Goals for the year of the horse

So I never got around to writing this post at the start of the year so I might as well do it now at the start of Chinese/Lunar New Year.

I set my goals for 2013 before 2012 even finished so I'm even late by my own standards.

I am looking forward to 2014 because I've set myself a new goal that I'm a little bit frightened of.

I'll cut to the chase. Here's the list.

1. Conquer Mt Baw Baw after my first failed attempt, and finish off the 7 Peaks Challenge - March 2014
2. A 3.8k ocean swim in March or April. Probably April. I haven't started swim training yet so this will e a good intermediate goal for...
3. Ironman Cairns - June 2014. 
4. Glasshouse Mountains 100k trail run - September 2014

Actually, let's make that two goals I'm frightened of. I am a little bit scared of Baw Baw. I'm mostly scared of my first 100k race.

I am preparing my training plan now and am seeking out some expert opinion... more on that in a future post... but overall my plan is to for my Ironman training to be more run heavy than it usually is so that my body is ready to start a proper run program after that.

So my list of mini goals is:

• Run off the bike after every ride - even if it's only 2-3ks for now.
• Strength circuit once a week and build the warm up run I usually do for this session from my usual 2ks to 5-8ks 
• Hill session on the bike every week
• Swim twice a week from now until at least my ocean swim in April. 

I don't really know how this is all going to pan out. But I've decided to be confident. After all, I didn't know how two Ironman races was going to go last year, and that turned out OK. I even fitted in a bonus 50k ultramarathon in December.

So here's to the new year. What are your goals and how are you going with them?

(Come on. You can do it. Be a confident horse this year.)