I think you need to add that to your goals. Split them apart into 2 or even three

ex:

1. Complete qualifier
2. Get to Kona through 1 or lotto
3. Crush Kona PR

Then at least you can claim some success at the end of the year if you hit some of them.....because I am sure that 365 days from now Renorider or Show Pony will pull up this thread to make us accountable to our goals :-)

Lifestyle Goals:

• Be there for my wife and family when she gives birth to our 2nd child this year :)
• Be happy.
• Get back in shape (i.e. lose all of the weight I've put on this year by not working out and eating poorly).
• Change eating habits for the better.

Performance Goals:

• Increase FTP to 300 watts (I'm a big dude, so that's not THAT impressive)
• Run 10K < 42 minutes
• Qualify for Xterra Nationals
• Half-IM < 5:15 (if I race one later in the year)

1.) Qualify for Navy Tri, then World Military Games

2.) Top 10 at AG Nationals

3.) Qualify for 70.3 World Champs at Ireland 70.3

To make those goals possible, I figure I need to get a solid swim season together and move from MOP to FOP out of the water. Build on the improving bike from last year. Finish it all off with a smoother bike-to-run transition.

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Tri Authenticiy
"Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials. How could he make them understand?"--John L. Parker, Once a Runner

I'll keep it simple:

1) First and foremost: Stick to the training plan! (hopefully that will make the others possible)

2) Go sub 5:45 for a HIM

3) Finish my first full IM (no time goal for my first one yet, might set one closer to the race date though)

(and it'd be nice to drop 10 lbs somewhere in there, cause I'd consider that being down to my ideal race weight)

Break 11 hrs Ironman CDA, enjoy summer off of training, volunteer IMC, sign up for IMC 2012!

Here are my goals.

1. Complete 10 sprint tris in 2011
2. Run a sub 21 minute 5k
3. Place in the top 5 for my AG at the Pumpkinmann
4. Get my body weight below 170

The most important part is to have fun doing all these goals!

Thanks!

Bill

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"Lotta people go through life doing things badly. Racing's important to men who do it well . . .
When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting."
# ..Steve McQueen as Michael DeVaney in Le Mans (1971)

Sub 38 Oly 10k
Get that 1500m swim time down: 23(ish) hopefully, outside goal 22:30
<63 min oly bike
Top 10 age group nationals again.

1. Sub 20 open 5k.
2. Sub 13 800m pool swim.
3. Obtain a pair of compression socks.
4. Get a real power meter.

-Sub 4:30 at Boise 70.3 with a sub 1:20 run (maybe 1:22)
-go to vegas
-2:05 Chicago olympic (best this year was 2:12 on a harder course)
-sub 36 run in an olympic (best this year 37:1x)

-open 5K sub 17

-500 SCY under 6:30 - currently 6:55
-1500 SCY under 21

-eat better

-ride worthy of the bike that I'm going to buy

Retire From construction
great divide
Am Zof
self suport iron at home with a point to point swim in Chaumont bay, bike the tour de Chaumont bike course, run my home training course 2 times .

Life guard more races

thom
a new 29er would be nice

1- Lose weight
2- Get fit and feel good
3- Stay injury free
4- Do more 'group" stuff and get a social life!!!!!

1.) To stay motivated to train the entire year and be injury free.
2.) Complete a full marathon in May (CDA Marathon).
3.) Do either the Grand Colombian HIM or maybe full.
4.) Consider doing Troika for the first time this year (HIM in Spokane).

Hm, with no experience other than my first sprint tri last year, hard to formulate goal times. I would like to do:

My first Olympic Tri (s)
My first HIM
Swim 28 or so for 1500 (right now easy 1K swims are 24 ;-)
Place in my age group in some of the races I do. (55-59)
Run a 6 minute mile again. Several in fact

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Cervelo R3 and Cannondale Synapse, Argon18 Electron Track Bike

1. Two IMs.
2. Break 3:30 marathon.
3. Walk the swim portion of Eagleman. No wetsuit required.

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http://konabound.tumblr.com/

Ditto.
Plus race the way I know I can
Be CONSISTENT
140lbs
Kick some ass

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The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.-Pre

Move up a lane at squad.
Run a marathon sub 3:30

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1) get to sub-150# for A races
2) increase run volume without injury (currently working with a PT to iron out inbalances that have led to multiple right knee injuries)
3) Finish Timberman top-5% in AG, and if the weather is perfect again like this year go 4:40 or better
4) Top 10 in Lord of the Flies (weekend with TT Friday, International Sat, Sprint Sun)
5) get serious about bike racing--in other words, GET SOME ROAD RACES ON THE CALENDAR THIS YEAR!

>> Sub-5:00 70.3 (First one will be Texas 70.3 and I'd have a good shot at it if the wind is cooperative)

>> Sub-11:00 at IMTX (unless it's 95 degrees out and then all bets are off)

>> Top 10 AG at a local olympic race

>> Stay injury free

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Favorite Gear: Dimond | Cadex | Desoto Sport | Hoka One One

That's a nice mix of sports ;-)
Love the Around the Bay race, did it several times, including the 100th. A race older than Boston, but still low key.

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Cervelo R3 and Cannondale Synapse, Argon18 Electron Track Bike

1. Have more fun playing outside
- Do more local races just for the atmosphere
- More training rides with the boys
- Organize some specialized training days and weekend camps

2. Be extremely fit when turning 40 on July 31
- Actually follow the nutrition plan I spent many hours creating. No magic, just taking the time to shop and prepare real food
- Minimum 10 hours/wk of any kind of consistent training
- Improve general strength and flexibilty for all activities: multisport, skiing, climbing
- 169.99 lbs by IM Switzerland on July 10
- a sub 3:00 marathon sometime in 2011
- IM Switzerland in...i dunno...sub 11:00 sounds OK for now

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Free Training Plans and Canvases: abetteranimal.com (IG: @abetteranimal )
Home Cooking: culaccinokitchen.com (IG: culaccinokitchen )
Zurich, Switzerland

Love # 2 real food is living large . Good luck

thom

#1: Life Goals:

1. <off topic for this thread, start below>
   

#2: Triathlon Goals:

1. Be a rockstar to my family. Transparent training.
   
2. FTP 4.0W/kg on the bike.
   
3. PR in 5K, 10K and Half Marathon.
4. Race strong 70.3s.
5. Try to hate swimming less.
   
6. Have fun and go fast.

2011 Goals: Sub 5 Hr Bike Split on < 200 watts....

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There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming. - Tolkien.

Maybe putting "pen to paper" (so to speak...) will help to achieve this year's goals. First is to stay healthy and not repeat last year's troubles: two leg injuries in the spring, very sick but still competed @ St. Anthony's (big mistake) and finally surgery in October for a serious impingment in my left shoulder that bothered me all year (one of the worst the Ortho said she had ever seen). For the coming year: win A/G in both the Aquathlon and Sprint tri's at Nationals and regain my USAT ranking score from 2009 (Dropped over 3 points from 2009 to 2010) At 66 years old in 2011, it just doesn't get any easier (just slower!)...

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Remember Luddites are people too...

1- Go 3:23 at Albany GA (Snickers Marathon)
2- Go sub 12 at IMFL (first full) (from 4:50 HIM)
3- Oh and build a new bike to make #2 more fun
Prolly a P3, SRAM red, quark, and Zipp FC 808 wee!
Plan is to be a treat for accomplishn #1