Starting this thread for 2025 
Share your plans here
MJ
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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!
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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.
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