Running Towards 2025 (literally): My Big 2025 Goals and How I’m Tackling Them

This week, I’m reflecting on the whirlwind energy of December. Between marathon training, reconnecting with friends, and tackling holiday plans, it’s been a lot—but in the best way. Tune in as I share updates on my 2025 fitness goals, why meaningful gift-giving matters, and how I’m reframing alone time during the holidays.

Transcript

 Hello and welcome to the new episode. Excuse my voice if I hear, if you hear it's a little hoarse.  I am just so over socialized with my, all my holiday plans that I almost lost my voice yesterday, I swear. I was at a gathering in the morning, then I had another meeting with a friend and then I went, was at a party.

at night with another one. Yeah, my voice is a little off today, what can I tell you? I'm an accountable person. I'm disciplined. So I have to record this. And I also just woke up because I have a bunch of plans today too. Yeah. This season is just crazy. And I like it that way actually, because normally people they're doing their own thing.

They want to connect again, and I find it really nice I've reconnected with a bunch of people I haven't seen in a while and in December somehow everybody manages to find time.

And I think it's really nice to do that even if during the year it's not always possible. At least people prioritize it in December, so yeah, even though I'm over socialized and tired, I know that soon it's going to, there's going to be time when I'm by myself and I don't have that much to do because I told you guys I've been spending the holidays alone.

And I think next week I'm going to make an episode about how to handle that emotionally And fun ideas that you can do if you're spending them alone  I'm, not sad about it in the slightest and I still have some friends who are in the city So we might do something  but yeah, i'm not sad about it.  It's just a matter of reframing and a matter of Knowing yourself as I always say.

So yeah, let's get into the episode. I want to talk about the 2025 goals today And  I've set myself some very ambitious ones. Let me tell you. They all have to do with fitness obviously, but yeah I fully committed to the Miami Marathon  end of January. No, I think it's February 2nd, actually so I've fully committed to that and I started training  and It is interesting.

It is not hard for me to run at all, and I'm running at a chill speed because you don't sprint the marathon, right? So my goal is to just finish. If I can finish in four minutes and, sorry, four hours, 44 minutes, that would be great. Because it's a pretty number, first of all, and second of all, 445 is an average result.

So I want to be just above average, and that's actually what happened to me with  The half marathon. I finished, I think the average was 225 and I finished in 219 and I was really happy with that. So as long as I'm,  honestly, I'm saying now as long as I'm done in 444, but like I feel like as long as I'm done, I'm just gonna be happy because 440 kilometers is no joke guys. 

It's serious because I feel like you can raw dog a calf, which is what I did  in last January But this one no, I have to train and it's not my endurance that worries me. It's more like  Because my vo2 max is pretty good  and vo2 max is How much oxygen your lungs consume so like my lungs my is fine.

My lungs are fine and my heart is fine Like I ran 12k on the treadmill yesterday and I wasn't even out of breath  and i'm not flexing I promise i'm just going through the process and explaining why i'm actually so anxious about it but  When I was running a half marathon,  I got problems where I didn't expect them from.

I got like blisters on my chest from wearing a sports bra. Someone like a couple of fingers were like bleeding. My sock was covered in blood. So it's more like I'm scared that I'm going to get a blister or I'm scared that it's going to make it insanely uncomfortable for me to run or I'm going to burn or something.

It's stuff like this that I'm worried about. And I'm obviously scared that. That's why I'm doing so much like stretching and ankle stability and lagrime because it's so important to have your tendons and ligaments ready so they can hold the weight. and the muscle and the bones and all of that.

I don't want to end up injured, obviously. And I'm not a runner and it's a relatively high impact exercise for somebody who doesn't run. So yeah, that's why I'm training. I am anxious, not going to lie, but I know that when I'm done, I'm going to feel so good about myself and it's going to be an insane feeling.

And that kind of keeps me going. I'm going to make a series of videos on socials about what mental tricks I use to get through my runs because I have so many already. And yeah, and I'm also trying to make myself as miserable as I can while I train so that the marathon feels more fun. Better like for example, I don't let myself listen to music.

I let myself listen to podcasts, which is not the same But I like reward myself with a song every mile. But yeah, it's gonna be part of my series So if you were interested if you're a runner  and all my socials and yeah I'm gonna be posting about that because I don't want to take up time here Yeah, and another thing I signed up for I think I don't remember if I told you last week, but I signed up for Actually didn't because I haven't yet.

Yeah, I signed up for Hyrox in Miami as well And that's gonna be end of April  and it's gonna be not just high rocks but high rocks pro which is basically male weights for everything and Because last year I did mixed doubles. So it was male weights, but we could split everything this time. It's just me I'm doing everything on my own and this makes me anxious to certain exercises Not all of them but certain exercises make me really anxious like Sled push and sled pull.

