Adding a race (coach or athlete)

Two entry points

• Coach side: /coach/race/new/ (linked from the coach dashboard). Coaches add races on behalf of athletes.
• Athlete side: /my-races/ then Add race. Athletes can add their own races; the coach is notified.

Both create the same Race record.

Required fields

• Athlete: the athlete the race belongs to (coach side picks from roster; athlete side defaults to themselves).
• Race name: human readable (e.g. "Wildflower Long Course").
• Date: the race date.
• Sport: triathlon, duathlon, running, cycling, swimming, swim run, gravel, multi-day stage.
• Distance / format: sprint, Olympic, 70.3, 140.6, marathon, 10K, etc. Or a custom distance field.

Optional but valuable fields

• Priority tag: A, B, C. See A vs B vs C race tagging.
• Location: city, country. Drives default weather forecast and altitude.
• Course: upload a GPX or pick a stored Course record. Feeds pacing analysis.
• Goal time: your aim. Drives goal-vs-actual on the recap.
• Wetsuit policy: allowed, not allowed, conditional.

What happens after create

The race appears in:

• The athlete's /my-races/ calendar.
• The coach's upcoming races panel.
• The macrocycle planner (A and B races anchor the plan).

A note is logged in the activity timeline.

Editing later

Open the race detail page and click Edit (coach side) or Edit my race (athlete side). Athletes can change basic fields; coaches can change all fields.

A race that is not going ahead

There is no delete button, and that is deliberate: deleting would throw away real history — the goal splits, the planning notes, and the fact that a season was built around that day. Set a status instead, and the race drops out of everything forward-looking (upcoming lists, the race digest, weather emails, the ATP builder's A-race picker, and TrainFed's taper protection) while staying in the athlete's race history.

• cancelled — the race itself is not happening (weather, wildfire, the organiser pulled it).
• dns — the race is going ahead, the athlete is not starting it (injury, travel, cost, a change of plan).

Both can be set before the race date; the other statuses cannot. See DNF / DNS handling.