USAOCR Spartan Sprint LA - Kevin Gillotti Multi-Sport Racer Endurance Athlete

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Every race season my body goes through a series of

Every race season my body goes through a series of performance cycles. This fact is part of the reason why I [mentally] break up my race seasons into 3 pieces of 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦, 𝑚𝑖𝑑 & 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 (presently coming to the end of 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦). And, I then know - generally speaking - how I should feel & perform in each of those & what to - again, generally - expect. Which gives me a set of loose expectations & a road map to follow. I know this because I study it. I know this because I pay attention. I know this because I see trends. And I know it, because I know what I'm doing. I'm not out here just winging it. There's a reason & purpose to everything I do. However, I can't be responsible for shit that breaks 😁 (wait for it)
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I believe, & history is showing, that the more I a

I believe, & history is showing, that the more I ask of myself now, the more I demand of myself today, the more I hammer & crush myself regularly, the more often I put myself to the test... is the more I will reliably be able to ask & expect of myself far into the future.
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And I ask a shit ton from my body daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. And it responds. But see, we have a long, proven, consistent & mutually beneficial track record together. We came to an understanding long ago; resistance is futile.
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This wasn't my topic for today, but it was actuall

This wasn't my topic for today, but it was actually better than what I was going to write about as it's real time & it just happened. Which makes it more cooler to me.😁
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This is my 2nd workout of the day (W²). It's my gold standard brick workout. 3x5mins on the rollers dropping 2 gears every 5min so I'm sustaining over 200w at over 30mph for the final 5min. I then T² off the bike into a 2mi TT race pace run. I know exactly what I should be doing on a good day, a medium day, a bad day. Just days ago I posted here hitting my PR for the season in this W. Yet today, hitting a near slowest for the season. But based on how I've been feeling since Tues, I had a suspicion & this confirms my suspicion.
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I went from @spartanrace TX to AZ & then right into a 4-week protocol that included doubling my run mileage from 20 to 40mi weekly in preparation for Montana Trifecta. I'm 3wks into that protocol. As of tonight, I'm going to finish this week out on my protocol & then modify the 4th week.
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#itsalifestyle #instinct #athlete #letsrace #suffering #suffer #perceivedeffort #traintorace #sufferbetter #gohardorgohome #runfast #keephammering #beunbreakable #speedwork #powermeter #duathlontraining #duathlon #duathlete #triathlontraining #triathlete #sufferfest #streetparking #multisportathlete #garagegymlife #garagegym #functionaltraining #activeasfuck #iamspecialized #specializedbikes #ꓘG

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. And how you finish a race, says volumes about your character.
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Are you a fighter, or just a finisher? Do you walk to the finish line, or run THROUGH it? Do you believe #everysecondcounts, or do you believe there's no chance so why even fight for it?
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In 100s of races I've done world wide since the 90s, you're going to have a very very hard time finding any visual evidence that I didn't give it my all right up to & thru every single finish line at the end of every race I've ever done (±500 of them). Even at '19 NORAM 15k when I took 6 fukin hrs & finished nearly last after a disaster of a race - I hauled ass thru the line like I was the AG winner. Or the black of night in '19 Åre Sweden w/ no one watching, an empty finish line, cold & snowy, no one out cheering or caring one bit... I picked off 1 last guy in a sprint off. But that's how I do things. It's how I do everything. I see no other way.
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On the way to another +40mi run week (42.6). Why?

On the way to another +40mi run week (42.6). Why? Because this is what I feel I need to do to get ready for the Montana Trifecta weekend. Ok, but more specifically... why?
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Because of the training concept of #specificity, which is at the core of my #traintorace style & preferred approach. Specificity in training is [arguably] the most important "concept" I learned while in graduate school. Actually, I didn't learn about it as much as find out it had an official term. So it added credibility to & corroborated the type of training I'd been doing in duathlon for many years; highly specific training (like brick runs) that mirrored exactly what duathlon racing required & nothing more, but it wasn't something I saw many others doing in the 90s & early 2000s.
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When my immediate race focus is Sprints/Supers - I'm layering up on lots of speed. If a Trifecta weekend, I'm adding in longer, slower endurance volume. If it's a MTN race, I'll incorporate elevation & hills. So throughout a race season, I'll switch around all of these as the season unfolds & I'm looking down range @ my schedule. As I need to prepare for a certain race type, I make adaptions in my training to prepare specifically (e.g., specificity). That's why I want mileage as a long tough race weekend is what's coming. So I do long tough training weekends.
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Why is the phrase #listentoyourbody synonymous w/

