rlacombe/switchback-running/race

Race Preparation

Trigger

Use for race strategy, taper review, aid stations, equipment, or execution.

Minimum evidence

Retrieve the official event date, distance, course, elevation, cutoffs, and current forecast when available. Read profile, calendar, current wellness, relevant training, comparable efforts, rehearsed fueling, equipment, and prior race lessons. Resolve conflicting course versions before calculations.

Use get_events for the race and nearby calendar, activity tools for comparable efforts, and wellness and fitness tools for current state. Use get_weather only inside its forecast horizon; before then, describe environmental assumptions and schedule a forecast refresh. Course files and athlete documents may supersede an older calendar description when their date and provenance are clearer.

Knowledge

Retrieve only relevant race execution, taper, nutrition, heat and altitude, mental performance, or terrain chapters.

Analysis

Build assumptions from comparable athlete evidence. Never infer finish time directly from CTL or another single metric. If no validated prediction model is available, give a scenario range tied to stated assumptions. Calculate segment times, cutoff margins, intake, carrying capacity, and aid-station operations with consistent units. Distinguish practiced plans from new ideas.

Output and action

Present race facts, assumptions, pacing or effort strategy, fueling, cutoff margin, equipment, and contingencies. Label estimates and unknowns. Apply current health evidence without manufacturing certainty. Save a race plan or calendar note only when authorized, then read it back. Preserve accepted decisions and post-race lessons in athlete-owned memory.