For a really long time I’ve wanted to try and capture a lot of my thoughts, feelings, and understandings about training down, but have hesitated too. Mostly because it seems like a daunting task, and I just don’t have the courage to undertake it. Part of it too is because my opinion can be so dynamic based on what I …

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Over the past couple of months I have written a series of posts where I shared my method of planning out a triathlon season. Today’s will take another step down the rabbit hole and provide some insight on my thoughts on the general preparation period for an Ironman, a follow-up to this article will be my thoughts on …

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Last week I posted what I consider to be the last step in planning out your season. I then realized that while I laid out *my* season plan, I didn’t go a lot into my thought process behind it. An athletic season can be thought of as a project with defined time-lines. It has an outcome: perhaps winning a race, …

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Well it’s now December. You’ve sat down with your “coach” and performed a review of your season, your upcoming season, evaluated strengths and weaknesses (physical and mental). So now what? You’ve asked some hard questions, given some honest answers, and heard some honest answers – how do you take that information and …

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So a month ago I wrote about some of the basic steps I would take with you if I were coaching you. Hopefully, you’ve take the time to divide your personality in two (or better yet, tapped a close friend to answer from an outside perspective) and examine your season and future from both the perspective of the athlete …

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I thought it would be an interesting exercise to write a post in the form of guidance that I would provide to someone with goals similar to myself. I figure that I should follow the advice I’d give other people – so maybe I should right that down and follow it myself! The first thing I’d do with the athlete would make …

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