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Goals for 2018?

OOnegative

We just have over a week left in 2017, time to see what goals lay ahead for folks in 2018? Will get the ball rolling i suppose:

1. 1.25 Half marathon at CPC Loop Den Haag in March.
2. Stay injury free once more.
3. Improve 5k/10k PB's.
4. And for the season that's in it, a surprise please.

Wishing everyone a very fruitful running year in 2018.

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pconn062

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Top 10 on Carrauntoohil
Top 10 Irish Championships
Sub 18 5km

What Irish champs can you come 10th in without having broken 18 mins for 5k?

squinn2912

18:30 for a short measured 5k today. First place with a flu and over indulgence. I'll take that think it's a decent sign of things to come in 2018

Murph_D

Track
1. Run 400, 800, 1500. Sub-2:30 for the 800, others for the experience.
2. Participate in at least one of the provincial or national masters meets.
3. Take part in indoor meet.

XC
3. Dont get lapped in Dublin Masters.
4. Run at least two other events (say this every year and fail).

Road
5. Run two sub-20 5ks without pacer assistance.

6. 69:xx for the 10 mile.
7. Run a good NYC marathon. Within 3 mins of PB.
8. HM PB and beat clubmate in Charleville smackdown. (On paper, right now, last part seems non-contest, but he may well have something up his sleeve.)

Life
9. Be more constructive, positive, helpful.

If I can achieve the last one, I’ll be happy enough.

All the best to everyone in 2018. May it be a vintage year of boardsmanship.

squinn2912

Itziger wrote: »

squinn2912 wrote: »

Where are you having your attempts?

Middle of March in a town called Diekirch (Luxembourg). Flat but can be windy as it's all along a river. If not windy, I'll give it a lash.

Marathon, Stockholm, June 2nd. Might have another go in Autumn.

I was looking at your times, so similar to mine!

I know pal, mine are just a bit slower!!! Never did a run away from home but would love to try it out.
I'll be out for a tune up half in feb and then pb attempt in Omagh in march I think it is. Full will be newry end of May

squinn2912

Itziger wrote: »

squinn2912 wrote: »

Where are you having your attempts?

Middle of March in a town called Diekirch (Luxembourg). Flat but can be windy as it's all along a river. If not windy, I'll give it a lash.

Marathon, Stockholm, June 2nd. Might have another go in Autumn.

I was looking at your times, so similar to mine!

Itziger

squinn2912 wrote: »

Where are you having your attempts?

Middle of March in a town called Diekirch (Luxembourg). Flat but can be windy as it's all along a river. If not windy, I'll give it a lash.

Marathon, Stockholm, June 2nd. Might have another go in Autumn.

I was looking at your times, so similar to mine!

squinn2912

Itziger wrote: »

Going to keep it simple I think. (Note last two words)

HM - Plan on having a go at this PB in March. 1.22.04 on this very course in 2015.
Marathon - Will have a go at 2.55

The rest... we'll see.

Where are you having your attempts?

Itziger

Going to keep it simple I think. (Note last two words)

HM - Plan on having a go at this PB in March. 1.22.04 on this very course in 2015.
Marathon - Will have a go at 2.55

The rest... we'll see.

Singer

Enduro wrote: »

This thread got me thinking...

Hey Enduro - not trying to hijack the thread too much, but what does your training look like in general / this year? I'm familiar enough with your race reports, but I have no idea what happens in between

BeepBeep67

Sleep more
Eat less
Stick to the 80-10-10 rule

Results will follow

squinn2912

Similar for me I was injured for 5 months all told. Back since about Halloween but it's gradual. My plan is to try to get there by raising miles 50-60 per week. Newry is a decent course with a flat second half but in a wilderness!

kerrylad1

squinn2912 wrote: »

Thinking newry lad. It's my local run but support not great. What about you?

Looks like Limerick again squinn,I've signed up for Manchester on April 8th,but only back running this week,was out for nearly a month,dought I'd be in p.b,shape that early.

djemba djemba

1) Carryover from last year, break 60 minutes for 10 miles.
2) Cork half marathon. Have done it a few times before but never as a target race. Current pb is 1.21.00.
3) Marathon in Eindhoven in October.
4) One race every month

Also get married.

