Goals for 2010
Flavadave
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As the title says, what are your goals for 2010? Thought it might be good for people to get them out there so to speak . Always makes it a bit more real I find and more likely to happen.
Is this your first season in triathlon? Have you signed up for any yet? Are you making the move up a distance? Or are you concentrating on getting faster? Are you hoping to beat last years time? Or are just in this for the hell of it?
Okay I'll go first... My goals this year are
Complete a half iron distance (Swashbuckler) in any time
Complete an iron distance (Big Woody) in any time.
Beat my friends again at London Sprint and go sub 1hr 20 (yikes!)
Windsor OD, just because I love the event!
So come on guys and gals... What goals you got?
Is this your first season in triathlon? Have you signed up for any yet? Are you making the move up a distance? Or are you concentrating on getting faster? Are you hoping to beat last years time? Or are just in this for the hell of it?
Okay I'll go first... My goals this year are
Complete a half iron distance (Swashbuckler) in any time
Complete an iron distance (Big Woody) in any time.
Beat my friends again at London Sprint and go sub 1hr 20 (yikes!)
Windsor OD, just because I love the event!
So come on guys and gals... What goals you got?
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I'm going to keep mine more general which is linked to coached etc:
1. I want to improve on my front crawl. Feeling better about it now than last year. Hope this will shave a few mins of my current best time for 1500m OW at 28mins ish
2. Improve on hils on the bike. I am not as fast and powerful on the bike as I would like. I can easily hammer out 20mph+ on the flats/ slight inclines but I need to improve on the hills.
3. Increase in stamina on the run. I can run 10k+ but not brilliantly.
My biggest aim is to do a sub 13hrs IMUK finish but I've love a closer to 12hrs finish. I know this is a tall order but I'm ready for the training that I've got in front of me.
I want to return to Strathclyde and do the OD there, I had a shocker last year so I want to see what I can really do there as well.
I'm generally going to stay away from sprints this year as I don't think they will do me much good if I'm going long. So I need to focus on pace and staying the distance. Can't bloody wait.
Other sub-goals are:
- complete my two 5km swimathins in under 2:00, front crawl all the way
- finish the four 100+ mile Sportives
- complete IM UK 70.3 (my B race)
- beat 2009's time at The Little Woody, or better still, have a go at and finish The Big Woody
- set a new PB at ParkRun
Keep my job, keep the bailiffs from the door, train effectively, recover well, and stay injury free.
Seems pretty easy now I've committed it to t'internet
1. Complete first Half Iron Distance event (New Forest Middle) in under 6Hrs 30min.
2. Get a Gold Medal time for the Dartmoor Classic 100KM Sportive.
3. Beat my times for Mylor Sprint, Bodmin Sprint.
4. Fit in an OD race in August.
5. Open water swim train at least once per week, between April & October.
6. Keep up the Turbo Training all season.
7. Up my running milage.
I think that should keep me busy!!!!!
ithurts
Goals:
Run - target 10k in under 40mins (current offroad 10k PB of 52mins with no specific training) and 5k in under 18mins
Swim - to be knocking out swim sessions effortlessly, with most emphasis on getting technique spot on rather than time goals
Bike - I guess just to spend more time in the saddle of a road bike, good on a bike already so not much work required here
Generally, just to maintain weight and work on making core exercises part of my workouts
Finish my first OD, in under 2h30 (I may end up regretting this goal, as it’s the Yorkshireman. On the other hand, we may be swimming with the current…)
Run the Lincoln 10k in under 38 minutes.
Finish top 5 in my age group in the Woodhall spa and Southwell sprint tris.
Support my sister in law at IMUK
Have fun!
1-Complete Arundel tri in may I've entered.
2-Get the balls to take swimming lessons( I need them)
3-Hever Tri oly
4 10k sub 45min (PB 46:45)
5- STOP buying everthing Tri related (although I'm certain I need a Colnago Primavera-right??)
1. Sub 40 10k in August.
2. Sub 1:30 for a half mary.
3. 3:15 for a full.
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99. Sub 60 minute 40k TT.
