More on the running theme....
Nike+ has goals (that you set for yourself -- run a certain distance, run more often, increase your speed), challenges (interact with other runners), and now resolutions. When you meet your goals or win a challenge, you get trophies added to your trophy case. I generally don't make resolutions, but decided I could for this intance. So I looked at my stats.
2007 monthly totals of miles run:
That's a total of 324.4mi run/walked in 2007. My schedule varies alot from month to month, as you can see in April at May I ran more than 80 miles each month but didn't run a single time in July (I was on vascular nights -- one of the hardest rotations). I figure I should aleast be able to run that same distance in 2008 especially if it's a priority. Therefore, I've entered 325 miles in 2008 as my "resolution". This seems not too hard since that's 27 miles a month. BUT I know there are months that I won't be running much. For instance, for most of March, April & May I will be rotating at our hospital in Cambridge to which I ride my bike -- about 3.5 miles each way. Nike+ doesn't work on a bike, so there's no way to get credit for those miles. Nevertheless, I'm going to go for it.
Nike+ spreads out the "resolution" (325 miles in 2008) and asks your goal for January which I've set at 30 miles. Here's my January goal meter as of today (Edit: the goal meters update to real time whenever they are loaded, i.e. with each page load, so the meters are accurate to when you're reading this):
Part of me says that 30 miles in 4 weeks is a pretty lame goal, but then I remembered that most of the year I work 80 hours a week, so I'll cut myself some slack.