How Do You Measure Success?

I keep asking myself how to measure success in this quest for fitness and continued progress toward achieving one's desired goals.

I continue to work pretty hard.....sometimes, perhaps, too hard. Today I ran the Dutton (MT) Fun Days 5k and the results were less than desirable in my quest to break the 8 min. average mile barrier. I turned in what seems like a turtle's pace 26:09 time, which translates to something right at 8:20 miles.

Could be my workout yesterday had some impact on today's time. I know that it usually isn't a great idea to log a hard day right before a quest to run a personal best......but that's just what I did.

Because sometimes life gets in the way a bit, I haven't gotten the workouts in that I have wanted to so I went ahead and did a 5 1/2 mile run followed by a 6 mile bike ride yesterday. Wrong thing to do? Don't know for sure. I think that the real results will show up a little further down the road.

Could be it made me a little slower today, but I'm betting that I will reap positive results in future efforts.

Mostly, I really love to work out. I'm looking forward to wrestling in the Big Sky State Games next weekend and then re-directing my training and thinking toward my first ever triathlon in August.

I do hope that you are achieving your fitness (and life) goals. Keep rockin'!