Call your 2018 goal by Dec 31st

Kurt.Godel

Now that the mince pies are eaten, sleds have been brought in, cold turkey stowed stewing in tinfoil; its time to turn towards the redeeming expectations a new calendar will bring. Simply post your 2018 goals here- "A" goals mind, no half measures or excuses accepted! This year in addition to the usual booze-regret Hope and Glory, musings from goose-stepping twelve stepping Tetotalitarianists are welcomed into the warm bosom of our collective delusions.

For myself I want a top 5 AG ranking in the NS, brought about mainly by consistency in training. This year I have a headstart on the usual resolutions to quit drink and lose weight, so staying injury free should allow better racing. Along the way, a medal at the National LC Champs in March in the 1,500m will provide focus and feedback. Lesser swimming goals include a 1:0x 100free, a 30s 50free, and a general Do More Volume. A shinier medal at the Aquathlon AG Champs than this years silver would be nice!
Biking- I'm happy to maintain and continue, no specific goals.
Running- better 18:30 standalone 5k and 39min standalone 10k... with an aggressive weight target of 82kg.
Easy to write this stuff down!

StaggerLee

IM Austria - with a sub 4 hour run. This should bring me home around 10:30 with good mechanical luck. Want a decent run, not too bothered about overall time.

Consistent training is getting harder every year so aim is to park the excuses for the next 6 months and just get out and do it.
Aiming for a 1:30 half marathon in build up.

EC1000

Sub 3 in Rotterdam in April. Also looking for 5 k and 10k pbs (currently 17m18s and 37m38s) this year. Will do a few tris this year for fun and postpone specific tri goals to 2019.

BTH

vascetomy

and still ricky villa

I could copy and paste from last year.
Sub 3 in Rotterdam - The only difference this year is I'm not putting too much emphasis on pacing exactly. I'm training based on HR unless it's a specific threshold or interval session. In the last month long run times have dropped by about 20 seconds a km so if I reach the same level of fitness as last April I'm in with a shout. The mental side of breaking sub 3 plays on my mind too much. Dublin 2017 was a test run for just running by HR and it worked. Slow, but it worked
I'm doing more run specific work in the gym too

Up till April, it'll be maintenance on the bike and swim and hopefully a few sprints and/or Olys later in the year.
Now that I have finally broken my duck at the local beach I'll be hitting the open water more regularly this year too.
It's taken me many hours in the pool to get this slow so I'm not going to let that drop!

boysinblack

1st Overall in Age Group National Series
Top 5 Carlow
Win Lough Key Triathlon

peter kern

ignore the little man
look at the big picture.

tunney

peter kern wrote: »

ignore the little man
look at the big picture.

You referring to BTH's goal here? ðŸ˜

peter kern

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tunney

peter kern wrote: »

https://cdn.xl.thumbs.canstockphoto.com/3d-man-with-a-hammer-clipart_csp11119914.jpg

As cryptic as ever....

9Crimes

Copenhagen sub 11

griffin100

BTH wrote: »

vascetomy

Avoidance off or engagement with??

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

Beat the fish in Roth and Copenhagen.

tunney

Simple enough goal : exercise pain free regularly.

peter kern

tunney wrote: »

Simple enough goal : exercise pain free regularly.

you just need to silence the little negative man in your brain and you will be a lot closer to your goal ...

i hope that answers your question.

Tibulus

Copenhagen sub 12

Worn Out

To be able too touch my toes. Will definitely help with the running.

tunney

Worn Out wrote: »

To be able too touch my toes. Will definitely help with the running.

Why would it?

Worn Out

Because 3 months ago I could hardly touch my knees, the body was so tight and the back was rigid.
Three months of yoga and I am really feeling the benefits, especially with the running.

Ultraman100

Break 17 in The race
Break 30 in Kacr(145 mile canal race)
Make it 2 each with leonidas

joey100

Sub 10 in Outlaw full at end of July. Seems like a big ask right now!

Shell to Run

An Ironman PB.
This will be my second IM.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

Carolyn Enough Curve wrote: »

Beat the fish in Roth and Copenhagen.

Joking aside I have something hung up in the pain cave on what I think I can get to if I focus enough. The swim is probably the most unrealistic of all but with an endless pool at home and swimming 5 times a week and getting some stroke analysis i have no excuses!
1.40 per 100 pace
36.2k avg
4.40k pace

Ranjo

Sub 6 at IM Dun Laoghaire

shotgunmcos

A Goal 2018
Sub 3 any Autumn marathon
Starting basically from scratch
Long overdue.

