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CoachGordo.Com. Why Train & Race?. Apply our own protocols Keep memory updated Learn and re-learn Fun way to spend the marketing budget. Who Are We Coaching?. Experience Personal Limiters Goals Needs. Worth Remembering. Acceptance & Respect Closeness, Trust, Caring
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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
Who Are We Coaching? • Experience • Personal Limiters • Goals • Needs
Worth Remembering • Acceptance & Respect • Closeness, Trust, Caring • Target Effort Not Time • Anything Can Happen
Virtuous Traits • Persistence • Patience • Optimism • Humility • Encouraged daily • Practiced relentlessly
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
Effective Race Execution • Pace Judgment • Arousal Control • Medium of Movement • Mental Toughness • Cognitive ability under stress & fatigue
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
Arousal Control • Joy and Despair • Quiet Power vs. Anger • Clarity of Thought • Source of Self-knowledge
Medium of Movement • Water • Fast Moving Air • Slow Moving Air • Effort to speed • Effort to discomfort tolerance
Mental Toughness • Patience • Humility • Fortitude • The event is hard enough • Honor in execution vs. self-detonation
Worth Remembering • What Is Is • No Easy Way • JFT