Ultrababy

davedanon wrote: »

What is this Ireland Way, of which you speak?

The Ireland Way, or Slí na hEireann in Gaelic, is a walking/cycling route 900 km/500 miles long which begins in the rugged south-west coast of Ireland in the small fishing village of Castletownbere and ends in the north coast of Northern Ireland, just past the famous Giants Causeway. Along The Ireland Way you will explore seven mountain ranges, woodland, farmland, bogland, coasts, rivers and lakes across Ireland and Northern Ireland.

From the facebook page.

healy1835

Main goal is sub 3 Marathon in Rotterdam. PB 3:15:26

After that I reckon (hope) almost all of my PBs are there for the taking.

5k: Sub 18. Will actually have to run a 5k race for the first time to do this obviously, 18:58 PB from my solitary Parkrun in 2016.

5m: Sub 30. 30:55 PB from Raheny just gone. Reckon this is there for me right now, hopefully going to run Ferrycarraig 5 in the New Year and knock this off the list.

10k: Sub 37. Ran a 37:52 10k split in a 12k race a couple of weeks back. 37 seems the next logical step.

10m: Sub 62. Running Trim in Feb so will have a rattle there first. PB of 65:55 is pretty soft.

Half: Sub 1:24 Would hope to go lower but that's a number that hits a lot of targets for me. PB of 1:25:55 from Tullamore this year when I had an iffy enough day at office.

mojesius

Get back running after baby arrives in January. Hoping I can start by mid Feb, ease into 5k distance with parkruns. Go back to running club sessions once per week. Need to lose the baby weight fast so will clean up my craving-ridden pregnancy diet.

Aim for 10k in May/WMM early June.
Louisburgh HM September.
Enter a few 5k/5mile throughout the year.

I have a deferral entry for connemarathon half but it's in April so not sure how realistic that is. I'll just see how I'm feeling and how the fitness is coming along in late March.

Not too fussed on times, just want to get distance fitness back next year, avoiding injury and will take it from there.

squinn2912

kerrylad1 wrote: »

squinn2912 wrote: »

2:55 marathon ultimate goal. Will try in may and again in dcm if unsuccessful.
2017 yielded a sum total of zero races dude to inward growing verruca, no running for 4 months.
2018 will be different. In spring I want to do 3 HM and the 2:55 then reassess for autumn.
10k sub 37
10m sub 60
HM sub 1:23
Would be delighted to get pbs

What marathon in May are you targeting.I've the same goal as urself.

Thinking newry lad. It's my local run but support not great. What about you?

[Deleted User]

Top 10 on Carrauntoohil
Top 10 Irish Championships
Sub 18 5km

kerrylad1

squinn2912 wrote: »

2:55 marathon ultimate goal. Will try in may and again in dcm if unsuccessful.
2017 yielded a sum total of zero races dude to inward growing verruca, no running for 4 months.
2018 will be different. In spring I want to do 3 HM and the 2:55 then reassess for autumn.
10k sub 37
10m sub 60
HM sub 1:23
Would be delighted to get pbs

What marathon in May are you targeting.I've the same goal as urself.

davedanon

What is this Ireland Way, of which you speak?

Coffee Fulled Runner

1) Keep running. I would love to double my milage for 2017 of 1000km ish. But I'll take what I get.
2) Sub 18 running for 5km with a target of 17:30 ish
3) Sub 30 8km but not planning much races over 5k.

Not so much goals but things I want to do.
(i) Continue to help out behind the scenes with my club, marshal duty, C25k couching, etc.
(ii) Try and get a XC senior team at our club, no interest for it at the moment.

IvoryTower

Chivito550 wrote: »

Would ya not go for 52.99 instead?

Have to save something for 2019

Chivito550

Not going to set any time targets this season, for the first time in my athletics life. Last season went perfectly to plan. All the cards fell the right way. No distractions re weddings, stags, life. I managed huge consistency across a 10 month time frame, and was hitting 5 days a week almost every week. I got perfect conditions too the day I needed to. I didn’t even pick up a cold. It couldn’t have gone any smoother.

