Welcome | This is the New Year's Eve special and we have and we are closing out the year with a return guest, elite triathlon coach Jim Vance to talk about his book Triathlon 2.0. We'll get into the interview setup in just a few. Welcome to Episode #106 of the Mile High Endurance podcast. Mile High Endurance is your weekly connection to coaches, experts and pro athletes to help you reach your endurance and triathlon goals. I'm your host Rich Soares and I'm glad you are joining us for another week of endurance interviews and discussion. Bill is with family this week and Khem is in Nepal and on excursion to Everest base camp and can't wait to hear about her adventures. Hope you enjoyed the new intro music. That was "Trip Like I Do" by Crystal Method |
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Last week's guest | Thanks to last week's guest, ultra and adventure racer Travis Macy who is the author of The Ultra Mindset: an endurance champion's 8 core principles for success in business, sports and life. If you haven't heard the interview yet, go back and check it out on episode #105. |
Discussion Teasers | After the interview I'll have some thoughts on the interview with Jim Vance, his book Triathlon 2.0, considerations for the self-coached athlete, and an offer to those who want to take their training to the next level or feel like they could use the partnership of a coach this season. I also have some reflections on some of the show highlights this year and some of the interviews that were particularly memorable and informational. Last, I have a funny Christmas triathlon gift story and a ask to see if any of you have good triathlon or gear Christmas stories that you would share. That's it for the teasers, let's go to the interview. |
Interview Setup | Jim Vance is an elite endurance sports coach, author, and sport technology and training consultant based in San Diego, California. He is the personal coach 2016 US Olympic triathlete Ben Kanute, guiding him to 2017 performances of victory at Escape from Alcatraz and Island House Triathlon, as well as a 2nd place finish at the 70.3 World Championships. Triathlon 2.0 is an extremely useful book if you are a self-coached athlete. It will help give you concrete information on how to use data to do baseline testing, guidelines for determining goal training stress, and concepts for how to create a periodized training plan. After the interview, we'll go through a couple pages of the book to give you a practical example of how to determine goal CTL for each the bike and run using an hypothetical athlete and race distance. As Jim emphasizes in the book, these will just be examples and do not apply to all athletes or all race situations. Let's get into the interview now. |
Interview | Jim Vance |
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Host Discussion Topics | Practical example from Triathlon 2.0
Speaking of your 2018 season, if you are listening to this episode on the day of release then you are listening to this on New Year's Eve. A lot of races have price increases at midnight tonight. If you haven't done it yet, fulfill a resolution a day early and save few bucks by checking out your race registration sites today and register today. Then go out and celebrate that you’ve already ticked the box on one of your resolutions! 2017 Show Highlights:
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Closing | If you are enjoying the show, please let us know by going on iTunes or your podcast player and giving us a review. Be sure you are subscribed in iTunes so you get the show automatically downloaded on Saturday evening and recommend Mile High Endurance to a friend. Thanks again for listening to MHE. Happy new year! Talk to you again in 2018! Stay tuned, stay informed, and enjoy the endurance journey! |