Use this system to figure out race pace with the following rate of perceived exertion guidelines: Sprint: 8-9/10 Olympic: 8/10 70.3: 7/10 Ironman: 6/10 Within a few months you can develop such body awareness that you can dial in your best possible race pace given any different circumstance that happens (good or bad) on race day. | Triathlon Taren

•• UNDERSTANDING THE RPE SCALE •• WHAT IS RPE? RPE stands for the Rate of Perceived Exertion and at SOS our trainers use the RPE Scale as a useful tool to assess how hard clients feel they are working. (Original scale and Modified scale) The RPE Scale was devised by Gunner Borg in 1982 and originally began as a scale of 6-20. However, after the RPE Scale was introduced in 1982, some people felt that using a 6-20 scale was not intuitive. As a result, the Modified Borg Scale was developed, using a