May status check

Running in May so far: 57.05km Biking in May so far: 189.76km Swimming in May so far: 5.7 km Monthly targets: 62.5km, 166.67km and 8.33km - so more swimming to do.

Official distances for 2011

Running:1085km

Cycling: 1160 km

Swimming: Didn't count, but I'm guessing 10 training sessions at 2km each, plus maybe 10km more in race days and miscellaneous training

I've posted targets of 600km running and 1,800 on the bike (and 100km swimming) for 2012, but that sounds a little light. Let's got for 750, 2000 and 100km.

That makes 15km/wk running, 40km/wk on the bike and 2km/wk swimming

Treadmill fun

Gym visit, with 2.3km in 12 minutes at between 11 and 12 km/hr,

then the usual desultory abs work, and then a 5km tempo run at 12 or better - although it still took 25'45" at a pave of 5'o8"km. Go figure.

Thinking about targets for next year: 600km running, 1800 km biking, 100km swimming seems reasonable. A little more demanding than last year, but let's see where that takes us.

Weeks

I'm treating weeks the way the Godless Nike+GPS application does, with the first day being Sunday. Which means that New Year's Day was a week all on its own. My cumulative totals are therefore:

Week 0: 9.43km
Week 1: 20.72km (so far, hoping for more on Saturday if the snow isn't back)

Which means I've met my week 1 target already!

A New Year, new target

Right. Here we are at the end of 2010, weighing 77 kg, and with the West Wight Triathlon (2 hours, 9 minutes), and the Methlick Duathlon (1hr 32 minutes) under my belt.

So that's the baseline. I've got "before" photos stored with gut sucked in and gut relaxed from the front and side.

In 2011, the aim is to complete an Olympic distance triathlon (1500m swim, 40 km bike, 10km run - target times: 30 minutes, 90 minutes, 55 minutes plus 5 for transitions - total time 3 hours) as well as do the West Wight triathlon again in a better time, and various other 10k runs (Garioch, maybe Edinburgh) and some other du/triathlons (Westhill, Inverurie, Bennachie, Banchory, Huntly (sprint).

On this blog, I'll try to keep a cumulative total of distances and times, as well as race results so we can all see the changes and hopefully improvements through the year.

Another objective is to run 1,000 km through the year and get my swim time for 1,500m to less than 30 minutes by using Total Immersion techniques more.

And I'll be coming out for sponsorship as specific events emerge!