With the nicer weather ju
st around the corner more of you will probably be getting outside on your bikes and running your favourite routes. Whether you are outside or inside why not add an element of fun to your training?
Sportstats the Official Timing Company of MultiSport Canada has launched their Virtual Race Community. The Sporstats VRC is not like many of the typical virtual races and give you a lot more flexibility because you are not confined to a few days or a weekend. Given you have an entire month to complete the Sportstats VRC race distances or you can complete several different distances from the same event. You can also repeat your efforts at any time. This provides you with options and some competitive strategy.
Are you the competitive type? Whereas in other virtual races, you can only see updated leaderboards for those who have finished and only upload one effort per leg, with Sportstats VRC you can see live updates to the legs and repeat your efforts. This gives you the opportunity to go back and retry an effort if you think you didn't do as well as you’d have liked. It also encourages you to push yourself. As an example, perhaps you upload a 10k run time and you see you are close to several other athletes. Why not set a personal goal to improve your time? You’ve got a month to put in some work and see if you can improve your time and pass some of those ahead of you. With the Sportstats VRC you pick the distance and amount of time you want to devote.
While there are no awards, there are also other components to the Virtual Community such as online club training, the Sportstats Facebook Group, the Strava Club and give-aways for participants. The best part? The Sportstats VRC is FREE!
Remember, you can choose to simply record your results and do not need to opt-in to any the other program components
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