Hello everyone and welcome to the TriDOT podcast. I'm Vanessa, your average triathly with elite level

enthusiasm and I am super excited about the episode that we have planned today. So I'm going to

paint a little picture for you here. You wake up. You swing your legs over the side of the bed. You look at your watch and it tells

you that your body readiness score is one. Like one out of a hundred. And you think is my watch

broken or am I actually dying? So two days later, you go out for a threshold run and you feel like you could keep going on and on forever.

Same training, same athlete, completely different human.

So what is going on?

And more importantly, what do you do about it?

Today, we're getting into one of the most asked questions in endurance sport.

How should you feel during training? Not power numbers, not pace, not heart rate.

We're talking about feelings, the stuff that your data can't actually capture.

I've got here with me longtime try dot coach and regular podcast contributor Ryan

Tybal and we're going to go really deep into this. We're going to talk about development blocks,

race prep, sprint distance, all the way through to a full distance, 140.6. So when do you push,

when do you back off And why that line may actually

be a lot finer than most people think. Ryan, great to have you back on the show.

Thank you, Vanessa. Always fun to be here. I'm looking forward to talking about all of this

because, gosh, these are some of the most important things that athletes ask quite frequently.

And, man, do we have two hours or just one?

Just one.

All right.

But I actually, I didn't tell the people your background here because I wanted to have a little bit of fun because that's like my middle name is fun.

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