2017 IM Texas Week 11- BIG DAY!

Laura Becker

Week 11 - Another "Big Day"

BIG shout out to Gordon and Tim!! LOVED seeing your posts about this weeks training! We are so fortunate to have such an awesome team with a TON of knowledge and most importantly MOJO!!! Who else is out there???

So this week…... “Big Day” - This is a day to swim, bike and run to practice stacking up the day! Just a steady day.  Coach P does a fantastic video during this week that explains exactly what your goals should be during this day. Check it out!

Things to pay attention to

• Again….. Nutrition- keep experimenting and figuring out what works.

• Watching your pacing (are you making mistakes early on?)

Don’t “rest” in-between but no need to go full fledge tri geek and set up transitions where you sprint from event to event

What coaches want to see this week is us talking about how we are going to prepare. Post your “big day” check list here, a chance to even practice your “race plan” and “race report”

Let’s not wait until after the big day to start discussing what we did or didn’t do. Lets plan it out, write it out and discuss it now so we can help each other. Then debrief with this awesome Crew after the big day on what worked and what didn’t.

This will set you up for your race rehearsals closer to race day.

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Coach Patrick

Big Day is your first real test of "total" fitness...how does the bike feel after the swim. Your fueling? How about the run pacing? What are your lessons learned? What do you need to work on or fix for next time? 

All of ^this^ is covered in just one day if you can get it done. Good luck!!

~ Coach P

Gordon Polozola

Fellow EN IMTX'ans, I hope you had a good week of training.  Looking forward to hearing how the Big Day goes.  While I've had to shift my training back a day (Big Day will be on Sunday), it has been a decent week of training.  For the swim, I finally hit the workouts using the specified rest breaks, which is a big deal for me as I typically need more rest to maintain the quality.  The split run is AWESOME, and I don't feel as beat up for sure.  The Z3 at the end of the first half made my hamstring "angry" so I may have to back off a little.  But, otherwise, I'll be prepping my gear and looking forward (sort of) for how my body handles the first big test.