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IRONMAN Texas was rough.
I came into this race thinking I was in decent bike shape, and I found out pretty quickly that I wasn’t in as good of Ironman shape as I thought. Threshold-wise, I’m in a good place. But durability is still the limiter.
That’s why we race. Not for knee-jerk reactions, but to expose what’s really there.
In this video talk about what went wrong in Texas, why I don’t think the answer is to blow everything up, what I learned from wearing the heart rate monitor, and why I still believe the long-term approach is the right one.
And yes… at the end I ask Mikal Iden if he’d coach me again....
No regrets. On to the next one.
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Video by Talbot Cox
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