The 5 P’s

Kia Ora guys,

With less than two weeks left until my car will be packed and I’ll be heading to Taupo for the week I am reminded of the importance of the 5 P’s as we end the final crucial build of quality; Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance.
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As we enter the final build of simulations and fine tuning which as you can see on my performance management below from Training Peaks it’s starting to look like the tip of Everest as you look at where I have come from when I started training in July through to this week.

It’s amazing to look back and see where I have come from and what I have banked through hard work and support from those around me however, it all means nothing if I line up on race day feeling overdone.

My training has been consistent since day one with only one niggle (Touch wood) back in October however by adjusting what I could do we managed to continue to truck along consistently as we tapered off over three months for Sunshine coast, Taupo and Tauranga half ironman’s before building the phase through January/February.

So back to my point; I have found over the last four weeks as we added in another five hours to my training week I had started to struggle to put sessions together, although the perceived (Feel and heart rate) effort was there the numbers weren’t. What was happening is I was continuing to do everything I had been and running around the country side for work however, what this was doing was slowing down my ability to recover and sitting in a car for 5-8 hours a day was not helping.

(If you want to have a bit of a laugh at me listen to Bevan McKinnon’ latest Fitter podcast and he talks about an athlete at a Taupo training camp who got frustrated over not hitting the numbers… well that was me, his example is slightly over exaggerated from what was actually going through my head but it is a great podcast for you all to listen too.)

So, with just over two weeks to go it’s the 5 P’s that is at the forefront of my mind and making sure I am as prepared as possible to prevent poor performance and make sure that when I line up not only is my body recovered that my mind is as strong as it has been before.

With a decent training weekend ahead this is it for me this week but I hope you are all safe and well, train hard and remember the 5 P’s “Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance”

Robo