Sub 3 marathon on the rower too.

"Lose the belly" and "Touch my toes" are 2 others written into the diary. The work to achieve both will require A) the fitness plan to achieve the A goal and the conditioning and recovery plan to achieve the A goal.

Of the things I did almost zero of this year, I miss swimming most. So swimming and trekking mountains will be my other main distractions.

onimpulse

Sub 6 in Dun Laoghaire 70.3 & sub 4 in Dublin Marathon.

Keeks

AS a lurker here it might be an idea to step out of the shadows and name some goals for 2018.....and as a person just starting out in multi sport (a bit like shotgunmcos) i'm basically starting from scratch.

So laying them out as per SBR disciplines, they go like this:

Swim:

This is a simple one, as a person who can't swim, it will be to learn to swim.
I will consider this a success if i can swim 1 length of a pool....

Bike:

No goals for the bike only to continue to enjoy it. I am comfortable enough on the bike a the moment....The effort is needed in other disciplines an much of my biking could become recovery/cross training sessions from a run program.
Will try to do more brick sessions tho

Run:

Sub 22min 5K - Current PB is 25.xx.....This should be doable and I will measure this by how far under 22 I go.
My PB is from a race without doing any run training, and with a bit of focus and miles in the legs, it should be possible...


Other goals:

Weight:

get to 85kg.....currently 93.xx. A bit shocked at my currently weight. I haven't really been pigging out over Christmas, but have put on 2kg

Kayak....a someone who will do the odd Kayathlon/Adventure race..... a goal to get out on a kayak without it being in a race :P:D
I have no excuse as I have access to kayaks and water so just need to make time

The "A" goal is the run, and develop my running in general, and this will need a decent focus, fitness and recovery plan...

RacoonQueen

1. Keep loving it
2. Get fitter
3. Get faster
4. No injuries
5. Improve

No goal races picked yet - no decisions made so hard to set any specific goals, but the above covers it all. Without hitting number one every single day, the rest won't happen.

ray o

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vascetomy

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I can highly recommend this fella.

BTH

ray o wrote: »

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Oh, Athenry, that would be handy. Cheers for that.

RacoonQueen

Ah would you look at all those happy couples with their children on the website.

P.s you know that stuff aint 100% reliable? Be careful...

Baby75

My Goals are

Running
break some PB's mainly my 5k time then my HM PB, my marathon PB I am confident I will see a good improvement for DCM2018. lay down the groundwork for an ultra and find one to do in 2019.

Cycling,
Improve my average pace and increase my distance aiming for a charity cycle from Paris to Eindhoven in September ( become stronger overall and more brick sessions)

Adventure racing
go back and redo the ones I completed this year and hopefully see a good improvement in time, take part in some longer ones nothing set in stone yet but a few I have my sights on.

Weight
lose the rest and reach target

Kurt.Godel

Great to see a few newbies as well as old faithfuls- best of luck to all hitting their goals in 2018! The race has already started... nothing here that can't be achieved with hard work... Happy New Year to all!

EDit

Bit late to the party seeing as it is Jan 1 and all, but I’ll join in. Goals for 2018 are part of longer term IM target before I am 50.

So this year’s goal is to complete 2+ Olympic distance triathlons, 1+ HM, a long cycle (ring of kerry/clare-type event) and the 2k distance of the Gaelforce Fjord swim. In addition, I’ve the usual goals of keeping the belly at bay and staying injury-free

TopOfTheHill

Long time lurker with the occasional question.

Goals for this year:

IMUK - first full - will be happy to finish.
To put a race goal out there - want to try get out of the water around the the 1-hour mark.

Enjoy the training, keep it consistent and keep the injuries at bay.

panda100

After my first triathlon season last year pretty much all my new years resolutions this year are triathlon orientated and mainly swim orientated. Focused on technique all of last year so aim to focus on speed and endurance this year. I'm going to try and get at least one swim in with the tri club per week. Hoping to go from 16 minutes 750 metres to at least under the 15 mins.

Going to attempt my first Olympic distance, hopefully the Joey Hannon if I can.

NewCorkLad

A bit late but I wanted to set something down to kick me into gear.

