Race Planning 2025

[Marjaana]

Starting this thread for 2025

Share your plans here
MJ

[Phil]

I’m targeting a 1000km cycling event, back in Ireland, early June. It’s not published and open yet, but I’ve spoken to the organiser, and he assures me he’s running it and which weekend. Hopefully their calendar will be published in the new year and then I do more planning around it.

Other non race things

I’ve got a 9 day cycling tour of Scotland planned for early April. Average about 100km a day, so nice easy distance for me each day with a good evening and then nights sleep each day.

Early August I’m helping as a volunteer at one of the northern controls of London Edinburgh London, a 1500km cycling event. Events don’t run without volunteers.

Late August I’m walking the Tour De Mont Blanc with my wife. About 170km and 11,000m of ascent / descent of fabulous views. A trip through France, Italy, and Switzerland.

[Robert]

The Duo Normand 2-up team time trial is back in 2025, after disappearing off the calendar since 2019 after Covid struck. The race takes place in Marigny in Normandy, and is really something special, catering for unlicensed amateur categories up to elite professionals. I have ridden this with my regular 2-up partner every year (bar one) from 2003 to 2019. We plan to be back in 2025.

[Adam]

2024 was the first time I jumped in to the world of triathlon. I did a few sprints and had an A event which was Oly distance. I then tagged a half marathon on at the end of the season but had a terrible build whilst managing / rehabbing a hamstring tendinopathy so feels like I have some unfinished business there!

2025 is the year I am stepping in to Middle Distance with a 70.3 on June 1st.

Full calendar looks like:

22nd March: Sprint Duathlon
13th April: Half Marathon
10th May: Oly Distance Tri
June 1st: Half Ironman

[SWBinVT]

So far I’m signed up for

—Cleveland Marathon (May 18), shooting for 3:15-3:20ish
—Marathon Mont Mégantic (June 14), 6000 ft of gain, shooting for around 6 hours
—Ironman Ottawa (August 3), first full IM, just shooting to finish, will be happy if it’s anywhere in the 12-14 hour range

Also planning to do various gravel grinders, shorter running events, and the like as they pop up, and planning to do RUTfest in November (36 hour multi-loop ultra)—I want to run at least 50 miles at RUTfest to redeem myself from DNFing at Stone Cat 50 miler this year.

[jockefc23]

Well it looks like no marathon place in 2025 for me so I’ve ruled myself out of doing a full Ironman again, even though the FOMO is real.

I enjoyed focusing on half or shorter distances this year, so I’ve got a few T100 and 70.3 races that I would like to do. Just trying to sort travel out (would like to spend some time in France/Spain after T100 French Riviera in May)

However - first up is a Half Marathon double weekend with Prague on the Saturday and Berlin on the Sunday - Trying to wrap up my SuperHalves medal in one go!

[ohlylo]

My current schedule is:

April: Marathon
June: Half-marathon
December: Marathon

I’m thinking just due to the time between events that December (CIM) is going to be my A event for the year. I’m going to see how the early year training block goes before I decide how to run the April race.

[holkatriatlonka]

My main goal is Ironman 70. 3. World Championship in Marbelle in November 2025, is anyone coming?
I am planning double-peak season, this is how it is looking:

• April: 1/2 Marathon - local race in Czech Repubic
• May: maybe road cycling race (120km) - same as above
• June: 1/2 Ironman - either IM branded race in Warsaw (Poland) or local race in Czech Republic called Czechman
• June: Full Ironman Relay - the bike portion - local race in Czech called Moraviaman
• August: Olympic distance race at Ironman 70.3 Hradec Králové (Czech Republic)
• September: 1/2 Ironman - either Mondsee (Austria) or IM race at Poland (Poznaň)
• November: Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Marbelle (Spain)

[Marjaana]

That’s a solid season Karolina! Nicely set up too.

I would love to come to Marbella, but no concrete plans of 70.3 IM yet- playing with an idea of doing 70.3 Calgary this summer. We’ll see
MJ

[NicoleLB85]

So far I have signed up for:
March: Schwerin Seen Trail: 61K trail ultra
Mai: North Sea Ultra: 111K trail ultra
June: German 24H road championships (ultramarathon)
August: Backyard Ultra
Some mountain ultra again in the autumn.
I’m debating about signing up again for the Kullamannen in November. I remember @Marjaana saying it was on her bucket list. I did the Spring (105K) last November & it’s been a super rewarding race. Highly recommend. The 100 miles is unfortunately already sold out… .

