper race!

I'm also going to work on my push ups! I'm not very good at them - I have little spurts of trying to improve then 'forget' for a few days ... sometimes weeks. So 2014 is the year when I'll be aiming to become the push up queen

If you've never run a race, those six minutes are gone the second you pass the timing mat. Find a push-up challenge and I'll do it with you!

If I didn't add push-ups to my list of goals I should have.

It's almost the C25K of push-ups.