Race Ready Replay - Successful Race Day Execution

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

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On our final Race Ready Replay, 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 integrate sport into life.
0:20.3	And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast as ever,
0:23.7	your host Matt Dixon and it is our final race ready replay. How can we finish this series
0:32.6	to help you show up and perform and allow your trained potential to meet race day performance. Well,
0:40.2	the only way we can do it is talk about the execution of that race. And I take a Dixon deep dive
0:46.3	into all of the elements to ensure that you are able to meet your train potential. Your
0:51.7	mission is very simple. I want you to get from the start line to the
0:56.6	finish line as fast as possible. But in order to do that, you must first establish the proper
1:03.4	mindset. And it is then, and only then, that you can start to plan race day success. I'm going to walk you through each discipline,
1:12.3	provide some advice and guidance on getting organized, a little bit of planning ahead, some proper
1:16.5	pacing and of course working your race plan while you are proverbially in flight. You are going
1:24.7	to face challenges, adversities and obstacles on your journey to performance,
1:29.0	but if you remain on task and focus on the mission, no matter what happens, I promise you,
1:35.4	you will cross the line and feel proud. You can solve those challenges, grow from the experiences
1:41.5	and provide the greatest yield for whatever the day presents you.
1:46.8	Thanks so much for joining us on this series. I hope that you find today in the other episodes
1:51.7	preceding really helpful. Of course, best of luck in your race and look for another return replay
2:00.0	series in the coming weeks.
2:02.1	But until then, take care.
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