Now that the half Ironman is out to the way, I can officially write down what the plans for the future are.
I used to want to do “everything”. There were so many events out their and I just wanted to do it all. I have overcome this feeling lately, I am moving towards doing fewer events better.
Though maybe I haven’t quite overcome this feeling, Nades asked if I wanted to do Captains Cooks landing yesterday. It wasn’t in the ultimate plan (though had been written down in the yearly plan of possibilities), I rather liked the idea of doing a trail run with friends so said hell yes…
The need to go back to multisport
So after supporting the c2c I was yeh, I want to do it again! But really I think that was just a bit of a fake feeling. I got over it quickly, and wonder if I put that feeling on because it was almost expected of me.
I haven’t finished with c2c and the kayak but I need to be in a different life space before tackling the challenge once again. I have contemplated just doing the run in a team, but that is quite frankly stupid expensive, when I’ll just be telling myself I could do the whole thing for the same price… we are in a recession, I need to get value for money 🙂
So that leaves…
Trail running and Ironman. I was thinking this morning on my run, I am better swimmer than kayaker, why not just feel comfortable and go with your strengths… but all that tarmac *shudder*. Thus the need to keep that Off road element into my life, and trail running does this for me.
But lets look at the rest of my life…
There are 2 other elements I have to take into consideration, before making a ultimate decision where to go.
Work
Work to me, has been more about having the money to do what I want in my recreational life. I have never been all that driven to climb the ladder of success. But circumstances change, and a opportunity has shown its self in my job. I get more responsibility, but this obviously means that I might have to work longer/harder effecting my training.
I have thought about this and decided that if I need to take a year out of my training goals to advance my career, than I will. But I have not discovered yet if this will be the case or not.
A new house
We are the worse procrastinators, and in the case of buying a new house, it is probably very good that we didn’t buy one a year ago. But this morning, I bought a paper circled some houses that will go look at tomorrow. Need to go see the bank manager to see how much we can afford, but it will mean that money will need to tightened, not just buying heaps of shoes, because I can etc. And I have to be more judicious about the entry fees etc (but I might be able to get work to sponsor me and cover some of these).
Back to the goals for the year…
Challenge Wanaka
Nope I have never thought about Taupo. If Taupo was the only option, I just don’t think I would even have contemplated the iron distance. Not sure why that is.. but Wanaka appeals to my psyche, it isn’t the easy option (if a Ironman could ever be considered a easy option).
But… I have given myself a escape. I will train over winter, like I am doing the Ironman, but if at the end of winter when the training hours go up but I haven’t the time to commit to it, I’ll change and aim for the Wanaka Half. It will be a hard decision to make, but I will have to be honest with myself about it.
SI Half Ironman
I thought it amusing that after Auckland, people were saying, imagine how well you will go at SI half. Crap I thought… I might die of boredom and unrelenting tarmac. I might complain about those hills in auckland, but man 3 laps of a flat 30K course with a possible hellish Nor’wester. Nope not on the top of things I would love to do. But they are right, imagine how fast I could do the bike, and come off with fresher legs for the run… I’ll should definitely be able to do a sub 6, would be nice to prove that point.
Trails
So I have Routeburn and Abel Tasman entered already, and possibly captains cook. But what about Kepler? Will need to talk to Jo about that one. It would be awesome to go and do it again and get the award for most improved (you know that was why I was so slow the first time, so I didn’t have work so hard the 2nd time to get that award). But if I am going for the Iron distance this might not be plausible, and maybe should be part of Plan B.
Nad-ya's Head space 
Hey Nadia, was just reading this re the swimming being a strong point for you and that you like off road running – how about Xterra?? Swim, MTB and trail run it think it is 🙂
hmmm.. just need a new MTB and to learn how to MTB properly
Would I have seen you guys just after 2pm at the Beckenham end of Colombo? I was wondering if you were doing an open home crawl. 😉
Yip, very probably. Was rather depressing afternoon, frankly some people have terrible interior decorating tastes. We either have to see how much more money we can afford to borrow or consider other areas.. but as Eamon said, we don’t have to move, so just need to wait for the right place to come along, but frankly that takes major effort out of the weekends.
That’s annoying then. It’s often not so much the price of the property, but the cost of bringing it up to a comfortable standard that eats into what you’ve got set aside to spend (let alone the time involved to do the fix-ups). I love looking through open homes, but yes, the cruddy aspects of a property tend to leap out at you more so than the good points! (Unless you have a huge budget of course!!)