I had my performance fitness assessment with Robbie Ventura last Friday. I don’t think he was blown away by my current level of fitness but luckily he was too nice to say that. We talked about what I currently do for training and what I hope to accomplish through VQ. He asked if I had any target races next year and unfortunately I didn’t really have anything in mind. Really I just want to go faster and be better. I have specific goals for the swim, bike and run but no real A-race in mind. To be quite honest I don’t know what my race schedule is going to look like next year. The past two years I’ve done Olympic distance races and half Ironman races. I don’t think I’ll have time to really train for half Ironman races next year so I’ll probably just stick to Olympic distance races for a while.
Regarding my specific goals for the swim, bike, and run… for the swim I want to bring down my mile swim time from ~36 minutes to less than 30 minutes. On the bike I want to bring up my W/kg (a measurement of power on the bike) from 3.10 to above 3.5. On the run I want to bring my 7 minute mile pace down to below a steady 6:30 pace. Oh yeah, and I want all that in my first year, haha. Yeah, some of those goals might be a bit out of reach for my first year at VQ but it’s good to have reach goals, right? I don’t know, I’d like to think these goals are SMART: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely. I guess time will tell how well I do.
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