Welcome to Episode #187 of the Mile High Endurance podcast. You are listening to your weekly connection to coaches, experts and pro athletes to help you reach your endurance goals. We are your hosts coach Rich Soares and 303 Chief Bill Plock. Thanks for joining us for another week of endurance.
Thanks to last week's guests Brent and Kyle Pease, the first push-assist brother duo to complete the IRONMAN World Championship who joined us to tell their story through the book, Beyond the Finish, an inspiring memoir about brotherhood and relentless determination. The book and the interview really inspired me. Check out KylePeaseFoundation.org The Kyle Pease Foundation to learn how you can support their cause. Bill, how much harder do you think it would be to do an Ironman pulling and pushing someone?
In today's show we have coach Will Murray joining us to talk about how we can develop Post Traumatic Stress to events in our lives that affect our ability to function and perform. It's an interesting area and one that many listeners may be able to identify with.
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Interview Introduction:
Will Murray is a trained mental skills coach and has authored numerous articles and books. I recommend that you go to the MHE endurance website and check the links to Will's recent article and book on the Main page and there are several links to his work on the Resources page.
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Video of the Week:
Getting frank about IM Frankfurt
Dialing in heat management
Dialing in hydration and salt intake
How to get to Kona
Ironman Cairns and Frankfurt
No point getting to Kona fried
700 meters with a 12 minute lead
Showing up to regional champs to qualify, but if had an early season lower competition.
Under the point system, she would have qualified.
Blood tests in balance.
Don't Fry Bacon Naked:
Heat management and acclimatization occurs with regular exposure to heat while performing aerobic exercise for 10 days. https://www.gssiweb.org/sports-science-exchange/article/sse-153-heat-acclimatization-to-improve-athletic-performance-in-warm-hot-environments
Of course there's the fluid and sodium con course there's the fluid and sodium consumption required to keep your body hydrated. The best advice is to test and don't guess.
Bonus: Follow up to last week's discussion about OWS sighting and straight line swimming. If you remember we were talking about how to stay relaxed while OWS. I mentioned I like to count my strokes. It takes my mind off the environment and how I'm feeling and it places my attention somewhere else (keeping track of my counting). This serves a secondary purpose as well. If you know your SPL (Strokes Per Length) of a 25 meter pool, for example. Let's say for the sake of example that it takes you 20 strokes per length. You know that for every 20 strokes your are going approximately 25 meters, then you can extend that math linearly. 40 strokes equals 50 meters, 80 equals 100, etc. The key is to find your SPL for a 25M or convert your SPL for 25Y to 25M. If you know the distance between buoys in a race, let's say the buoys are every 200 meters, you know it should take approximately 160 strokes or 80 right hand entries.
We also talked about reaching as far as you can to the shore or the buoy. The goal is to elongate your body and streamline so that you have balance in the water and glide a bit. As long as you are already thinking about getting a good reach, be intentionally about your hand entry. When you sight the buoy or landmark, take the mental snapshot and place your next hand entry just to the side of the landmark. If it's your right hand, try to intentionally place it just to the right of the mark. Be as precise as you can and do it for the left hand. Now imagine a line running from the landmark straight down below the water surface. Then imagine that line painted directly below you and extending behind you (as it would be in a pool). With your extended hand entering just adjacent to the landmark, now paint a line with than hand adjacent tp the line that runs from the landmark, directly below the surface and then under and behind you.
Part of swimming straight is also making sure you have a consistent stroke length and on both sides. Keep track of where each hand completes the stroke. I like to touch my thigh with my thumb as my hand completes the stoke. Note if your hands are touching the same part of your thigh on both sides. Another tip that can assist with swimming straight is using a tempo trainer in the pool to learn a balanced cadence so the timing of each hand entry is symmetric. If the timing of stroke on both sides are consistent and the stroke length are the same, you will set yourself up for success.
Next week: How quickly to make an altitude acclimatization? How quickly to lose altitude advantage?
