101 Goals In 1001 Days, Again
Some of you will remember my last 101 Goals In 1001 Days, it led to quite a lot of fun, gave me something to aim at over an extended period and completely transformed my fitness. People laughed when I said I would do a marathon and now I’ve done 2, I’m glad I surprised them.
I like that now people ask me “What adventures have you got planned?” and have been a bit sad about not having so much on the horizon and have been thinking about doing another 101 goals almost as soon as the last finished.
I held off officially starting as I have an ankle injury and a few of them are running and triathlon goals and I was still finalising the list, but I’ve decided to stop putting it off and just announce it. Let me know if you want to join in any.
I didn’t want to carry over any that I failed to do last time, but 3 on there are repeats I could not resist trying for again. I think the list is more realistic this time - less long and expensive trips on there, more ‘stepping stone’ type goals towards bigger ones.
Reading
1 - Read King James Bible
2 - Read Quran
3 - Read Paradise Lost
4 - Read Beowulf
5 - Memorise opening of Beowulf
6 - Read the Aeneid
7 - Read 5 old english poems
German
8 - Read Faust
9 - Read Kant
10 - Read Marx
11 - Learn every day for 6 months
Fitness
12 - Attend MMA Classes for 6 months
13 - Fight in a cage
14 - Squat 150kg
15 - Deadlift 150kg
16 - Press 150kg
17 - 100 press ups
18 - 10 pullups
Nature/Travel
19 - Trans Siberian Railway
20 - Meet David Attenborough
21 - See bears in the wild
22 - Okavango Delta
Running
23 - 20 min 5k
24 - 45 min 10k
25 - 2h Half Mara
26 - 4h30 Mara
Learning
27 - A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar
28 - Watch all Teaching Company Linguistics Courses
29 - Finish 10 online courses
30 - Fill all country names on a blank world map from memory
31 - Learn to dance
32 - Get some sort of postgrad qualification
33 - Learn To Read Hieroglyphs
34 - Learn to tapdance
Ancient Civilisations
35 - Visit Çatalhöyük
36 - Cork Megaliths / Brú na Bóinne / Skellig Michael
37 - Skara Brae
Hacking
39 - Finish 4clojure
40 - Seasoned Schemer
41 - Reasoned Schemer
42 - AIMA in clojure
43 - Build a robot
44 - Write a Go AI using Monte Carlo Tree Search
45 - Start using paredit
46 - Start using org-mode
47 - Write me a scheme in 48h
48 - Purely Functional Data Structures
49 - Structure And Interpretation Of Classical Mechanics
50 - Take part in Lisp In Summer Projects
51 - Write a goal tracking site
52 - Get something on KickStarter
Cycling
53 - Long distance cycle
54 - London -> Brighton
55 - Hardknott Pass
56 - Cycle to Amsterdam
Swimming
57 - Quarterly Wild Swim
58 - Swim 100
59 - Swim 500m
60 - Swim 1 mile
61 - Swim the Hellespont
OK this is a bit of a 'stretch’ goal :-D
Random
62 - Visit Mosslands (my secondary school)
63 - Visit 24th Wallasey (my old Scout troup)
64 - Visit Highclere Castle
65 - Play the harmonica
66 - Complete every Mario Game
67 - Write a book on infinity
68 - See Electric Six again
Triathlon
69 - Sprint
70 - Olympic
71 - Half Ironman
72 - Ironman
Outdoors
73 - Do bigish multi-pitch climb
74 - Get Single Pitch Award
75 - Climb HVS
76 - Ice climb
77 - Mountaineer a good grade
78 - Mt Blanc
79 - Elbrus
80 - Nehru Institute Of Mountaineering
This was on last time but I so so want to do it
81 - Multi-day canoe trip
82 - Sea kayaking
83 - Summer ML
84 - Winter ML
85 - Horseriding
86 - Catch and cook something
87 - Spend a night in a snow hole
Walking
88 - Walk London Loop
89 - Walk Capital Ring
90 - Yorkshire 3 peaks
91 - Do 20 munroes
92 - Do a UK long distance path at >30miles/day
93 - Walk 50 miles in a day
94 - Walk 75 miles in a day
95 - Walk 100 miles in a day
96 - Write an ebook on UK ultralighting
97 - Irish 3000ers
98 - Welsh 3000ers
Lifestyle
99 - Start a not (just) for profit venture
Being a trustee of the Forward Foundation I have been impressed by people doing amazing work in London and Africa and want to do something myself.
100 - No internet for a month or a day a week for 6 months
101 - Have a 3 month break from work
I am tempted by Hacker School but will see what I wind up doing, plan is to let side projects be the only projects for a while.
There it is then, any you want to join in on let me know.