MFR 96: Races as Training Runs
Mojo For Running Podcast
debbie voiles
4.9 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2016
⏱️ 14 minutes
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It's common for people to do races as a training runs. Have you done this? It's really not a bad idea – sometimes – but other times it might be a very bad idea. You must go into it with a plan and stick to it. The key is to keep your goal in mind. […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Debbie Boyles, coach at Mojo for Running with podcast episode number 96, doing a race as a training run. |
| 0:16.0 | Why, it's either a great idea or a terrible one. |
| 0:20.2 | Many people do races as long training runs, including me. Sometimes it's a great idea or a terrible one. Many people do races as long training runs, including me. |
| 0:23.8 | Sometimes it's a great idea, but sometimes it's not, which it is depends on you, your mindset, |
| 0:30.1 | whether you follow through with your goal for that day, and more. We'll look at the reasons |
| 0:35.3 | why you would want to do a race as a training run, but also why it |
| 0:39.9 | might be a bad idea. First, a couple of comments about Mojo for Running. I hope you've all visited my |
| 0:46.2 | Mojo for Running website. I used to encourage that often, but I haven't mentioned it much lately. |
| 0:51.7 | It occurs to me, though, that there are several similar websites with similar names, |
| 0:56.9 | and I want to caution you that those have nothing to do with me. |
| 1:01.0 | There is Mojo Running and Running Mojo and others that are similar. |
| 1:05.4 | Those are not my sites, and I have no involvement with them. |
| 1:08.6 | My site is mojo4 running.com and the four F-O-R is not a numeral. It is spelled out F-O-R. |
| 1:18.9 | So please just keep that in mind if you have looked for my site before. What made me think about this is that very often when I'm looking for a website, I won't remember exactly |
| 1:28.7 | what it is, but I'll remember some of the words. So I just assumed that if I plug those words |
| 1:35.2 | into Google and do a Google search, that the website will come up. And it occurred to me the other |
| 1:41.7 | day that people might do that looking for my site, and they would get one of these other sites that are in fact about running and they might just assume that was the right one. |
| 1:52.2 | So that's why I thought I would mention that here. |
| 1:55.4 | The same goes for the Facebook group. |
| 1:58.1 | It's specifically mojo for running exactly like that. There are other similar Facebook |
| 2:04.1 | groups as well. Anything else is not me unless you're looking for my local Facebook group, which is |
| 2:10.9 | Run Tampa. If you live in or near the Tampa Bay Area, then please check out Run Tampa. |
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