Fitness Goals

I started my new job this week, and so I'm starting to really think about what goals I have for the future. On the one hand, I'd like to just take a moment to rest. I feel exhausted and want to tell myself that I've "earned" a break. But on the other hand, I think that I ought to jump straight into working out, before I get too lazy. I will no longer be working at my evening librarian job after tomorrow night, so even if I worked out for 30-45 minutes after work on Thursday, I'd still get home about 4 hours earlier than I'm accustomed to getting home.

My new job offers a lot of great benefits. One of the ones I plan on taking advantage of is a wellness program that will help me assess how "well" I am, in many aspects of my life. I plan to use this as a jumping off point, and a way to chart my progress. So sometime in the next couple of weeks, I will get some biometrics taken. I think I'm going to post the numbers here, not so much because anyone cares, but because I want to see myself improve. I want to be accountable.

But what do I *really* want to accomplish? There are many life goals that I have, and I am proud to say that I've reached a couple of them. But right now I'm focusing on fitness goals. I adore food, and can't honestly see myself making any drastic changes to my diet, but what can I become physically?
My long term fitness goals are to run a half marathon, to be able to do a pull-up, and to get down to 135 pounds. Well that's all well and good, but what about some achievable short-term fitness goals?
Without having weighed in the past few weeks, I'd estimate that I'm about 155 pounds. So goal #1 is to get down to 145. I wonder what a good time-frame would be for that. It's "just" 10 pounds, so I am arbitrarily setting a date of August 1st. In lieu of a pull-up, I'd like to be able to do 25 good push-ups in one set. (I used to be so good at push-ups!) And I'd like to run an entire 5K without walking sometime before Christmas.

Are these goals too much or too little? It's been so long since I've set and achieved a fitness goal that I don't honestly know what I'm capable of! But I plan to blog it out. :)

Goals

Well, I failed in my attempt to make it to mass this weekend. I had the best intentions, but I got distracted by my desire to see some family that was in town. So today I read (what I hope were) the scripture readings for Sunday. The gospel reading was one of my favorites- it is John 8:1-11, and I don't know that because I am some phenomenal Bible scholar, but rather because it is sitting open in my other tab (thank you, tabbed browsing!). It's about the lady that the people want to stone to death, and Jesus tells them that one among them without sin should cast the first stone. I just think it's an awesome reminder to us to be aware of our own shortcomings. But it gets even better, because Jesus then tells the lady to go on, just don't sin anymore. Wow, if only it were that easy!
This got me thinking about goals. One huge life goal could be to just not sin. I mean, that doesn't even require active participation in anything- it's all passive. It's like the Hippocratic Oath's "first do no harm" bit. Why is it so hard, then? I guess because humans are naturally self-serving, and to avoid that is a challenge. But how am I going to go out and achieve all of my other life goals if I can't even master the "simple" stuff? I want to have a good career, be a great wife, maybe even be a mother one day. I want to be a good person, be charitable, exercise, learn, and grow. How can I do all these things? I'm open to suggestions.
Incidentally, I had a great time with my family. ♥
Oh, and I also got to see the Motorola Devour in action at Best Buy. It was awesome, but my technophile hubby expressed some misgivings with the software, so he's got me wondering if a Droid would be a better way to go. The Devour is so much more visually and tangibly appealing, though. Anyhow some new phones come out next month, so he is urging me to wait, and that is fine by me. Maybe time will reveal some more info that will inform my decision. I didn't want to spend all that money on a data plan anyhow. :p