Episode 347: Beyond the Finish Line: Winning As A Triathlete in 2025 Part 4
Purple Patch Podcast
Matt Dixon
4.8 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon concludes a four-part series on winning at triathlon in 2025, emphasizing the importance of defining success, embracing the journey, and adopting a high-flex integration mindset. He highlights key strategies such as choosing races that align with strengths and weaknesses, avoiding common pitfalls like under-fueling and over-reliance on FTP, and prioritizing sleep and consistent strength training. Dixon also shares insights from a Purple Patch athlete, Dave Pray, who emphasizes the broader impact of endurance sports on health and longevity. Dixon explains how Pray and his focus on cycling and participation in the Purple Patch program has fueled his success and performance in triathlon and life. He emphasizes the importance of a high VO2 max for longevity and health, and how his training and social life are intertwined.
Matt Dixon explains the importance of defining success and embracing the journey, emphasizing that athletes should not live to race but live through the process. Matt Dixon advises athletes to choose races that align with their strengths and weaknesses, rather than just selecting races based on location or convenience. He lists 10 common pitfalls that athletes make, starting with the check-the-box mindset and the obsession with outcomes. The episode concludes with a call to action for listeners to apply these lessons and engage with the Purple Patch community.
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| 0:00.0 | Folks, today is the last of our four-part series around winning at triathlon in 2025. |
| 0:07.5 | Now, the finish line of this little series does not represent the finish line of our education around triathlon coaching and, of course, your success over the course of the coming year. |
| 0:17.8 | But it does package up nicely what's been a really enjoyable package and program |
| 0:22.2 | for me to develop over the course of time. We've had a lot of people reaching out and asking |
| 0:27.5 | around Purple Patch coaching, which of course is fantastic and you are very welcome. But I do want to |
| 0:32.5 | highlight a couple of components that might be helpful if you're considering getting some additional |
| 0:37.2 | support and personalisation from us as a coaching organisation over the course. couple of components that might be helpful if you're considering getting some additional support |
| 0:37.8 | and personalisation from us as a coaching organisation over the course of your journey. So yes, we have |
| 0:43.8 | Purple Patch coaching and we have a couple of options there. We have one-to-one coaching where people |
| 0:48.2 | have an individual coach working with someone collaborating and taking them through the process, |
| 0:53.0 | of course. |
| 0:56.8 | And then we have a highly popular tri-squad program. |
| 1:02.1 | That's a little bit more of an autonomous program that guide you day by day, step by step, |
| 1:05.7 | to your races and your key events, as well as the recovery on the outside. |
| 1:11.7 | And you leverage not an individual coaching relationship, but the broad Purple Patch coaching team. |
| 1:16.7 | So you get access to all of us along your journey, but it's a little bit more of an autonomous program. Highly effective, really great. And of course, you are injected straight into the heart |
| 1:22.7 | of the Purple Patch community. That's really good as well. But we also understand that Purple Patch |
| 1:27.1 | as a coaching |
| 1:28.0 | organization isn't for everyone. And so we wanted to offer out of this service as well, something that we do, |
| 1:34.9 | and we just wanted to bubble and shine a line on it, which is external consultations. So these are 30 or 60 |
| 1:40.8 | minute consultations where you pay a simple fee a la carte and you get to spend time |
| 1:45.2 | with a coach to enable us to help you really implement many of these lessons, whether it's |
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