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.