How to Train for Your First Fitness Race
An eight-week structure built around the one thing that actually decides your race: how well you run immediately after loaded work.
Programming, pacing, transitions and the sessions that actually prepare you.
Training for a fitness race is not running training with some gym work bolted on. The demand is specific: producing force while your heart rate is already high, and running well immediately afterwards. That is a trainable skill and this section is about training it.
An eight-week structure built around the one thing that actually decides your race: how well you run immediately after loaded work.
The most common way to have a bad day is to have a great first ten minutes. How to build a pacing plan that survives contact with the second half.
The sled is where most first-timers lose the most time, and most of that loss is technique rather than strength.
A short kit list, the shoe question, and the two things people most often forget.