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In an ideal world my long term goal i'd still really like to make the AG podium at a national duathlon race my current best is 5th. In the medium term I'd like to work up to 25 maybe 30k at the pace Joe Skipper just did that 50k i did a 10 miler at that pace last year so i reckon it's doable. In the short term just maintain some consistent ideal still 6 days a week training as we have a 7 week old baby and I've massively underestimated how time consuming she is. I rarely struggle for motivation but I'm going to have to be more organised than ever before to reach any of those goals without destroying myself or pushing my luck to much with my wife.
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I have twin boys just approaching 3. If you can still manage 6 days a week training I’ll be very jealous of you.
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In an ideal world my long term goal i'd still really like to make the AG podium at a national duathlon race my current best is 5th.
Nice target! I scraped 10th at the National in 2013 but mainly off the back of marathon training. I'd need to put a lot more time and effort into getting my cycling closer to my running form. I'm 50 next year and thought some time ago I'd celebrate by having a proper go at a big AG duathlon race but I'm not sure I can see that happening.
As it is I decided the other day that my main target for 2022 is to "race" two marathons; one running, one indoor rowing. Just found out my next door neighbour is a keen rower and was part of an all-female crew that rowed the channel. Took longer than they'd planned because they had to fix a rudder half way across. Machine! My birthday's in June so I've got a while to build up the distance; longest I've rowed so far is a half marathon (1:24, hard but not flat-out), so I'm not worried about endurance generally but not sure whether blisters or arse-ache might become an issue. If I can keep it together, anything sub-3 would make for a decent age ranking. (I appreciate it's a pretty niche competition!)
Then there's London Marathon in October. I'm still dreaming about sub-2:30, but B target would be beating this year's time (2:34:59) which again should be worth a decent ranking.
And congrats on the new arrival! My little one's coming up to six months, and I have managed to squeeze out 2x sub-2:40 marathons since she got here. :-)
George_Sportif
PhilPub
Happy New Year.. I just scraped 1,200km for the year which is significantly up on previous years.
I’ve got a Parkrun today to kick-off the year.. I’m hoping to get 1,500km in 2022 but the return to work-travel may scupper this.
I’d also like to get the ever-elusive sub 20 5km ..
Anyone got any targets for 2022?