To help you adapt to our current situation we’ve created 8-week Base/Fitness training plans with Dr. Jack Daniels. These plans are perfect for runners who have been training and want to maintain motivation, structure while road and track races are cancelled for the foreseeable future. It’s important not to overtrain or introduce new stress at the moment. Plans […]
A New Way To Race As runners, we’ve had to accept that we won’t be able to put our training to the test in a traditional race for the foreseeable future. But that hasn’t dampened our desire to improve our fitness, compete, and celebrate the sport of running with our fellow athletes. We’re proud to [...]
The team at VDOT O2 has launched a new virtual racing series, the VDOT Challenge, to help athletes stay motivated during this time of social distancing. Races are free and occur every two weeks in 3-day blocks starting April 3rd, 4th and 5th. Challenges are open to all distances 1mi or more. To participate you must save your race result […]
We launched a podcast, VDOT O2 at Conversation Pace. Naturally, we led off with Dr. Jack Daniels. How could our first guest be anyone else? Jack is a partner in VDOT O2, an inventor and scientist behind the formulas that power the VDOT paces and equivalent performances. Many of you already know a lot about [...]
Times have changed but our competitive fire and desire to self-improve remains. Coming soon we'll introduce a new way to race your community. With VDOT we're all in the same race regardless of distance. To help create a real race experience during this time of social distancing our first race sponsor, Brooklyn Running Co, will [...]
VDOT Coach John Raneri of group McKirdy Trained on grappling with the cancellation of the Boston Marathon and living through a pandemic... After hearing about Boston’s postponement I wasn’t surprised. But like many others in the following days my emotions caught up with me. This was a goal race. Hours of preparation, sweat, and data [...]
VDOT Coach Leah Rosenfeld shares some useful feedback on staying focused in the age of social distancing. With so much changing everyday it can be difficult to stay motivated, but I’ve found that routine, community, and play help keep me on track, even when I’m not allowed on one ;). Staying in a routine is [...]
Charles Whobrey finished 121st out of over one thousand in the M50 age group… I just wanted to write and say “you’ve gone and done it again!” I spent most of the LA Marathon cursing you guys thinking: “no way can I keep this up for 26.2” but I sucked it up and toughed it […]
You can now customize your notification preferences. Instructions (Web): Click the notification bell icon (top right) Click the settings dial/icon (highlighted above) Select when and how you'd like to be notified (push, email or feed in-app) Instructions (Android and iOS): Click the notification bell icon (top right) Click the three dots icon Select Notification preferences [...]
We're proud to have over 45 Olympic Trials Qualifiers in the marathon on our app. The story of VDOT started due to an Olympic pursuit and the search for how to train properly in the sport of running. In Atlanta we'll be celebrating the sport we love and the continuation of Dr. Jack Daniels' legacy. [...]