Completed my first year of Triathlon last year with very little cycle/run experience and having not swam properly in years. I completed 2 sprints and 1 olympic.

This year I want to do two 70.3s with the aim to look at a full IM next year. Im still trying to decide between Dun Laoghaire or just go with the two Kerry 70.3s in Waterville and the Lost Sheep(any advice around this would be appreciated). No specific time targets, just want to finish and would like to improve for the second race.

reidman

Finish IM TX

cjt156

More structure, more discipline.

Sub 5:30 in Celtic Warrior 70.3
Sub 6:00 in IM Dun Laoghaire 70.3

griffin100

Late to the party but what the hell......

Goal No 1. - Start running again. I haven't run since Nov. 2016 when I damaged my hamstring. It needs surgery to fix but I haven't been arsed getting it done. I need to sort it out and even if I get back to running 5&10kms I'd be happy.

Goal No 2. - Swim 500,000m this year. Might be a stretch depending on work issues and time commitments but I hit 444km in 2017 with a few weeks of little or no swimming during the tear so might be doable.

Goal No 3. - Swim sub 25 minute 1,500m in the pool (LC). Current PB is 25.40 so hope to get close. Will have a shot in Limerick masters I think.

Goal No. 4 - Swim a 10km skins. I DNF'd in Lough Dan last year at only 3km with cramp which took me weeks to mentally get over, up until then I'd never had an unplanned DNF. In training I had swam a 3hr skins river swim so I should have done better.

Goal No. 5 - Do more Leinster OW swim races this year. Simple enough!

Off we go :P

Milk_Tray

Im new to this sport, Iv never swam or Ran distance before. I've cycled a small bit (casual mountain biking the odd time) I started training 4 months ago from scratch and have put in 5/6 days a week non stop. Swimming turning out to be very difficult still to get times down under 2 mins/100m. I plan on doing 8 races mixture of sprints and Olympic distance and the Dublin Ironman. Training is going well but lots to do still.

Goals -
Run 5k 22 mins
Run 10k 45 mins

Swim 750m 14 mins
Swim 1500m 28 mins

Cycle 20k 35 mins
Cycle 40k 1hr 10

Neady83

11 days late but sure better late than never. I have a good reason, I was waiting for the UTMB lotto results today so that I could call my goals. No cigar for me unfortunately so here's the goals. I've broken them into two categories, one is generic and the other are racing related goals

1) Enjoy training and racing as much as I did in 2017 cause it was a top class year
2) Join a running club and get some faster sessions done every week
3) Get back on the bike and learn to love it again
4) Get on the podium at a multi-sport/adventure race

5) Race the Coast2Coast (used it as a training event in two previous attempts)
6) Do the Wicklow Way again and come out of it less beaten up than last time while having a good crack at a podium
7) Top 5 (female) in Quest 24
8) Do at least three ultra trail races in a country that's not Ireland (top 10 female in 1 of them)

Baby75

Neady83 wrote: »

11 days late but sure better late than never. I have a good reason, I was waiting for the UTMB lotto results today so that I could call my goals. No cigar for me unfortunately so here's the goals. I've broken them into two categories, one is generic and the other are racing related goals

1) Enjoy training and racing as much as I did in 2017 cause it was a top class year
2) Join a running club and get some faster sessions done every week
3) Get back on the bike and learn to love it again
4) Get on the podium at a multi-sport/adventure race

5) Race the Coast2Coast (used it as a training event in two previous attempts)
6) Do the Wicklow Way again and come out of it less beaten up than last time while having a good crack at a podium
7) Top 5 (female) in Quest 24
8) Do at least three ultra trail races in a country that's not Ireland (top 10 female in 1 of them)

Top class goals Neady and all going to plan I will see you at Coast2Coast and quest 24 although 12 hours for me as a first one

peter kern

NewCorkLad wrote: »

A bit late but I wanted to set something down to kick me into gear.

Completed my first year of Triathlon last year with very little cycle/run experience and having not swam properly in years. I completed 2 sprints and 1 olympic.

