Targets

Yesterday I spoke to a personal trainer at my gym (not mine - can´t afford them :-)). He asked me how long time it would take me to complete an Iron Man....
Not knowing the exact answer I started to add up my dream numbers and came up with a rough idea of my total time. He though it was very ambitious.. well he saw me swimming and I had to convince him that swimming is my least favorite discipline – by far.
Him being a Chinese and former pro swimmer may explain his concerns about me getting sub 12...

Would it be a good idea to post our target time (Swim, Bike & Run)?
I did see and old post from Big T talking about targets.

"Make it to the line" is my overall goal but I sense that someone might have set quite though goals on them self and I would like to know them :-)

My dream goals are:
Swim: sub 2 hrs. - not drown
Bike: 6 hrs. - 30 km/h
Run: Sub 4 hrs. - pace 5.45/km

Total sub 12 hrs.

I guess we could post them together with our entered event information on the right hand side of the blog. As we progress with our training we can comment on our goals hence understanding if we where realistic or not setting those goals. I don´t think us novices really understand how our body will react on race day. Maybe the first indications we get are on the long bike days coming up in our training schedules around springtime.