Competitions and goals
Competition
Section titled “Competition”A competition is a real meet on one date, with a name and a location. StrideUp tracks it as something to peak toward, and as a place results come from.
A competition on its own targets nobody. You say who it is for in one of two ways.
Goal: a group targets a meet
Section titled “Goal: a group targets a meet”A goal points a training group at a competition, with a priority. A goal with no group covers the whole team.
| Priority | Meaning |
|---|---|
| A | Full taper and peak, for example a national championship. |
| B | Light taper, compete through it. |
| C | Train straight through. A tune-up. |
Set your A goals before you build the season. When a season has two peaks, the wizard uses the A-goal dates to decide where it turns over from one macrocycle to the next.
StrideUp does not write a taper for you. Mark a microcycle as a taper week yourself, and the progression tool then leaves that week alone instead of ramping it.
Entry: one athlete is on the start list
Section titled “Entry: one athlete is on the start list”An entry names one athlete for one competition. Use it when the meet is for a few people rather than a whole group.
An entry does not need an event yet. An entry with no event means “this athlete is going”, and the athlete fills in the events afterward.
An athlete sees a meet when a goal covers them, through their group or the whole team, or when an entry names them.
On the calendar
Section titled “On the calendar”A competition day renders as a chip on the calendar, in the priority colour. You do not have to place a workout on it.
Results
Section titled “Results”After the meet, the athlete files their result against an entry: the event and the time.
Personal bests come from those results. A best is the fastest time an athlete has recorded for an event, and there is no separate place to type one in.
A running effort written as 95% of a 200m best then resolves to a real target time for each athlete.
Good to know
Section titled “Good to know”StrideUp does not enter anyone into a real meet. You still register your athletes the way you always have.
Results in StrideUp feed the training, and they replace no official results system.