167 Matt's Top 10 Tips for Racing Back-to-Back Events
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
It was inevitable. After a full calendar of racing was canceled in 2020, we knew that 2021 was going to be the year of deferrals and stacked event calendars. And now, here we are in the midst of the training season for this upcoming cluster of races that all feel important to you. You did invest the money and emotional energy into these races, after all, and you rightfully expect a positive return.
But, how do you plan to train for these clustered races? There are few off-the-shelf training plans that guide you through this scenario. The textbooks and magazines don’t give you much solid perspective, and many coaches stumble and get confused. Unfortunately, as a result, many athletes pinball through the season, going back and forth to events, layering fatigue, and not performing their best at any of these events.
The confusion stops now, thanks to Matt’s Top 10 Tips for Success on Back-to-Back Racing, or the ol’ Dirty Dixon Double. Learn how to go into each race feeling fit-n’-fresh ready to commit to a strong performance both physically and emotionally.
Avoid arriving at your first race fatigued.
Don’t forget your supporting habits.
In most cases, train for race one, then use THAT fitness to carry you through the races following.
Cement a mantra in your mind: Recover -- Maintain -- Sharpen.
Nail immediate recovery.
Performance metrics are not useful between races, except to highlight fatigue.
Maintain strength.
Employ the BIG BANG TRICK.
Commit to your performance in every race.
If in doubt between the races, do less.
Sounds simple, yes? We know you’re anxious to dive into the details and encourage you to do so during the episode. We also encourage you to sign up for our upcoming webinars, including a deeper dive into Fall racing with Matt! Details are below.
Episode Timestamps
1:55 Who the Bleeding Eck are you? Featuring Jesse Thomas
5:50 Squaddie Update featuring upcoming course previews and live sessions with Matt Dixon on Fall Racing
10:35 Word of the Week - Go for It
13:25 The Meat and Potatoes - Top Tops on Back-to-Back Races
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere integrate sport into life. |
| 0:20.4 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast as ever, your host Matt Dixon, and they call it |
| 0:27.5 | the Dirty Dixon Double. |
| 0:31.0 | Sounds terrifying, doesn't it? |
| 0:33.7 | Well, it can be, but it can also be fun. |
| 0:38.2 | What is it, you ask? |
| 0:40.3 | It's the Purple Patch code word shared amongst our pros all over the last 10 or 15 years |
| 0:46.7 | of coaching where we have athletes race back to back weekends. |
| 0:52.7 | Let's say a half-Irman followed by another just six or seven days later, |
| 0:56.4 | or an Ironman just a week after a really tough half-Irman distance. Ouch, it doesn't get more |
| 1:04.5 | dirty than that. Today is all about the Dirty Dixon double. Well, not quite, but there are a lot of races clustered up in the summer and fall, |
| 1:16.5 | and many of you eager listeners are entered in races with close proximity. |
| 1:21.3 | Perhaps you've got a marathon only three weeks apart from each other, |
| 1:25.0 | or three triathlons, all spread across a month. How do you train |
| 1:29.2 | for this cluster of races? What are the common mistakes? How do you set up mentally to ensure that |
| 1:35.2 | you emerge with high performance success and of course you're also injury-free? Today, what I'm |
| 1:41.4 | going to do is give you a checklist, 10 points to take into consideration when you plot your path to success. |
| 1:49.0 | Now, all of that is to come, but we kick off today's show with a very special edition of Oothea, |
| 1:55.9 | The Bleeding Echo You. |
| 1:57.8 | And for this week, I want to tell you a little story. Go on, pop upstairs, get your pajamas on, come downstairs, get your cocoa, here we go. Because I want to tell you a story about a young man. Now, at the age of 29, this young man joined up with Purple Patch and he had great aspirations of being a professional |
| 2:19.2 | triathlete. He had already a very strong but injury riddled running career. But at the same |
| 2:26.7 | time, he swam like a donkey, let's face facts. He began his triathlon journey and with that |
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