30 Thoughts For A Victorious Triathelete by Triathlon Geek

30 THOUGHTS
for a
Victorious
Triathlete
Inspirations to conquer your
toughest race
by Coach Julian Dean
30 Thoughts for a Victorious Triathlete was
originally published as a series of 30 tweets
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30 Thoughts for a Victorious Triathlete
1. Confidence
2. Persevere Relentlessly
3. Guard Your Thoughts
4. Family First
5. Develop a Vision
6. Develop a Training Strategy
7. Raise your Self-Image
8. Keep a Training Journal
9. Be Grateful
10. Condition Spiritually
11. Respect Time
12. Speak Positively
13. Have Faith
14. Be Adaptable
15. Find a Role Model
16. Fear is Physical
17. Practice Humility
18. Pay it Forward
19. Live in Expectation
20. Patience
21. Pure Goal
22. Strive for Personal Excellence
23. Adopt a New Vocabulary
24. Intuition First
25. Set No Limits
26. Get Curious
27. Ask the Right Questions
28. Get Determined
29. Redefine Yourself
30. Consistency
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Confidence
1
Race confidence comes with proper prepa-

ration. Confidence is earned by the athlete
through thoughtful training sessions.
Confidence is not given. Even for those with

gifted athleticism, one will still have to train
effectively to perform well.

Persevere
2
relentlessly
Often times, training will become hard. You

wonder - How can I do this? How long will it
take me to finish this workout? Am I crazy to be
doing this?
Stay on course.
When your mental toughness is challenged, it

is a sign that you are getting closer to victory.
Continue to persevere relentlessly. Your re-
wards are close at hand.

Live in
3
expectation
On your training days and on race days, expect

the best day ever and there will be no distrac-
tions.
When you live in expectation, you will also

live in faith and you will attract the best of ev-
erything that is surrounding you.

Family
4
first
Triathlon training can be self-indulgent and self-

ish. This is especially true when training for lon-
ger distance races such as the Ironman.
More than likely, long hours of training will leave

you with little energy and time for anything else.
Always put family first. It’s better to miss a train-

ing session than a family event. Take time for the
things in life that matters most.

Develop a
5
vision of
victory
Develop a mental imagery of your race from the

moment you start the swim, exit the water and
transition to bike, start your run and finally, cross-
ing the finish line.
Develop your own vision of victory and act it

out loud.

Develop
6
a training
strategy
For anything great that has been achieved, it all

comes down to strategy.
Develop a training strategy that will allow you

to accomplish your goal. Random workouts or
a gradual increase in distance are is a flawed
approach to training effectively.
A training strategy gets you from where you are

today to where you want to be. It allows you to
be disciplined, decisive and creative.
You can create great results for yourself. It saves

you time, energy, failure and frustrations.

Raise your
7
self-image
With a training strategy in place, believe that

all things are possible. When you’ve accom-
plish a triathlon goal of a lifetime, you will find
that everything is possible and life is limitless.
By achieving human excellence, you will have

a raised self image of yourself. You will also
affect people around you positively.

Keep a
8
training
journal.
A training journal helps build confidence and mo-

tivation. It also helps you feel a sense of accom-
plishment. When you’ve completed your workout
in accordance to a training plan for the day, it will
feel great to log your training.
Log how you feel both physically and mentally

after each training day. Try it for 7 days.

Be grateful
9
If you are training for a triathlon, chances are,

you have enough stability in your life to allow
you the resource of time and money to train and
accomplish an endurance goal.
Be grateful that you have the economic stability

and capability to live and train while more than
three quarters of the population of this world are
just getting by day after day.

Condition
10
spiritually
Without mental and spiritual conditioning, even

the best conditioned athlete will be limited in his
or her performance.
Training, rest and nutrition can only take us so far.

You need mental, moral and spiritual conditioning
to determine and maintain a balanced lifestyle.

Respect
11
time
Time is God’s gift to us. It is your responsibil-

ity to redeem it. At the end of the day, what you
didn’t use you loose.
A missed day of training is often difficult to make

up. Continue on and look forward. Respect the
time you have and make the best of your day.

Speak
12
positively
Never let your ears hear anything negative from

your lips. Speaking a negative thought out loud
and hearing it in your own ears reinforces a nega-
tive belief by two folds.
Never say “I’m a slow swimmer, biker or run-

ner” to anyone. It’s a bad habit and you don’t
need anyone or even yourself to materialize a
negative belief.

Have faith
13
Once you’ve made a commitment to do a race,

Talk, Act, Plan and Think that you will finish
what you have commited to.
Have faith that by having a training strategy in

place and a executing your train plan, you will
cross the finish line and perhaps accomplish one of
the hardest endurance challenge in your life.

Be
14
adaptable
When you train in uncomfortable situations, you

are training to be adaptable to any race situations
that may come up.
Welcome any challenges during your training

sessions. Even with proper race preparations,
you may encounter unforeseen circumstances
that is out of your control - some may cause
some discomfort while others may put you out
of a race.
Be adaptable by conquering any bad situations

that comes your way. Over time, you will become
a more resilient and a stronger athlete.

Find a
15
role model
The easiest way to get ahead in any game is to

model someone extraordinary. Exact the same
behavior and belief system that person has.
Having a role model will save you many years of

frustrations, time and energy to accomplish your
own goals. Learn from those who have failed and
the strategies that got them back to greatness.
Look for things you weren’t seeing before. Feel

for things you weren’t feeling before and ask the
questions you didn’t know to ask before.

Fear is
16
physical
Fear allows us to prepare our body for fight or

flight. The body and mind are interconnected. If
you fear a distance you have never accomplished
before, do the distance and face fear in it’s face.
This breaks the physical fear and mental thresh-
old that has worried you.
Fear is in fact physical. Take control of your

body first. Condition your mind next.

