Welcome aboard

This is a quick update to touch base and to bring you all into the circle of influence.
I discussed my recent hit out at Ironman Melbourne, how I wasn't entirely happy with the outcome and hinted that I am chasing something bigger.
Last night I attended the Tri Alliance Advanced Goal setting session, below is what I penned during the evening.

In other news, today I received my updated nutrition plan from Margret at Fuel Right Nutrition (specifically tailored to my current training load) with the view to:

• Improve Metabolic Efficiency
• Adopt a daily nutrition plan with a focus on balancing your blood glucose (sugar) levels
• Periodise your nutrition so that it supports your physical training cycle
• Decrease body fat, increase lean body mass
• Ensure adequate macro and micro nutrient intake to fuel training, maintain health and well-being and support body composition goals

As read down the page, these refer to: Full Ironman, half Ironman, and a stand-alone marathon.

At the moment, the targets I have set are not S.M.A.R.T. as described by that goal setting methodology. They are Specific, Measurable but the Achievable and Realistic questions need to be weighted against the final letter of the acronym as I'm not sure of the Time frame I need to allow.

For this I will need to speak to my coach and together we'll work out where my gains will come from, what to focus my effort on to make them and from this, what progression rate is possible. Once the trajectory is defined and applied to these goals I will create the road map of steps, tools and skills I need to acquire to achieve them.

Now that you're up to speed, and I plan to keep you all updated with regular posts of my body composition measurements (and photos? Is that something people want??) along with my training/racing results as we continue on this journey.

Welcome aboard.