Run 26.2 Miles? What am I thinking?

So as I eluded to earlier, I’m planning on listing out my goals for 2007 here, not as some public display of coolness, but to give myself a bit of accountability since now I have my throngs of readers to hold my feet to the fire.

In no particular order (and with detail that hopefully will be fleshed out in later posts):

• Read 12 works of fiction (so one a month). This is a goal I set most years, but never really have tracked to see if I do it. When I do it, I really like reading, so I think I should hold up my end of the bargain here. No qualifiers either - my first book was Angels and Demons by Dan Brown which I finished last night.
• Run a Marathon this year. I registered for the 2007 La Salle Bank Chicago Marathon this morning. I’ve wanted to do this last year, but I didn’t think I’d have the time to devote to training. I don’t necessarily have more time this year, but I think I can make it work. I ran my first race last year (The 8k Crazylegs Classic in Madison) and didn’t collapse. Granted, I’m going more than 21 miles further, but I still feel confident I can do it.
• Finally update my MCSD. I got it was back in the VB6 days and didn’t keep up with it too much. Mainly since I was busy doing actual work. No difference now - I’m still busy, but seems like a good thing to try and do.
• Post regularly to this blog. I went in fits and spurts ont he MSDN blog. Finding the time to actually write is a chalenge, but we’ll see how this one pans out.

That should keep me busy.