'08 Looking Back - '09 Looking Forward (Page 2)

2008, all about the IM

 - Separated shoulder
 - DNF IMAZ
 - Layoff
 - Cracked frame
 - Finished IMAZ

2009, all about HIM, off road and hills

 - Wildflower long
 - SOS
 - Sillverman HIM

2008

Senior year of college WOO HOO!!!

2009

Austin Half-Marathon

Lone Star sprint

Buffalo Springs (do you think its possible with only 6-7 months training???)

Texas Tri Series (5 races, starts sorta short then builds through oly to a HIM)

Depending on how the half marathon goes I may try to run in Nashvilles Country Music Marathon!!

Hmmm... after writing this all down, I think I have a racing addiction -  19 Races ... I don't want to even pretend to add up the entry fees   And I was supposed to run the Philadelphia Marathon but got injured.  In 2009 I plan to race a little less... maybe. 

4 - 5k's

1 - 4-miler

2 - 10k's 

2 - Half Marathons

4 - Tri Sprints

1 - Xterra

3 - Olympics

2  - Half Ironman's

This is my first  year doing any of the 3 let alone combining them..

Started training in May

Completed my first Sprint in Aug

2nd sprint was cancelled due to bad weather

Lost and have not found 35lbs over the summer 

Jingle Bell 5k in December possible 

 2009

Still not rock solid but:

1/2 Mary in May 

3 Sprints (June, July, Aug)

1 Oly (Aug)

1 HIM (Sept - depending on above races)

1 Half Mary & 5&10K's in the Fall

2008 Accomplishments

First year of tris

4 sprints( 2 BOP, 1 MOP, 1 FOP)

1 xterra 7mi trail run

1 half mary

1 5K

2009 Goals

2-4 5ks and 10ks

1 oly

1 him (A race)

2 half mary (sub 1:25)

2-4 sprints (all FOP, even if bottom FOP)

Note: I'm setting hard, yet attainable goals (hard for me, anyways)

Congratulations on your 2008 accomplishments!  This multi-sport thing is a fun way to stay in shape and keep the weight off.  I am about the same age as you are although I've been doing this thing for a while.  First marathon was in 1987...first triathlon was in 1988.  After getting married, having a couple kids and changing careers I let myself go for a few years and put on over 50 pounds!  I've dropped about half of that since getting consistant again with training in 2003/2004.  I don't think my wife would be happy with me if I dropped back to 150 pounds (I'm 6') so I think I'm happy with the weight I am now.  Although I think I would be a better climber and runner if I did loose all the weight.

In 2008 I finished 1-sprint, 1-olympic, 1-1/2 IM distance, Pikes Peak Ascent and a 5K.  I'll be doing my first, and probably the only, iron distance race in 2009.  I'll probably incorporate a couple other tri's as training in preparation.  I would like to do the Ascent again but I don't think I'll be able to get it in.

2008 Accomplishments

• 3 tris (1 sprint, 1 oly, 1 relay)
• 1 duathlon
• 2 10ks
• 1 1 mile swim
  
• 1 half-marathon
• 1st full marathon 
• medial meniscal tear

2009 Goals

• PT
• Healing
• Surgery?

2008 Accomplishments

• 1Olympic
• 2 1/3 Sprints 
• 1 half-marathon
• 1 Marathon 
• 1 MS150
• 2 5ks
• Plantar Fascitis in both feet

2009 Goals

• 1 Half-marathon
• 1 Marathon
• 4 to 5 Sprints
• 2 to 5 5ks
• 1 to 2 Olympics
• 1 Half Ironman
• 1 Ironman

2008

• Ran a marathon with my wife and our marriage survived
• Stayed patient while rehabbing achilles tendinosis flareup
• New Sprint Tri PR
• New Oly Tri PR
• New 5K PR
• New 10K PR
• No tri AG finishes lower than 5th
• Still to come - New half mary PR in 10 days

2009

• Stay healthy
• Drop Sprint Tri PR to below an hour
• New HIM PR
• Get 5K time below 19 minutes or 10K PR below 40...or both!
• Win my AG in a tri
• Stay healthy

2008 

1st new bike (1st road bike)

4 Sprints

2 Olympic (first time at Oly distance)

1st long distance bike ride (metric century)

1, 2nd AG awards

Got knocked up.

2009

^^^  Have a kid.    

Recover in time for 1 sprint, 1 half marathon, 1 long distance bike ride (????) 

2008 

5K

170-mile relay across Florida (12 people=14.5 miles each)

4 Sprint Tris

Marathon

Wife had another kid (#2 in 13 months)

2009

4 Sprints

2 Olys

HIM

3 5Ks

1/2 Marathon

No more kids!!!

They say if you write a goal down, you're more likely to accomplish it.  If  you write it down over and over again, you continually renew your goal and increase the possibility of accomplishing your goals.  Good Thread OP!

2008

 got off the couch

1 sprint

1 5k

1 5 miler

2009

half mary

1-2 sprints

1-2 olympics

1 half iron (depends on how school looks)

1 full mary

Just gotta keep hittin the road and gettin the miles in. 

I'll play --

07:  surgery both legs, started walking, then running for first time in 30 years. One mini-sprint, first Olympic tri, first half marathon

08:  one half mary (hilly trail), one HIM (hilly hell), one Oly (pancake flat except the surf in the Pacific), one almost HIM (1/35/10, hills), one sprint (more hills), first marathon cancelled at 4 am race day due to SoCal fires 

09:  still planning -- maybe one HIM, one IM, one oly, one sprint, 2 centuries, one HM, and other assorted fun and games... it is so nice to be healthy!

2008- IM, Oly, 2 HIMs

2009- Plan is to do sprints and olys early and Timerman in August. Not sure after that.

2008

Injury ridden year....

3 5k        1 1st in age and 1 11th in age

1 dual      3rd in age group

1 sprint 

2 Marathons

1 Half Ironman

1 IRONMAN   DNF CRASHED ON BIKE

2009 GOALS

3 MARATHONS

3 HALF MARATHONS

5 SPRINTS

5 OLYMPICS

2 HALF IRONMAN

2 CENTURY RIDES

2008

  1   HALF IRON, 4 SPRINTS,

2009

 2 HALF IRONS, 3 SPRINTS, 1 OLYMPIC

2008

• Started second year of running to get in shape
• Started swimming around Labor Day
• Made the decision to do tris in 2009

2009

• 2 Sprints--Keuka Lake Tri and either the Mussleman or Cayuga Lake Tri

2009
IM CDA
IM WI
KQ

'08... The year I wish I could pretend didn't happen... Really haven't run since early March. Haven't been riding for the last month. Foot surgery in July (the reason I wasn't running after March). I've "started over" twice already since September, and am having a lot of problems with recurring calf strains. I'm almost ready to hang it up entirely.

'09? Hmm... I'd love to say I'll be doing X and Y races, but really I'm just hoping I can train. Yeah, I can ride. Maybe I'm going to turn into the guy that volunteers at the races (with my motorcycle endorsement, I can ride course motor). My original plan going into THIS year was to go to USAT Nationals and then jump up to half-IM in '09. Well, that got scrubbed pretty much with the first calf strain when I resumed running in September. So I really don't know.

2008

Bought a bike in April, did a Tri in June on a whim.  Got the bug for SBR. 

No top 10's or even close, but I did loose 40lbs

Now waiting for MRI results, get them on the 15th at 3:20pm.

2009

16 more pounds

Swimming events without being the almost last guy out of the water

Continuing on showing my daughter if you put you mind to it and try anything is possible.

4 races picked out depending on what is wrong with knee and my employer does not go Bankrupt!

Joe