Are you guys ready to lay them out there?
Runs4Sanity
I'm figuring mine out right now lol.
Specific Goals
*Do It For Yourself, Do It Because They Said It Was Impossible, Do It Because They Said You Were Incapable*
PRs
5k - 24:15 (7:49 min/mile pace)
10k - 51:47 (8:16 min/mile pace)
15k -1:18:09 (8:24 min/mile pace)
13.1 - 1:53:12 (8:39 min/mile pace)
26:2 - 4:14:55 (9:44 min/mile)
From the Internet.
AWW YEAH
1. Stay healthy!! Keep up with strength/stretching/rolling/prehab. Every run has a purpose. If it stops serving that purpose, call it off. ALL other goals are contingent upon the Big Number One.
2. Keep streaking! 10-15 minute shuffle is nothing at this point. I'm past 9 months now, definitely want to see if I can make it to a year and then see if I can keep on going from there. Mindset is so important here - keeping up the streak for fun is different than being a slave to it, and if I get to the point where it's detrimental I'll consider terminating it. So far it's been great though.
3. Targeting 3000 miles; should be doable. I won't be upset if I fall a little short though.
4. Race goals!!
A. Drop mile into the 5:30s. This will be imminently doable - just have to take off 4 seconds to hit the upper end of the range and will have many opportunities to hit it between now and the end of March.
B. Boston: train with 3:05-3:10 in mind, but adjust that as it gets closer, and of course bear the conditions in mind on race day. If it's warm or very wet, just have fun, enjoy the day, and run a smart, even race.
C. Race more often than last year. Like REALLY race. Don't sign up for races and then jog them or tempo them and get cranky that I didn't race them after the fact - I am slowly learning that it's possible for a race effort and a PR effort to be different things at different times in the training cycle and when a race effort isn't a PR effort, that doesn't make it useless.
D. Fall goals are purposely a bit open-ended. I know for sure I'll be sub-3 marathon someday in the not-too-distant future, but too soon to tell if that will be possible this year or not - if I drop my 5K into the high 18s/sub-40 10K in the first half of the year, I'll feel more comfortable officially declaring it as a fall goal. Most likely I will race something flat/fast and go for a PR either way, but if Boston goes really well I may take a break from the marathon grind and do a higher-mileage focused half marathon cycle or something instead.
A) 3:14
B) 2,800 miles
C) An unassisted pistol squat - both legs
A is a NYCMQ. B would be a step up from my personal best set last year and C is something that would completely blow my mind if I can pull it off.
Only if you are.
I had to look this up. LOL nope.
Dave
Pretty much my response whenever I'm asked if I can do it (usually by a PT). It's not required for anything we do, it's just switching things up in terms of goals for a change.
Well of course the guy in the video I watched makes it look easy. Then I try, and I bend my standing leg about 10 degrees and stop.
Super B****
ALL THE PRS.
Really, I just want an A bib, but I’m pretty sure that’s not going to happen, so I’ll settle for a marathon PR. And a Boston that’s not a shit show like last time.
Though before that I should say “stay healthy.” (Or really “get healthy,” but whatever.)
chasing the impossible
because i never shut up ... i blog
PR something. Don't get fat. Have more good runs than bad ones. Learn how to program a workout into my watch.
1. 2500 miles
2. <3:20 marathon
3. HM PR
PR something.
This made me lol. And scratch my head and think that my goals should be similar!
I’m trying to figure out what’s realistic, yet slightly hard. Vs what I want.
want:
realistically I think more like 1500 miles if I am not marathon training, which makes me wonder if #4 is possible. I really just want to regain my love for running, get stronger, run consistently, and clean up my diet. And maybe get strong enough to do pistol squats on both legs.
delicate flower
Win more crap.
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