Goals

2027

  • Barcelona Half-Marathon (if I get ticket)
  • Barcelona Marathon (booked, marathon number 8), with new training plan
    • weekly LSD half-marathon: sprints Monday, intervals Tuesday, long run Thursday, half LSD Saturday
    • Try to get into Yoga stretching as an experiment
  • Spanish A1 DELE A1
    • Instituto Cervantes, first official diploma on the way to B1/B2
    • daily Pimsleur, a few short sessions a day
    • so I can actually talk to people
  • Sell Dublin?
  • Saxophone, learn 8 Queen songs
  • Research more — Mérida or Sagunto
  • Update SWE to AI Engineering

2026

  • Spanish B1/B2 (progressing)
    • daily Pimsleur listening and word lists
  • Saxophone Intermediate Level 2
    • alto sax, Scott Paddock Sax School pathway: Intermediate 2 now, Early Advanced next (bebop, altissimo, Charlie Parker)
    • IrishSax on YouTube, short practice livestreams to build the habit and start the channel
  • Barcelona Half-Marathon (DONE)
  • Barcelona Marathon
  • Vienna Marathon?
  • Book 2 (sci-fi), drafted first thing every morning before coffee