Five (Goals) Friday

Hooray, tomorrow is race day – the DU for FUN #2!!  I’m excited and nervous, but right this second leaning more toward excited (talk to me in thirty seconds when that changes again…) 

Workouts have been crossed off the training plan and I am ready to rumble.

You can see at the top of the schedule that my goal time is 1:40:00 – that’s pretty aggressive.  Way aggressive, actually, and probably not in the cards for tomorrow, though I do plan on getting a PR.  My five main goals for tomorrow are:

1. Don’t drown.  Should be pretty easy in a duathlon, but I’ve got some mad skillz in or near water, so I always have this at the top of my list.
2. Go hard.  At last month’s race, I ran conservatively and rode conservatively and still managed to kick booty.  Well, now that I know how that feels, I’m going to go a different route and not hold back.  Imagine the possibilities!
3. Shave time in transitions.  I am a notorious slow-poke in transitions, but with all the brick-work I’ve been doing (the days blocked out in yellow on the training plan are all bricks), I’ve gotten in a lot more transition practice, too.  There won’t be any running bike mounts or flying dismounts just yet – as if! – but I think I can take off 30 seconds or more from T1 and T2.
4. Shave time on the bike and both runs.  I was completely okay with my run speeds and bike speed for last month’s race, but I know in my heart that I have more.  My goal is to hit somewhere in the low- to mid-8s pace on both runs and 18+ mph on the bike.  No, that won’t get me down to a 1:40:00 total time, but I will be 100% satisfied with something near 1:45:00.  I have been crunching the numbers obsessively on this website, because isn’t that what you do the day before a race??
5. Don’t be afraid.

The rest of my day today includes a little shopping, a trip to the library and drinking lots of water.  Oh, fun!  What exciting things do you have on tap for this weekend?

Happy Friday!!