@Cobbie do you Zwift? Could tie in with your goals quite nicely.
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2023 is going to be a weird one for me, tri-wise. We’ll be living overseas without any of the familiar stuff.
Early season goals are to acquire a second hand road bike, and to hook up with a local club or some training partners.
We’ll have the luxury of a really nice open air pool 50m from our front door, so I’m going to try to learn how to swim again. Maybe some potential goals there, dunno.
If I can commute to work by bike, that will be amazing. But not sure how practical or safe. Bit of homework needed.
So I guess the main goal is adapting to a different place, but maintaining some sort of fitness lifestyle.
Actual races, who knows. It’s going to be my first year as M50, but don’t actually know if I’ll do any races. I have a deferred entry to IM Lanza in May, but can’t even get my head around that just now with everything else going on. If things are going OK life and work-wise by Feb I might think about it. Crazy costs and logistics, but aren’t they always 
Good luck all, may the road rise as always 
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It deffo will be on Thursday 
PS: that book has been terrifying me recently, I need to get it and read it!
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Not a million miles from what I want to be doing.
Sub 5 and sub 40 wouldn’t be new ground, but now injuries seem to be behind me… Be nice to get back to form.
Sub 1:30 half would be lovely. The inability to run for that long without stretching the hips could be an issue. So really need to put the s&c work as the key session each week.
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That’s what I’m hoping, survived a lot this year and still walking! Ignoring the current lurgy I’d say I’m around 19:40 for a 5K so a decent starting place. I don’t usually have a massive pace fall-off between 5K-21K
The biggest barrier to the Sub 5 is swimming and getting time on the TT bike 
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Your becoming my new twin now that fruity is abandoning us for sunshine!
Also hovering around 19:30 for fairly comfortable 5k
Not swam since August. TT not been ridden since early September (at a hopeful push).
Just need to get those things back in the routine 
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Haha, depending on how I feel I’m going to do the parkrun again this weekend and see how it goes although it’s forecast to be a bit breezy.
I should be able to get my swim into the 36’s without a massive amount of effort, getting in the O\W would probably help as much as the pool. Might try and enter some TT’s to motivate me to use the TT bike. If I ever get outside again I’ll put the tribars on the Enigma so at least I’ll be in a bit of a TT position. I’m too upright on the Wattbike so not used to putting out the power in aero position.
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Main goal this year is to get the Audax UK Super Randonneur Award, for riding a 200, 300, 400 and 600k. Running wise, my attempt at a sub-3 is very unlikely. A much lower but realistic target is to get to 60 park runs by the end of the year and see how close I can get to the magic 80% age grading. I think that would need a mid 18 minute run, which could be just about doable and would put me into potentially beating @Adam territory. 
Outside of athletic stuff, get the Honda VFR finished and back on the road by May.
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The 2023 rankings have made it harder I’m sure, not confirmed yet and dunno if parkrun will switch to them or not, but I expect it’ll be nearer 18:15. Impact of the cheating shoes.
5km Road proposed factors not published anywhere that I can see, the 5000m factors are indeed about 15seconds lower - but are lower than the road anyway.
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Awesome. Good to see me downgrading my targets even further, before the year’s even started. 
Target now is to better my 74.98% age grading.
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I don’t turbo much - the last few winters I’ve either commuted or had enough time to ride outdoors midweek. I’ve got a legacy TTS4 set-up from Tacx which is no longer supported but still works fine and a lot of real life video to use with it. Given how little I have turboed in the past few years I don’t see any point in investing in Zwift and I like the high quality video compared to the somewhat cartoonish quality of Zwift.
I would agree though that more time in the shed is a good idea, I just need to get started! 
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Fairy nuff All that is true, cartoon graphics etc. The thing that sucked me in about Zwift is the racing. Just find it really engaging. If you have a power meter then you’re pretty much good to go btw, no investment needed, think the first 25km are free then it’s £13 per month.
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Yeah I get all that.
If I thought I’d want to turbo consistently all year or a significant portion of it then I’d probably give it a go. However, as soon as it’s light enough to be out at 7 or 6:30 I’ll want to be doing that.
Really, it would only happen if I take a contract which involves travelling with work every week for a period. Turboing is much more straightforward for me in those circumstances
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Oohhhh, my goals.
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do myself justice at the GB AG stuff. I detest most of my fellow ‘teammates’, so it’ll be a solid retirement when I scratch that itch. Qualified for Ibiza and Belgium, will see if I do one or both.
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lose some sodding weight, so I can a) complete the above goal and b) do better in local running races.
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Had a look at Hardmoors 55 the other night - sold out 
If you go on the FB group there’ll be quite a few selling\trading their places in the coming weeks. that was my loose plan. And I think any that officially defer sometimes get readvertised not long before the race.
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That is good intel
Ha, the guys I race with I keep in touch with as we race and did the social side together. The rest of the ‘team mates’ I tried to avoid at all costs.
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There are a couple, in my AG, that seem good lads.
Perhaps this is just my discipline, but the athletes above 40 are a massive PITA.
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not racing but me and Mrs FB have submitted our TO applications for major events in the UK and some in Europe. will find out in early January what we have been accepted for.
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