Happy New Year

[kjridin]

Newbie here. I’ve spent too much time on the couch after completing WACANID in September so hoping athletica and a fresh new year will spark me back into action. My event plan for the year looks like this:

June - Valley Fondo (50K) ridden hard to PB
July - Canada Day Populaire (158K)
July - Okanagan Fondo (155K)
July - Cypress Challenge (12K hill climb) ridden hard to PB
Sept - Kootenay Gran Fondo (152K)

July looking a little heavy but if I treat the long rides as very well supported training days, I should be OK. Maybe?

[kimberg]

Those are some awesome training days, you’ve got this!

I’m a bit overbooked, but this year is focused on improving my running fitness so I’m treating most of the running events as long training efforts and motivation for run focus.

• May: St. George IM 70.3 (last year of it so had to take the chance)
• June: trail half marathon
• July: trail 25k, straight up 3000’ and then back down 3000’
• August: trail 50k
• Sept: local 70.3
• Oct or Nov: maybe IM but haven’t signed up yet

[patsilisgiorgos]

February : 11km local race

March: half marathon Greece - Athens

April : maybe another half marathon Greece

November : main goal for the classic course of marathon - Athens marathon 2025 !!

[Marjaana]

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[DaveBoyle]

I only have 3 events planned this year, and all of them are on the bike. It was too much of a time sink to run and ride last year, and recognizing my life was out of balance was pretty hard to do, but I am happy to focus on riding for 2025.

June 7 - Festivus of Gravel
June 28 - BWR Montana
Oct - Croken Classic

Croken is a real grass roots event run by the cycling club I am a part of in Edmonton, with beautiful fall colors on full display during the event. I’ve attached a picture from last year’s event by their photographer ( @shimizuimg).

[kajet]

Anybody have any advice on how to best combine short course triathlon training with half marathon run prep?

My events are various Oly and sprint distance tris from May to September, interrupted (or maybe concluded) by a relay run at IM 70.3 Belgium on September the 7th

On one hand, triathlon is still the main focus; on the other hand, I don’t want to disappoint my teammates. We have to beat the other relay!

I’m front-of-middle-of-pack in those short course tris (around the 10th-15th percentile in my age group and overall). I’ve done six 70.3s in 9 seasons of racing and a handful of open half marathons (89’ PB from a couple of years ago). M40 age group.

[cmaloney]

All of those races look really good…I am hoping to get a gravel bike sooner than later!

[Marjaana]

@cmaloney and BC & AB Canada folks:

I’ll be around in June and July, looking for fun adventures around BC and AB. What do you have?

Passing by Revelstoke/Kaslo late june - early july… then July in Alberta around Calgary area. Ending possibly with 70.3 IM Calgary at the end of July before heading back to cooking hot temps south US.
Let’s hear it…
MJ

[amn2099]

Hey kajet,

I have a similar approach as you do. I’ve more or less followed the same plan for a few years: racing short course with some medium to long run races.

This year I have:
4 trail run races in January, February, March, April: 5k, 8k, 10k, 16 miler.

Then in May:
3 day multi sport event: 4 road triathlons in 3 days.

In the training plan, the settings are for triathlon, 5 to 18 hours per week, mid volume. My bike fitness is already where it needs to be, but swim needs to come up and I respond really fast to quality run sessions. I scheduled a “half marathon” run race for March and April in hopes that the system will build up the volume of running to adequate levels. I don’t necessarily need to have a taper for the shorter run races as I plan to train through them.

For the multi sport event, I just leave it at half distance with an A priority in May. What is nice about the AI is that it knows my profile for each sport and gives me the appropriate amount of HIIT. However if I feel like I need something different there is the workout wizard or I just plan something else because I am ok trying something different with variety because in the end, that is what makes training interesting.

I hope this helps, please do not hesitate to DM or reply back for discussion and ideas.

There are multiple ways to train and no one can tell you what is right or wrong: it’s all good in the end if you are having fun.

[kajet]

Thanks, this is actually a massive help - good ideas!