165 Nailing Your Race-Day Performance

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Humanpotential, Nutrition, Education, Empower, Fitness, Executive, Coach, Strengthtraining, Purplepatch, Sleep, Cycling, Performance, Running, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Ironman, Swimming, Timemanagement, Triathlon, Meditation, Yoga

4.8 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today, Matt provides his insight on successful race day execution. It is a Dixon deep dive into all of the elements to ensure you are able to meet your trained potential with race day performance.

It is normal and common for you to feel a little anxiety, even fear, when you return to racing. You are rusty, it has been a while, and the event feels bigger because of the gap from the last race. Acknowledge and even embrace the feeling. Why? Because what you are feeling is NORMAL. It is your body priming, and your brain cannot answer the question as to whether you are ready to have a breakout performance. There is no need to suppress the feelings, or pretend they are not real, but you can decide how you interact and respond with these feelings. Remember this mantra:

This won't define me. There's nothing to lose. Nail the basics. Celebrate the return.

Once this mindset is established, you can then shift into race execution mode. Matt walks through each discipline and provides his insight on how to get organized, plan ahead, and work your plan including:

Planning and packing ahead of the race to avoid unnecessary stress
Making sure bike and equipment are secured and tested
Smart pacing advice for the swim, bike, and run
Remaining flexible to work the plan

No matter what happens, on the day, never forget your mission: to get from the start line to the finish line as fast as possible across all three disciplines. You might face challenges, adversity, and obstacles, but if you remain on task and focused on the mission, no matter what happens, you can be proud. You can solve those challenges, grow from the experiences, and provide the greatest yield for what the day presents.

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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.
0:12.8	The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life.
0:20.1	And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon.
0:25.0	And it is our final check of the box.
0:28.5	Yes, the check of the box of the special Return to Racing podcast month.
0:33.5	We finish up our takeover with everything about the emerging races that are occurring now this year.
0:42.3	Are you excited to be back?
0:45.3	We've gone through your global mindset.
0:48.3	How to set up for the swim, the bike, the run, fueling and hydration strategies. And today we are talking about
0:58.7	race execution, a deep dive into the elements to ensure that you are able to meet trained
1:04.9	potential with race day performance. Yes, it is Matt Dixon's special insights in nailing race day. But before we dive into the details, I want to tell you a story. It's a story about an athlete, and it is this week's Oothea, U-The bleeding echo you. Yes, today I'm going to tell you the story of Heather Hamilton. Purple Patch athlete just made her return
1:31.5	to racing after a long layoff. Now to launch into this story, I want to tell you the basics about
1:37.9	Heather. 39 years of age, lives in Midland, Texas. She's married. Very lovely. She's married to her childhood sweetheart.
1:47.3	Got three boys at home, 10, 12 and 14. Goodness me, as the youngest of three boys, Heather,
1:54.0	I know what you're going through. I'm sure it's anarchy in the household.
1:59.6	Now, what's Heather's background athletically, she actually grew up as a devoted
2:03.7	classical ballet dancer, no other real sports than that.
2:07.8	But by the time she turned 14, it was challenging.
2:11.2	She was kind of burnt out.
2:12.9	And so she joined the local track club.
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