The Plan, or at least, the planning for the Plan

There's just under 24 months until the Gold Coast Marathon 2019, so that's just under 23 months to get my marathon time down to 3:10.

That's equivalent to the half marathon in 1:30, 10km in 40 minutes and a 0:19:31 5km

So, 24 months to get my 16 minutes off my half marathon PB, 6 minutes off my 10km PB and a pretty huge 3 minutes off my 5km PB.

My 5km PB is almost 3 and half years old though, and my 10km PB is even older, so I'll be having a crack at both over the next few weeks.

Tomorrow I'll have a crack at a quick 5km. I've been challenged to attempt a 20 minute, but I'm not sure that's possible or smart, so I'll probably aim for 22 minutes and see how I go.

I've entered a 10km in a few weeks, so it'd be good to get under 45 minutes for that.

Anyway, the schedule for the next few years looks a bit like:

April 2018 - Canberra Marathon
May 2018 - City 2 South
July 2018 - Gold Coast Half
August 2018 - City 2 Surf (?)
October 2018 - Melbourne Marathon
March 2019 - Twilight Half
July 2019 - Gold Coast Marathon

Parkruns will be scattered in there, and I'm aiming to spend from now until Christmas 2017 building a bit of a base. Consistently getting in 20km a week of running and around 80km of cycling would be good.

But hey, best laid plans and all that.