Good for you try2try. I hope you continue to meet your goals.

My 31 goal was and will continue to be to keep my priorities straight with training, racing and family. I tri to make myself a better father and husband and enhance life in general. If I train properly and can race well that is a bonus. I had a great season last year and PR's in each tri I did. I still think I can get better.

Tri Goals for 2009: Train smart, stay healthy, and finish Chessyman in the daylight.

Great job try2try! Excellent job this year and sounds like you have another awesome year to come!

FYI, something to be proud of is that with the 40 pounds lost, that's effectively 72,000 pounds your body has to push over the course of just 1 mile! (guess that a step is about 3 feet when running, meaning about 1800 steps in a mile, times 40 pounds per step (since you're stepping on 1 leg at a time). Totalling 72,000 pounds less that your body has to move and deal with every mile. :) Great job! The more you lose, the "easier" it will be to meet those goals.

I've noticed the same...losing 20 pounds this year. :) That's only 36,000 pounds per mile, but still, quite a noticeable difference. I did 5 sprints in 2008, the last one being 14 minutes faster than the first one. :) That 20 pounds gone was an excellent help in cutting the time, oh yeah, not to forget the ton of training! :)

2009 goals: Half Marathon in January, HIM in October-ish time. Maybe I'll throw in an Olympic mid-way through the year as a training for the HIM.

2008 goal was achieve a 8:xx/mi split for 10k (2007 I was +/- 9:5x/mi)
I have improved my running to get into a 8:0x/mi split for 5k, and I'm still working on maintaining that speed for 10k, but a lot of good progress this past year!

My goals over the last 2 years have been to complete longer events than the year before. 2009 might be my last year to do that with my IM. I don't plan on doing any ultra's in 2010. This year I've added a goal of qualifying for Boston.

My goal is to stay injury free when i really start training hard for my first IM Ky! I also would
love to do a sub 3:20 marathon Myrtle beach in Feb. I also need to be more considerate of
others and try not to talk so much about people behind there backs Bad Habit! Also pray to
god everday and thank him for my family,health,forgiveness,and the strength to get my ass
thru all these races!:)

I didn't make any serious 2008 resolutions, but I did decide in May that I was 5'8" 267lbs and pretty sick of it. Figured I'd be 300 if I didn't do something so I decided enough was enough. My goal for the rest of 2008 was to make it to below 200 by 1/1/2009. Today I am 200.6 and I hope to be under by Thursday. I also reached a long term goal of becoming a manager at my job which was a 3 year goal I met in just under 3 years. 2008, for all its trials and difficulties, was a good year for me.

In 09 I hope to be comfortably at my maintenance weight, about 165 or so for me I think is good, give or take 5lbs, and to finish (respectably) at least one Sprint tri. (There's a three series here in June/July/Aug) If I can do this and maintain my new lifestyle I'll be successful in 09 for me. I want to strengthen my family and marriage too.

2010 will build from there. Best of luck to all that have goals for this year.

Way to go to all of you who have made 2008 a year of commitment to great health and fitness, that's really impressive!

I don't really do New Year's resolutions, but try to live each day with as much joy as possible and take what comes along. I have lots of plans for this year though, and hope many of them come to pass (especially excited about doing a triathlon weekend with hubby! and also he is maybe getting excited about swimming the Alcatraz Sharkfest together, what a guy)

here are mine:

Swim sub 6:00 400 meters
Run sub 18:00 5k
Run Sub 1:20 Half
Bike Sub 1 hr 40K TT
Sub 10 Hr Ironman
Qualify for Hawaii

Stay healthy, be a great father and husband and work hard!

Welcome back Catwood. Good luck with your goals. Sounds like you have a sound efficient plan in place.

Like Toni said Catwood, so much of your story reads like something from my past as well. It's probably more common than not that folks who struggle with anorexia are like you also smart and driven, maybe a bit prone to high-stress jobs and situations and to sports like triathlon.

I will keep you in my thoughts because I know what a deep and pervasive thing it can be to struggle with anorexia. But also I know that you can move through it and beyond it and find a life for yourself where it no longer controls you. When I was younger, the external things like my grades, what I ate, my weight, my workouts and race results were all-important. Letting go of that took time, but enabled a life where the focus goes outward to experience the joy of everything around. I wish you well in your journey, you sound like a very strong and smart gal with a solid plan. Be sure to let us know how it all goes!