Tracking every day, every night: my 2019 reviewed
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Tracking every day, every night: my 2019 reviewed

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This is my year — I don’t expect you to know what it says

TL;DR:

In 2019 Jan — Dec, I did a lot of good things:

I moved in with my partner which almost doubled our time together ❤️🏡,

I did more exercise than I ever had before 💪🚴‍♀️,

I got a new job which meant the hours that I hated working went down 70%👔 💼.

But I also:

I spent more time on Youtube than with my family 🙍‍♂️👵,

I didn’t complete a single project but started 12 👎,

I only spent 16 hours all year on learning how to speak Korean (compared to 688 hours of Youtube, Reddit and Video Games*) 🙊🎮.

Note: I do want to go on YouTube, Reddit and video games but not 43 times more...

From this review I have some goals for 2020:

Actually finish some projects — to do this make most of them small and finish-able and celebrate finishing them

More family time — at least double 2019

Less YouTube and Reddit please.

Keep the exercise up and probably do more (already paid for an Olympic and Ironman)!

More detail on my 2019:

1. Triathlon:

Last year at Cardiff Sprint Tri I came 21st in Men out of 148 (top 15%). As such, I set a high bar for myself. This year I went up a distance to Olympic (1.5k swim, 40k bike, 10k run) and was aiming for roughly the same. After good preparation, I felt on track.

Sadly, I didn’t make it. Though I did improve my equivalent time (the sprint was 1:16), I did not place well.

First a tough swim with an early foot to the face knocking my goggles and swallowing water. The cycle seemed fine (see later), but while running I got strong pains from the amount of water I swallowed.

Compared my swim was 7 seconds /100m slower than the sprint, the bike was roughly the same average speed, and the run was 6:38/km vs 6.30/km in the sprint the year previous. Not too bad for the jump in distance and the discomfort on the run but I was hoping for better than that.

Turns out I cannot count

Just before the race had started the police reported an incident on the bike route. This delay changed the route last minute and hence turned a, what would be two laps, into a smaller 6 lap course.

I did a lap too many and hence placed outside where I wanted to be.

As such my estimate if I simply remove the last extra lap but keep all others the same would place me 108th but sadly that how it goes some times. I am happy with my average times. I do see I need to improve the swim and as such have a goal for the future.

My final race of the season was the Thorpe Park Sprint Tri. Going back to sprints was not intentional but I did realise I had only one race all year. Maybe better planning next year? This was a brilliant race. You get free access afterwards, my swim was great, the run is full of sights, it was a beautiful day, and it isn’t crowded. Plus I was happy with my performance.

I had a 1:48/100m swim. This is over 15 seconds better per 100m than I have every done! The bike was good and a group had a good rhythm of overtaking and chasing one another and on the run I made two friends who we raced in to the finish!

Now looking to 2020, I have booked up for the London Olympic, which I will be able to do a similar comparison in time, and the Weymouth 70.3 Ironman in September. This now forms my new target for triathlon.

Review of my training with Elevate