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Belt Buckle

Earning the Big Buckle at the Leadville 100 MTB: Your Race Is Only Over If You Give Up

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The Leadville 100 course, as depicted in the image, presents a challenging mix of peaks (up to 12,500 feet!) and valleys (holy rocks, Batman) that tested my skills. But the result speaks for itself!

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Lessons Learned from a Personal Best Ironman

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Join Coach Patrick from Endurance Nation for Part Three of this special post race recap of his Age Group win at Ironman Arizona. In this installment Coach P discusses lessons learned for the future. Patrick went 9:19 to a new personal best time, with his fastest IM marathon in over 5 years! Key Talking Points…

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Lessons Learned from Back-to-Back-to-Back Ironman Races

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Join Coach Patrick from Endurance Nation (www.endurancenation.us) for another weekly endurance podcast. This week Coach P breaks down his three Ironman® races in three months approach. Qualify at Ironman® Mont Tremblant, compete at Ironman® Hawaii then re-qualify at Ironman® Los Cabos. Key Talking Points include: Managing Expectations Critical Workouts to Reverse DeTraining How to structure the…

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Episode #652 Paul Curtin’s Kona Qualification Process

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Join Coach Patrick from Endurance Nation (www.endurancenation.us) for another weekly endurance podcast. This week Coach P interviews Paul Curtin on the training, planning, and preparation that went into his Age Group win at Ironman® Louisville (AG M50-54). In the last two years, Paul has lost 30 pounds…but even more impressive with that is the discipline he showed…

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Coach Patrick’s 2017 Ironman World Championship Race Report

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For those of you with short attention spans, I went 10:27 on the day.  1:07 swim 5:02 bike 4:04 marathon While it’s not even close to my personal best, the highlight of my day was being able to flex my mental toughness. Racing here is special, and I not only had a great time racing…

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Episode #648 – 10 Lessons Learned in 1 Ironman

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Join Coach Patrick from Endurance Nation (www.endurancenation.us) for another weekly endurance podcast. This week Coach P dives into his race experience at Ironman® Mont Tremblant, pulling out the big lessons learned that made a huge difference on race day. – Read the [ full race report here](https://www.endurancenation.us/blog/team-en/coach-patricks-comeback-report-936-at-2017-ironman-mont-tremblant/). – Listen to the [ pre-race podcast here](https://www.endurancenation.us/blog/podcast/inbetweenisode-coach-patrick-preps-for-ironman-mont-tremblant/). – Share…

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Ventum Ultraman

Post Ultraman Podcast with Tim Cronk

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Join Coach Patrick from Endurance Nation (www.endurancenation.us) for another weekly endurance podcast. This week Coach P interviews Tim Cronk for Part Two of the Ultraman Florida experience. Part One was Pre-Race, as is available for Endurance Nation members only on our Ultraman® Resource Page, and now here in Part Two we get the full skinny on…

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Top Ten Triathlon Coaching Lessons from Endurance Nation

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Our tenth year anniversary is a chance to reflect on some of the most important coaching choices we have made over the last decade. We are no strangers to controversy — what’s best for you might not be what’s popular — but our track record speaks for itself. Just like you review your previous year…

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Coach Patrick — What I Learned During the 2015 Triathlon Season

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The end of another year is a great chance to review all of our lessons learned…what worked, and what didn’t. As a coach and athlete, I pretty much test all manner of new training protocols on myself before recommenting them to our Endurance Nation athletes. The process of self-improvement is a large part of what…

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