1. Complete the Paris marathon in sub-3:45
2. Complete the Swimathon a week later in sub-2:15
3. Complete my first ever Sprint Tri in June (QE2 Sprint triathlon)
...and closer to halfway through the year I'll regroup and plan the rest. Possibly attempting an Olympic distance in Septemer.
2. Destroy my Little Woody time from last year (shouldn't be too hard)
That is all.
Complete the bath half |Marathon in under 1.45
Complete a sprint in under 1.15
A few odd cross country/adventure runs.
And what ever life throughs my way!!!
- consider trying for under 4 hours at Brighton marathon if I can do it without pushing it too hard and jeopardising my other goal (couple of minutes off)
but mainly I'm with JellyBaby on this one
- complete and enjoy IM Switzerland (and be alive at the end - less worried about the time!) Hurrah!
Happy 2010 everyone!
This is my 1st year at triathlons, so in addition to losing the belly -
Enter at least 1 Sprint Tri a month from March (East Leake tri, and Emergency Service Tri already signed up!)
Enter the Hathersage Hilly as well as The Helvellyn Tri.
If all goes well then maybe step up distance to enter an Olympic distance tri towards the end of the season?
Get myself ready to try a 70.3 next year!
Avoid injuries!!!
oh...and apparently get married in July?
not fall into the sea doing 10k Pembrokeshire trail run March
beat 1:38 time from last years Cardiff Tr a tri May
do first OD at Wetherby May
70.3 Antwerp July - complete and eat as much chocolate as womanly possible afterwards
Get some systematic training in
Have fun!
This means a slightly less aggressive race schedule, focus on short events, focus on cycling/swimming.
I have a few progression objectives which will determine which way the season goes - a weekend swim workship in just over a week, a TTT in March, a sprint in April.
My goals are just health and fitness for this year (after last year being wiped out with injury and operations).
UK Ironman 70.3 (Under 6:30)
UK Ironman (to finish main goal - under 13 hrs preferable )
Not get Shot by the Misses for spending too much on Tri
1. Beat my last sprint time of 1:20
2. Complete an olympic distance race in September
Ideally I'd like to do the Olympic in under 3 hours but to be honest I just wanna complete it!
Oh......and buy a really nice TT bike but that's down to my bank manager
First sprint in duston in Apr
An Olympic, probably the Dambuster
And then finish off with a sub 1h45 in the Bristol 1/2 marathon. I got 1h50 last year so I reckon the triathlon lark will take off another 5 mins!
London Olympic Distance - First triathlon so goal is just to finish!
Oslo Sprint Distance - Week after London so again goal just to finish.
New York Marathon - PB of under 4 hours.
really learn how to write my OWN training schedule.
didds
go faster in my local sprint than last year then cycle home afterwards.
Complete my middle distance for TEAM LAWS without dying.
Enter two 70.3's for 2011( and take my family skiing)
finish ballbuster in November
The only fly in the ointment is that my current PB was set during one of my few sober moments in the 80s when I got round 13 mile in Bodo (Norway) in just over 96 minutes. 23 years of smoking, drinking and generally abusing my body don't make it an easy goal but I'm scarily closer to running the right sort of times in training than I thought I would be or have any right to be.
Sub 11 at IMCH
mmm, simple..!
2) Start eating a bit more sensibly. Less biscuits!
3) Finish my first sprint in under 2 hours
2) finish 1st half marathon in under 2 hours
3) beat 1hr 20min for a sprint tri
4) train well and stay fit
1) Blackpool Marathon: Ideally go sub 3 hours....but id be happy with sub 3:15 - training not being geared towards marathon.... this will be my first.
2) Complete Dambuster Standard in sub 2:05
3) Finish top 40 Overall at the World Long Course Champs in Baveria
4) Finish top 10 AG at the World Long Course
Goals for 2011 are:
Sub 10 hour IM
Qualify for Kona
Generally Work towards turning pro
1. Uckfield super spring
2. Steyning Spring (must do better than last year!)
Get used to Christmas present... Cervelo S1 bike......