One Everyday Athlete's Guide To Conquering Obstacle Course Racing
April Recap Before I look at May, I want to recap April. It was a good month. Overall, tracking work outs led to me working out on a more regular basis. I created a spreadsheet that I used to track what days I ran, worked out or did yoga. I tracked three weeks before I switched…
I signed up to Yancy Camp (If you do OCR and you haven’t checked it out, I strongly recommend it) again this week. I’m excited, but also nervous. I know the training plan will be rock solid, but I’m also worried about how I’m going to fit this into my hectic schedule. The Good Started…
In an effort to stick to my goals, I’m going to try putting them into print and sharing them with the digital world. Running Run 2x a week and complete the intermediate 5K training program I’m doing. I’m hoping it will give me a good base for future training and get me in a good…
Give or take, it’s roughly the middle of the year, and either way my obstacle course race season is under way and it seemed like a good time as any to check in with this year’s goals. I publicly share my OCR goals to hold myself accountable, but also so that you could learn from…
I’ll be the first to admit that my eating is one of my largest downfalls. Because of my far to often poor food choices, I deal with issues that range from an unhealthy BMI to problems with gout, and most importantly poor performance on the OCR course. I’ve come a long way from the couch…
And The Goals I Intend To Hit 2017. 2016 was a….year. It was neither bad, nor good for me OCR/health/fitness-wise. It was a learning year. In some ways, I had some really big goals. I had dreams of finally reaching a goal weight, becoming an unrealistically better OCR athlete over night…and why not throw in…
Race Week Congrats! You made it! Now comes the fun part. It’s time to tamper down, saving your energy and strength for race day. Running A week or so before the race, enjoy one long run. It’ll be your last run for distance before the race. During the week, a run half that distance, and…
Clothing & Shoes For Obstacle Course Racing You’ve trained. You ate right. Now it’s time for race day. So what do you wear? Clothing I’m not big on hard and strict rules. I say train in ways that make you stronger and give you more endurance. I vote to try to eat healthy, but it’s…
When I get into a new interest, I want to know everything that I can about it. When I started getting into obstacle course racing, I probably read every blog post I could find and downloaded way too many podcasts before I even stepped anywhere near to the starting line. Not to mention books and…
Priorities No more excuses. You’ve signed up to do an obstacle course race and now is when you should start training. If you haven’t signed up for one, do it now. Unless you have small kids, work multiple jobs, you have time. Even in those circumstances, you have time, you just need to prioritize it….