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Goals for 2016?
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Maximus Alexander wrote: »Two down.
Number 4 is a shoo-in.
Number 1, looking unlikely but we'll see.
About four-five weeks after DCM is a good time to attempt this. Jingle Bells downhill course might help.
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Maximus Alexander wrote: »Would be poetic too. Jingle Bells last year was my first ever race and remains my 5k PB.
Well there you go. It would be wrong not to target JB for your sub-21.0 -
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Maximus Alexander wrote: »Would be poetic too. Jingle Bells last year was my first ever race and remains my 5k PB.
What's your 5K PB at Max? I'd say you will smash it a month after the Marathon, I might target Jingle Bells myself!0 -
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Maximus Alexander wrote: »It's upper 23 minutes at the moment. Not sure exactly because chip timing didn't work on the day. I've no doubt I'll beat it but smashing it might be a stretch.
Id say you will have that at sub 22 at Jingle Bells, that would be smashing it to me. I done a sub 23 prior to the Marathon training at a park run so hopefully sub 22 will come in Dec for me too. You never know, we might make a sub 21 ;-)0 -
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TFBubendorfer wrote: »2016 goals:
1. a sub-3 marathon (bonus goal: under 2:55:08)
2. 220 km in a 24 hrs race (bonus goal: over 225.3)
3. finish Spartathlon under 33:29:04 (bonus goal: under 32 hrs)
1. Nope. 3:01:02
2. Nope. 207.2
3. Nope.
The way I see it, I was well overdue a disappointing year. The last one had been in 2009.0 -
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Originally Posted by IvoryTower View Post
1. Race 400m indoors - done
2. Race 800n - Hopefully later in the year
3. upped to 54sec
4. Race 200m
All done so will add some new goals until new year. Setting goals certainly seems to help.
5k pb (19.45), close to 19 would be nice
Cross country novice pb
Run intermediate cc
Squat 100kg+
Good year for me
400m - 54.85
5k - 19.02
Ran novice, intermediate & senior xc! Will do these every year now
Didn't come close to squatting 100kg but on the plus side I still go to the gym twice a week
More of the same next year, I await the new thread 0 -
Second half of 2015 was a bit of a disaster with injury, lack of motivation, yada yada yada so for 2016:
Main Goals
1. Give sufficient time to S&C every week
2. Avoid injury (hopefully helped by 1)
3. Run half marathon in <1:59:59
4. Run, finish and most importantly ENJOY DCM16
Secondary Goals
5. Run more races - esp 5k and 10k
6. Improve PB for 5k and 10k
7. Run in new places.
Update on these...
1. Wouldn't say I've been giving sufficient time to S&C but I am better than I was
2. I have remained largely injury free and hopefully that will continue for the rest of the year and into 2017
3. Didn't even come close to this one. Dublin half in the race series was the only HM I did and I just didn't have it in me on the day
4. Pretty much got that one. Can't say I enjoyed each and every moment but I did enjoy the overall experience
5. Yeah I ran a few :P
6. 10k pb (56:29 July) and 5k pb (26:15 Dec)
7. Lanzarote, previously unexplored parts of Dublin, Kilkenny, Co Waterford, Royal Canal - think I can say I did this one. 0 -
Continue to love my running and continue not to get injured. That alone is enough. However, ….
Love it more than ever if that's possible, and only missed 3 days with small niggles.
Run 3,000 + miles for the year
Just done
Run Connemara ultra at a decent pace – don’t have a clue what time to aim for. 9:30 min/miles maybe
Ended up in hospital the week before so didn't happen.
Run secret bucket-list ultra race, and not die during or after it, and be proud of result
Done (Belfast) and done (still alive) and done (100.7 miles)
Run DCM if still alive. God I dunno what I’d hope for here but well under 4 hours. Let’s say 3:45ish and try not to laugh too loudly :pac:
Did a 12 hour race after Belfast so wasn't recovered enough to do DCM. With focused training, who knows. Maybe next year.
Bring down times of all shorter distances from 5k to half. No specific targets – just improve them all as much as I’m capable of, off no specific training. Sub 23 5k would be very nice
Didn't attempt any of these, as I've realized you can't train for 24 hour races and do much speed work for the shorter distances - well I can't anyway. I'd just end up injured. 24 hours and then 12 hour races ended up being only focuses for the year. Don't regret that one bit. I have years of running ahead of me to bring down the times of the shorter stuff.
