My Conversation With Steph

What are your goals going into this?

Mine are first and foremost for you to have a positive experiance. While some aspects (like a hard w/o) are only really positive in a retrospective way and you have to suck it up in the moment. Others can be hugely enjoyable the whole time after just a brief period of acclimation to the training.

You will not be running everyday. However, when the run is done at the correct pace then even a hard run is ok until half way to 2/3rds through. The key is to get used to it. I can remember the first time i swam for over 10minutes. It didn't happen because of a set goal for the workout. I was just out there doing it and got caught up in having fun.

All of the aspects of the tri need to be addressed, from your strengths to your weaknesses. Be patient with yourself and realize that your potential is buried within your genetics. While in a few months we will never realize anything close to your genetic potential we can realize a large part of your training potential.

Training potential is your potential over a period of training time. Here, we are talking a handful of months. In this case working too hard can undermine your best chances of success as easily as not working hard enough.

The last thing we are going to do is give you a few months of training and take it from there. This is going to be about communication. I need to know how you are responding to the training and so i stress honesty. Dont ever tell me what you think i would like to hear, tell me the truth.

Your weeks will be planned with contingency in mind. Anyway, until our convo maybe you could fill me in on your activity level. How often you exercise, what extra curricular you do. Quantify whenever relevant, e.g. 90 minutes of hockey, 20 min warm up 50 min play 20 min cool down stretch. Also, any past times of any endurance event. A bike, a swim, a run.

Please excuse all my spelling/grammatical errors.

Brendan