Team RC Update 5/08/2020 - Update On Races + What Should You Focus On?
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
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🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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With all the cancellations and delays of future race events, what areas you should focus on now to reach your running and fitness goals? When could racing start up again? Find out in today's podcast from Coach Micheal.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Runas Connect fans, happy |
| 0:07.0 | Hey Runas Connect fans, happy Friday. |
| 0:09.5 | Hope you've had a great week. |
| 0:11.0 | I want to talk to you today about kind of a little update on where we feel that the, |
| 0:16.7 | you know, the race situation, all the cancellations and all that is heading. |
| 0:20.1 | And also just some tips and tricks and stuff that you can do to kind of make the most of this time and stuff that you can focus on. |
| 0:27.4 | So in terms of races, look, I'm not going to tell you that I have like super inside info. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm not going to like, I'm not reading from a crystal ball here. This really is just based on like what I know in terms of race logistics, what we we know in terms of like where everything is heading and kind of the general |
| 0:46.0 | trend of of cities, states, and the country as a whole and obviously I know we have |
| 0:50.9 | international listeners as well but I speak more to the U.S. |
| 0:54.7 | One thing I think this week that has made me a little more optimistic. |
| 0:58.6 | I'm not going to say that it's like, okay, definitely every race is going to go on, |
| 1:01.6 | Boston, you know, New York, all that's going to go on. |
| 1:04.0 | Something that's made me a little more optimistic is several big universities have been coming out |
| 1:09.7 | and saying that they are planning fully planning to hold classes in person classes in the fall. |
| 1:15.8 | The first one I saw was University of Oregon which is a huge university. |
| 1:18.8 | I mean this is a huge university and these universities have, if I can put it this way, it's kind of similar to races in that like there's a lot of like risk reward or there's a lot of like liability there. |
| 1:31.0 | These types of big organizations like a university, like a race, they have, you know, |
| 1:36.4 | teams of people that essentially are like risk management. |
| 1:41.0 | I mean, that's, they have people who their job is to look at the |
| 1:45.3 | risk of situations like this. They're completely focused on can we have classes |
| 1:52.1 | this fall, is that something safe? In the midst of all this for them to say that that makes me feel pretty good. I'm not saying it's a slam dunk. I'm not saying it's a guarantee that things are looking up at the same time it's it's a good sign is the way I would put it if they're already saying |
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