Oops… so much for being consistent on checking in with my goals!

Read 12 books with a variety of topics, genres, and styles. I did finish reading The Winner’s Manual by Jim Tressel back in May. It was really odd timing because that is basically when the scandal broke completely open and it was hard to appreciate his book in the middle of that.  In no particular order I also read To Be a Runner by Martin Dugard, an excellent and easy read that I plan on reviewing sometime soon. After finishing the rather large volume called Spain in Mind (basically short exceprts from books, poetry, and other writings about Spain) I read Snowball Oranges, One Mallorcan Winter written by Peter Kerr. Ain’t No Sunshine was listed as one of the top downloads for Kindle and was free so I grabbed it.  A very odd read for sure.  You can check out the whole list of books I’ve read so far at Amazon.

Complete a Triathlon Square Lake Short Course, September 10. 0.5 Mile Swim 16.5 Mile Bike 5 Mile Run. Training has been going really well.  With about 6 weeks to go I’ve successfully completed each distance individually and have done Bike/Run (brick) workouts of fairly comparable distances.  A longer bike with shorter run and a shorter bike with a longer run.  I’ve also been able to exceed the .5 mile swim in one sitting so I’m feeling pretty confident.

Finish this YouVersion devotional plan (Bible Study).  This has been pretty easy to manage, I occasionally miss a day here and there, but catch up on the next day.

Make a substantial change to one of my programs at work. Completed.

Blog Regularly Obviously not too well if I’ve missed 2 months of checking in, but I feel like I’m doing fairly well at getting at least one post up a week.

Learn how to use my digital camera and experiment with its features. In the last few months I’ve done nothing in this regard. Sad.

Curing Plantar Fasciitis, was the most viewed post again. The order didn’t change: number two was Treating Plantar Fasciitis, and a close third was Twin Cities Running Stores.