What in God's name is 'Nifty Fifty'? Well, it's an idea from a Scottish football forum, Pie and Bovril, where you pick 50 things that you aim to achieve over the course of the year.
The intention of this blog is to track my progress throughout the year.
Some activities are personally challenging, some are things I never bother to get round to doing due to a lack of time or laziness, and some are designed for 'self improvement', whatever that means.
So, here it goes...
*drum roll*
Introducing my 'Nifty Fifty' list for 2012:
Nifty Fifty List:
1. Run a sub-1:30:00 half-marathon
2. Run a marathon
3. Run an Urbanathlon
4. Run the SouthSide6
5. Do a spin class
6. Cycle (or run) to university
7. Cycle round Millport
8. Cycle from Glasgow to Edinburgh
9. Make my debut for local church football team
10. Attend 100+ football games
11. Attend a Barcelona game
12. Attend a Newcastle United game
13. Attend a Sunderland game
14. Attend a Carlisle United game
15. Attend the Scottish Cup Final
16. Attend the five remaining Scottish league grounds that I’ve not been to
17. Get my nephew to be the mascot at a Queen’s Park game
18. Go bowling
19. Go to Arran
20. Visit my friend’s gravestone
21. Pass all my university modules to the best of my ability
22. Have sex somewhere risky
23. Cook a 3-course meal
24. Play Monopoly
25. Play one full season of Football Manager 12
26. Update iPod and create playlists
27. Watch the Kings Speech
28. Create a Twitter account
29. Tell Rio Ferdinand over Twitter that he is ‘past it’
30. Delete my Facebook account
31. Drive somewhere over one hour away
32. Reverse park
33. Buy a HDMI cable
34. Buy a Newcastle United top with ‘BA 19’ on the back
35. Renew my SSC membership
36. Open a high interest savings bank account
37. Get eyes tested
38. Give blood
39. Read 10 books
40. Attempt to learn Spanish
41. Don’t get a train
42. Don’t answer the house phone
43. Don’t bet on sports events
44. Don’t eat chocolate sweets, pies, take-away meals and don’t drink fizzy juice
45. Play 5-asides regularly
46. Play snooker/pool regularly
47. Arrange to meet up with friends regularly
48. Babysit nephew regularly
49. Take a packed lunch to university regularly
50. Get absolutely sloshed on Queen’s Park promotion night
Six days into the year and none of 41-44 haven't been broken, although I bloody tipped that Peterhead would beat Elgin, Queen's Park would beat Clyde and Jamie Longworth would score. Of course all of these events happened and I didn't have money on it (43).
I've played one game of 5-asides and have a second game arranged for next Monday, therefore 45 has started well. As well as 46, as I played pool and renewed my club membership on Thursday.
The only other things on my list to have any (minimal) progress are 1-4 and 10. I've started up running again, the extra Christmas weight, and constant wind and rain are ensuring a challenge beginning to building up my fitness to meet my goals (1-4). I attended my first football game of the year on Monday, yet another victory for Queen's Park over Clyde (6 in a row), and will be at Fir Park on Saturday where Queen's Park take on Motherwell in the Scottish Cup.
Until next time; merry blogging and a Happy New Year.
