I know its been a while, but I’m not making any official proclamation of being back in the blogging world – the last time I did that, it was embarrassingly short-lived. Nonetheless, looking ahead to the 2011 season, I’m looking forward to putting an injury-plagued 2010 behind me and check some serious goals (or 1 goal with a couple of milestones along the way) off my list. Hopefully, that will give me way more incentive to share my “Tri Tales” this year than I had last year.
2011 Goal: Half Ironman! As I’ve mentioned in the past, I dream of the day when I can add the 70.3 bumper sticker to other tri-related stuff on my rear windshield. This year, I’m setting a major goal of completing the Beach-2-Battleship 70.3 race in October.
Milestone #1: 10K. Yes, I’ve done 2 Olympic distance races, but I’ve never run 6.2 miles consecutively. In fact, I’ve never run the entire last leg of any tri I’ve done. It’s always been a little running and a lot of walking. I refuse to let it be that way forever. Therefore, I will be running my first 10K President’s Day weekend.
Milestone #2: Half Marathon. If I’m going to do a Half Ironman, I need to be able to run a consecutive 13.1 miles. Walking 6.2 at the end of an Olympic distance tri might be acceptable, but walking 13.1 miles at the end of a 70.3 just sounds tedious. If all goes well at the 10K, I’ll be running in the Buffalo 1/2 Marathon at the end of May.
Clearly the big challenge will be getting from my current 3.5 miles up to 13.1 in the next 4 1/2 months, but, if I can do that and discipline myself to train hard for during the summer and fall, this year could be way more exciting than 2010.
Wow, welcome back! I too hope to do a half this year, so let’s get some training in together!