Call your 2017 goal by Jan 1st

Kurt.Godel

What's your biggest target for the New year? People are interesting when they are hungover/vulnerable, 'tis the season to be merry so there is a close on posting goals at midnight Jan 1st. The tipsy, the reeling, and the drop-down-p*ssed are also encouraged to air their dreams

Mine is a good placing at the ITU AG Sprint Champs in September. I can't specify what a good placing will be as I don't know the competition, but I've a fair idea of what times will be required. 750 swim needs a 1:30/100 pace, 20k bike needs to target 40kph, and a low 18 5k run. Four weekly swims Jan-April with the gang I swim with should make this pace comfortable. Bike is mainly turbo, with a lot of intensity as a focus. Run will require weight loss, and will be the biggest challenge, but training for an April marathon should help that goal along.

catweazle

Good Man Kurt - I am hoping to have a good crack at a PB at a middle distance in June/July, my current is a 5.3x from a few years back but I think I could do better now

There is then a loose plan then to try and actually keep training this year and go for an autumn marathon, my current PB there is 3.49 from 2012 but again I reckon I can go much lower if the training goes well

StaggerLee

To get back into Tri training after a 6 month sabbatical

Then - a sub 2:30 at HOTW

cart man

Feeling vulnerable after last nights excess and last 6 months inactivity, so will take inspiration (copy) from above and go for 2:30 HOTW (this will be very stretching and require weight loss), middle distance pb (5:1X) - if I have hit previous goal this should be easy and late autumn marathon (probably Dublin 3:40-3:45).

BTH

Stay healthy and see some consistency.

2012 since I've had a decent run of training and good health. Only did one race this year as a result.

Bambaata

Become an A1....cyclist, am i barred?

Keeks

To learn to swim...so I can do a triathlon

rodneyr1981

May be ambitious but aim high and all that..

Top 3 AG duathlon NS
Barca IM 9.30-9.35

Also race at a proper race weight (not what mammy thinks that is :-) and maybe actually swim instead of talking about it..

ray o

Sub 5:30 400TT

EC1000

Sub 3 in rotterdam on April 9th and "do" Barcelona in October - goal time TBD but ideally in the region of 1.10 swim, 6.00 bike and 3.30 marathon.

and still ricky villa

EC1000 beat me to it

2:55 in Rotterdam in April
Time to stop p!ssing about and hoping it'll happen
Everything else is taking second place

Mr Tango

Just to add to the chain above me. Sub 3 in Rotterdam! Didn't know it was so popular

Then use my new found running to nail a half ironman (prob dublin).

Was doing ironman nice and the new dates don't suit as I had already booked and paid for two week holiday so only going half long in 2017 and decided then to try and improve the running.

9Crimes

Finish my first ironman in sub 11 hrs (conditions dependent).

mossym

get real life back to a point that i can make a goal. getting there.

mossym

rodneyr1981 wrote: »

May be ambitious but aim high and all that..

Top 3 AG duathlon NS
Barca IM 9.30-9.35

Also race at a proper race weight (not what mammy thinks that is :-) and maybe actually swim instead of talking about it..

fair play. ambitious sure but achievable too based on last season

joey100

Top 3 in my age group in either the national Sprint or Olympic distance champs, probably a better shot at the Olympic distance but will give both a go. Plenty of mini goals to hit along the way to see if these will be possible but they are the main ones.

The Lost Sheep

Just try and get back into the sport and complete any tri. Havent done one since mid 2015.
Will try run a marathon as well and aim for sub 4 hours

tunney

Exercise without pain

peter kern

make tango swim again ;-)

tunney

peter kern wrote: »

make tango swim again ;-)

By leading out 1/10 of the set with buoyancy shorts and paddles?

zico10

Feck ya, Kurt. Making me reveal my hand this early.

Rotterdam Marathon; sub 2:35
Ironman Hawaii: sub 9:10

For the first one, I need to get back to the shape I was in for Connemarathon 2014. Then on a flat and much faster course, I'm hoping things just nicely fall into place.

The second target is much more ambitious. I know lots of people fall apart in the heat and humidity that come with the race. But I'm not going to Kona for a holiday and it's what I'm thinking, so I may as well say it.

