Let me get one thing clear… I’m not a fan of the New Year’s Resolution. I mean, if you want to change something about yourself… your life, your mission, your purpose, what have you, then just F****N CHANGE IT! Why wait until a certain day of the year to start the change? I respect the whole “a new year, a new you” approach, but its just not for me.

Last October, I woke up on Chicago Marathon Sunday (or was it a Saturday? I don’t remember… but that’s irrelevant) and hopped in the car to run errands. OOPS! I had forgotten it was Marathon Day, thus making any vehicular movement through the city of Chicago impossible. Downtown Chicago and it’s surrounding neighborhoods literally shut down the streets for the annual 26.2 mile run through our great city. It’s actually really cool to see… and quite inspiring. For three years, I thought it would be so cool to run that Marathon… and not being born in Kenya, I knew I had no chance of winning the race, but the accomplishment of completing the race would be something no one could ever take away from me.

The week after the Marathon, I signed up for a membership to XSport and got a personal trainer who could whip my ass into shape so I could be Marathon ready in October 2010.

So I guess that was my New Year’s Resolution, for the year Oct 09-Oct 10. And here comes the fail…. I feel like I won’t achieve my goal…. I think I need to move that goal to 2011. Having said that, if I can run the Rock-n-Roll Half in Chicago in August and move to the Rock-n-Roll Half in Vegas in December, I will have run two half-marathons, thus equalling one-marathon. But oh well, I just got back from the gym with a session with the trainer… and I’m wrapping it up with some Hawaiian Bread and Spinach Dip…. yep… another step closer to that finish line!