Third of these for 2014.
2014 Annual Targets are:
Swim 78 miles and learn to tumble turn.
Bike 1820 miles.
Run 624 miles.
There are some additional racing targets, Swim 400m under 6mins 30, and 750m under 13mins, and 1500m under 27mins. (And if I do by some chance find another 5k swim race, get under 1hr35).
Cycle a TT race.
Run a 5k under 21mins 30, or 10k under 44mins, or half marathon under 1hr 48.
Clock personal best times at Knockburn Sprint and Standard and at Huntly Standard (allowing for weather).
Finish in the top-10 at Forres Novice.
Cycle a TT race.
Run a 5k under 21mins 30, or 10k under 44mins, or half marathon under 1hr 48.
Clock personal best times at Knockburn Sprint and Standard and at Huntly Standard (allowing for weather).
Finish in the top-10 at Forres Novice.
That means at the three-quarter point of the year I should have done somewhere in the region of:
Swim 58.5 miles and be doing some turns.
Bike 1,366 miles.
Run 468 miles.
And some of the other targets as well
And some of the other targets as well
And the actuals to date are:
Swum 66.7 miles and doing lots of turns.
Biked 1454 miles.
Run 467 miles.
And run a 10k under 44 mins. (43:30 Moray RR 10k).
Finish Top-10 at Forres. (5th)
PB time at Knockburn sprint. (slower by ~2 minutes).
PB time at Knockburn Standard (faster by 2 minutes).
PB time at Huntly Standard (faster by 4 minutes).
Swim 400m under 6:30 - 6:25 at Alford.
Swim 750m under 13 mins - 12:56 at Inverurie, 12:55 at Westhill.
Swim 1500m under 27 mins - 26:42 at Huntly.
Swim 5,000m race under 1 hr 35. - Optional, depends on doing a 5k race.
Do a TT bike race - Deeside Evening series
Finish Top-10 at Forres. (5th)
PB time at Knockburn sprint. (slower by ~2 minutes).
PB time at Knockburn Standard (faster by 2 minutes).
PB time at Huntly Standard (faster by 4 minutes).
Swim 400m under 6:30 - 6:25 at Alford.
Swim 750m under 13 mins - 12:56 at Inverurie, 12:55 at Westhill.
Swim 1500m under 27 mins - 26:42 at Huntly.
Swim 5,000m race under 1 hr 35. - Optional, depends on doing a 5k race.
Do a TT bike race - Deeside Evening series
I have reproduced my graphs again to match the Q2 report. Again for the technically minded reader they show cumulative distance by date and are all baselined to January 1st. This does mean some slight fluctuations as some years I start with a weekend and some years start with a Wednesday etc. And every fourth year there is an extra day which took me a while to understand and adapt the sheet for. 2014 in each graph is the pink line, hence the flatline from today to end of year as that data still all contains 0's.
Swimming.
Continuing on from Q2 I have kept my swim miles above the plan. My plan for this year was actually to do slightly less than last year but at the minute I am well ahead of target. Having moved up to lane 4 and working hard, I am now doing almost 300m more on a Monday night session than this time last year. To hit my target for the year I pretty much just have to keep turning up to Monday night sessions until mid November. More likely I am just going to absolutely hammer my target.
So now I need to decide if I want to try and set a new record for a year or just hit my original target. Last year I had a big upturn in December as I piled on some miles prepping for the Scottish 5k swim champs. I would like to do that race again if it is on. If not then I think I will still go past the 85 miles I did last year, so that is my new target.
So now I need to decide if I want to try and set a new record for a year or just hit my original target. Last year I had a big upturn in December as I piled on some miles prepping for the Scottish 5k swim champs. I would like to do that race again if it is on. If not then I think I will still go past the 85 miles I did last year, so that is my new target.
Biking.
Being back in the gym on regular exercise bike sessions and getting out for a couple of Kintore weekend rides has more than sorted out the mileage deficit that I did have on the bike at the end of Q2. As with the swimming I am now doing way over my target every week. so it is likely that I will get to 1,820 by about the end of November. There is no danger of beating last year's total. I could set a bigger target at 1,900 or 2,000 but there isn't any major benefit from that. Not having a mountain bike might actually turn out to be a benefit on the mileage front as it stops me from taking a whole day to pick up 8-10 miles on the mtb.
Being back in the gym on regular exercise bike sessions and getting out for a couple of Kintore weekend rides has more than sorted out the mileage deficit that I did have on the bike at the end of Q2. As with the swimming I am now doing way over my target every week. so it is likely that I will get to 1,820 by about the end of November. There is no danger of beating last year's total. I could set a bigger target at 1,900 or 2,000 but there isn't any major benefit from that. Not having a mountain bike might actually turn out to be a benefit on the mileage front as it stops me from taking a whole day to pick up 8-10 miles on the mtb.
Running.
Not such an easy graph to read as the pink line pretty much disappears behind the red target line and in amongst the previous years of data as well. As of the end of Q3 I am 1 mile behind target. That is less than a quarter of one percent, or about 8 minutes over the 63 hours or so. I can easily tick over to the end of the year on the line. As long as I am chasing the other targets it is going to be difficult to get any more.
Not such an easy graph to read as the pink line pretty much disappears behind the red target line and in amongst the previous years of data as well. As of the end of Q3 I am 1 mile behind target. That is less than a quarter of one percent, or about 8 minutes over the 63 hours or so. I can easily tick over to the end of the year on the line. As long as I am chasing the other targets it is going to be difficult to get any more.
So what changes to make with 6 months gone?
New swim target is 85 miles.
Having cleared my backlog and going into winter I am fine for bike miles but no huge desire to push the limits so it is staying as 1,820 miles.
I was looking at a longer run target but I lost some ground in July and I am just going to be safe with this one for now.
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