No matter how well or poor training seems to be going, Race Day is an opportunity to arrange for your mental toughness to shine because, at some point, it’s gonna hurt. Today, we go through ways to approach your race mentally and break things into portions you can manage. We also look at how to be fit and fresh from the chin up during taper and why that plays such a huge role on race day. Mental and physical walls. The “make or break” miles of your race. And why going the distance in training isn’t as important as you think.

Topics:

• Change in athlete moods with the weather
• “Oh, THERE’S my fitness.”
• August is the toughest month
• Mike broke rule #1
• When should you feel fresh for your race?
• Don’t pay attention to outliers
• Why we need clunker workouts
• Recover just a little bit
• Setting Race Power numbers
• Prisoners of the moment in training
• Snowballing mistakes
• Taking a day off in a big build
• Riding the distance 
• Worst ride before a race
• Progressing Too Fast
• Saving that ONE RIDE for race day
• Be the best version of the person you are
• Sneak peek behind the curtain
• Tapering is all about . . . . 
• The mental test of race day
• Pain is part of the game
• One more mile
• Bite off little chunks
• Fit and fresh from the chin up
• The mental and physical wall difference
• Make or break miles in an Ironman 

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