Year In Review - 2016

2016 has been an year of accomplishments. While the accomplishments are good I have a feeling of discontent and that something is missing. These accomplishments are starting to feel like some distant memories of the past.

So What did I accomplish in 2016

Running 

• Finished running a marathon in all the 7 Continents in the world
• Finished running a marathon in all the 50 States and DC in USA
• Had a PR at the Lincoln Marathon with 3:15:35
• Was overall 1st in "Inca Trail Macchu Picchu Marathon" which is considered the toughest marathon in the world
• Was overall 2nd in Antarctica Marathon
• Was overall 2nd in the DC Marathon taking second place with a sprint in the last 200 mts and taking a lead of 9 seconds
• Was overall 2nd in the New Mexico Marathon
• Was overall 3rd in the Cumberland, MD marathon.
• Was overall 3rd in the Punta Arenas Marathon
• Had a mile PR of 5:53 
• Had a 12K PR at Bay to Breakers with 51:50 mts. Placed 3rd in my age group.
• Got fast : 
• 1 sub 3:20 race, 
• 3 sub 3:30 races, 
• 4 sub 3:35 races, 
• 2 sub 3:40 races, 
• 1 sub 3:45 race
• 1 sub 4:00 race 
• Antarctica and Macchu Picchu are not your typical marathons
• Placed in age groups 
• Mississippi Marathon,  - 3rd
• New Mexico Marathon - 1st
• Maryland Marathon - 2nd
• DC Marathon - 1st
• Antarctica Marathon - 1st
• Punta Arenas Marathon - 1st

Overall I ran 14 marathons this year, got fast, won a races, placed overall top 3 in few and placed in age group in few. Decent year of running I would say

Traveling

• King George Island - Antarctica Trip
• Punta Arenas, Puerta Natales, Torres Del Paine - Chile Trip
• Macchu Picchu, Cusco - Peru Trip
• Vancouver - Canada Trip
• Hyderabad - India Trip
• Visited 10 States and DC in the US

Camping/Hiking

• Big Sur
• Redwoods

Public Speaking

• Graduated from Improve 101 class, Improv 201 class, Improv 301 class.

Adventure/Fun

• Love Bus - Ran and drove with friends from SF to Portland around 500 miles

Entrepreneurship 

• Grew the business decently well.

Reading

• Finished reading  8 books and listened 10 audio books

Writing

• Wrote (apt to say Journaled) atleast 69 days in the year and wrote around 77,000 + words. decently

Simple Living

• Got rid of some more clothes.

Missed ....

• on nutrition goals, writing goals, relationship goals, fun/adventure goals, productivity goals.

Overall most of the year surrounded around running and traveling with very few other things that were done. Yes seems I did lot more in 2015 besides just running and traveling.

2017 - I think I will become more focused, spend less time on the Internet but more time with people.