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It's Over!

I had my last race of the season a few weeks ago.  I always like to reflect on my performances when I know I am done for the year.  Last year I wrote a blog post defining my 2012 season goals.  Part of looking back on my season is to identify what goals I achieved and what goals I didn't achieve.  I also want to plan my 2013 season races and goals based on my achievements in 2012.  This is a brief recap of what I planned for 2012 and what I actually did: January - Arizona Marathon - goal was to PR with under 3:39 Did not PR did 3:45 February - Panama 70.3 - have a PR (personal record) for a half I didn't have a PR however I qualified for 70.3 World Championships which was even better than a PR and totally unexpected.   April - Rage Half Ironman - goal was to have a really strong bike performance I beat my bike performance by almost 20 minutes over the previous year and beat my overall time by 15 minutes over the previous year.  My run was slower than the previo