Sbefort

I'm new here, some of the goals I read are pretty amazing, hope you all can achieve them!
For me, first will be improve my swim to be able to swim 1:40/100m for 1900m (considering I can barely swim 2:00/100m now).
Second is a top 70 at the Dublin half.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

Not tri related but hey,

Assist with my kids football/athletics activities
Back to college
Take one step closer towards a big business goal of mine
Do enough physical activity not to become fat (again)

Neady83

1. The RACE - embrace the 24 hours of solitude & finish it regardless of the conditions
2. Get back on the horse and in a kayak - will need to be achieved to nail no. 1
3. Swimming lessons again - conquer my fear of the water AGAIN
4. Connemarathon - have a good crack at it
5. Autumn marathon - sub 3:45

TurboTerror

The goals I have for 2017 would be to do a decent time for the ETU AG Standard distance in Austria in June and to complete Dublin 70.3 in August.

Was considering some Standard distances along the way but they are few and far between this year.

rooneyjm

Sub 5 Lisbon
Sub 2.20 C.K.
Sub 38 min 10k

flash84962

Goals for me this year is to complete city2summit in Scotland in July.

Sub 3 hours in the Dublin marathon

Followed by sub 3 hrs in sea2summit, which is 2 weeks after the marathon. Including getting up and down croagh patrick in under an hour.

68 lost souls

Just hit one of my targets for 2016 today so hopefully doesn't take me as long on 2017

Going to try and get my first half marathon under my belt I think and would hope to realisticly target sub 2 hours

Sub 50 10km

Sub 2:45 Olympic

Bambaata

Neady83 wrote: »

1. The RACE - embrace the 24 hours of solitude & finish it regardless of the conditions

Best of luck with it. It's an amazing area to race in, I'll most likely be up at it again but on the opposite side

Shell to Run

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

Just try and get back into the sport and complete any tri. Havent done one since mid 2015.
Will try run a marathon as well and aim for sub 4 hours

My goals are the exact same;)

Macy0161

Too late, but...

1) Sub 4 first marathon in Manchester (body is already breaking down though!)
2) Complete National Series with a better score than last year, if I can get into enough races with the reduced national series.
3) First Half, The Lost Sheep (see point 2 about getting in!)

woody1

still jan 1st

1. swim the metalman series, have developed a fear of sea swimming, need to make a move to fix that ,
2. run a marathon in june july sub 3.50
3. run a half in 1.35 or less
4. sub 35 for 20k cycling
5. humbert half iron, if its on again , or some other half iron in ireland in august

sconhome

2017 goal - Sort sh!t out

Mr Tango

peter kern wrote: »

make tango swim again ;-)

I'll be down Friday. The Friday swim will be my recovery session for the marathon training!

Pidae.m

Shell to Run wrote: »

My goals are the exact same;)

Me 3!!

Neady83

Bambaata wrote: »

Best of luck with it. It's an amazing area to race in, I'll most likely be up at it again but on the opposite side

Thank you Bambaata, any tips or tricks, they'd be very much appreciated. I've started looking at the course profile to estimate times - figure out gear, logistics and food .... there's a hell of a lot of pointy bits in the run and bike profiles :eek:

phil

Too late but sure it's still legit if I'm calling it in Jan for rest of the year?

Picked up running, cycling and swimming last June. Did two sprints last year in Aug and Sep. Starting to try take it a little more seriously this year. But not too much. Goals for the year:

Run a sub 50 10k
Complete first Oly tri (sub 3)
Sub 1:25 sprint
sub 2:00/100 in open water (sprint or Oly distance)
Bike average speed >32 kmh (sprint or Oly)

peter kern

phil wrote: »

Too late but sure it's still legit if I'm calling it in Jan for rest of the year?

Picked up running, cycling and swimming last June. Did two sprints last year in Aug and Sep. Starting to try take it a little more seriously this year. But not too much. Goals for the year:

Run a sub 50 10k
Complete first Oly tri (sub 3)
Sub 1:25 sprint
sub 2:00/100 in open water (sprint or Oly distance)
Bike average speed >32 kmh (sprint or Oly)

that makes a 29 swim
a 1.16 bike
so you should be quicker lol
good luck

gerfmurphy

A bit late for this party I guess but I aim to make the standard for cat 1.
Never followed any real training regime before so will start a run plan and a bike plan and hope for the best.

After last nights encouragement go sub 5,45 for 400 too

Macy0161

People still posting and I'm already reassessing due to injury and illness...

zico10

zico10 wrote: »

Rotterdam Marathon; sub 2:35
Ironman Hawaii: sub 9:10

I failed with the first goal, missing the target by 7 minutes 49 seconds, but I'd like to think they were some legitimate reasons as to why I failed. Unfortunately, the heat is one thing I didn't deal well with. This doesn't bode well for Kona, where I think I'll have to run a sub 3:10 marathon to be in with a realistic chance of hitting my overall goal time of sub 9:10.

