August 6th, 2009
Micro blogging is where it's at.
This year's goals
January 19th, 2009
Blog
I guess I'm already fulfilling my first aim - to blog!
Climbing
Last year climbing was hit prety badly by the weather and a serious lack of motivation to train after a couple of shite trips to Malham. Ever since then things have been a bit of a struggle with my weight increasing and my usually good technique taking a bit of a nosedive, so one of the main things I want to do in the early part of this year is to start climbing well again and feeling motivated to train and get on the rock.
The only specific goal I have is to do the traverse of the Cuillin but, realistically, I'll be trying to familiarise myself with it over a few long weekends this summer and going for a reasonably fast traverse next year.
Cycling
One of the great roads in Scotland is the one which goes round the Applecross peninsula and over Beallach na Ba. It's only 40 miles but the Beallach goes from sea level to well over 600m in some of the most stunning surrounding in the UK. It's just a pitty I'll be so fucussed on the road ahead either climbing up the steep gradients or burrowing into the strong headwinds!
I'd also like to do a sub-25 minute 10 mile time trial as some kind of justification for spending £900 on a set of Lightweights.
Running
Although I only really want to run as part of doing a triathlon and training for climbing it is good to set a goal. Long distances don't suit me - the half marathon I did almost killed me and even 10km feels a wee bit too far. A Sub-25 minute 5km run seems like a sensible goal that I can work towards over the next few months.
Traithlon
I'd love to do a triathlon this year but it would involve getting fitter, swimmimg a little and wearing a mankini!
They do look great when you see them in warmer climates, I'm just no so sure about jumping out of the water and onto a bike with a biting Northerly wind somewhere in Scotland!
There you have it - my goals for the year, or some of the bigger ones anyway. Just need to get started on at least one of them.