What are your (immediate) goals?

[ilanarama]

Let's talk about running goals. These can be simply time or distance (like, to be able to run 10 miles, or to be able to run 3 miles without stopping, or to run a mile in under 10 minutes), or a time goal for an upcoming race.

I've got a half marathon coming up in just under two weeks. I've been really focusing on this one, because I've run it twice before, each time with a time a bit more than two hours. This spring, I have been training really hard, and I have a number of goals:

Fallback goal: better than 1:56 (my current half marathon PR)
Stated goal: better than 1:50
Seekrit goal: 1:48:xx
All the stars align and someone throws magic pixie dust on me: better than 1:48

I try to set multiple goals for every race. Usually I make my stated goal (but not always; last time I did this race my goal was 2 hours, and I missed it by nearly 4 minutes), sometimes I make my seekrit goal, and I have never made my pixie dust goal but that doesn't stop me from trying!

Comments

Hello, *waves*

[blnchflr]

10k in RL is a lot longer than 10k in my head! It surprises me every time how hard it is :o)

Re: Hello, *waves*

[gnomad]

Hi! It is good to know I'm not alone. When I first started running a 5k I thought it was insanely long. I had been doing the Couch 2 5K podcasts, which are time based, and when I finally looked up how far I was going each time and realized it was only about a mile and a half. *facepalm*