1. Take care of family
2. Stay employed
3. Spring Marathon <3:30
4. 5k PR — sub 21 min 5k
5. Add 2 new marathon states to my list
6. Learn to recover from marathons properly
7. Monkey IV, November 2009 <4:00 <3:45
8. >2000 miles for 2009
9. Drop below 160 #.
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