2013 Misc Goal Thread (Read 524 times)

One of my goals for 2013 is to run my age in a 10K.  I'll turn 45 this year and I would like to go sub 45 minutes.  That's 4 minutes off my PR from this fall so it's going to be a challenge for me.

I have 3 10Ks that I will probably run this year, one in June, one in September and one in October.  That should give me some time to fine tune my pacing and hopefully have some good weather on at least one of them.  The September race is the Shallowater Stampede 10K and probably has the best chance for me to go sub 45.  That's where I set my PR this year.

    I'll be focusing mostly on speed in 2013.  I managed to hit sub-40 for 10K and sub-90 in the half.

Primary goals for 2013:

-sub-19 5K

-sub-5:15 Mile.

I already made my main goal for next year, qualify for the elite status at the Twin Cities marathon, thanks to the fact that my age is a pretty big number.  I saw another goal that someone mentioned that probably isn't reachable but our reach should exceed our grasp and all that.  Let's go for 2 plus our age in a marathon this year.  That will be 2:55 in Fargo next year or 2:56 in the Twin Cities.

3 running goals for me - sub 21 minute 5k, sub 45 minute Spartan Sprint (PacNW, August 3rd), and then a training consistency goal - at least 1 mile every day of 2013.

Been thinking about my 2013 Miscellanous goal and it's looking a lot more daunting than my May marathon!

Ran a couple 2 mile races and did the first in 14:55 and the second in 14:32.  The scary thing is that I'm supposed to be able to hold that pace for 4 more miles to make my goal!!  I didn't taper or specifically train for either of those races though, so I think I could do a little better if I did, but not sure how much better.  Using McMillan's calculators I should be running 13:15 on the 2 mile (6:37 pace) to be able to run a 45:00 10K.

I had been hoping that somehow miraculously I would just get way faster after logging all these miles training for the marathon, but it hasn't happened so far.  I know I still have a couple more months of high volume ahead of me and the body takes time to adapt, but I think it is still going to take a lot of work after the marathon is over to be able to make my 45 minute 10K goal.

Last year I was making progress by leaps and bounds, this year, it's by 5 seconds here and 10 seconds there.  I need to shave over 30 seconds off my pace to have a chance at a 45:00 10K by the end of the year.

I'm hoping that I didn't set the bar too high with this goal and that I still have a chance of making it.

It's looking like miscellaneous goals aren't all that popular! 

Or maybe we just don't like to talk about them.

I made my sub 4 hour first marathon goal earlier this month and I'm just now starting to work on my sub 45:00 10K goal now.

Did 12 X 400m intervals last night, but it was crappy weather outside so I did them on the treadmill.  My only issue is that I think my treadmill isn't calibrated correctly and there really isn't a way to adjust it that I've figured out.  I think it is off about 15 or 20 seconds per mile at 6.0 mph so maybe a little more than that at higher speeds?  Anyway, to adjust for that I ran a little bit faster and set the incline to 2%.

Did the first 4 intervals at 7:30 pace, next 4 at 7:25 pace, next 3 at 7:20 pace and then blew it out on the last one at 7:00 pace.

My first 10K of the year is coming up on June 8th and this will let me know if my goal of sub 45:00 is actually achievable or not.  I'm trying to decide whether to go out conservatively at a 7:45 pace and plan on finishing strong or to go out at a 7:30 pace and just hope to hold on.

I'm hoping to finish at 47:XX for sure, a 7:40 avg pace would get me 47:30 and I think that is about what I'm capable of right now.  That would be an improvement of over 1:00 per mile from the same race last year when I ran a 54:15 for an 8:44 avg pace.

If I can do that, I'm thinking with a lot of miles this summer and 2 days a week of speed work that I hopefully can pull off a 7:15 pace in September when I plan to run my next 10K, but I think it is still a very lofty goal.  My 10K PR was set at that same race and was a breakthrough type race for me where I exceeded my expectations with a 49:18 (My "A" goal for that race was to break 50 minutes) for an avg pace of 7:57.

I'm thinking for my sub 45:00 goal to be more realistic I need to end up closer to a 7:30 pace on the race coming up in a couple weeks, but of course weather could be a big factor this time of year.

The race predictors are all giving me 48:XX projections for a 10K based on my marathon and half marathon times, so I guess I hope that my coefficient is higher than average!

Oh well, just thinking through my goal plans and thought I would bump this thread one more time.  If anyone has any specific input I'm all ears.  I used the Hansons plan for my marathon and I'm using a version of their 10K plan over the summer for my goal 10K that will be on September 14th.

Well, I had to do some searching to find this thread and bring it back up.

My goal 10K is coming up in just under 2 weeks.  I've been hitting my paces in my workouts and hopefully the weather will turn out good on race day and I think I have a shot at making my goal of sub 45:00, but it is going to be close and it is going to take some serious effort.

Ran a 46:59 back in June and have been working pretty hard on my training in July and August with 190 mile months.  Doing lots of interval training following a Hanson 10K plan.

Really hoping to make it.