Further Goals

In addition to running the 5k in 16 minutes there are some other goals that I will be keeping in mind over the next few months.

In June I will be a member of a strong team in the Mountain Mayhem 24 hour mountain bike race. I've not ridden my bike hard for over a year so I will need to put in some hard work between now and then to make sure I'm up to the standard. I will be picking up the turbo trainer from home in a couple of weeks and in addition to the running I am doing I will do bike training 2 or three times week.

With all this biking and running I think I should be in good form to do a Duathlon (run/bike/run) so am entering one in the middle of July.

Two weeks before the 5k I am running the Stratford Half Marathon. I'm confident that I'll be able to finish this in a reasonable time but I'll need to do a few long runs in April to make sure I'm properly prepared.

I start my new job in two weeks and will be able to leave for work later. At the moment I leave around 6:30-6:45am and in future I will be able to leave aroun 8:30am. This will mean that I can do a run in the morning (even though I HATE running in the mornings) and biking in the evening. Even doing this, I think I'll have plenty of time to do other things as I'll be able to get the biking finished by 7pm.

I'll see how it all works out anyway.