Impossible List - 15 August

How far I've come over the course of the last month in regards to the impossible list of goals I've set for myself.

Professional

I feel very lethargic, listing back and forth between projects. I feel like I need to take some time of and work on gaining a focus.

Health / Fitness

I’ve been fumbling my ultra running training. Not terribly or anything just not putting in all of the effort I was hoping to. I am getting some specialised training with bogs and ascents which is nice. it also feels like I've got a decent engine behind my running, I just want to get some bigger runs on my agenda and stop missing runs. I still haven’t had a drink this year.

I've lost weight this year, but not at a 1lb a week rate. I'm down a half stone since the beginning of the year really. Not great, not bad either. We'll keep at it. I really need to consider counting calories and sticking to it for a good several months.

I've still got the Ochil Ultra 50 mile race later this year to look forward to and train for. It has a soft cut-off that means I need to put away 40 miles of the race in 12 hours which I think is doable, but I can't hang about. It's got 6 main climbs throughout the day, but they will be focused on the beginning of the day, get through the first 24 miles and 5 of the 6 climbs will be complete and I'll be free to make up time as best I can. I can still finish if I miss the cut-off it will just not be the whole course. I don't want another defeat this year.

Personal Skills

I've been working on focusing on two projects over the last month: both a Bluesky posting t-shirt generator that is political and sassy. it's not as funny as I'd want it to be, but I'm slowly bringing it around. Then I have been building a tool to help me plan my training and work towards my big race goals.

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Travel / Events

I'm travelling to Lithuania on Sunday, got some cool plans, I'll report back in a month.

In September, I'll be climbing all of the munros on Skye. Plans are that next year I'll take some time to travel to America and hang out with my Dad for a wee bit.

Volunteering / Charity

Our first quarter went surprisingly well finance wise. Digital sales have been very helpful. I'm still working on getting the basics set in place for Tayside Re-Users. If we kept this up we might even finish the year in the black. We've had a big hit to our trustee numbers, so that needs to be a focus coming up.

Education / Languages

I've been reading a lot, but no focused education has really been looked at lately. Still need to win the lottery to give this too much more focus. I am hoping to read 36 books this year, I'm currently 19 books in.

Financial

Just working hard in my role as Staff Engineer and trying to sort out my shop and put everything into a good status. We are moving forward, but this might take years. I am also starting to look outside Insights a bit and start to plan what my next career steps my take.