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Seattle Half marathon, here I come. I signed up for seattle 2013 half marathon   which will take place on Dec 1, 2013. My current training plan is to run 2.5 miles every other day around the neighborhood. I am using mapmyrun app to track my workouts. Based on todays run I am doing an average of 11 minutes per mile and that puts me around 134 minutes at top pace and a reasonable 150 minutes for a half marathon. Over the next few months my goal is to Keep running regularly. Find different routes on good sunny days. Go up to 5 miles per run. Improve rhythm and running style.  

Often students are told that they must think "critically" if they are to succeed. Can we identify the skills and underlying techniques that allow us to think better? Smart thinking means knowing how to Work out and express your main ideas Plan your communication of ideas so that they can be clearly understood Check to see if you have covered all the important part of your topic Establish a framework or structure in which your basic facts and evidence make sense Present ideas by linking them together to convince readers of your conclusion

I never really kept any new years resolutions, but I always wondered why. Why it is hard to keep the resolutions that are good for you? Is it because you don't really believe in the benefits of your resolution or is it that you are just plain lazy. I think it is because over the time the resolution looses its value as other things in life come up and the initial focus of why you made a resolution in the first place. So one idea that will help is write down the real reasons behind the resolution. Why its important. For this year I am keeping my resolutions really simple. I reserve the right to add more to this list. I do want to keep this list really real so I do not want to add the things that I would like to do. May be wish list is another list I should keep. Write at least one blog post a day. Run Seattle half marathon.