New Years Resolutions 2013

Keeping with tradition (2011, 2012), I'm posting a few new years resolutions here. I'm keeping the list a little shorter this year.

• Run two megameters

  Last year I ran 1,364.5 km. This year I will bump that up to over 2,000 km. That is a lot for me, so I'll have to get on it pretty soon. I'll keep track on my running log again.
  Update as of 17 June: The years is almost 50% over and I've run almost 10% of this distance. That's partly because I spent a lot of time on the bike trip, but I'm really going to have to get going on this one.
  Year-end Update: This really didn't work out. I don't really have a good excuse.

• Finish the tough mudder in under two hours

  My tough mudder is April 27th. I really don't think two hours is going to be too tough, but I haven't been able to find any other final results or anything, so for now that's what it is.
  Update as of 17 June: This didn't quite happen. The course was a lot muddier than I expected, but mostly the problem was that I was too fat and out of shape.

• Get skinny

  In order to help accomplish my tough mudder goal, part of my preparation will be losing weight. I will get my body mass below 73kg by the date of the tough mudder. It is currently about 80kg, so I have a little work ahead of me. I'd actually like to lose a little more than that, but anything extra will be considered bonus.
  Update as of 17 June: I didn't get skinny by the posted deadline which is why my tough mudder was slower than I had hoped, but my bike trip did get me fairly skinny. I'm down to about 74kg, and I'll work hard to get it coming down.
  Year-end Update: Although I was skinny again after the bike trip, I gained the weight back. This will be a priority in 2014.

• Do pushups every day

This is similar to a resolution I made in 2011, but this time I'm using an idea I learned from my friend Anne. I'll write all of the numbers between 1 and 365 and each day I'll choose a number (not randomly, but intelligently), do that many pushups, and cross the number off the list. I'll have an actual paper copy, a copy on my computer, and a copy here on the website to prevent tragedy if something gets lost or corrupted.
Update as of 17 June: This is going great so far.
Year-end Update: Put simply I successfully completed this resolution. The data is available as ods and xls. There are a few minor errors in the accounting of how many pushups I did each day which can be seen in the linked data. The errors generally fall into one of three categories, none of which I consider major:

1. Daily total entered after midnight. I didn't require myself to complete my daily pushups by midnight as many people suggested, but rather by when I went to bed for the night. If I was going to bed at 1:00 am and glanced at my phone's clock for the date as I entered the tally, the date would say the next day. This happened a few times and resulted in, for example, two entries for 28 September and no entry for 27 September
2. Wrong month entered: After typing in a date in March for an entire month, it is easy to continue typing March even after April has arrived. This results in, for example, two entries for 03 March, and no entry for 03 April
3. Forgotten entry / Unknown mistake: On days when I completed all of my pushups early in the day, it is easy to forget to enter the total in the spreadsheet. I'm totally confident that I did pushups every day this year, but there were apparently two days during the year when I forgot to enter the total. In order to correct for this, I still did the last two days of pushups on January first and second 2014. There were a few other goofy entries that I'm not quite sure of, but, aas I mentioned, I'm confident that I did pushups each and every day, and the pushups were at least as many as the recorded number.

Wish me luck!