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A Recap of 5x100 Miles on the Bike in a Week

The week of August 3rd I partook on a self made challenge of completing 500 miles on the bike in a week structured as five 100 mile rides, so 100 miles done on five different days. This challenge arose after Ironman Wisconsin was cancelled. My coach texted me asking if there was any challenge I was in the mood for completing in lieu of the race being cancelled. I learned a lot during those five days and wanted to share a couple of the biggest learnings with you.

⚡️Motivation and discipline are totally different.
⚡️You can do hard things.
⚡️Letting go of your data and expectations is very freeing.
⚡️Hard things are totally worth it.

For more on each of these learnings that I had check out the video and recap in the blog, I promise it is worth it!!!

[WYFTY Triathletes] The Where Your Feet Take You Challenge Week

One of the things we did as a team back in March when the first wave of shut downs really happened was a little Green Challenge week in which athletes were challenged to be all green in Training Peaks and then we would have a little drawing. Well as COVID continued on and more and more races got cancelled I decided I wanted to up the game and really give the athletes something to work for and to create some fun! Check out the amazingness that makes up the Where Your Feet Take You Team!!! Cause they really are amazing!!!

Creating a Road Map from Your Goals

Goal setting is a powerful process that helps guide you along whatever journey it is that you want to go on. However, often what happens is we stop at creating the goal. We come up with the goal, the dream, the “thing”, etc that we want to strive and reach for yet we don’t come up with the path to get to it. I put together a video explaining and providing an example of how to create a goal road map in which you work backwards from your big scary goal all the way down to the little action items that you can use to help guide you on a daily basis towards working towards your goals.

Full Body Mini Band Workout with Coach Kayla

Mini bands are great because they place constant tension on your muscles, this keeps them engaged for both the lengthening and contracting phase of the exercise and on top of all of this they are crazy versatile. To give you a fun little workout I put together a short full body mini band workout that starts with the lower body and moves up to the upper body.

6 Focus Points for Long Course Triathlon

Are you new to triathlon and feel ready to try your hand at a 70.3 or even a 140.6? Or maybe you’ve been doing them for a while but just can’t seem to crack it? There are a lot of reasons behind that, so many in fact that you really could go on and on, however I compiled a few of my favorite focal points to help guide you to getting started.

Making Indoor Training More Fun

Constantly riding on the trainer and running on the treadmill can get very boring, long, and mentally hard to motivate for on a regular basis. Here are some tips to helping to making indoor training more fun and easier to motivate for so that you can be ready when the sun comes back out to feel strong and confident!

Why Do You "Tri"

Why Do You Tri?

One of the beautiful things about triathlon is that the reasons to start are endless and the sport doesn’t judge why you started, it treats every single person out there same way. Maybe you started to challenge yourself, as stress relief, to lose weight, or a friend talked you into it; the list goes on and on and it doesn’t change that you are still out there.

4 Tips to Improving Your Mental Imagery Skills

Visualization (mental Imagery) is very powerful. It evokes an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more than we are at that moment, and it initiates an sense of emotion that continues to help drive us towards our goals. The key is to rehearse the performance in your head. You don’t want to try to picture the entire day or moment all in one shot but take turns practicing visualizing each piece of it, no different than you can’t tackle an entire day in one moment you have to do the same with your visualization. Check out my FOUR Tips to Improving your Mental Imagery (visualization) skills