I have put up a new section of the website entitled Races and Results and it can be found in the menu bar above.  This section could be considered a bit of a brag board and I guess it is in a way.  Im okay with that I guess.  It’s also a place to track the results of the races I have participated in and an outline of those races that Im hoping to take part in this year.  Most everyone keeps a schedule of their races but I think sharing mine is a good tool to help show how I am training and getting ready for this year’s Livestrong Challenge in Austin.

Having a section like this is probably advisable for any athelete whether its online or not.  This allows you to keep track of your progress in both time and level of competition.  This will let you see your results and learn your PR’s and set goals for your next undertaking.  PR is short for personal record or more simply your best time in the distance you’ve completed.  For me I have a PR of 23 minutes and seven seconds running the distance of 5 kilometers (K).  This lets me know that the next time I run that distance I have a goal to beat and a speed i’m capable of maintaining.

One thing I learned putting this schedule together is that the Fall is going to be an immense undertaking and may even be too much to do at once.  Last year during the MS 150 I ended up injuring my knee which made it very difficult to ride my bike for several weeks and caused me to shorten my Livestrong Challenge from 100 miles to 75.  Through my experience last year and the spacing of my schedule this year I hope to build my endurance levels and get my body more use to the stress of the distances im planning on running and riding.  Even though last year I trained for the ride prior to the MS 150 those two days were the longest distances I had ridden to that point and were back to back which pushed my body, specifically my knee, past the point it had been conditioned to undertake.

Proper conditioning and progressive distance scheduling is an advantage we can all find through the scheduling, pacing, and experience of current and past races/rides.

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