The New Year is always a good time for making sports-related resolutions. In this post, I offer up the example of Peter O’Brien. In a Globe and Mail article, O’Brien wrote about spending a year rowing, biking, and running. His goal was to do a kilometer for each day and for each exercise. In the article, O’Brien wrote:
As I reach the end of 2010, I am pleased to say that I met my goal: I have biked 365 km this year, I have rowed 365 km this year and I have run 365 km this year. Not bad, if you don’t mind me saying, for a 53-year-old guy more comfortable in front of a screen or sitting with a book than hanging out in the locker room.
In the end, a rather non-athletic writer was able to meet his goal by being consistent, but not over-strenuous, and by keeping a careful tally of his ongoing achievement. So why not set a goal for yourself for the 2011 rowing season? All you have to do is take O’Brien’s advice: “Don’t think about all the reasons why you don’t want to do this. Just get moving.”