Hey all I am a new triathlete and a new member here. I just completed my first ever triathlon and am instantly addicted and trying to plan out some realistic goals for the next year or two and was hoping someone in here that is much more knowledgeable than me could point me in the right direction.
A little background on my athletic life for some context. I grew up playing very competitive tennis 4-5 days a week for two hours a day and ended up playing D1 tennis for a year before ultimately quitting because I wasn't good enough and wanted to spend time drinking and being a normal college kid. I then proceeded to become extremely out of shape over the next 5 years and when I finally decided to go running again I could only run a mile in 9 mins and was 100% gassed at that point I decided to get my physical health back in check and signed up for the Chicago Marathon. After 4 months of training and running ~4 days a week I was able to complete it in 4:03 which was way ahead of the goal time I originally set. The training was tough kicking my body back into shape but I got through it injury free outside of some shin splints and decided my next challenge was going to be a olympic tri.
I bought a bike and started swimming in january off and on for an event in march that was canceled (like many others) and decided just to leapfrog the training straight to a 70.3 and started training much harder in May ~30 hours/month until now. All of the 70.3s I was signed up for or transfered to all got cancelled, but I finally was able to get in a sprint tri locally and finished second in my AG 25-29 with the following splits on a lake swim and flat course
Swim 600M: 12:43
Bike 12 miles: 32:07 (22.4mph)
Run 5: 23:18 (7:31/ mile)
I am hoping that I will eventually get to do a 70.3 this year and would then like to start focusing on the sprint & olympic distance. I am aware that I am a terrible swimmer :) so lots of room for improvements there. I only really started biking in May and am now able to average 20mph over 50 miles without being warn out, which I feel like is a decent start, and my run has a long ways to go as well.
Given this info what would you all say is a realistic goal target for me for that same sprint race next year and other olympic distance races? In my head seeing how much I have improved over the last year I would like to think the following would be achievable assuming I keep training at ~10hrs/ week:
Swim 600M: 10:00
Bike 12 miles: 28:33 (25.2 mph)
Run 5: 20:00 (6:30/ mile)
Is this possible or pipe dream? Just trying to estimate and understand what rate I can hope/expect to keep improving at? I have had zero coaching to date as well, just downloaded a plan on training peaks and have gone from there.
Any help advice appreciated! Thanks all!
A little background on my athletic life for some context. I grew up playing very competitive tennis 4-5 days a week for two hours a day and ended up playing D1 tennis for a year before ultimately quitting because I wasn't good enough and wanted to spend time drinking and being a normal college kid. I then proceeded to become extremely out of shape over the next 5 years and when I finally decided to go running again I could only run a mile in 9 mins and was 100% gassed at that point I decided to get my physical health back in check and signed up for the Chicago Marathon. After 4 months of training and running ~4 days a week I was able to complete it in 4:03 which was way ahead of the goal time I originally set. The training was tough kicking my body back into shape but I got through it injury free outside of some shin splints and decided my next challenge was going to be a olympic tri.
I bought a bike and started swimming in january off and on for an event in march that was canceled (like many others) and decided just to leapfrog the training straight to a 70.3 and started training much harder in May ~30 hours/month until now. All of the 70.3s I was signed up for or transfered to all got cancelled, but I finally was able to get in a sprint tri locally and finished second in my AG 25-29 with the following splits on a lake swim and flat course
Swim 600M: 12:43
Bike 12 miles: 32:07 (22.4mph)
Run 5: 23:18 (7:31/ mile)
I am hoping that I will eventually get to do a 70.3 this year and would then like to start focusing on the sprint & olympic distance. I am aware that I am a terrible swimmer :) so lots of room for improvements there. I only really started biking in May and am now able to average 20mph over 50 miles without being warn out, which I feel like is a decent start, and my run has a long ways to go as well.
Given this info what would you all say is a realistic goal target for me for that same sprint race next year and other olympic distance races? In my head seeing how much I have improved over the last year I would like to think the following would be achievable assuming I keep training at ~10hrs/ week:
Swim 600M: 10:00
Bike 12 miles: 28:33 (25.2 mph)
Run 5: 20:00 (6:30/ mile)
Is this possible or pipe dream? Just trying to estimate and understand what rate I can hope/expect to keep improving at? I have had zero coaching to date as well, just downloaded a plan on training peaks and have gone from there.
Any help advice appreciated! Thanks all!