TRAINING

How To Pace Your Race

How To Pace Your Race

If you are just starting to run, you might find it difficult to control your pace and find the “sweet spot” where your pace feels comfortable. Even as a seasoned runner, you may still start out too fast in races or workouts only to crash and burn before the finish line. Learning to pace yourself properly is a cornerstone of distance running, but it takes practice. Lots and lots of practice.

Have You Checked Your Race Season’s BOB’s and WOWs?

David Hall, RunningCoachCT.com and TriathlonCoachCT.com

When school aged children return to school after a season away, they often are asked to write an essay of how they spent their summer. As athletes, we need to do the same at the end of our racing season. Not write an essay about it but certainly look back at what we did and assess what we needed to do for our off-season training to improve our performance for the next race season. The reflection needs to look at the “Best of the Best” and the “Worst of the Worst”.

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