2014 Goals

So when I turned 29 in October of 2013, I found it stupid easy to feel sorry for myself because I was going into my last year of my 20s. How dumb! I am a Spartan and 2013 was already turning out to be awesome so why feel sorry for myself! I’m still so young, right? (Sorry, I’m not rubbing it in!)

2014 (my 29th year) will be EPIC! I’m going to continue on my health journey, be the fittest I’ve ever been, do tougher, scarier races AND we are going to find the men who killed my father in 2012!

1. At least 2 Spartan Trifectas
2. Do a Tough Mudder
3. At least 12 OCRs total for the year
4. Drop the last 30lbs.
5. and/or get to 18%BF
6. Finish the Indiana Sprint in under 1.5 hours.
7. RAISE THAT $10k FOR MY DAD’S REWARD MONEY TO FIND THE MEN WHO KILLED HIM! (murder case link here)

I’m excited for the year. We started it off right with my FSU Seminoles winning the BCS Championship! Sunday I change things up with eating according to my macros! I lost 35lbs. last year with my version of healthy eating and portions and working out 4-5 days a week adding more weights. I want to lose body fat and build more muscle this year. Thanks to K Mae Cags in advance … I’m going to do this 8 week cycle and work my butt off!

Good luck to everyone in 2014!! Dominate those races, lose that weight, get healthy and love with your whole heart!

One of those days …

I’m having one of those days where nothing is good. I can’t get my dad out of my mind. The donations have slowed to a halt in our collection for his reward money, my family isn’t backing me up like I thought they would and my mother is severely depressed about it all. She’s a thousand miles away with my youngest brother. Things are hard on them. Their relationship strained.

I’m up here trying to do all I can to keep the normalcy in my own life. I’ve worked very hard to start over, to build a new life and to be happy since I moved here in 2011. After dad was murdered, trying to be the peace keeper, the pillar of strength and trying to figure out how to up the reward money is proving to be quite difficult especially from afar. I believe I can achieve the goals in finding dad’s killers from here. I just need my friends and family to back me up and most of them have and I love them for it. It’s just not as easy as I thought it would be to raise $10,000.

I have a Spartan Race on Saturday in Milwaukee that I’m so excited about. However, I let my (for some reason depressing) 29th birthday, the cold weather and the fact that I’m under 10% to my goal affect my mood. I’m not proud of that. Well I’m proud of the $930 I raised but not that I’m slacking on my self progress. I’ll get out of it. Soon. I hope.

But here is the link again to dad’s donation page. There are links to news reports on his murder as well as a little story I wrote to back up the reports. Pass along. Help me out! thanks!

http://www.johnpbrennan.myevent.com

Me and my dad.