Tuesday, November 6, 2007

2008 race goals

I was trying to put together a list of goals, both general and specific, for the 2008 season.
EventGoal2007 best and/or comments
Half-marathonUnder 2 hoursFirst time in 2008
10kUnder 50:0053:24
5kUnder 22:3024:55
Swim - sprint race (750m)2:00/100m2:09/100m
Bike - sprint race (20k)Avg. 30km/hAvg. 28.5 km/h
Run - sprint race (5k)Under 5:00/km5:24/km
Sprint triathlon - overall1:25:001:32:58
Olympic triathlon - overallUnder 3 hrs.First time in 2008

Most of the road races should come in the early part of the spring or in late fall. The half-marathon is on Mother's Day, which falls on May 11 next year. I'll likely add a duathlon or two in there as well. Victoria's Duathlon in May and the Niagara-on-the-Lake Duathlon in September. Both are part of the Subaru Series, to which I am partial.

I'll be entered in at least 2 sprints of the same distance (750m, 20k, 5k) -- one in each of June and July -- and the Olympic is in early August. The last two years I've started the tri season in Milton, doing the try-a-tri there. I'd like to do it again this year -- and since the other races I'll be in will be new to me, running the same course in Milton will give me a really good chance to see what kind of progress I've made.

I've got some equipment I'm going to talk about in a future post... I don't know if I'd call it a review, but I guess it's something like that.

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