Training process goals might be ‘train 4 times per week every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday’ or ‘Extend endurance run/ride from 2 to 5 hours over the next 16 weeks.’ So a process goal in a race might be ‘Run all flat sections and descents of the course, walk the ascents’ or ‘Take in 250 Calories per hour’ or having a particular power/pace/heart rate range to stay within. Process goals are very much in your control and can keep you focussed in a race and in training. So for a bike-packing event your target might be to complete the event in a given number of hours with a buffer and a stretch target which might look something like this: Complete the race in 72 hours, but content with finishing in time for the after party stretch target of 65 hours. Outcome goals are great as a way to have an objective bar to measure how well you have done, but they can also put you under a lot of pressure so if you are someone who does not perform well under pressure it’s best to limit these and to keep them more open than ‘pass/fail, win/lose.’ For example, if your goal is to complete an event in a given time, you could have the ‘stretch target’ and a margin of acceptability. It’s usually good to have a mixture of outcome and process goals for an event. So having some specific and personal goals for your event will help you stay focussed, craft your training and execute a good race plan.
#Run the race with endurance how to#
“If you don’t know where you are going you usually end up some place else.” this might seem an odd statement for an endurance event with a clear start and finish however, if you have no idea how you want to complete it you have no idea of how to approach the event and training for it. Look at it on the webpage, watch YouTube Videos of it if there are any, talk to others who have done the event and see how excited you feel about it. So, if you don’t already have that dream race in mind find out what your personal criteria are for enjoying an event/race and look for something that fits those criteria. These criteria are really personal, not just because of my personal experiences but also my personality - I don’t like big crowds, I prefer the countryside to the city.
For example my first road marathon was the Loch Ness Marathon I felt deeply attached to the area as it’s where I spent a lot of childhood family holidays and I was excited to run on the road that I had travelled up and down on as a child, I knew it had some great views and at that time it was a relatively small event, which I prefer over large bustling city marathons.
This is highly individual and what draws one person to a particular race may not draw another.
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