This year I want to do two 70.3s with the aim to look at a full IM next year. Im still trying to decide between Dun Laoghaire or just go with the two Kerry 70.3s in Waterville and the Lost Sheep(any advice around this would be appreciated). No specific time targets, just want to finish and would like to improve for the second race.

i guess it really depends what you want if you want to spend 1 day for gimmicks and waste of time ( in which case you would calll it entertainment ) than the ironman brand is for you . if you want a friendly atmospere with a nice old school friendly vibe you do the hardman . if you are from cork and kerry its a no brainer as the 2 races will cost you less than branded race if you are from dublin unless you are camping its going to cost you pretty much the same than dublin so it depends what you want.
ironman is entrtainment at very high level ,if you like it than what they offer its the best in buisness apart from challenge roth , hardman is simplicity and a real positve vibe have a good chance that the race directer knows your name after the race than there is no better than the hardman.its just the most relaxing atmoshere you could wish for .

course wise hard to say i guess overall the "easiest" of the 3 would be the lost sheep as bike course is the shortest . and there should not be much between dublin and hardman maybe hardman course 5 min slower , i have no idea.
the great thing is you have real good choices what you want to do as all the 3 races you mention do something really really well. the lost sheep for instance has by far the best price purse per 100 participants and its after party is prob the best in the country now .

Neady83

Shell to Run wrote: »

An Ironman PB.
This will be my second IM.

Good luck with your Ironman training M and your brick session tomorrow evening.

I had a cup of tea and a brief chat with you on Saturday and I didn't even know it. Must catch up with you next time I'm in Ballina

p.s. would love to follow your training if you fancy starting a log here.

shotgunmcos

Neady83 wrote: »

p.s. would love to follow your training if you fancy starting a log here.

+1 even a summary log! C'mon Shell to Run

joey100

I think you might be being a bit hard on the Dublin half Ironman Peter. Yep there is some gimmicks but your racing on closed roads and the atmosphere the last few years has been great. If you want to 'race' it might not be the best one but it definitely ticks a lot of the boxes for a lot of people. Not saying I would pick it out of the ones mentioned but it does have some stuff going for it.

peter kern

joey100 wrote: »

I think you might be being a bit hard on the Dublin half Ironman Peter. Yep there is some gimmicks but your racing on closed roads and the atmosphere the last few years has been great. If you want to 'race' it might not be the best one but it definitely ticks a lot of the boxes for a lot of people. Not saying I would pick it out of the ones mentioned but it does have some stuff going for it.

I say they are the best in the business for what they do.
And I say everyvody has a choice and we have really good choices in Ireland currently that everybody finds a race they like.
If I had one problem with I M it's the fact that monopolies are never good.

Shell to Run

Neady83 wrote: »

Good luck with your Ironman training M and your brick session tomorrow evening.

I had a cup of tea and a brief chat with you on Saturday and I didn't even know it. Must catch up with you next time I'm in Ballina

p.s. would love to follow your training if you fancy starting a log here.

Well it's only now I'm putting a face to the log!!
Lovely to meet such a legend. Very enjoyable half marathon right on my doorstep!!

Now if someone was to come up with a good title for my log (Slow Ironman that it will be) I might even consider it Shotgunmcos!!

NewCorkLad

peter kern wrote: »

i guess it really depends what you want if you want to spend 1 day for gimmicks and waste of time ( in which case you would calll it entertainment ) than the ironman brand is for you . if you want a friendly atmospere with a nice old school friendly vibe you do the hardman . if you are from cork and kerry its a no brainer as the 2 races will cost you less than branded race if you are from dublin unless you are camping its going to cost you pretty much the same than dublin so it depends what you want.
ironman is entrtainment at very high level ,if you like it than what they offer its the best in buisness apart from challenge roth , hardman is simplicity and a real positve vibe have a good chance that the race directer knows your name after the race than there is no better than the hardman.its just the most relaxing atmoshere you could wish for .

course wise hard to say i guess overall the "easiest" of the 3 would be the lost sheep as bike course is the shortest . and there should not be much between dublin and hardman maybe hardman course 5 min slower , i have no idea.
the great thing is you have real good choices what you want to do as all the 3 races you mention do something really really well. the lost sheep for instance has by far the best price purse per 100 participants and its after party is prob the best in the country now .

Thanks Peter. Thats what I had been thinking alright for this year, will get more bang for my buck and as im based down in Kerry would take a lot of the planning out of it, as well as allowing me enter a few sprints/olympics for the same price.

Ill save the big IM branded event with all the bells and whistle's for my full next year.

reidman

reidman wrote: »

Finish IM TX

And done!