400 down, 9,592 to go!

I officially logged in my 400th training hour this week and I’m pretty proud of the milestone.  It’s not a very big one, but still, I think it shows a lot in the arena of “intent of pursuing 10,000.”  Just a few months ago this was all a hypothetical conversation with a lot of “what ifs” and “is it possibles,” and although I’m nowhere near answering the latter, at least I’ve swallowed my medicine and am out there giving it my all on a daily basis (Well, perhaps not daily, I do take one day off to maintain certain levels of sanity..).

And, there’s no place I’d rather be.  Still.

Looking a bit down the road, I’m excited about crossing over 500 some time next month.  It will be a nice little milestone, 5% of my 10,000 hour goal, or 1/20th of the way there.  When I hit 100 and thought about being 1% into the plan I was a bit daunted and almost discouraged about the journey ahead, but 5% is a real chunk.  This is not to say that I’m looking forward to finishing my 10,000 hours, by any means.  It’s more about realizing that the amount of work that is necessary to put in to really excel at something (again, I’ve yet to prove that, but that’s the theory we’re testing here) is not overwhelming, especially if you can break it down into chunks and have little goals to look forward to along the way.  I’m definitely going to celebrate my 500th hour, but when 1,000 hits, that’s going to be a time for a real party!

regardless of numbers, I had a perfect week by all means.  My putting felt good, my energy was up every day until Friday when I hit a bit of an end-of-the-week wall, and my morale was tops.  I’m going to have to look back and read my daily training thoughts notes when it’s the middle of the winter and remember that weeks like this one exist in the world!

I’ve taken today off to let my body rest a bit and then am heading out to see Christopher out at Pumpkin tomorrow for a lesson.  This coming week is going to be a bit unusual as far as training goes because I’m going to be visiting my brother and his family in Omaha, so will have to check out some of the greens out there for a few days.  Will let you know how that goes soon..