This year there are a rake of weddings and stags and other life events. Half my outdoor season is gone, and both National indoors and national outdoors are gone, which is where I have run most of my current PBs and which seem to bring out the best in me. I’ve been averaging only 4 days a week this winter. Training has still been good, but not at the level of last year.

I don’t expect to beat my PBs. But I also love sprinting, and really enjoy the training on the track with the group. So my goals are more vague this year:

1) Enjoy my training and racing, which is hugely important if one wants to stay at this in the medium/long term.
2) Race as much as I realistically can over 60m, 100m and 200m
3) Run to a level I am happy with
4) Run one meet in Belgium and perform strongly there

If I break any of my PBs it will be a bonus. It could happen (more likely indoors), I’m just not going to expect it this season.

Chivito550

IvoryTower wrote: »

Pb's all round please! Mainly 200 & 400

Distance|Current PB|Target
100m|XX.XX|run 1st 100m
200m|24:82|24:20
400m|53.54|53:00
800m|2.08|2:07

Would ya not go for 52.99 instead?

squinn2912

2:55 marathon ultimate goal. Will try in may and again in dcm if unsuccessful.
2017 yielded a sum total of zero races dude to inward growing verruca, no running for 4 months.
2018 will be different. In spring I want to do 3 HM and the 2:55 then reassess for autumn.
10k sub 37
10m sub 60
HM sub 1:23
Would be delighted to get pbs

Ultrababy

Enduro wrote: »

This thread got me thinking...

6 "A" races in mind for next year...
Goal 1: Get at least 1 good performance out of the 6
Goal 2: Try not to pull out of any of them due to stupid injuries, unlike 2017.
Goal 3: Take advantage of my new age category where the opportunity arises. Looks like the main target for this will be the UTMB, where an age category podium could be within range if I can achieve goal 2.
Goal 4: Try to make as few feck ups as possible through the whole process of my one "A+" race, whilst enjoying the whole process to the max. That sounds pretty bizarre, but given the nature of the race it makes a lot of sense.
Goal 5: try and do more incidental racing, particularly getting to more IMRA races this year, for the sheer enjoyment of it.

A FKT on The Ireland way would be one for you.
Curious to see who gives it a shot first.

Testosterscone

AuldManKing wrote: »

Age group podiums count??

We'll see how much the numbers need to be fudged come next December :P

AuldManKing

Testosterscone wrote: »

Coaching
- 24 PB's achieved (from 11 athletes)
- 3 >5% improvement PB's (largest in 2017 - 17.5%/10 min over 10k)
- 2 CountyProvincial/National Championship medals ( 2 achieved in 2017)
- 1 Outright Podium Finish (1 Race win in 2017)

Age group podiums count??

OOnegative

Ultraman100 wrote: »

Make 12 people smile every day
stop callin burds burds
Get dat fockin monkey off me back
Finish dat bikey/paddley/runny race
Do few more Mountain runs
Stay under 88kgs
learn how to fix a puncture
Do a OW swim race

Fixed that, 78kgs me hoop!!!

Testosterscone

Realize I missed this last year. Gonna try and approach this as a performance review and something specific enough that it is measurable

Mileage - 3000 (This year to date - 3055)
Simple fact that this is a target is with a new baby come April maintaining mileage will be sign that I have managed it well

Performance
- PB's - 10k, HM, Marathon - (current PBs: 34.10/1.16.01/2.43.01)
Bronze - 1% improvement,
Silver - 2% improvement,
Gold - 5% improvement

Competition
- 2 Championships gold medals (Dublin/Leinster/All Ireland) - (Currently 1 from 2017)
- Top 10 Dublin Intermediate XC (Best previous performances - 11th, 13th)

Coaching
- 24 PB's achieved (from 11 athletes)
- 3 >5% improvement PB's (largest in 2017 - 17.5%/10 min over 10k)
- 2 CountyProvincial/National Championship medals ( 2 achieved in 2017)
- 1 Outright Podium Finish (1 Race win in 2017)