Well, it is time to start lining up he races and goals for this years triathlon season. A couple of the races are ones that I have done this past year. Some of them are completely new and I’m really looking forward to them.
Events
4-7-2012 – Great Bay Half-Marathon
6-16-2012 – Patriot Half-Ironman
7-14-2012 – Nubble Light Challenge
7-22-2012 – Volunteer at Ironman Lake Placid
8-18-2012 – Boston Light Swim (relay)
9-9-2012 – Call To Honor Triathlon
Goals
For this year I have set a pretty high bar for my half-ironman race. I would like to go under the 5 hour mark. Last year my half-marathon run was terrible and I feel I should be able to take at least 15 minutes off of that. The hard part will be getting the other 10 minutes out of the swim and bike. I feel like my biking should be stronger this year for two reasons. The first is I’m continuing to improve on the CompuTrainer through the winter. The second is that last year there was no tapering before the race because I was training for Ironman, so I should have fresher legs. I would also like to take a couple minutes off of my swim time and have started to really concentrate on my form to get under 30 minutes for the swim.
The other goal is to hold a 7:30 pace for the half-marathon. I’ve been pretty close a couple of times, but I think if I concentrate on more speed work and maybe a few track workouts thrown in I can get there.
The last goal is to finally get my weight down. I wasn’t able to manage that last year for Ironman and have renewed my effort to weigh in at 155 lbs for these races. That will be an 11 lb drop. I will see how I feel at 160 and evaluate that goal again at that time. So, at this time I weight 166.25 lbs. and I’ll be updating my weight on here as I did last year. I thought that would have motivated me to lose, but it didn’t. I think what will motivate me this year is the need to be lighter to reach my race goals.