Hello friends and Happy Monday! I was up early in order to spend some quality time at the office catching up on emails before French lessons and a busy day of work. Waking up at 5:30 isn’t early but it’s nearly impossible when insomnia or jet lag wakes me up at 1:30am after 3 quality hours of sleep. I hope that fun is over because home girl needs a good nights rest tonight.

I find it hard to believe that August is here! This evening I spent some time reviewing my July goals and well, let’s just say, I didn’t exactly achieve them.

I completed the Geneva Triathlon, I got my Swiss drivers license and I was fully present with my friends and family during our vacation. But, I did not complete all my run workouts, practice yoga weekly, or make the blog updates. I have started making some back end updates to the blog but still have some things looming on my to do list, including updating my race recap and travel section.

This month, my goals are a bit more focused in hopes that I’ll achieve them.

Fitness: This is the most important month of marathon training in preparation for my September 28th marathon. Coming back from my vacation break this month is all about building confidence and a strong base. I’ll run my first 20 miler this month along with 3 other long runs. But, I know that the long run is no more important for my confidence than the weekly tempo and speed runs, which by the end of the month will reach 8 miles in distance! So far I’ve really enjoyed the Run Less, Run Faster training method but with only 3 runs per week missing them isn’t an option these final 8 weeks. In addition, now that I’m back in Geneva, I have no excuse not to practice yoga once a week at InnerCity Yoga!

Personal: Whenever I visit a museum or city I find myself buying postcards and fun cards. Now that pile of cards has turned into a stack of more than 30 cards waiting to greet someone and bring a smile to their face. Today I took the first step and bought stamps for all these cards which, by the way, is $1.90 from Switzerland to the US. Now I just need to start writing!

Blog: I’m using my Pinterest upcoming race board to capture all the races I’ve signed up for or want to do over the next few months. My goal is to update this board tonight and then ensure that I keep updating it as I register for new races. While I’ve made progress on the back end of the blog I hope that the third time is a charm for finally updating my race recap page!

How did your goals go last month? Any big, hairy audacious goals this month?