I turn 58 in a few weeks, and I’ve decided to give myself two years to take a shot at something I’ve never accomplished. I'm going to attempt to qualify for the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship when I move into the 60–64 age group in 2028. Here's the thing: I’ve never qualified before! The closest I’ve come was three years ago at 70.3 New York, where I finished 19th in my age group. And right now? I’m not even in that kind of shape. So I’ve got some work to do. I’ll need to rebuild my swim, bike and run, get stronger, improve my body composition, recover well, stay healthy, and most importantly, be consistent. Basically, I’m going to have to see if I can become a better athlete at 60 than I am at 58. Will I qualify? I have no idea. There’s a very real chance I won’t. That’s part of what makes me want to try. I’m going to document the journey here; the training, testing, strength work, races, good decisions, bad decisions, setbacks and hopefully a few breakthroughs. I’ll also be putting the Endurance Strength System to the test on myself and sharing what I learn along the way. Two years. No guarantee of a successful ending. Let’s see if anything really is possible. Project 60 starts now! And since I’m putting mine out there… What’s something you haven’t accomplished yet that you’d still like to take a shot at?

Earlier this week I asked about which training platform you used. I assumed the majority would say Training Peaks as it's been around the longest and most people are attached to it. I asked because TP is not the best when it comes to ease of use for strength training. While I like the new format which enables video integration, it still doesn't sync seamlessly, or enable merging of workout data the way it does for endurance training. Right now, if you do the Strength2Go workouts in TP, you must manually input your data within the workout inside of TP to get it to go "green", but also use heart rate and time data from your Garmin(or other) watch to get a TSS (Training Stress Score) and have it effect your overall fatigue/fitness levels. As I build out the Strtength2Go project, what are some of the things you think you'd like to see?