CoachGordo'Com

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• CoachGordo.Com

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Why Train Race?

• Apply our own protocols
• Keep memory updated
• Learn and re-learn
• Fun way to spend the marketing budget

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Who Are We Coaching?

• Experience
• Personal Limiters
• Goals
• Needs

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Worth Remembering

• Acceptance Respect
• Closeness, Trust, Caring
• Target Effort Not Time
• Anything Can Happen

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Virtuous Traits

• Persistence
• Patience
• Optimism
• Humility
• Encouraged daily
• Practiced relentlessly

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What is Ironman?

• A very long day
• A long swim then
• A long bike then
• A marathon
• Increasing fatigue
• External and internal stressors
• Result? Low cognitive abilities
• Large opportunity for effective race execution

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Effective Race Execution

• Pace Judgment
• Arousal Control
• Medium of Movement
• Mental Toughness
• Cognitive ability under stress fatigue

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Pace Judgment

• Relative to Fitness
• Relative to Mental Strength
• Relative to Threshold
• Relative to External Conditions
• Relative to ourselves, not others
• Relative to actual reality, not desired
• Applied across time

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Arousal Control

• Joy and Despair
• Quiet Power vs. Anger
• Clarity of Thought
• Source of Self-knowledge

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Medium of Movement

• Water
• Fast Moving Air
• Slow Moving Air
• Effort to speed
• Effort to discomfort tolerance

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Mental Toughness

• Patience
• Humility
• Fortitude
• The event is hard enough
• Honor in execution vs. self-detonation

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Worth Remembering

• What Is Is
• No Easy Way
• JFT