Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition

Sometimes you will be able to address something specific that negatively affected your race performance and other times, you may have done everything right in training, yet on race day, the results were what you hoped for. When things do not go your way on race day, you are presented with a unique opportunity to learn about yourself as an athlete. Here are few tips to help you learn from a race that did not go as you had planned. Reflect: If you constantly dwell on what should have/could have happened, you will never accept what you need to change or be able to move on. If you went into your race healthy, injury free and fit, you may see your race as a failure if you did not meet your predicted race outcome or feel a certain way on race day. For other athletes, who may have experience a setback, inconsistent training or a challenge in the training journey, you may find yourself unappreciative for your current abilities, considering all that you have been through in the past....

I don't really like the words fail or failure.  Perhaps if you give up and never try again, you can consider yourself a failure but I know you would never ever give up without someday, trying again.  I believe that when things do not go our way, we are presented with an opportunity to learn. And as the saying goes, if you don't change, don't expect things to change.  In the beginning of my endurance racing career (triathlons/running) I found myself adapting quickly to training stress and seeing quick performance gains. I found every race to be a success because each race was a new experience for my body and mind.  Overtime, I found it harder to chase times for I didn't understand why I couldn't perform the same speed (or faster) at every race in a season.  Over the past few years, Karel and I adapted a training philosophy of training smarter to train harder and with that comes racing smart. In my last blog, I gave some of my tips on  ra...