goals for 2014

menoscemo

RayCun wrote: »

about 3.30
You probably haven't built up your endurance enough, or got your pacing right, for the marathon distance

I'd have actually said about 3:20. Mcmillan gives 3:14...

Irish_rat

Run my first full in Dublin

Continue with HM's and smash my first PB of 1:50 on a hard clon course

Do a lot better than my current PB 10km of 49.35

Stay injury free and continue to enjoy it!

cullenswood

This year I want to get sub 20 5k (current time 20:08, so should be achievable short term).

Also want to run my first HM, and am targetting a time below 100 mins. That will probably be later in the year though. Will have to up my long runs over the next few months though

jaggiebunnet

Sub 45m for 10k, did 45.02 last one so should be achievable!

Sub 70m for 10m, bit harder this one, did 78m for Ballycotton last year but have a lot more miles under my belt so hopefully that will help and the training i am doing.

sub 4hr for Cork Marathon, hopefully can do, did the cork to cobh 15m in 2hr 01min, will aim a bit higher but all depends on how i get on in training really.

funrunner95

RayCun wrote: »

about 3.30
You probably haven't built up your endurance enough, or got your pacing right, for the marathon distance

menoscemo wrote: »

I'd have actually said about 3:20. Mcmillan gives 3:14...

Cheers for the feedback its very much appreciated, maybe no harm in going for sub 3.30ish or less. Incidentally if we achieve these goals can we come back here and post them? It would be a bit of motivation for me!

RayCun

funrunner95 wrote: »

Cheers for the feedback its very much appreciated, maybe no harm in going for sub 3.30ish or less. Incidentally if we achieve these goals can we come back here and post them? It would be a bit of motivation for me!

There'd be no point in posting them up here otherwise

ciaranmac

1. Get back running again... starting tonight. I haven't been for a run since August so it won't be pretty.
2. Tuam 8K the weekend after next, that's depending how tonight's run goes.
3. Get a 10k under my belt in Feb or March. Preferably under an hour but I'd rather work on distance.
4. Connemara half.
5. DCM.

eyeball kid

First goal is to try and stay injury free. I always seem to get some sort of injury whenever I try to put in more miles.

HM - Current PB 1:58:12. Would love to get something under 1:50.
10K - Current PB 50:06. Target 48 mins.
Marathon - Depending on how my training goes for the Kildare Half marathon in Kildare, I hope to do a marathon later in the year, maybe Dublin. No particular time in mind for that, would just like to finish really.

RayCun

eyeball kid wrote: »

Marathon - Depending on how my training goes for the Kildare Half marathon in Kildare

Cancelled today

PaulieC

In no particular order

• Sub-40 10k
• Sub-19 5k
• More than 2k miles ran
• WW Ultra completed
• Conn Ultra
• Donadea
• Lots of IMRA races
• sub-11 second 100m

Not the last one though.

Gavlor

Sub 3 Mara

Sub 80 half

Sub 60 10 mile

Quit running

donnacha

Run 1,000+ miles in 2014 (727 miles in 2013)

Sub 1:42 HM (PB 1:44:37 - Aug 2013)

Sub 47m 10k (PB 49:25 - Apr 2013)

blockic

Gavlor wrote: »

Sub 3 Mara

Sub 80 half

Sub 60 10 mile

Quit running

Good few years left so..

Gavlor

blockic wrote: »

Good few years left so..

Mmwwahaha.... Did your girlfriend tell you to say that.... Oh crap wait, sorry dude

Peckham

Taking a bit of a stepback year (or two). Busy family and work life. Running has to play third place to those.

Two goals for next two years:
1. Beat my age in a 10k. (I turn 37 in March, so 36:xx)
2. Average 100 miles per month

mr.wiggle

Always good to give myself targets...

65.xx 10mile (71 min pb at mo)

1.25.xx HalfM ( Sub 1.30 at mo, just !)

3.05.xx Dublin M ( 3.15 at mo )

Now thats really gonna put me under pressure...eek !

echancrure

My Goals:

Staying injury free
Enjoying my training
Running my first Marathon (still looking after Kildare cancellation: Connemarathon?)
Running a Marathon under 3 hours 20 (in Belfast, in Waterford, in Dublin?)
Running a half-marathon under 1 hour 30 (currently 1:38)
Running a 10k under 40 minutes (currently 42'25'')
Running a 5k under 19 minutes (currently 19'17'')
Running for pleasure everyday, early in the morning, for two weeks in Spain in the summer holidays
Meeting other runners and sharing experience more

All the best to all!!

