What Really Creates Success...For Me (IM CDA Race Report)
I don't think that I need to say that Ironman Coeur d'Alene didn't go how I planned this last weekend. I think that a lot of times we look in the wrong places for success. I think that instead of admitting we need to change something within the big picture, we'd rather place blame on something that is out of our control and not our judgement, choices and patterns. The training that I executed going in left me with life best numbers across the board. 4k swims in 50minutes, 112mi rides under 4:50 and 20mi runs under 2:05. All were very common in the last 6 weeks of training going into the race... So no excuses as to whether or not I was fit. Mentally I was up and down heading into the race. My last training block threw me under the bus big time. Not because of the training that I had completed, but because I underestimated the amount of recovery needed from the sessions I was completing. It's one thing to plan training for someone else, it's another to in