Practice
17
humility
Never brag about your elite endurance capabili-

ties once you attain it. Others around you can see
it and there is no need to be boastful.
Know that what you have attained can be taken

away at any point in time. Be humble. There are
always others who are better than you.

Pay it
18
forward
Once you have attained and experience life as a

triathlete, pay it forward by mentoring an athlete
who is new to the sport.
When you learn to give, you will experience be-

ing an athlete at a greater level. You can help
people find the triggers that bring joy, resource-
fulness and hope into their lives.
Motivate others to produce human excellence not

just because of you, but for themselves.

Guard your
19
thoughts
Don’t harbor jealousy or envy among other ath-

letes. You can never judge an athlete’s perfor-
mance by looks alone or cool race gears. An ath-
lete that does well has worked hard in training.
Age is a minimal factor in long distance tri-

athlon races. Work with who you are what you
have physically.
A triathlon is yours and yours alone.

Patience
20
Endurance training takes time to develop. There

are no shortcuts. Even the best athletes need time
to develop for peak performance.
Patience is the state of endurance. Time will add

value to your accomplishment.

Pure goal
21
Reevaluate your goals from time to time. Are

your goals to “just finish” fair to you? Do you
want to challenge yourself to realize your peak
human potential or are you merely seeking brag-
ging rights? Think it through.
Pure goal leads to pure motivation. With pure

motivation, getting out to train becomes easy.

Strive for
22
personal
excellence
Continue to pursue personal human excellence.

Don’t strive to be perfect. Unlike an Olympic
sport where every little technicality needs to be
looked into, triathlons have many variables that
are unpredictable.
When you strive for excellence in pursuit of a

goal rather than perfection you will be less bur-
dened and be calm on race day. Triathlon be-
comes more enjoyable.

Adopt a new
23
vocabulary
Adopt a new vocabulary to become a victori-

ous triathlete. Change “I will try” to “I will”.
Change “I will attempt” to “I will finish”.
Change “I can’t” to “I can”
Eliminate negative words like “too old” or “too

slow”.

Intuition
24
first
There is really no advantage to training when

your body is exhausted, tired or burnt out. There
will be days when you cannot train in accordance
to your training plan.
The body is a temple. Your training plan is a

guide. Intuition comes first. When your body is
aching for rest, you are better off taking it.

Set no
25
limits
Why limit yourself to a finishing time? Your best

race comes when you set no limits for yourself.
Try racing without a watch. Don’t set a finishing

time. Go all out in peak performance and you’ll
be astounded at how well you’ll do.

Get
26
curious
Being inquisitive allows you to grow. Test new

training strategies, nutrition and race plans. Tri-
athlon becomes an unending study of joy when
you do this.

Ask the right
27
questions
When you aks the wrong questions to yourself

such as “why do I run so slow”, your mind will
automatically try to find a rational answer and
it will probably give you something you may
not desire.
Replace your questions with “how do I get fast-

er” and your mind will get creative and think up
ways to get you there.

Get
28
determined
There a huge difference in mindset when you

have a determined will versus merely pushing
yourself to attain a goal.
Getting determine sets up a neurological response

that gives you a pure motivation, it takes out the
grind of daily training sessions.
When you have the determination to swim more

efficiently, to improve on your stroke, to attain
better bio-mechanism on the run and bike, train-
ing becomes more fun.

Redefine
29
yourself
If you’re saying to yourself “I can’t do that”, it’s

time to re-invent your identity. Change your
physiological state that will change your identity
- is it the way you carry yourself, the way you
train, is it what you’re wearing?
Change your identity to someone who can ac-

complish a triathlon goal. It’s a powerful force.

Be
30
Consistent
The mark of a true champion is consistency.

Knowing what to do is just not enough. You must
execute on what you know.

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30 THOUGHTS

Training Strategies for all triathlon distances

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

Race confidence comes with proper prepa-

Confidence is not given. Even for those with

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

Often times, training will become hard. You

When your mental toughness is challenged, it

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

On your training days and on race days, expect

When you live in expectation, you will also

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

Triathlon training can be self-indulgent and self-

More than likely, long hours of training will leave

Always put family first. It’s better to miss a train-

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

Develop a mental imagery of your race from the

Develop your own vision of victory and act it

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

For anything great that has been achieved, it all

Develop a training strategy that will allow you

A training strategy gets you from where you are

You can create great results for yourself. It saves

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

With a training strategy in place, believe that

By achieving human excellence, you will have

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

A training journal helps build confidence and mo-

Log how you feel both physically and mentally

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

If you are training for a triathlon, chances are,

Be grateful that you have the economic stability

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

Without mental and spiritual conditioning, even

Training, rest and nutrition can only take us so far.

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

Time is God’s gift to us. It is your responsibil-

A missed day of training is often difficult to make

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

Never let your ears hear anything negative from

Never say “I’m a slow swimmer, biker or run-

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

Once you’ve made a commitment to do a race,

Have faith that by having a training strategy in

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

When you train in uncomfortable situations, you

Welcome any challenges during your training

Be adaptable by conquering any bad situations

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

The easiest way to get ahead in any game is to

Having a role model will save you many years of

Look for things you weren’t seeing before. Feel

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

Fear allows us to prepare our body for fight or

Fear is in fact physical. Take control of your

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

Never brag about your elite endurance capabili-

Know that what you have attained can be taken

© Triathlon Geek 2010 Training Strategies at www.TriathlonGeek.com

Once you have attained and experience life as a

When you learn to give, you will experience be-

Motivate others to produce human excellence not