2016 IM NC Week 17- EN4Keys
#EN4KEYS WEEK 17
HEYYYY NC Crew!! You are just rockin this training and each week I get more and more excited for the big day. Well….team we are 4 weeks out from race week and there are 4 Keys of Racing within EN!! Love how that works out :-) What sets EN athletes drastically apart from other athletes is the ability to know to race. You're putting in the training and doing a fantastic job of posting your information with the team to discuss but as you wind down your training in the next couple weeks you need to put your head in a space to have the 4Keys down pat. Even if you have been with EN for awhile, there is always something to learn or something you can teach to help someone else's race experience.
Not to reinvent the wheel here is a mixture of coaches perspective and a couple other race captains:
X - Race day is about execution NOT fitness
Theme for this week is important. Start visualizing your upcoming RR2 and Race Day in terms of simply Executing your Fitness:
The majority of athletes on race day are fitness-focused (look at my T-shirt, look at my abs/veins/etc, look at how fast I can go in the first hour of the bike, etc.). They think of race day as the application of their fitness to the course, the distance. They are wrong. Race day is about the application of sound execution skills to a long day. Your fitness is just along for the ride. Through our observation of many, many races we can tell you that fully 90% of athletes out there do not understand this and do not know how to execute properly. For the Endurance Nation athlete then, race day is largely an exercise is doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing!
Easy to read/comprehend the above, difficult to actually apply on race day, when you feel rested, invincible with adrenaline and the best you have felt during the entire training cycle. So important to start thinking and scripting this concept now.
Good Job team.... keep chipping away, two more weeks left of fitness
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Welcome to Week 17. If you're like me, you too can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Last long run must mean . . . we're almost there. I had hoped to run 50 last week. But it was so humid yesterday, I blistered both feet for the first time in years, so I skipped last night's 3 and ended at 47. Bike fitness isn't there yet, so that'll be a focus the next 2 weeks. It's more about deveoping the strength to stay aero for 5 hours than trying to squeeze out a few more watts. Got in another meager 12k in the pool. Was quite nervous about swim fitness, so I did a RR on Friday, hoping to be 1:03 or better. Got 59:06. Not too bad, but I need 3 good weeks above 15k each, with several 4-5k sessions. Hope everyone else is doing well, feeling well.
Mike
That is a pretty nice swim time, and at IMNC it should be even faster.
http://www.ironman.com/~/media/bc4e929b703745f8a8b64d99a507ce8d/north carolina triclub updated.pdf
Bib numbers are up. I'm (hopefully) lucky #148.
http://www.ironman.com/~/media/7538ffb51c3c4dd58d1d45605905a046/bib list im nc 9 29 16.pdf
@Nemo, my low number signifies, "sucker, you raced too many WTC events last year and basically purchased AWA status."