Have my first Boardsie running date…… maybe but who?
Done:D Aero2k joined me for the last 10 miles of a 28 mile training run in the Phoenix Park so this one ticked off too, thanks aero:D Also a bonus short run with Singer in Santry and a lovely few chatty miles with AMK in the Phoenix Park.
All in all, I'm delighted with my year and how it's panned out and feel very lucky to have achieved the above and my unplanned 12 hour race was a huge highlight this year. More of the same next year hopefully.0 -
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I don't think I put my goals in the thread, but I wrote some in my running journal at the end of last year. They were:
1) Run consistently
2) Go to speed sessions
3) Get picked for National Road Relays
4) Break 20 mins for 5k
5) 10k pb
6) 10 mile PB
1) I have run PRETTY consistently. Some weeks have had lower mileage than I would have liked, and I missed about 10 days totally due to two chest infections, but I haven't really been injured, which is good.
2) I have been PRETTY good about speed sessions - in the summer it was a long 2-bus-journey to the track that I made most weeks; I've missed the last 2 weeks on grass due to a cough, but have been there quite a lot.
3) I got picked! Slight poisoned chalice as they needed me on the A team due to lack of uninjured A-team-type runners, and I felt v outclassed, but I worked hard in the run up to it to be fast enough to be selected, so mission accomplished.
4) Yes! Did it!! At LAST!
5) Close, but no cigar! PB from The Lakes 2015 is 42.32. I ran 42.40 in the WMM 2016 - was happy with this as it was a very warm day & I felt I ran well. Hoped to PB at the Lakes 2016, but I had a bad day and felt awful for half the race. Next year!
6) Didn't run a 10-mile race at all! Missed signing up for Ballycotton and then was sick for the Race Series 10 mile.
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The last aim I had, that came up during the year, was to be able to take part in the Kincora2Passage relay we (Raheny) did for our club-mate, Ronan, who died in March. We ran a continuous relay from Clontarf to Passage East in Waterford (10 mile laps, and then finishing with a 5 mile race into Passage). It was an amazing weekend, everything went smoothly, I was team leader on a ten-mile leg in the Kilkenny section and kept my group alive on the roads and together, and then ran myself into the ground racing the 5-miler. The whole weekend was probably the best thing I did all year and the organisation and dedication that went into it from Ronan's family and the committee was just amazing. My husband was up for more than 24-hours taking photos, and people drove all night, spent weeks researching the route etc and between sponsorship and fundraisers we raised about 40 grand for the hospices, so for this event alone I'd say I had a great running year in 2016.0 -
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tang1 wrote:Not a hope on the Half Marathon goal!!!!Maximus Alexander wrote:That's a lot to be getting through in the next 25 days!
My bad though it was a 2017 thread...ignore me 0 -
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1. stay injury free
2. half - 2:05 initially to 1:59:xx by year end. - Tick
3. Marathon - run Rotterdam
4. 10k - 49:xx
5. more XC races - TickI think its time for a quarter 1 adjustment
1. get well asap (still a work in progress).
2 1:50 half - possible target is Athlone half
3 Marathon - DCM
4. 10k 49:xx (hoping to target Dunshauglin if better)
5. more XC races
Okay I didn't achieve a lot of my goals BUT... I did achieve other ones!
- New 5K PB (24:25)
- My first hill run (RTL) in a decent time (for me obviously)
- Improved my XC speed over last year & passed more competitors in every race.
- New 2 mile PB
- A new found love for cycling! (am I allowed say that here :pac:)
- A new respect for making the most of the good days
The year is not over yet, I've one more goal to aim for but will take a 'see how it goes' approach Strava has me at 899.9 miles running YTD, I won't make the 1,000 this year but with 929 on the bike I'll make do with 1,000 there instead.
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Annie get your Run wrote: »
Okay I didn't achieve a lot of my goals BUT... I did achieve other ones!
- New 5K PB (24:25)
- My first hill run (RTL) in a decent time (for me obviously)
- Improved my XC speed over last year & passed more competitors in every race.
- New 2 mile PB
- A sub 7 min mile
- A new found love for cycling! (am I allowed say that here :pac:)
- A new respect for making the most of the good days
The year is not over yet, I've one more goal to aim for but will take a 'see how it goes' approach Strava has me at 899.9 miles running YTD, I won't make the 1,000 this year but with 929 on the bike I'll make do with 1,000 there instead.
Oh so that's who you are.........0
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