Early 2011 Wrap Up

2011 is winding down, but it's been a great year.  I started my training for Chesapeakeman on 1/1/11.  The goal the whole year was to peak for that race, but I had some great races in between.  My running has finally taken off, and continuing to progress.  I wasn't happy with my bike progress, but recognized my weaknesses. Swimming was swimming...just did minimal work.

On Thanksgiving, I did the Turkey Trot at Millersville University, my alma mater.  There was a great group there with fast races.  I've been focusing on a 5k this weekend, so I started doing more run focus and some speedwork since November rolled around.  I finished in 17:39, on a course that was on par with the race against racism.  I ran mile 1 and mile 2 exactly the same (5:35), but backed off the last mile since I didn't have my inhaler.  I feel sub 17 is in reach next year.

I'm gonna start biking again next month.  I'm gonna take it easy for December, then start ramping it up in January.  I'm excited to try out some new training tools.  I may invest in a sufferfest video for my Saturday workouts, and the ErgDB tool I've been writing will open up workouts and GoldenCheetah is offering some killer features in the 3.0 builds (development).

I'm happy with how my season went.  Morgantown 70.3 turned out to be an absurdly hard race, but I'd love to go back and do it again (on a road bike).  The local sprints proved I've got some run speed, just need to work on the bike.  The 5k's showed me I've got a long way still to go.  Chesapeakeman proved my body can do the races, I just need to race and train within my abilities.

2012 is looking to be great.  Here are a few goals.

Sub 17 5k
Sub 30 5 miles
Sub 37 10k
~1:25 13.1
Qualify for Boston at Harrisburg Marathon

top 5 OA in local sprints
Get bike w/g to 3.5
Sub 4:40 70.3

I may do a run focus this year and see how the bike works out.  I'll be honest, I really wasn't happy with how things went last year on the bike, but a lot were due to fit, neck issues, and "over training".  I think if I step back and do a re-evaluation, I'll be fine.

ErgDB

Yesterday I launched ErgDB , a site to generate .erg and PowerAgent .xml workouts.  Workouts are entered by a FTP%, then users just put their FTP in and it's custom to them.

I've got another project I'm working on, but I plan on pitching it to a few companies rather then releasing it.

Getting over a sinus infection, so workouts are kidna on hold.  Hoping to do a few 5ks this winter and get my FTP up big time.