#675 – Mixing Short Course Races into Your Calendar

Today we talk about how to prepare and race Sprints and Olympics when you’re training for longer races.

But, if you’re just racing short course there are tons of good nuggets about how to get a much better performance.

Sometimes we forget what it feels like to go hard and short course is a great way to calibrate yourself with your effort.

We look into whether you should taper or not and why it can simply be a waste of a week. We look at HOW to race sprints and olympics.

From training to pacing to letting it rip on the bike and figuring out the run. We talk about pain and how to go through it when you keep hearing alarm bells. Why the fastest athletes on the planet go without a watch on the run. Short course is all about finding your limits… today we look at smart and strategic ways to get there.

Topics:

• 30 Days of our lives
• 30 day commitment
• Looking for excuses
• Blaming yourself or others?
• When running and something hurts . . . 
• Going through the pain
• The obstacle is the way
• Froggy weather
• Commit or not
• Objective and mature decisions
• Does your decision makes sense with your life?
• What does your A-Race mean to you?
• Have a plan and purpose
• Drop a race in
• Tapering for short races?
• Always keep your swimming up
• Bike - Oly - Lower volume, intensity up
• Running - keep intensity
• Do you deserve a taper?
• Don’t waste a week
• Mixing in a marathon affects 5 weeks of your calendar 
• Be engaged with your running - no plod mode
• Calibrate yourself with racing. 
• Running matchless
• When all you know is how you feel
• Do you remember what it feels like to go hard?
• Brick runs . . . 
• Swim hard, then bike… 
• Bike like there is no run…
• All these alarm bells… 
• It’s about finding your limit

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