Episode 232: Lessons and Insights from the Haute Route Alps
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Fresh from the Haute Route Alps, Ironman Coach Matt Dixon returns to the podcast to share his thoughts on the experience, the lessons he gleaned from the 7-day event, and how to apply them to your athletic pursuits.
The conversation covers training versus race execution and a look at the principles and elements of Matt’s preparation as a time-starved athlete that supported his performance.
(22:19) "I think I arrived at the race really vibrant and healthy. We always talked about fit and fresh. I think I actually managed to succeed in doing that. And that was really beneficial for me. The challenge was the mental test. Every single day I finished I thought, goodness me, I've just done too much damage to myself today. But the interesting thing about these is not judging yourself, not buckling mentally, and just maintaining a curious mind of what is the body going to pay me back with. And every day the body responded for myself and the rest of our team. And it was -- I just felt fresh every day."
Matt walks us through the Haute Route with a look at his approach to the challenges of the ride and offers his five key takeaways and lessons from the experience.
5 Lessons from the Haute Route:
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(26:08) The importance of taking on a scary challenge
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(29:13) Prepare effectively without it dominating life
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(30:50) The critical importance of training self-management
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(33:38) A methodology and Coaching Matters
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(35:38) Being a part of something amplifies everything
This episode aims to provide insight into approaching a multi-day event and provides principles and insights you can apply to your training approach towards your athletic challenge.
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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. |
| 0:09.4 | 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. |
| 0:32.7 | And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon. |
| 0:40.9 | And today we are doing a cherry on the cake that was Alt-route 2022, an adventure like no other for myself and several of my purple patched friends. So how was the experience? We're going to do a |
| 0:47.1 | review of my training versus race execution and some of the lessons that maybe we could draw |
| 0:52.3 | out of that. But also, most importantly, the theme of today are some of the lessons that maybe we could draw out of that. But also, most importantly, |
| 0:55.0 | the theme of today are some of the lessons that I learned that maybe we could apply to each of you, |
| 1:01.0 | no matter what your journey and challenge that you're taking on is. And so I hope that today is less of a |
| 1:07.0 | personal story of my own accomplishments and rather some important lessons that you can apply to |
| 1:12.6 | yourself. Now before we dive in, I do just want to give you a little heads up. We're not going to |
| 1:16.8 | do Matt's newsings today, but I do want to tell you a little bit about an important free webinar |
| 1:22.7 | that we have coming up. It's titled Free Speed. It's on September the 7th at 5 p.m. Pacific and it's one of |
| 1:30.2 | those for all of you folks that have full races coming up. It's an educational session with me |
| 1:34.7 | and a chance for you to ask me questions that you might have about your upcoming racing. |
| 1:40.2 | The focus of the session itself is less around training methodology and more around race craft. |
| 1:46.9 | And it's really about building some accessible and practical strategies for you to go and implement ahead of your race to ensure that your trained fitness, |
| 1:56.4 | no matter what level you've managed to get to, can actually work for you to create race performance. |
| 2:02.6 | What we're going to do is go through in depth, swim, bike and run strategies, as well as |
| 2:07.4 | dip our toes into components like nutrition and fueling, as well as some global race tactics. |
| 2:13.2 | Now, this will apply to folks that are doing Iron Man races, Iron Man 70.3, even marathon and beyond. |
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