Hello and welcome to Best Laid Clans.

This is your host Sarah Hart Unger and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning

and planning adjacent.

Okay, so last week when I did the podcast episode, I talked about how I had a marathon coming up and how I might do a bonus episode all about how that went.

But then I had a friend remind me that marathon training and setting a goal like a marathon and seeing it come to fruition is very much planning adjacent.

There was actually a ton of planning and goal setting that went in

to last weekend's adventure. And so I'm doing this as a regular episode. Even if you're not

into running and you find the idea of marathon training incredibly boring, I hope that this is still

a fun episode to listen to. And I hope it doesn't come across as bragging. Honestly, I'm going to talk

about lots of failures on my way to this past weekend's success, and I think there are some

takeaways about goals in general that can be found in my journey and a lot of things that I learned

along the way as well. So buckle up, because I'm going to take you on a ride, and we're going to kind start back way, way back. because I'm going to take you on a ride and we're going to kind of start

back way, way back. And I'm going to talk about my marathon journey. All right, here we go.

So I have run five marathons now and I don't know when I first got the idea that I wanted to qualify for the Boston Marathon in my head.

But it had to have been from 2006 or earlier because I found a blog post where I answered a survey of seven things that I wanted to, quote, do before I die.

Actually, the list is entitled, seven things I plan to do before I die.

Number one, get married.

I wrote, this will be an easy one. And I think that's because my wedding was coming up in a month

or something. This is in 2006. Number two, raise three children. Hmm, glad that worked out for me.

Obviously, that's not something that you necessarily have a lot of control over, but I'm so happy that that

did work out the way I wanted it to. Number three, settle into a fulfilling, rewarding,

rewarding, and engaging career. Yes, I feel like I can definitely say that about my two careers

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