783 – Addicted to Decorations

Many of us can look at the metrics, but how deep is our understanding? Today, we look at the decorations of triathlon in your training platform. Are you just becoming addicted to new numbers for the sake of it? Are the numbers confusing you more than letting you be your best? Do you really understand how you feel during a given workout? Should you push harder or take the pedal off the gas? Is your FTP right today? Data is helpful but it should have a beautiful connection with the way you feel.

Topics:

• What’s your interpretation of “hard?”
• Slammed racing weekend
• Ebbs and flows of personalities
• Race week is like the Bride and Groom on wedding week
• New to the sport?
• Threshold doesn’t mean your max
• What does it feel like?
• Race blind without a watch
• Listen to your body
• RPE
• Heal thyself
• Angry emails . . . wait . . . same with TP comments
• Use your eyes
• Don’t judge a day by the weather or a workout in the first 30 minutes
• “I’m not on pace right now”
• Tour de France by feel?
• Race day is an empty basket
• The best super computer is you
• Building the effort skin
• I “had it”
• TP Metrics as decorations
• Addicted to overtraining

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com