Welcome to Wednesday Word, a weekly linkup for everyone, not just health and fitness bloggers. Each Wednesday you will have a single word prompt to write about. Let your imagination run free and share with your readers your interpretation of that word, or simply use it as inspiration for your post. Today’s word is ambitious…… I’d love to have you link up, and if you do, please remember to follow my six simple rules.
Ambitious – having ambition;
having a desire to be successful, powerful, or famous;
not easily done or achieved; requiring or showing ambition
~ Merriam-Webster
Of course not…
She simply needs the desire to be the best runner that she can be, while setting goals that aren’t easily achieved. Being ambitious means working hard, and aiming high relative to where that runner started.
For one runner, it might mean getting up earlier for tough workouts; and a tough workout could be working hard until being able to run a mile without taking a walking break, with the ultimate goal of running a 5K.
For another runner, it might mean hitting the track to run 10 x 800-meter repeats, each in 3:10 with the goal of running a 3:10:00 marathon.
And for yet another runner, it might mean getting up at 4:30 AM Saturday-after-Saturday to finish long training runs before herding the kids to soccer games while training for an ultra.
Whatever those ambitious goals, hard work will keep it exciting and hopefully bring success as those goals are realized.
Thanks to my friend Miles, I had ambitious goals when I started training for my first Marine Corps Marathon. With his guidance, I set a goal to BQ at that first marathon and to run the JFK 50-Miler less than a month later. For a beginner distance runner, those were ambitious goals, but I attained them through hard work and perseverance.
Would I recommend such ambitious goals for everyone? Not necessarily, but I certainly wouldn’t discourage them for anyone crazy enough to try. I would, however; encourage everyone to set ambitious goals and enjoy life to the fullest!
What is your most ambitious desire?
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Well, you will see in this week’s post that I took a different spin on ambition 🙂 But to answer your question FITNESS wise, my biggest ambition is to complete a half Ironman someday. But not in the near future!
Michele @A Pace of Balance recently posted…Wednesday Word: Ambition
I think doing a half Ironman is extremely ambitious. Heck, even wanting to do a sprint tri would be ambitious for me. Hope that dream comes true for you!
Obviously my big ambition is to finish a half in every state. Ambitious since I didn’t run my first until I was 50 & I’m not the type of runner who can run a half every weekend (even if I could afford all that travel!).
Judy @ Chocolaterunsjudy recently posted…Determination to succeed — ambitious, that’s me!
Ummm, yes, you are very ambitious to have a goal of running a half in every state!
Very interesting prompt. Ambitious…can mean different things to different people, and different things to the same person depending on time of the season. I have ambitious sleeping/recovery goals right now 🙂
Kelli recently posted…Woman Crush Wednesday
I like your current goals! 😀
I’d say that most of us running bloggers are ambitious, or we wouldn’t be writing about our goals! Sometimes, I get overwhelmed by my ambitions.
Wendy@Taking the Long Way Home recently posted…Ambitious
I think you’re exactly right!
Great post!!! Wow 50 miler-holy cow! Get it girl!
I love this!!! =……’the desire to be the best runner that she can be, while setting goals that aren’t easily achieved’-YES!!!!
Thanks! 🙂
Love this. Everyone has a different goal and being the best is such a relative term. Happy Wednesday!
Thank you! Hope you’ll join us in the link up sometime!
Wow that was ambitious of you to set that goal for your first marathon. That’s pretty inspiring.
Deborah @ Confessions of a Mother Runner recently posted…My First Client!~ The Husband Project
Thanks, Deborah! Perhaps I was more crazy than anything else!
My short-term goal is to have a strong finish at my first marathon. My think my most ambitious desire would be to BQ. I’m nowhere close. That’s where lots of hard work and determination come in to play. Wow. It is awesome you did this at your first marathon. Thanks for the link!
HoHo Runs recently posted…Being Ambitious
I once ran behind a guy during a marathon who’s shirt had this written across the back, “Every year older I get, I get closer to qualifying for Boston.” It gave me a nice little chuckle mid-race! I’m looking forward to following your Chicago Marathon escapades! Just wish I were running it, too!
To be a stronger and faster runner.
Darlene recently posted…Wednesday Word: Ambitious
Those are very good/ambitious goals.
It’s so awesome that you BQ’ed at your first marathon and then went on to run your first ultra only a month later! Crazy. My most ambitious goal is to run an ultra. And although I know they are two completely different beasts, the 50 miler and 100 miler top my list.
I wish I’d attempted a 100-miler when I was younger, so I’ll just have to live it vicariously through your experience! 😀