Over the next several posts, I will begin to describe my strategy for the next 10 weeks or so. As of right now I'm going solo - no coach.
When I’m not doing my triathlon stuff, my day job is in the world of process improvement and metric reporting. One of the first things I do before I begin an improvement effort is to take a snapshot of where we are today: a baseline. The same holds true for my training.
So let's look at our starting points:
- Best recorded 5k time: 32:33 (hey, I never said I was a FAST triathlete!),
- Longest pain-free run: 6.5 Miles (I have run a ½ marathon, 3 years ago, but soon after plagued with ITBS so we are not counting those miles),
- Longest Bike Ride: 35 Miles
- Longest continuous swim: ½ mile; longest swim workout (with breaks): 1 mile
- Current Weight: ??? Sorry World, that’s one baseline I won’t be sharing, other to tell you that since my “Goddess of War” posting, I am no longer in the Athena division!
- Limit my Ben and Jerry's consumption to 2x a month and only the dixie cup size
As you can see, we have a long way to go to get me to Ironman.
Now that we know where I am, here are my goals for the 1st 6 months of the year:
- Break 30 minutes in my 5K time
- Run 13 PAIN FREE miles (discomfort is okay – pain not OK)
- Increase my long ride distance to 50 miles
- Get my ‘long swim’ up to ¾ mile with good form and technique, maintaining a 1:50/100 yard average.
- Lose a few more pounds – let’s say 5.
What do you think everyone? Reasonable? Attainable? What are some of your goals for this year?
I say extremely reasonable and attainable.. how bad do you want it? just keep asking yourself that question when in doubt..that is what I do and it brings me back up to wanting to reach higher than my goals. Its all about you sistah!
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