Long-term goals 2010

[yvi]

Heya, 2010 is about one third done now and I am wondering what your goals for this year are when it comes to running - if you have any. Any particular distance or a race you want to be able to do? Maybe a half or full marathon? The first 5K? Running in some country you are traveling to?

Comments

[yvi]

My goals:

By mid-June I want to have completed my Couch-to-5K program (I am in week 3 now, so theoretically I could be done by the start of June), made running a part of my life, and want to take place in my university's 5K.

By August I want to be able to run for an hour.

By the end of the year I want to have completed a 10K.

[cofax7]

I want to get back to where I can run five hilly miles regularly without stopping. I don't mind slow, but I need to be able to do the distance again.

[temve]

I would like to get up to running 10K on a regular basis, maybe doing 15K or 10 miles as a long-distance goal.

[ilanarama]

Since I've run 5 marathons now, my goals are more time-related:

Sub-22 minute 5K
Sub-1:35 half marathon
Sub-3:30 marathon

I really want to encourage everyone though no matter how small their goals might seem in comparison. I remember when my goal was just to finish a 10K without stopping.

[sophinisba]

I'm hoping to do a 10K in June and hadn't given much thought much to goals beyond that.

This week I'm running about 12 miles all together. I'd like to get up to about 15 miles per week, and I can probably do that within the next month or two. I don't know if I want to do more than that.

(I feel a sad lack of an athletic icon, should probably go looking for one since I have so many spare icon slots here on DW)

[blnchflr]

Every year I want to get in shape to run/walk a ½-marathon in the vicinity of 2h35m, and every year I don't even get in shape to run a 10K without walking in between.

So realistically, I want to keeping running regularly - and participate in as many races as is feasible (because of how far I live from everything/finances - hopefully at least 2), to make sure I keep running regularly.

Being able to run 5.5K in 35 minutes would be excellent.

[cleo]

I was actually thinking about this while on the treadmill today, and for some reason, it's been hard for me to pin down my longterm goals. It's not because I don't have them; I think it's actually more that I'm about to move to Boston, and I'm not sure whether I'll be able to join a gym right away...and I really prefer running indoors, whether it be on a track or treadmill. My fitness level has also decreased somewhat in the past few months for various reasons, and I'm very focused on getting back to where I was in February.

With that said, some of my less number based goals involve doing more running outside and learning to pace myself better when doing so.

I'd like to be running 5K within the next few weeks, and then I'd like to focus on both speeding that up to under half an hour and then slowly pushing to 10K.

Knee problems permitting, I'd like to be able to run a half marathon. at some point in the future, but I'd rather set a more concrete goal when I'm settled in Boston.

[cyphomandra]

Main goal for the year - go under 2 hrs for the half-marathon. I've done two so far, one in 2.04 and one in 2.03, but I'd like to not spend the next four years getting those last few minutes done! I have a half-marathon coming up at the beginning of June, but due to my hip injury probably won't have the training base to do that sort of time, so am focussed on the October half (which is the one I've done twice before) instead). I may try for one in between the two times if training goes well.

Less major goal - push up my distance, so that 12-15k runs become my mental "standard run", rather than 8-10k (it used to be 4-6k, so I know I can increase it!).