Whew! It took me a while to get here.

After a full December of holiday celebrations, reflections, planning, loss, wallowing in nostalgia, and the last week of the year spent in Pennsylvania accomplishing absolutely nothing (except time with family and friends), I finally started to feel ready to dust myself off and head into this new year.

Wow. 2018 was hard, you guys. And it flew by. I can’t believe I’m writing another This Year, Next Year post already.

I initially wrote up my first pass at fall 2018 race planning back in April.

So it's been a while since I wrote a goals post. And it's been an even longer while that I wrote a goals post with some serious training in mind. Years, probably. 2015 maybe?

So. I didn't exactly hit all of my April goals, but I knew some of them (okay, all of them) would be a stretch given my travel and work schedule.

So we've already established that 2016 was not a great year. It was so miserable that I didn't even think I wanted to bother with my annual This year, next year post. But then I decided to just write one to recap the year. I might be glad I did it later. For posterity or whatever.