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How to think tri

Perfect Practice Think Tri
Staying Positive
10 Actions of Successful Triathletes
Build Triathloning Success
Get Beyond the Sucky Parts of Triathloning
Reach Your Tri Goals
Be an Engaged Triathlete Today
If Covey Was a Triathlete
Be a Complete Triathlete
How to Switch Coaches
Single Word Triathlete
Did I Pick the Right Sport?
Training Your Mind
Pre-race Visualization
In Race Mental Toughness
Turning Negatives into Positives
Race Day Adaptability
Why Thinking Tri Matters

Thinking will get your tri journey started. And what you learn in racing, will benefit you for a lifetime.  

Deliverables: 

  • Training program agreed to

  • Race schedule agreed to

  • Sacrifice short-term payoffs for long-term race performance

  • Choose change based on the "3 Questions."

  •  Envision race playout

  • Maintain motivational drive

  •  Direct actions to what moves you to the finish line

  • Think through optimal possibilities with an imaginative mind

  • Learning

  • Training objectives worked on as prioritized

  • Mental walk thru of what to expect in races

  • Improved racing

  • Visualize a race, when to initiate tactics and how to react to competitor moves

  • Adopt knowledge in leading others

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Metrics to measure effectiveness:

  • Finishing places

  • Milestones to plan

  • Mistakes in race/training

  • Training time to budgeted time

  • #'s of surprise or unknown events

  • Performance times

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Tasks to perform in achieving key deliverables:

  • Commit to personal Journey

  • Meditates for relaxation and blankness

  • Taking on new challenges

  • Determine Learning Objectives by priority

  • Identify Silo aggregate priorities

  • Turn negatives into positives

  • Desensitize fears with  3 Questions: Ask yourself: 1.) What's happening? 2.) What's not happening? 3.) What can I do to influence the action?

  • Challenge yourself beyond what you thought attainable

  • Find your opportunity for extraordinary performance

  • Enhance Race performance through imagery 

  • Create you own self-fulling outcomes

  • Don't obsess on wrong metrics

  • Avoid negative thoughts

  • Focus on results, not activities

  • Take calculated risks for action

  • Use your mind to alter your physical performance

  • Gain experiences in various silo

  • Look at things differently and ask "why not?"

  • Be persistent

  • Establish race plan with the end in mind of critical success factors, the plan to get there, and a contingency plan when unexpected events occur.

  • Learn from mistakes

  • Race and train to priorities

  • Visualize attainment of goals

  • Create mental map of racing and update frequently

  • Leverage knowledge across silo's

  • Learn from others who lead across silos

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the hows, whats, and whys of thinking tri