You can just follow along with my weekly Kona Training logs I post!

That's not exactly the point here... the point is not to just share what we are doing, or all our improvements. It won't be your whole training schedule or plans for the next six weeks. The point is to fix something that you need to work on by having the support of the community "watching" you, and to pick a goal that you want to reach with the help of the community just as a moral backer. My goal isn't a great example, and I might be fine tuning it later.

Examples of major goals:

1. I want to make running in the morning a habit
2. I want to lose 5 lbs (being smart about it)
3. I want to build to a long run of 10 miles

And now say your major goal is the middle one. An example of the minor goals for a week could be:

This week I want to:

1. Drink 3 water bottle while at work each day
2. Cook 3 healthy dinners -- each must include veggies
3. Get in 3 runs

It is a bit confusing because it is a bit open ended: we don't all have the same thing to work on. But we can all work towards it together! Hope that makes the point of this challenge more clear :)

*grin* Good goal POC! And my water was updated: 3 bottles a day it is!

And as a sidenote, I made this 6 weeks, not a month, but feel free to play for as long as you want ;)

Oh great, Kyillee. Now you're going to hold me accountable for losing 5 pounds? Gee thanks. I'll have to get back to you on this one...

And PoC...are you by chance a therapist or coach???

I'm no therapist, to be sure.

I graduated as a Physical Education teacher back in 1974.
I have several Coaching awards in sports from Basketball, Volleyball, Trampolining, Swimming, Tennis and Team Handball.
I have been a "professional" coach, as in "paid."
I was a District Manager for several insurance companies for 20 years, where we had the best Motivational Trainers in the world teaching us how to motivate a sales force.

At present, I just coach myself.
Was there something in particular you wanted to know?

PoC

Nope...just noticed that you know how to set goals. Not many people know how to do that correctly to be successful....speaking from a therapist's point of view...

Mine: 1) rest one day/wk. And for those of you that know me that is hard. 2) drink 2L of water each day

Just be carefull there is a point of having too many goals. Being in the military can teach you that right quick lol.

But for me my goals are as such:
Make 90% of all planned workouts (im probably near 50% right now) this month
Run Half-marathon at sub 9 min/mi while keeping HR in zone 3 or lower.
I will update my training blog daily.

We'll im off, awesome idea btw Kyillee

Oh I'll be posting a reminder each week, and maybe PM's depending on how many people there are and if it seems needed ;)

And BBB -- I think you need to quantify what counts as a rest day ;) Is commuting ok? What HR zones for the commute? What about a swim? How long of a swim? Etc

Great idea Kyillee. I have a few goals for the next few months, so I'll prioritize and see which ones I reaaalllly need help focusing on.

Awesome Toni! I'm glad to see people interested :)

My main goal is to finish my first tri - 1 month from tomorrow - and drop a couple of kilos before then.

My mini goal is to do some running. I was never a runner per se but played lots of running sports. Haven't run since having my back fused 2 years ago. If I can do 2 or 3 runs a week I'll consider that success as my back really doesn't enjoy it.

i'd love to be able to report back in a few weeks to say I've run the race distance without stopping.

//k

Ok I've got the following as in (a * indicates I need your goals):

kyillee
theShiba
PrinceOfClydes
Star*
bluebirdbiker
azstinger11
riverbrady
qb ant
toni
kakman
Pete L.
Iron Dan
GogglesPizanto
JohnieTri

If anyone else wants some support and motivation while they reach for a goal these next six weeks feel free to jump in! :)

I'm in

My goals are:

1) Get to the pool at least 3x a week
2) Complete my first Century
3) Lose the last 5 lbs. I have to hit the goal weight I picked when I started doing these crazy things.

Great idea by the way.

Yeah, I hear ya :) I just know that sometimes for me to reach goals I like having the extra eyes on me... and really, it's just competing with me, seeing if I can hit my goal, just like each tri I do.

Iron Dan and GogglesPizanto I've added you to the list :)

Ok... Procrastination over!

Goals:

Overall for the 6 weeks:

1. Complete my first Sprint Tri (week 4)
2. Complete Long Beach half-marathon ~2:20 definitely sub 2:30... negative split, thank you.

Action:

1. 3 swim workouts a week, integrating intervals of 300yd or longer
a. one week of 1x300 mixed into workout
b. next week 300 pyramid (downward)
c. next week 2x300
d. not sure where to go from there

2. Bike twice a week keeping that 20mph base-line.
a. Start to brick off of that baseline to see if I have any legs left at all after that kind of bike.
b. Adjust bike speed as needed to work with 5k target run pace.

3. Run 4x a week with one day of speed work.
a. Work on 800m and 1600m repeats at above 5k pace.
b. Continue build (and scheduled slight taper) for LB Half.

4. Monitor Hydration throughout, and maintain nutrition plan.
a. Eat more salad/raw veggies
b. Drink at least 2L water daily... more as necessary.

shiba and ant you are updated :)

Can I recover from IMmoooo before I set a goal? :)

Sorry for the delay...we've been moving offices at work and we have a new baby at home.... As Triguy indicated this is also my off season. Right now it's WAY off with the second baby on board and this will be a good chance to re-engage.

goals for the next 6 weeks:
3 bottles of water per day outside training fuel
daily multi-vitamin - I never do this....
push ups:
- 30 per day week 1 and 2
- 40 per day week 3 and 4
- 50 push ups per day week 5 and 6
core workout every other day
weights 3x per week (over lunch hour)
bike or run at least 3x per week
soccer 2x per week (T & R practice, Sun game)
1 more event - duathlon or 5/10K

I'll be using the first 6 weeks of the fit OLY plan in Triathlon Training Basics as my 'guide'. Outdoor pools are closed so I'm saving off season pool time for when the weather turns and taking advantage of decent weather to get outside for now.

Thanks for the incentive...

Ok, I'm in. I dropped about 7 pounds on Sunday, I want to maintain that for the NYC Marathon and not gain the weight back.
Pre-IMoo race weight 192, last night weight at 185.

Goal weight at end of 6 weeks: 185 lbs.

2nd goal: log 250 running miles (includes at least 1X 3 hr run) by end of 6 weeks, which puts me right at taper

3rd goal: hit Boston qualifier of 3:45 1 week after 6 week goal period.

Here's a great site to track goals of any nature. It's very simple and it does the job!

joesgoals.com

Very nice POC!! How do the legs feel?

I made it to a pilates class (a part of my goal) last night. It was ok... I'm wondering if I push myself better on my own with abs though since I'm not at all feeling the workout today and I do after I do my own 30 min abs stuff.

of course! This is really less about strict rules and deadlines and more about supporting each other :)

Sorry about the loss of your dad, and hopefully the running meditation will help.

Yeah some of my big exercise motivation is being able to eat what I want. I think that's why I don't like the off-season! It matches with all the big eating holidays ;)

Who's admin here? Just Paul? Can we get a sticky on this?