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See you there!
2016 review: not quite hitting the heights of 2015 because there was no target marathon to help me focus on high mileage, plus I was happy to spend a lot more time on the bike including my first ever bike tours, including 800 miles down the US Pacific coast. Awesome! Mileage, year-to-date: running 2,361; cycling 3,255 in the training log, but actually 4,000+ including all journeys. I did manage a single running PB, 16:04 for 5k (road).
Main target for 2017 is another crack at a sub-2:30 marathon. If I can manage that at London I can spend the rest of the year doing shorter distances, hopefully log some good age rankings (turning V45 in June) and post some times that are good enough to qualify me for the England V45 team in the annual International Masters home nations' cross country champs in November, which next year takes place in N Ireland. I think I'm the fittest I've been at this time of year, so pretty optimistic going into marathon training.
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I PB'd in all distanced entered
Same here, all within the first 4 months of the year! But then I only ran a couple of park runs, 2 HMs, and 1 marathon (which was my first and only - so far). Then after London everything fell off a cliff!
The New Forest jaunt looks like it could be good, is that the one you did last year? Good excuse for a weekend away!
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2016 went well for me. I PB'd in all distanced entered, the largest being my 10mile time coming down by over 5mins. Moving further away from work and so run-commuting 3-4 days of the week has helped my running considerably.
Although the training up to my first marathon in Spring didn't go exactly to plan, I enjoyed the event and my 'performance' means I can easily PB in 2017.
2015 mileage - 670mi
I hope to end 2016 on 1200mi
2017 2000mi+
In 2017 I'll be moving from my Tri club to a dedicated running club, so hope to get in more structured training with the club. I'd also like to finish in the top 10 within the club for the Dorset Road Race League. The new club won the overall league, so there's quite a bit of competition, but it's also about consistency.
I also need to finally crack that 40min 10k barrier - Got within 15seconds in November. I'll probably enter the (apparently fast) Chichester 10k that @PhilPub recommended.
I think another couple of minutes off my HM time is possible - as @dbr mentioned upthread about 'ruining' yourself - I need properly learn how to do this as I know that I race too conservatively. I've got an 18mi off-road jaunt with @_Leon in early March (@Arducius interested?) that will serve as good training for the Reading Half.
Oh and juggle this around training for a sub-22min 10mi TT and bettering my 25mi time...