Ironman; The first 10kms is danger

If your Ironman run feels brilliant in the first hour, that’s the real danger. 

pay attention to form, not speed. 

This is where you need to be very attentive. 

You need; restraint, to pay attention to accumulated fatigue, muscular recruitment, intensity creep, adrenaline, and the difference between feeling good and being well paced.

If you let your focus go off with the soundtrack to eye of the tiger; your settling yourself up a death march later on. Eye of the tiger needs to come in at the end not at the start. 

So you start the run at your feet, not your head….. 

Focus on relaxing your feet, floppy feet. Let your stride length be what it is. Let your shoulders come down into their sockets and set your turnover with your arms.

 Yep you heard right, swing them at the tempo you want your legs to be at and they will follow suit. But let the stride length be what it is without force. Lean from your ankles and relax.

As the hips open after many hours on the bike you simply keep setting tempo with the arms, and as you open up the speed will come of its own accord.

This is the meaning of embodiment not embrainment. You’re in a body in a mighty test of endurance, patience and resilience. Treat your body with the respect it deserves by working with it, not against it. 

Form focus is getting lost in the hail of information overload. 

Eye of the tiger is for the last 10k when you need every ounce of inspiration and motivation.

Most get it backwards, it’s not about the start, it’s about the end. 

Gilesy 😎