Go the Distance

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TRAINING PROGRAM: Nine Weeks: February 24-April 25
EVENT WEEKEND: April 26-27
BEST FOR: Anybody and everybody.
WHAT: Nine weeks devoted to increasing your cardiovascular base, culminating in a virtual distance challenge and celebration of moving forward.

Join us for Go the Distance, a training program and virtual event combo designed to help you build the confidence—and cardiovascular endurance—to step out of your comfort zone and go farther than you ever have.

STEP ONE: Spend nine weeks following our comprehensive training program focused on Zone 2 cardio, that lovely level of intensity that allows you to increase your aerobic capacity without flooding your system with cortisol or inviting injury.

You can build your cardiovascular fitness in ANY way, including running, run/walking, walking, hiking, cycling, swimming, rowing, ellipticaling, and any other medium you’d like. The training program focuses on your choice of primary activity for most of the weekly workouts, but you’ll mix it up with a variety of other cardio workouts, as well as strength and mobility circuits.

STEP TWO: Celebrate with the Go The Distance event, the weekend on April 26-27.

The event is simple: You choose an activity, choose a distance, and repeat it every 6, 12, or 24 hours. You can run, walk, hike, ride, Peloton, or any other activity you love to do. You can do it solo from your own house; with a posse of friends; or join one of the groups that will form with fellow participants.

No matter how you Go the Distance, you’ll rack up some significant mileage; be cheered on by—and cheer for—your fellow participants; chart and share your progress; take a step or two outside your comfort zone; and bask in that glorious sense of accomplishment that comes during a full, challenging day of forward movement.

From: Original price was: $95.00.Current price is: $80.00.

Go the Distance Tank

An adorable, flattering tank perfect for a sweat or beach session.

  • 50/25/25 poly/combed ring spun cotton/rayon
  • curved hem
  • true to size; sizes XS-4XL; size chart

The Details

THE TRAINING PROGRAM FEATURES…

This nine-week training program focuses on cardiovascular endurance, or Zone 2: that lovely pace where you feel like you can go and go and go. Most of the weekly workouts involve the cardio activity of your choice, but we’ll also mix things up with other cardio, as well as strength and mobility circuits.

While most of us are runners around here, running is far from the only cardio option for nine weeks. You can do a run/walk, walk, hike, cycle, swim, Peloton, elliptical—or make up a DIY combo. We’ll mix and match as we get ready to Go the Distance.

This unique swag commemorates your special day: your finisher certificate will have your final stats on it; your Went the Distance sticker is perfect for a water bottle or laptop; and an optional tank proclaims your endurance athlete status.

GO THE DISTANCE EVENT WEEKEND FEATURES…

With great prizes like Topo Athletic Shoes, Currex Insoles and Tifosi Sunglasses for a variety of categories, including most grit, creativity, and enthusiasm, you can win in more ways than one!

Unsure how to plan? What to eat? In addition to a private Facebook page and an informational team meeting before the event, you’ll receive detailed guidelines that include how to pick the best distance for you; set up an optimal aid station; and pace yourself effectively.

While this is a virtual event, you won’t feel alone. With a handful of local groups around the country, incentives to invite your active friends, a Zoom room open (nearly) the whole event, and non-stop social media, our AMR team is going the distance to support you.

QUESTIONS + ANSWERS

For sure!

At the beginning of the nine-week training program, you’ll pick a goal for your event weekend. (You can switch your goal up mid-program, depending on your progress and schedule.)

Based on that goal, you’ll follow one of three training tracks. The bulk of your cardio workouts will be in your chosen activity (run, run/walk, walk, hike, bike, swim, etc.), but there will also be switch-it-up workouts to mix up your cardio, as well as strength and mobility circuits.

The bulk of your cardio will be in Zone 2, but we’ll have one weekly workout that involves hill repeats, intervals, or another “spicy” element in the workout.

While the bulk of us will do this the weekend of April 26-27 you are free to Go the Distance anytime that works best for you; we can help you adjust your training schedule.

One thing to note: We will be determining prizes on April 28 so if you want to be eligible for those, you need to have completed the event by April 27.

No, although we have a few suggestions:

  • Start at the top of the hour so all participants are aligned.
  • If you’re going for twelve hours, we suggest you maximize daylight, which might mean 6 am-6 pm or 7 am-7 pm.
  • Pay attention to the weather; if the afternoon prediction is a thunderstorm and you’re going six hours, get it done in the morning.
  • If you’re going through the night for twenty-four hours, you will likely want to start early on Saturday so you have the bulk of Sunday to recover.

Yep! We think this would be most fun as a group event!

When you register after February 9, you’ll get a discount code to share with a friend or three.

You can train together, knowing you all don’t have to all do the same thing: some of you can walk, some of you can run, some of you can cycle. On event day, you’ll all just have the same “base camp.”

If you have a large group (eight or more), drop us a line at tlamclub@anothermotherrunner.com and we’ll set you up with code just for your team!

Potentially, yes!

Upon registration, we will grab your location from you. Then we’ll create a document that shares all the common places people are Going the Distance, and help coordinate a place that would work well as your base camp.

Absolutely! In fact, Go the Distance is a great way to enhance and keep excitement in your training.

We’d suggest you keep the bulk of your training schedule the same so you complete the race, but you can definitely add the strength and mobility circuits, as well as some of the fun challenges along the way.

For the event weekend, there are suggestions for appropriate challenges depending on what distance race you are training for and where you are in your training program. Coach Dimity will also be on the private Facebook page and available over email to help you fine-tune your Go the Distance event to complement your training.

We’re going old-school with this one: you’ll receive a PDF of a tracker, which you can print out and check off as you move through your day.

Nope! If you want to mix things up, have at it! The training program asks you to set your goal for the event weekend and then directs you on how to train for it appropriately. In two words, anything goes!

An example: for the event weekend, you could go for twelve hours, and then alternate between running and cycling or do six “laps” of running, then six “laps” of cycling. Or you could go for six hours and swim for three “laps” and run for three “laps.” Design it in a way that feels fun and appropriate for you.

You can definitely tweak the times to match your goal. (And if you sign up for six hours and end up wanting to go for two or more “laps”, all good!)

All good! While we want this to be a challenge, we also know you know yourself best. We’re here to cheer you on for as long as you want to go.

Yes! We have a twelve-hour schedule lined up: thirty-minute rides every hour, on the hour. We’ll have the details for you after you join.

Questions about the program? Join us for a short information session where we’ll go over the details and answer any questions.
(If you can’t make the live time and want to receive the recording, sign up and we’ll send it over afterwards.)

REGISTER FOR THE INFORMATION SESSION

SOME IDEAS for event weekend

Activity Distance/Duration Repeat Every Total
Walk/Hike 1.5 miles 6 hours 9 miles
Run 2.5 miles 12 hours 30 miles
Run/Walk 2.5 miles 24 hours 60 miles
Cycle 7 miles 12 hours 84 miles
Peleton 30-minute class 12 hours 6 hours
Run + Cycle 1 mile/3 mile 6 hours 24 miles
Row 3,000 meters 6 hours 18,000 meters
(11.1 miles)
Hike a 2.3 mile loop 12 hours 27.6 miles

Additional information

Go the Distance Tank

Size

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