Why is the phrase #listentoyourbody synonymous w/ "take it easy" "you'll hurt yourself" "slow down" "take a break" "you need a day off" "indulge & pamper yourself"? Essentially, it has a negative connotation implying you need to back off.
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Why is it NEVER associated w/ "dude get after it" "hammer the shit out of it" "you don't need days off" "go for it" "hell yes it's possible" "your body can take it" all because you're feeling it & you're body is telling you to listen, double down & take advantage of the momentum? This norm is hella weak minded nonsense.
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So yeah, I "listen to my body". But my body clearly tells me different things than yours. My body often tells me to pile it on, hammer hard for weeks, get after it daily, yes to 2-a-days, ok to max effort 2x in a day, stack up LSE run days B2B, take on those B2B weekend races - 2x in a row even. And I listen. Case in point? Today, 7hrs apart, 2 max effort workouts = 2 '21 training PRs set💥
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Here's my theory on injury prevention... 𝙸 𝚍

Here's my theory on injury prevention... 𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚍𝚘 𝚒𝚝. Time spent working > time spent preparing to work.
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I believe in injury 𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, but I don't feel the ROI on injury 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 is worth it. One could spend a days worth of cumulative hours weekly on injury prevention... & still get injured. And in the process, not spend enough of ones available time actually putting in the valuable quality training work. The math doesn't balance in my opinion. If I get injured, all bets are off & I will throw all of my strategies at rehabbing THAT injury. But to nebulously say that you're doing "injury prevention" by exaggerated warm ups, copious stretching, bizzare ballistic moves, korny drills, modality (the current fad), roles of KT tape & all sorts of fluff blah blah... how do you know what you're preventing (or if you did)? And the fact is, there is research that shows some of these things do not prevent injury.
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I have a limited amount of time in a day. So I actively choose to use my time to get after it & not fret over spending said time & available hours worrying about injury prevention. When injuries come, I deal w/ them immediately. Otherwise, I'm too busy to even worry about it & the amount of time I see some people spend obsessed w/ this shit & STILL END UP INJURED or w/ problems, never ceases to amaze me. Some of the people that spend the most time fretting over form & injury prevention, are the most injured & fucked up athletes I see. Want proof? Just look at CrossFit & OLY; always fucked up, always injured, but always professing the dogmatic values of form & warming up. Psshhhh.
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I like to have one highly focused day of grip work

I like to have one highly focused day of grip work per week. I do a shitload of associated grip (sleds, hoists, carries) + cardio throughout the week w/in my numerous HIIT workouts. But, a day like this allows me to do nothing but focus on trying different patterns, testing various methods, trying new grip toys or holds. All w/out any other elements breaking up the focus. Nothing but grip. Hours of it.
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𝐵𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑑

𝐵𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒, 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑘𝑒, 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤/ 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑... All are idioms for getting back into the swing of something you've had time away from because it's so ingrained in who you are - or you have so much history w/ it - you can jump right back in like you never stopped. You might be rusty at 1st, but before you know it, you're right back into a palpable rhythm.
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Those feelings bubbled up in TX & now feel solidified. #imback to planning a season, signing up for races, sketching out the broad strokes + training plans for A-B-C races, making travel arrangements, packing, early flight mornings, flying, renting cars, getting hotels, eating out, late night returns, road trips, IG race posts, strategy planning, race prep & recovery protocols, barbwire cuts, & doing post race analysis. Compared to race 1 in JAX, I feel like a completely different human. Reinvigorated.
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I was worried I was never going to have this feeling again. Or, that it may be a far longer time before I did. I don't like being too far away from the things I love to do that fulfill my life. But 8 flights, 3 states, 2 rental cars, 2 hotels, 1 ABNB, 1 obnoxiously long road trip, 6 races, 3 venues, 1 USNS, the very 1st 3 @spartanrace of '21, 4 podiums, my 31st year racing & a stack of new memories all in just 5 weeks... I feel 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒. And shit, it's only April #optimism
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It's now time to start preparing for what's going

It's now time to start preparing for what's going to be a tough OCR race weekend - Montana. It's tough because 🅰︎ it's a Trifecta weekend so 3 races, 2 of which are in 1 day a mere 60min apart 🅱︎ my experience w/ Montana is that it's a very taxing venue/course.
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For time (W¹):
-1mi run easy
-8x spears
-400m hill run sandbag 1x1 up, drop, run back, repeat 6x (15/20/25/15/20/25)
-400m hill run w/ yoke, carrier all sandbags down 125#
-1mi run easy
-8x spears
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One of the ways I will start to prepare is to slow down a bit in terms of the speed I would typically do a workout like this in. Plus, I will tack extra on to the front & back ends to extend its duration (doubled). So although you may have seen this workout posted in the past, it's been elongated & slowed down. I'll make tweaks like this for many of my workouts during this 5 wk training block as I need volume.
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