Still, I hope my lead in to Hawaii will be much less interrupted. Also heat acclimisation will be a part of my preparation. This wasn't the case for Rotterdam, where I was expecting it to be be like any typical spring day in Ireland. It endeded up being an unseasonally warm day. But there were twos guys, from the AR forum, running who were faster than me and both ran negative or near negative splits. The weather didn't seem to be much of an issue for them and I don't see how their acclimisation could have been any different to mine.

rooneyjm

rooneyjm wrote: »

Sub 5 Lisbon
Sub 2.20 C.K.
Sub 38 min 10k

1-0. Challenge Lisbon 4hrs47mins. Went as well as could be expected, left a minute or so in the swim but the bike went better than expected and the run I executed exactly as I trained for, 7.30 per mile all the way, ish.

MojoMaker

Do you think that 2:20 at CK is looking a bit soft now?

rooneyjm

MojoMaker wrote: »

Do you think that 2:20 at CK is looking a bit soft now?

Maybe, 2.19 then.

flash84962

Hi all.

Thought at about the half way point of the year it might be an idea to see how people are getting on with their goals!!

I completed City2summit in Scotland at the week. It involved a 24k road run out of Edinburgh castle, 186k cycle across Scotland (into a constant headwind) and a 41k trail run including going up and down Ben Nevis.

It took me 18.5 hours. Of the 136 starters, 67 finished. Planning now on sticking to 5ks!

Edinburgh was generally buzzing with IM 70.3 on as well.

68 lost souls

With an Olympic, Sprint and 10k this month we will see how far off the target I am at the moment.

Took a step towards my goals by singing up for Dublin Half Marathon. At the very least it should force me to keep consistent with my training.

Neady83

Neady83 wrote: »

1. The RACE - embrace the 24 hours of solitude & finish it regardless of the conditions
2. Get back on the horse and in a kayak - will need to be achieved to nail no. 1
3. Swimming lessons again - conquer my fear of the water AGAIN
4. Connemarathon - have a good crack at it
5. Autumn marathon - sub 3:45

1. Done
2. Done
3. I'm planning to get back into the pool during the Winter
4. Done, PB at marathon distance but only a small PB
5. Hopefully at DCM which I've signed up for

3 out of 5 ain't bad

and still ricky villa

and still ricky villa wrote: »

2:55 in Rotterdam in April
Time to stop p!ssing about and hoping it'll happen
Everything else is taking second place

I was bang on in two of these targets.
1 - I took the training very seriously and really was going like a fecking train
2 - Everything else did take second place
3 - I was sick for the race, tried my best but ultimately had a shocker

But, with no other plans in 2017 other than IM70.3 Dublin, I've had time to improve my swimming (I'm less slow) and I won a power meter so cycling has vastly improved. I'll be happy with an improvement on last year.
Will be doing the DCM in October but am not making any grand pronouncements

Macy0161

Macy0161 wrote: »

Too late, but...

1) Sub 4 first marathon in Manchester (body is already breaking down though!)
2) Complete National Series with a better score than last year, if I can get into enough races with the reduced national series.
3) First Half, The Lost Sheep (see point 2 about getting in!)

1 written off by injuries, and 3 long fingered for the same reason, although have been tempted by a couple of transfer offers! Think I need more of a base for the longer runs tbh, so a refocus on my swim, and concentrate up to olympic distance for the next year or two is my new plan while the children are the age they are and training load is managable.

2 is only 2 races in, and so far so good! 3 points better in Carlow despite having a bit of 'mare, and scored better in Cobh than I did in my one olympic last year (which was the Caroline Kearney). Lanesboro up next (but have a hamstring niggle from the weekend, and am a bit of a cold coming on so who knows), and then back to Mullingar so should know by August if I've hit one out of three!

BTH

BTH wrote: »

Stay healthy and see some consistency.

2012 since I've had a decent run of training and good health. Only did one race this year as a result.

The only constant has been my inconsistency.

I've stayed healthy though, so not all bad.

joey100

Goal was top 3 in my age group in National sprint or Olympic distance champs. 3rd in the sprint champs and would have though a better chance at the Olympic. Another block of training before the Olympic distance so with a bit of luck and a good day another top 3.