394 - Kona-Bound on 6-10 Hrs/Wk: A Busy Doctor & Mom Just Rewrote the IRONMAN Training Playbook
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.9 • 651 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Purple Patch Podcast! IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon interviews Stephanie Go, a busy Doctor and Mother, shares her journey as a Purple Patch Athlete, emphasizing the importance of consistency and efficiency in training. Despite a demanding schedule, she achieved significant success in 2024, including qualifying for the Hawaii IRONMAN and the World Championship in New Zealand. Stephanie's training averaged just over six hours per week, with only two weeks exceeding 10 hours. She highlights the importance of proper nutrition, sleep, and recovery, and the support from the Purple Patch Community. She advises others to commit to oneself and leverage expert guidance for practical training.
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| 0:00.0 | What a conversation we're going to have today. It's a certain Purple Patch athlete, Stephanie, |
| 0:04.7 | now you might not know Stephanie, but I'll tell you, this is one of my favorite conversations |
| 0:09.4 | I've had about high performance in a time-starved life. It's pretty inspirational, and there's |
| 0:14.4 | plenty of action and mindset setting over the course of today. As you listen to today's show, |
| 0:20.0 | if you're inspired, if you want to |
| 0:21.5 | get on the Purple Patch Train, if you want some help from us at the coaching team around your own |
| 0:26.6 | performance journey, as ever, we offer complementary needs assessments and consultations. |
| 0:31.6 | Feel free to reach out to us info at purplepatchfitness.com. Whether you're looking for a little bit of advice on your own |
| 0:38.6 | performance journey, perhaps you want to build a one-to-one coaching relationship or you want to |
| 0:43.0 | become a part of Purple Patch Squad, well, we're here for you. Reach out info at purplepatchfitness.com |
| 0:48.6 | and we'll set up that needs assessment. Enjoy the show. I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast. |
| 0:56.2 | The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential. |
| 1:02.1 | Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential. |
| 1:05.6 | The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life. |
| 1:20.5 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 1:25.8 | And today, well, I give you an incredibly inspiring, |
| 1:31.3 | and I might add, practical conversation I had with one of our most time-starved athletes at Purple Patch. |
| 1:38.5 | This is quite incredible. A mother, a doctor, an Iron Man athlete, with the chaos of life, spilling into all aspects, |
| 1:49.4 | anchoring down with a high flex mindset to get the most out of the journey and have some quite, well, simply incredible results. |
| 1:59.9 | I want to point out as we dance into this conversation, |
| 2:03.4 | this is not, and I double underline, |
| 2:06.2 | this is not about less is more. |
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