Bahanaman

Getting back into it after doing basically nothing since Waterford at the end of June last year! Injured after going back doing a bit of hurling!! I've learned my lesson on that one at last!! Not sure if I'm right but had to get back at it as I was going mental and was piling on the weight. So I suppose my first and main goal is to get through the year relatively injury free! More specifically then would be:

1. Do a lot more races of varying distances from 5k-marathon
2. Go sub 40 min for 10k
3. Go sub 3:10 for the marathon
4. Do a cross country race by the end of the year

skeleton_boy

1. Sub 3.10 marathon
2. Sub 90 min half
3. Sub 40 min 10K
4. Sub 20 min 5K
5. Do more to prevent injury.

rom

get sick less. everything else will happen if this does.

opus

My only real goal for the year is to finish Comrades in and around my target time from last year namely ~8:15. Weather on the day will play a big part as I found to my cost!

Apart from that I'd like to go under 4h at the Doneda 50k in Feb and perhaps knock a few mins for the Conn ultra in April.

Bit wishy washy I know

clear thinking

No PB goals in 2014 due to a plagued 2013 with a light-for-me 750 miles:

Jan-Feb: Base & Gym.
Mar: Target a decent performance in cross country bhaa.
Apr: Race a 5k in around 18.xx as a guide time for 5k specific training.
June: After 5 months base & 5k I will up the speed and down the mileage: 4 weeks track work for a mile race!
July-Aug: Aim for national half marathon.
Sep-Oct: Marathon build up, sub 3.00 would be nice :P ok that would be a pb there, but I'll assume the rest has gone well....

PaulieC

PaulieC wrote: »

In no particular order

• Sub-40 10k
• Sub-19 5k
• More than 2k miles ran
• WW Ultra completed
• Conn Ultra Some Park Runs
• Donadea
• Lots of IMRA races
• sub-11 second 100m

Not the last one though.

Word came down from on high that I have to cut out the frivolous spending while we decide where we are going on holidays and Conn represented the most frivolous of frivolity. Sure I can run 39 miles in Dublin for free apparently.

belcarra

PaulieC wrote: »

Word came down from on high that I have to cut out the frivolous spending while we decide where we are going on holidays and Conn represented the most frivolous of frivolity. Sure I can run 39 miles in Dublin for free apparently.

I foresee a Boards group run over the Art O'Neill route happening in April/May...

SamforMayo

PaulieC wrote: »

Word came down from on high that I have to cut out the frivolous spending while we decide where we are going on holidays and Conn represented the most frivolous of frivolity. Sure I can run 39 miles in Dublin for free apparently.

That could be in the rant thread!

PaulieC

belcarra wrote: »

I foresee a Boards group run over the Art O'Neill route happening in April/May...

is it free ?

spurscormac

Goals for this year...

1. Cement my 19.59 5k with at least 3 sub-20 runs.
2. Ideally a sub-40 10k, but I'll be happy with a 40:xx.
3. 1:31.xx half - would like to go sub 1:30, but haven't the work in for this spring, maybe in the autumn.
4. Stay injury free
5. Complete 60m hurdles race this Saturday - this goes back a long way for me, fell at the first underage & never went back, so just want to get to the finish line in one piece on Sat morning.

ClashCityRocker

skeleton_boy wrote: »

1. Sub 3.10 marathon
2. Sub 90 min half
3. Sub 40 min 10K
4. Sub 20 min 5K

Thanks for saving me a bit of typing, these would be mine too.

Hoping to knock the 5k one off shortly, ran 20:10 at a parkrun last saturday so should be pretty achieveable. Obviously amend the targets if/when i hit them then...

jake1970

run my first marathon, sub 3:40
sub 1:35 half, currently 1:40:55
sub 40 10k, currently 42:18
sub 19 5k, currently 19:57

shane1981

skeleton_boy wrote: »

1. Sub 3.10 marathon
2. Sub 90 min half
3. Sub 40 min 10K
4. Sub 20 min 5K
5. Do more to prevent injury.

Same goals as me! Im nowhere near 3:10 marathon though, best is 03:29. Any particular training plan in mind?