WODs in the woods and resolutions for 2014

Day 3 of the trip is a scheduled rest day OR a long, loopy run.  After completing 7 miles hiking up and down hilly lake trails, viewing our cabin from across the lake (yeah, last night, I was wondering as I looked across said lake:  "Wonder what's over on that little inlet..."), I don't feel the need to do much more than make my paleo dinner (pork roast, rosemary sweet potatoes, and brussel sprouts and kale) and rest my sore foot (PF started bothering me around mile 5), as well as thinking about my 2014 goals.  I'm really looking forward to a nice 2014.  Here's the main goals (may be a shocker to some as they are some deeply held goals):

1) Getting stronger and stealthier/faster (more power and speed) so I can compete in crossfit games
2) Learning and mastering Olympic lifts:  clean and jerk, snatches, and yeah, deadlifts
3) Relearning proper running gate and working on mobility to get rid of my PF once and for all
4) In addition to beautiful Blue Caravan, performing solo belly dancing (for fun--not for money) with Fred (my talented musician husband) playing--looking to do some tribal fusion pieces that implicitly or explicitly give voice to my heartsong - for the challenge and beauty
5) Figure out what to do about work--where I fit in (see diatribe below*)
6) Like my friend, read 60 books this year!  I'm on book one:  Insurgent (which is a reread, but I'm counting it).

*I love teaching and I do like 5th grade, but I need some intellectual stimulation (like last year).  I'm sick of the freaking evaluations based upon my students' gains, and I think the freaking formal evaluation dance is stupid and pointless because it is not about real learning.  I want to teach...I don't mind motivating a group of kids who are unmotivated, but I want to have a class where kids are curious and want to learn and read, not just the hardest cases ever.  I need HOPE, not endless nights of wondering how my students will survive the night, let alone their adolescence with the odds they are up against.

 I absolutely love reading, but if you tie me to gains on a freaking test given one time with a group of students who read at a 1st grade and 2nd grade level, that takes all the fun out of it.  It's not fair to them and it's not a reflection on what really matters the most--learning is amazing.  Looking forward to working this out some how.  Rant done.