 Alright guys, it's Saturday here in Nice and I want to talk about my upcoming races for 2019 My race plans, my goals. We'll talk a little bit about my time goals as well for the different distances Yeah, let's get right into it So it's mid-morning here in France. I'm just chilling and heading out on a run in about half an hour But before that I want to tell you guys about my plans for 2019 in terms of racing So 2018 was really my first year of I would say like really proper training like a full year of solid training And some great races my first to have marathons You know my first attempts at certain distances. I'm just a great overall training year 2019 is now upon us. Actually, it's already started and I have some awesome plans. So I Guess we will start with the next few months and then we'll move through the year like that so right now we're in early January or mid-January actually and I am planning on doing two races while I'm here in France But actually they're not focused races. They're more like just like a training run that I do in a race Okay, so there's the first one coming up in February called Trail the airs or in French Or something like that, I don't know. I'm really bad at pronouncing French Even though I should be good at it because my grandmother was French and I'm a quarter French And I've been in France my whole life and I had six years of French in school. Still I'm pretty bad at it Trail the airs trail days. I don't know something like that. It's a trail run in as basically close by Nisse There's an 11k distance a third 19k distance and a 30k distance I'm thinking of doing the 11k distance and just doing it as high and aerobic training run Meaning I'll just be running comfortably hard below my lactate threshold, you know, just below it and Just enjoy a day in the hills in a race setting so part of my training really I talked about it a little bit actually in my Video a few weeks ago where I talked about my winter training schedule. You can check that out here Then I'll do probably either a half marathon a 10k or 5k is all part of the same event which is called Semi they come or something like that, which is in come. It's a it's a race semi means you know half marathon I think that's what they refer to and That's also just gonna be part of my training again Just a high-end aerobic run or maybe I'll try a 5k PR. Maybe I don't know it depends on how I feel on In that period of my training. Anyway, let's get to the first real race of my season, which is Yet the boy this is light of the in Sweden half marathon on the 18th of May. I'm heading to good Gutenberg, well yet the boy in Sweden to do a half marathon is my third half marathons my second Time really attempting a good time on a half marathon. Let's talk about my time goals. Well, you never quite know What you're capable of and till until you're in the you know in the in the build up Where you can see how your body responds to workouts, etc. So I don't know but If I were to throw out an educated guess, right and knowing myself Going sub 130 I went 133 in Oslo. This is a flatter course. So I'll definitely go sub 130 That's I would be disappointed if I didn't so something like that Could I go as fast as 124 something? I mean if I do I'll be kind of shocked But maybe I'm able to do it so 125 but likely somewhere between 125 and 130 That's that's probably where I'm gonna end up Or or not, maybe I'll go way faster way slower Who knows Depends on the weather a little bit as well if it gets hot, which it can't it can't get hot in that period So let's hope not though. So I'm still in the base phase just building a row bit base But I'll be slowly now moving into that build up in about a month I'll be starting just barely starting that that build up with hard workouts, etc After that, I'll recover and I'll do a little bit of base phase again Just doing summer just a little bit before starting my You know my real build up To the main event of the year, which is drumroll a Marathon. Oh, yeah, I'm doing this marathon. So here in this marathon November 2019 Second or third of November 2019. I'm doing a marathon my first ever marathon my debut marathon and what better place to do it than here in this where I feel at home and It's a good climate in November I think it would be like really good not too hot not too cold just like pretty perfect, I think And you know now that I'm here in this I'll get to train on the course So I'll familiarize myself with the whole course during my time here and that's a good thing intimidating for sure a marathon for a 2.2 K Whoa, that's long. That's that's far. That's far But I will build up my long run distance over the course of the year I will build up my mileage a little bit and I'll probably peak at something like a hundred K per week Before the marathon I maybe 110. I don't know Which is not that much if you want to do well in a marathon, but It's I think is enough for me to just do my first marathon, you know fairly flat course and Just oh, it's epic the thought of a marathon so cool also very intimate a time goal wise I don't know what to expect from a marathon to be perfectly honest, but of course, I do know exercise physiology, I do know the way a certain There's a certain connection between your different times So, you know, if you're if you run this time for a 5k, you'll probably run this time for 10k You're in this time for 10k or probably run this time for a half marathon, etc And you can sort of estimate your marathon time based on your half marathon time, etc so How much fitness will I gain over In the whole of 2019 that's also difficult to predict So in terms of time goals for the marathon is very difficult But as a thought I throw out there. It's just like I want to go sub three, right? Like if I can go sub three hours, I would be happy and then to what extent I will go sub three If I just barely do it or if I'm able to go way below sub three hours I don't know who knows. I might even not be able to go sub three. We'll see That's exciting though. Very exciting But I have a few other races I'll throw in there as well And that is before the half marathon in Yatuboy in April. I will do Centrums Ljöpa, which is like a 10k here or not here, well in Oslo 10k, very famous 10k race in Oslo, fairly fast course So I think I'll attempt that as a 10k PR. It's like three weeks three or four weeks before the half marathon. I think that's a good way to sort of test my Fitness a little bit and as part of the build up, but I'll probably raise it all out or maybe like almost all out We'll see So that's coming up as well What else? In the summer, there's being a battle, but the Raspberry Run that I've almost well I've done it twice. I'll probably do that as well just as part of my training really not really a race and then in the autumn I Might jump into a couple of races just as part of my training again. I won't race them. I will just train I'll do a training run. One of them is probably going to be Oslo half marathon Whether or not I will run the half marathon distance as a slow long run or if I'll maybe run it at marathon pace, you know, it's about Six weeks out from the marathon. So maybe it's a good time to actually Run a half marathon at marathon pace just to see what marathon pace feels like perhaps or maybe I'll just do the 10k I don't know yet So those are some things I need to figure out and then of course after the marathon It's going to be recovery for a few weeks and just going into base pace again or until Christmas really which Which is that I'm going to be a little bit of a break and then start my 2020 year, which I already have thoughts about what I want to do in 2020 Honestly, I have thoughts about what I want to do in 2025. Okay, maybe that's a topic for another video I can talk about my dream races and my long-term progression plans But for now, those are my race plans for 2019. I'm super excited I feel fairly fit after my break. I lost a bit of fitness, of course to be expected I was sick as well and now I'm sort of building back into it and I'm I'm starting to sort of get back into my Fitness and yeah, as I said, I'm heading out for a run now in 20 minutes or so Together with a girl actually she's going to be on the roller blades So she's going to be roller skating and I'm going to be running and I'm thinking of doing like a 5k warm-up followed by three kilometers at Like marathon pace just like like high end aerobic sublactate threshold type pace and then 2k cool down So 10k's on the promenade. She'll be on the roller blades. Let me know in the comments What races you have coming up for 2019. I definitely want to hear about them. Thanks so much for watching Please subscribe. I would love to have you as a subscriber if you haven't done so already and if you are already subscribed Thank you. All right. Have a great day. Bye