"What's New in the 303":
https://303triathlon.com/boulder-peak-triathlon-delivers-meehan-standifer-champs/ I have two confessions to make about this race. Confession #1 is that I raced way above my fitness level this year. I was two minutes faster than last year, but I was as sore as I've ever been from a race or hard workout. I knew I was in trouble on Sunday night, but by Monday morning I could barely get out of bed. It's not that I didn't know my training was insufficient, it's that I underestimated how sore I would be after. This leads to Confession #2. I spoke to you on Sunday after the race. I had just been looking at my TrainingPeaks file and saw a 25. something number. I answer your call and somewhere in our call I told you that my bike seemed to be really fast. I said I think my average speed was 25. something. Even when I was saying it, I knew how absurd that average speed would be for that course. I've never hit an average or 25 for an Olympic let alone a Sprint. I think I was more wrecked on Sunday than I realized and had complete race brain.
https://www.coloradoclassic.com/ We have the Colorado Classic coming August 22 to 25.
https://303cycling.com/governor-jared-polis-proclaims-july-17-as-colorado-classic-equity-in-cycling-day/ “With this proclamation making July 17 Colorado Classic Equity in Cycling Day, I want to inspire women athletes and highlight equity in pro cycling because equality matters, in athletics, the workplace, and in all walks of life.”
https://303cycling.com/triple-bypass-its-about-the-journey/ The Triple Bypass, is really a journey, and it’s about the journey, not the finish as much. It’s about all the people you meet riding, the history that is passed by and the many miles high in altitude testing our fortitude and sense of wanting to accomplish something. It doesn’t matter how fast, slow or somewhere in between— as long as you finish and have fun!
Endurance News:
Tour de France impressions this week: I watched Stage 11 from Albi to Toulouse. I was impressed by the how well they keep content overlays to carry 4-5 hours of coverage. Some of my favorite features are the inside the peloton cameras and the new Lexus sponsored 3D holograph model that they use to describe rider positions in various conditions. The interviews with race directors, riders, to get their public comments. Cyclists are so cordial, polite, and generally try to be as non-controversial as possible. Case in point, the race director from TEAM JUMBO - VISMA was interviewed about the Stage 10 win by WOUT VAN AERT. When asked about the way Education First team played the cross winds in Stage 10, he very politely said that he could not make any judgement about any team, but that his team had been vigilant at the time they hit the crosswinds and made the right moves at the right time.
I also love learning the history of the race. One of my favorites this were was the story of Henri Cornet winning the 1904 tour where there where he learned that he won in November after the Tour. What happened is the first 4 riders were eventually disqualified. They had jumped a train and rode to the finish. Riders on the train who saw the riders later read about them winning by hours ahead of the peloton and then reported them to the authorities.
Since I don't have time watch 4 hours of the tour every day, I like to follow it on The Move podcast. You just get this completely unfiltered assessment and it's boiled down to an hour. Lance Armstrong presents a singular perspective on the world’s most iconic cycling races, including the Tour de France and the Classics, as well as the broader endurance sports scene. Not your typical cycling or sports podcast, THEMOVE brings listeners deep inside the racing action, imparting insights from someone who knows the suffering and splendor like no one else. In addition to course previews and timely race analysis from Armstrong’s distinct point of view, the audience also gets to hear from featured guests, who regularly swing by the THEMOVE studio to join the always-lively conversation. Guests have included former teammates like George Hincapie during the Tour de France, and Mark Allen and Dave Scott in advance of the IRONMAN World Championship.
These two worlds came together on one particular story. On The Move podcast, Lance Armstrong was talking about how some of the best race directors back in the US Postal and 7-11 teams would monitor the channels of the other riders to here their tactics and observations and plans about the race course. Bob Roll told the same story, but with a twist. He described how Lance's team knew that other team's monitored each other's channels - not just during the race, but even in the evening. Lance's team staged a misinformation campaign to make the eavesdropping teams believe that Lance had food poisoning or was ill. The eavesdropping teams discounted Lance in their race plans and Lance and team took advantage of the lack of vigilance and rode right past them on a key climb.
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