What is your long-term plan/goal?

What is your short-term goal (6-12 months)
Qualify for 2015 Sprint Worlds in Chicago and have another top 5 overall placement in the Maryland Triathlon Series

What are your long-term goals (1-5 years)
Become competitive for overall in local Olympic Triathlons/compete in the Olympic at Age Group Nationals.

Do you have a 5-year plan? 
Somewhat. At this point I am developing a good swim and working on my run mechanics. I can now hold my own in the water and hurt people one the bike. The next step is to turn my run into a weapon. Trying to make decisions that will make me faster in the long term, not just in the short term.

If no, do you just participate in this sport for run and see the improvements as they may appear?

Winning is fun!

This is a pure runner-perspective, buuuut:

What is your short-term goal (6-12 months) 
PR in the Boston Marathon, take a short break, work on my speed in the spring/summer (maybe run Club T&F Nationals)

What are your long-term goals (1-5 years) 
Transition the summer speed with a little more endurance, Race PNTF Championships in 10K and Half Marathon (HM being the A race if I had to pick one) Then I have to decide on either a fall/winter Marathon or transition into cross country.

Overall, keep up the periodization over a season with races laid out along the way. Despite the variety of speeds and distances, marathon improvement is the lense I will look through

Do you have a 5-year plan? 

Just to continue to become a faster, smarter runner (specifically marathon) and keep ahead of injuries to the best of my ability

I would like my training to allow me to live a healthy/active lifestyle life until about 85....at which time, due to diminished health and mobility,  I'd like to become a monumental financial burden to my children.   

Minus the whole Maryland thing (you danged Yankee!), Dave and I sound so similar that it's almost scary.

Ok, I'll be serious with this one unlike the coaching one

What is your short-term goal (6-12 months) 

Build swim and bike potential to be more on par with run potential. 70.3 World's. Mid 16 5k, sub 35 10k.

What are your long-term goals (1-5 years) 

Kona. Towards the end- ultrarunning with goals to qualify for some of the bigger ones.

Do you have a 5-year plan? 

A coach

What is your short-term goal (6-12 months) 
Active pregnancy, keep running around 30 mpw, "race" , take time to recover after L+D

What are your long-term goals (1-5 years) 
BQ

Do you have a 5-year plan? 
Not five years, but ... next year and maybe the following, depending on pregnancy/ birth/ newborn: race HMs, get to where I need to be to BQ (high 1:30s)
2016/ 2017: train for and BQ, run Boston
after that... maybe return to tris?

What is your short-term goal (6-12 months)

I  normally plan my races out a year in advance.  I like to race about once a month.  My two 'bookend' 'A' races this year are the Sarasota half marathon in two weeks and the Rev3 FL Oly in November.   I significantly increased my training volume last year which resulted in PR's at 5K, 5 miles, HM and sprint tri.  I was able to benefit from a 'perfect storm' last year when I not only improved my individual performance, but also aged-up to M60-64 and was able to take advantage of thinner fields in my AG (even managed an AG podium in my last tri last year - a 2nd).  I'm hoping to see continued improvement this year.  I'd also like to lose another 15 pounds.

What are your long-term goals (1-5 years)

At age 60, I'm pretty much taking things year-to-year at this point.  At the end of November I'll take stock and decide what I want to shoot for in 2015.  I've been able to effectively manage some chronic over-use injuries over the past few years, but another significant injury might cause me to re-evaluate.   

Do you have a 5-year plan?

The main objective is to stay healthy & active.  I've got a few 'bucket list' things, but nothing I'm obssessed with.  I'd definitely like to do the Indy Mini Marathon one year.  I've also toyed with the idea of doing a master's swim meet just for fun. I have family in the Louisville area and the thought of doing the IM crosses my mind from time to time.

Mark

It's not really a goal as much as it is a plan.

Short term goal: Bike racing, road and track

I plan to race all local road events and washington state stage races. This is the same thing I have been doing for the past few years. However, this year I have a different goal. I plan on racing a track UCI race in Japan in the middle of July. This year I am spending a bit more time on the track taking some time away from the road (mostly spending the extra time practicing standing starts and non-endurance events that I didn't care that much about before) and I am spending a lot more time in the gym.

Long term goals: I don't have one. I take it on a year-by-year season-by-season basis. I am getting older though, so I'm not sure how much longer I will still race at the elite level.

I guess I've always thought of the long term goals as the seasons goals and the short term goals as this training blocks goals.

What is your short-term goal (6-12 months)

Short term goals are to set PR's for over 40-year-old (I'm now 52) in 5k, 10k, HM, and marathon.  Knocked off the 10k goal last weekend.  The rest will fall this Spring.  I'd also like to break 20 minutes for 5k.  For tri's, I want to PR Olympic and qualify for nationals (a long shot).  I will also crush my HIM PR if I get a chance to race one.

What are your long-term goals (1-5 years)
My primary long term goal is to run Boston.

Do you have a 5-year plan?
No 5 year plan.  Just that I want to be healthy enough to keep enjoying all this as long as I can.

HAHA!!  Yeah, the plan isn't completely formulated yet.

The next 6-8 months are devoted to bike racing.  My goals are to simply see what I can do while only having to worry about bike training.  For TT's, goals are simple...PR.  I don't have any concrete goals for road racing...as they are much harder to define than triathlon goals.  Road races have nothing to do with the clock, are dynamic, and sometimes success is defined by sacrificing yourself for a teammate.

For the next 1+ years...I don't have any goals yet.  I may stick to bike racing for a while if I enjoy how this season goes, or I may go back to tris.  If I go back to tris, I'm not sure what distances I would focus on.

If you asked me 2 years ago...what my 1-5 year plan was, I likely would have given you a very different answer...that had each year mapped out.