November! by Julie

Here we go again!

Fitness: In October, I ran 62.5 of the 78 goal miles and I strength trained only 3 of the 10 times I planned. I also signed up for my first solo race in a long time. For some perspective--during the last full week of my October training, I ran 20 miles with my longest run being 6 miles. Four weeks earlier, I only ran 10.5 miles for the week and my longest run was 3.5 miles. All in all, that's some good progress in the course of a month. Goals for November: 1. Run 97.5 (!) miles. 2. Get comfortable running in the dark. 3. Strength train 8 times.

Career: Well, October was a weird month. We had our first big event during the middle of the government shut-down and a state conference. Things got pretty annoying and discouraging. November Goals: 1.Get everyone focused on doing the workplan.

Finance: You know that old saying about if you want something done, do it yourself. Yeah, I should have had a garage sale ourselves. That goal is on hold until the spring. I also didn't do a good job setting a schedule for my side-gig, nor did the stay under-budget thing happen. However, I did accomplish something that I didn't set out to do at the beginning of the month: I cut my toll road costs in half. Every evening, I took the back roads home instead of getting on the toll road. Goals for November: Thanks to my toll road success, I'm going to focus on changing certain actions that will make an impact on the budget rather than "spending less." 1. Use it up. I'm going to focus on cooking stuff from the cupboards and freezer instead of purchasing new ingredients. 2. Get to work. Yep, devote more time to the side hustle. 3. Stay off the (toll) road.

Adultiness: Scarf is done! The knitting part is anyway. I forgot there is fringe so I have to finish that. I also finished my brother's birthday present in time and cleaned off my desk, which got moved downstairs because we have to do work in the room where it was. We finished our house project list but we still need to prioritize and sync them up. Goals for November: I'm kind of leaving this one blank for now because I started participating in this 4/40 challenge. The goals I set are:
Nutrition Use My Fitness Pal to track calories and have a deficit.
Fitness Follow planned workouts.
Self-care Write
Family For this I wrote down a list of 40 things to do and am trying to do half of them.

The end of the 4/40 challenge is Thanksgiving day so that is most of November. That's plenty to think about during November!