I know it's gonna, they're going to exhaust me. And if I don't recover properly, that's going to be a problem, but  it is what it is. Again, this one, I'm not setting a time goal at all. I just want to finish. And I think my marathon training is going to feed into my high rocks training because  running is such an important part of it.

And everybody says it's primarily a running workout, which I agree with, but also not fully, but I do think if I improve my running. I will do better. So these goals, they both feed into each other and I think  ultimately it's gonna be good for me and I'm trying to manage my anxiety because why can't I just be chill and be like a chill girl and go to the gym and do Pilates and don't do anything else but no, that's not me.

So I set up a bunch of goals and  it's fun that way. I think I'm slowly transitioning out of just doing weights. Like I still obviously want to do them and going to do them at least three times a week, because you know me, I'm such an advocate for strength training, but I want to do other stuff.

And it's fun for me to train for a goal. I think that's a different.  That supplements your training and compliments it really well, the way training and. ultimately you become stronger and I think it trains your body in the way you might not have expected in the past. And I think, yeah, ultimately it's all good to expose yourself to different types of training and activities to become an overall better athlete.

And yeah, that's what I'm doing. We also started training for, not training, studying to become a personal trainer or fitness instructor. This is just for myself, I obviously can, I know this stuff already, but there's just some concepts and some things that I'm a little fuzzy on. So I feel like that will help me and my friend Jamie, we decided to get certified by the, before the end of the year.

We booked our exam on December 31st and last week we were like, let's log in and let's just study. So that's what we're actually doing now. And it's fun, I'm not going to lie. I'm such a nerd at heart, so I romanticize studying a lot. And there is something about it when you're sitting in a coffee shop at night and you're just studying with your laptop.

And it's dark outside and cozy. It's also winter. So you have a hot chocolate maybe Like a tea or something and you're studying and you're highlighting and all of that There is something about that speaks to me and i've been really enjoying that even though there's a lot of information But you know anything that can be learned anything can be achieved through discipline I don't see it as problematic because i'm very proud of my discipline.

So yeah, i'm studying for that And i'll keep you guys updated on how it goes. There is some Things that I've encountered that I like. They require a lot of time to learn,  but overall it's really fun And I'm having a lot of fun, and I'm learning more and I'm gonna become better at it I'm gonna be more qualified to give  Actual training advice even though I do now, but I obviously don't Try not to overstep  I know it theories, but now I'm gonna know so many more things.

So yeah excited about that So because of all these things, I don't know and have time to read or watch anything I gave up on Alcatar.  I got to this Middle of  the second book and I still was not impressed and there was nothing steamy in it I don't know where it starts I don't know what the hell everybody's talking about, but I didn't see any steamy smutty shit.

So I'm I don't know and also partly I gave up on it because I got a skip the line copy at the library and half of the book is all I could get through in a year. And also like I think I have to read Caraval this week because I have to because I have to return to the library next week. So and maybe like I'm still I still have all of them on hold all the Akatar books so when I get them I'll probably finish at least like the second one and I'll see how that goes but so Honestly like I don't know what so far I don't see it What everyone's talking about it's okay, but I mostly started reading it for like relationship stuff and there was none of that So I gave up and yeah the only thing I want to recommend that I can't recommend this week because Again, i'm just so locked in into all the things that I don't have time to do anything it's dean ten on elm.

It's a cute study cafe. I studied there yesterday actually And it's really nice. It's very it's like on the bougier side, but You It's also very quiet and a lot of people come there to study and it's hidden away  And that way it's not like super crap. It was busy, but I think it's mostly used for people to lock in on their things and Yeah, it was a nice environment to study in and that's Oh, yeah, and another thing that I wanted to tell you is just as an encouragement While you're buying your christmas presents.

I was doing it yesterday and it's Just spend money on the people you love you might think oh this thing is expensive I can't afford it or like I'll have to find a cheaper alternative but there is nothing that gives you will give you so much joy as Seeing people be happy for the thing that you got them and you'll figure out the money.

Just make people around you happy. That's so important. And yeah. I just wanted to share this because this is so rewarding and people is all we have in this life, our friends, our family, our people, we care about our partners.  It's all we have and if you really value them, make sure they know it.

Just make sure You spend every time you are with them They know how much you value them because this is something that I appreciate from my friends and I know they do too  Just yeah, just make sure you give them  Your best  relationship at the level that you can with whatever type of relationship that you have because if you value somebody Don't hide it.

Like why hide it? You know what I mean? Yeah, so please go all in on your Christmas presents guys It's there is nothing else. I was just giving Christmas presents to a bunch of people yesterday. That's why I'm so Gun ho about it

 Relationships are so important and making people around you Happy is gonna make you so happy. And yeah, that's all I got for you  Excuse my voice again. I hope you could get through it  despite of it and I'll see you in the next episode