Ironman Truth

Ironman pacing for truth seekers:

This is as simple as it gets.

Can you run the pace you desire, fully loaded or not?

If you can’t run your goal pace fatigued, it’s fantasy, not reality.

Fresh is not giving you the correct information.

It doesn’t matter how easy it feels fresh. That’s not how you are going to meet the demand.

You are going to meet the demand in the midday sun, having already been at it for many hours, fatigued, dehydrated, emotionally and mentally drained, with legs that are going to feel like offcuts on a butcher shop floor rather than the gazelle you fantasise about.

That’s the reality you should prepare for. So many are caught off guard by it, and, I’m sorry, if you are, you trained without preparing.

Training and preparing are not the same things, friends…

So the only question that needs answering is… can I run this pace when shit gets real or not?

If you can’t run the backend of a long run at your goal pace, having gone big in training the day before, then there’s your answer.

Don’t chase pipe dreams. Chase realities.

Even on the bike, forgetting power for a moment, if you honestly want that sub-five-hour bike split, you won’t get it unless you can hold 36 km/h even when you don’t feel good.

There are really no ifs or buts here. I think we are making it way too complicated.

These things haven’t changed, and they aren’t going to.

They are the truths you are really chasing. You can cut it up into a million layers of analysis if you must, but at the end of the day, it’s about efficiency, economy, form, function and mental resilience when you’re already loaded.

Put your body where your ideas are…

Find out with your body. Stress-test the fuck out of it…

Because I’m telling you, after six hours of gruelling racing, you’re going to be down to what your body knows, not what your mind thinks.

Make that the primary focus. Be in your body, not your head.

Gilesy 😄