164 A Triathlete's Guide to Run Success
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The Purple Patch Podcast Triathlon Takeover strides towards the finish line this week where Matt takes you through all you need to know to help facilitate hitting your potential on the run - including shoe choice, nutrition, terrain, and even walking your way to your fastest run performance. It is a triathlete’s guide to run success.
You come out of T2 and all you need to do is run to the finish. What could go wrong? Well, apparently, a lot.
The run is the most common discipline for your race to unravel. Across the three pieces of the triathlon puzzle, the run sees the greatest discrepancy between performance expectations and reality.
Athletes struggle here and they don’t need to. Today’s show is all about optimizing your run performance. But before you reach for your flats and add more miles to your schedule, take heed. In order to reach your potential you must first understand two important things:
- Why is the run such a challenge in triathlon racing? It’s presumably the simplest of the three disciplines, but often the one that poses the most threat to race performance.
- What are the many things that can go wrong in the run leg of a race? Many times athletes assume it’s a simple lack of fitness, but this is rarely the case. There are plenty of reasons your run can be derailed and Matt unpacks each one.
With this groundwork of understanding, Matt then delivers the steps to run greatness.
A successful run off the bike is not mythical or magical. It doesn’t require a carbon plate in your shoe. There isn’t some secret sauce that drives you into the stratosphere, and it’s rarely the result of digging yourself into more and more training. A successful run performance is mostly about - NAILING THE BASICS and avoiding the mistakes and causes that lead to the dismantling of performance potential in the first place.
Commit to this mission and never let it go. If you do this, you will finish with deep pride and a chance to learn and grow. You will be able to stand tall and grow as an athlete and human and you will be an athlete that gets to say, “I nailed my run performance.”
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 0:09.3 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 0:13.3 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:20.3 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 0:25.0 | And this week, we had another step in our return to racing podcast month. |
| 0:30.7 | Yes, so for the last month, we have discussed mindset and racing strategies. |
| 0:35.8 | We dove into the swim with coach John Stevens. We head up nutrition |
| 0:40.1 | and fueling with Andy Blow and last week was all bike in a valuable and entertaining discussion |
| 0:47.3 | with the boys from I-OG bike fitting and consulting. So where does that leave us? It leaves us this week with everything run. I take you through all you need to know to help you facilitate hitting your potential on the final leg of your triathlon racing. We go through shoes, nutrition, terrain and walking your way to the fastest run performance possible. |
| 1:13.6 | What? Rewind. Did he just say walking? |
| 1:18.6 | It is your complete package of triathlon race performance. |
| 1:22.6 | We close the deal today. |
| 1:25.6 | But before we dive in, we have some housekeeping. First, it's a return of |
| 1:32.6 | ooze to the bleeding heck of you. And this week, we are going to discuss a lovely woman called Jane. |
| 1:41.7 | And Jane isn't a triathlete, but she does seek performance. She is a very busy VP at a well-known |
| 1:50.3 | online retail business catering to women's fashion and luxury goods. And as a mum of two and busy |
| 1:56.1 | executive, she was feeling really stretched across many areas of life, |
| 2:02.3 | experiencing many ups and downs of energy throughout every single day. |
| 2:06.6 | And while she was committed to health, exercise daily, |
| 2:10.4 | she just simply couldn't break the mold of getting to stable energy throughout each day. |
| 2:17.8 | And so, we were called in. |
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