Sharing your goals on a public blog adds extra pressure to actually complete them. Thankfully, most of my friends and family don’t know I blog, so the embarrassment is not too big. I set some goals last year, and now is the moment to look back and see how well I did.

• ✅ I’ll try to climb Vihren (2 failed attempts in 2024) – success
• ✅ I’ll try to keep an average of 10k/day for 2025 as well but increase the difficulty by doing more hiking and less city – success for the steps and mostly for the hiking as well
• 🚩 I’ll try to add 1h/week of gym time, starting with body weight exercises like push-ups and plank. – failure

Honestly, the Vihren goal was too optimistic and we stopped doing hiking after it. I don’t know what happened with the gym idea. I did a grand total of under 1 hour of exercise. I don’t have an explanation, it was never part of my todo, had zero interest in spending time on it, and just dreaded the idea that I’m going to do that. But, reality is, that I need to find a way to do it.

So, for 2026, let’s try again:

• 10K steps on average for the year – it is at risk because one of my knees doesn’t feel right
• Get back to the mountain and post 3 bean soup blog posts. The mountain misses me
• Make one pull-up

Wish me luck.