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At CoachGordo.com, we believe in a holistic approach to training and racing. Our protocols focus on persistent learning, adapting strategies to individual needs, and fostering closeness through trust and respect. We prepare athletes for Ironman events by emphasizing effective race execution, including pace judgment and mental toughness. Our supportive environment encourages persistence, humility, and optimism. Embrace the challenge, as we help you recognize your personal limits and achieve your goals with a fun and engaging approach.
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Why Train & Race? • Apply our own protocols • Keep memory updated • Learn and re-learn • Fun way to spend the marketing budget
Who Are We Coaching? • Experience • Personal Limiters • Goals • Needs
Worth Remembering • Acceptance & Respect • Closeness, Trust, Caring • Target Effort Not Time • Anything Can Happen
Virtuous Traits • Persistence • Patience • Optimism • Humility • Encouraged daily • Practiced relentlessly
What is Ironman? • A very long day • A long swim then… • A long bike then… • A marathon • Increasing fatigue • External and internal stressors • Result? Low cognitive abilities • Large opportunity for effective race execution
Effective Race Execution • Pace Judgment • Arousal Control • Medium of Movement • Mental Toughness • Cognitive ability under stress & fatigue
Pace Judgment • Relative to Fitness • Relative to Mental Strength • Relative to Threshold • Relative to External Conditions • Relative to ourselves, not others • Relative to actual reality, not desired • Applied across time
Arousal Control • Joy and Despair • Quiet Power vs. Anger • Clarity of Thought • Source of Self-knowledge
Medium of Movement • Water • Fast Moving Air • Slow Moving Air • Effort to speed • Effort to discomfort tolerance
Mental Toughness • Patience • Humility • Fortitude • The event is hard enough • Honor in execution vs. self-detonation
Worth Remembering • What Is Is • No Easy Way • JFT