Preparing for next season
I’ve started to get back into training again after some time ‘off’. At this point I feel like I haven’t done enough that week if all I do is 15 miles of running, 50miles of biking and a mile or two of swimming. It’s funny to think that my ‘lazy’ week has become excessive for most people in the world, I never intended that but it just kind of became that way.
I’ve started to plan out next years schedule. It’s looking like it’ll be a busy one as well as an expensive one. Some of the events I plan on doing include a team for the 24 hours of Utah run, the Colorado Marathon, the Bolder Boulder 10k, the San Diego Marathon (still considering this and being pressured to do it by some friends), the 5430 sprint tri, the Boulder Peak Oly tri, the Xterra Indian Peaks tri, the Boulder 70.3, the Harvest Moon HIM, a team for the 24 hours of Moab Mountain bike race, the Denver Marathon (soon to be referred to as the Rock and Roll Denver Marathon or something like that), and then the big one… the Arizona Ironman!
Talk about one heck of a season…. 3 marathons, 2 Half Ironmans, a Full Ironman, 2 24hour races, and a number of other shorter events. Should make for a really fun year. Especially if I mix in some events like the Elephant Rock century ride or something similar.
Here’s some of my early season aggressive goal times for some of the events:
Colorado Marathon: 3:40 (~8 1/2 minute miles)
5430 Sprint: 1:25 (14min swim, 22mph bike[47min], 22min 5k, 2 1/2 min for T1&2)
San Diego Marathon: 3:30 (~8 minute miles… 7:15s are needed to qualify for Boston)
Boulder Peak: 2:23 (26min swim, 22mph bike[1:11.5], 43.5min 10k, 2 min T1&2)
Boulder 70.3: sub 5 hours, bike should be easier than HM was, and my running should be a LOT faster now
Harvest Moon: sub 5 hours (drop 2 1/5 minutes swimming, 32 minutes in the run [8min miles], and 5 minutes on the bike [average 20.8mph instead of 20.0])
24 Hours of Moab: sub 1:30 laps… try to drop a 1:20 on the last lap.
Denver Marathon: 3:40
Ironman Arizona: Sub 10 1/2 hours.