{"id":7031,"date":"2018-01-08T23:44:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T22:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielebesana.com\/blog\/?p=7031"},"modified":"2019-11-15T18:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T17:47:13","slug":"2017-year-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielebesana.com\/blog\/life\/2017-year-review","title":{"rendered":"2017: a Wonderful Year of Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2016 I achieved three out of four goals<\/a>, Then I set the bar a bit higher: five goals for 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I failed at almost all of them but hey<\/strong>, it’s still alright.<\/p>\n

In this article I’ll go over the goals first, and then cheer myself up with 5 things that matter.<\/p>\n

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Goals Review<\/h2>\n

1. Run 10km in 42 minutes<\/h2>\n

\"fail\"<\/p>\n

This hurts! My goal was to run 10K under 43 minutes, so I trained accordingly. For the first time I regularly mixed steady run, interval training and tempo run. And I became faster, the fastest I have ever been.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was set for success. I trained in Italy, Netherlands, Bali, Philippines, Singapore, looking forward to the 10K running events in autumn. September arrived, and I felt ready.<\/p>\n

I set a new 10K PB at 44:05<\/strong> thanks to my buddy Dave, that very generously paced my run and didn’t even wanted a beer in return.<\/p>\n

I desperately wanted to get to sub-43 minutes, so I signed-up for all the races<\/strong> available before leaving for Asia again.<\/p>\n

I did 5 races in 5 weeks:<\/p>\n

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  • Van Amsterdam Noord: 10K @ 44:05<\/strong> (on my watch)<\/li>\n
  • Dam tot Damloop: 16K @ 1:14:45 (my favorite event, it was fun!)<\/li>\n
  • Haarlem Half Marathon: 10K @ 45:26<\/li>\n
  • Run for Kika: 10K @ 43:52 (but the length was actually 9.5 km and I wanted to kill the organizers)<\/li>\n
  • Sloterplasloop: 10K @ 45:28<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    It was so disappointing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Racing every Sunday has the opposite effect I wanted: instead of improving, I was getting slower, tired and frustrated.<\/p>\n

    One race was 10,2 km. One was 9,5. The length was never correct, there was always something wrong, and my goal seemed impossible to reach.<\/p>\n

    I left to Singapore and SE Asia so demotivated that I almost didn’t run for the past two months.<\/p>\n

    But hey, <\/strong>I run a total of 850km and set new PB for 1K, 1mi, 5K and 10K.<\/p>\n

    Always look at the bright side of life.<\/p>\n