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Foreign welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World Up. So, like many of you, I have a fall race coming up this Sunday in Augusta, Georgia. It will be my 12th half Iron man, and I don't think I've ever done a race where I have trained as little as I have. I've just missed so many workouts over the last four or five months. And it's because of traveling, dropping kids off at college, working, filling in for people who've had babies, you know, writing for the daily mail. Just. Life can be busy and exhausting. And because I've been doing triathlon for 30 years now, before, when I was trying to have fast times and, you know, was really challenging myself, it was so important that I complete every single workout that my coach had prescribed. And if I didn't, I would beat myself up and I would feel bad about it at the end of the week. And I am in a place right now where I don't want to feel bad. I want to feel great and satisfied and fulfilled and give myself credit, even. Even though this is a time in my life where I don't have the hours and hours to train that I have in the past. Uh, but also, I don't necessarily have the same motivation to be fast. I still love doing triathlon. I still love the half Ironman distance. And the last race that I did in December, I didn't look at my watch at all because I wanted to try racing one time, not for time. And it. It turned out to be the funnest, most pleasurable experience that I had had racing because it was really, really fun. I mean, believe me, there is nothing like crossing the finish line faster than you thought you were going to. That's a. That's an amazing feeling. That is not going to happen this weekend. I could have a faster time than I think right now, but I also could have a really slow time that five years ago, 10 years ago, I would have been heartbroken. I would have felt like a failure, and I would have questioned, you know, why am I doing this at all. Which if you're doing endurance sports, you question yourself all the time. Anyways, I remember that I have run one marathon in my life. Maybe I will run another one again. I don't have any desire to right now. There's no race that pops up and I go, ooh, I wanna, I wanna run 20 miles in one weekend. And the weekend before that I wanna do 19. And the weekend. I really don't like running more than 10 miles at a time. So that's why the half Ironman distance is perfect. It is a 1.2 mile swim, a 56 mile bike and a 13.1 mile run. Now, with every race, the thing that determines how well you do are the variables. The variables for me are how well have I slept the four or five nights before the race. This week it's been pretty well, I think the least amount of sleep I've had was seven hours. And that was on Monday night before I came back from London. And since then, you know, I, I've slept eight hours a night, eight and a half. And I'm feeling good, but that doesn't mean I'm going to feel good on race morning because I've woken up on race morning and felt awful and disconnected and, and like someone woke me up in the middle of the night and I was in complete shock. And it affected how I felt during the race. Didn't necessarily affect the time, but it affected how I felt. So that's the biggest variable is when I wake up in the morning, how do I feel? Um, and sometimes I have raced before where I have gotten to the starting line of the swim and I've looked at the water and I've thought to myself, I do not want to swim today. Sometimes it's because it's an ocean swim and the waves are big. Other times I've raced in Palm Springs three times at La Quinta Indian Wells, which has the coldest swim I've ever done. And you know, it's like you're looking at 55 degree water at 7 in the morning and you're like, don't want to swim in that. Not even a little. But you have to. And if I start slow on the swim and it's, it's really hard for me to pick up the motivation for the rest of the race. But because I've been racing for so long, I just have tricks and that's all I'm going to rely on because Did I do a three hour bike ride every single weekend? I did not. I think the longest ride I've done was two and a half hours. Did I run for two hours at a time when I was supposed to? Not really. I did a run last week that was 90 minutes, and a couple weeks before that I ran for an hour and 45 minutes. And that's about as good as I got. But I do know the tricks to getting through these things. And for me, it is all about counting. Uh, when I am going through a particularly hard part of the race. And this race in Augusta, Georgia, Augusta 70.3. Um, the swim is supposedly fast because you're swimming in a body of water that has a current and you're swimming with the current, not against it. So it gives you an extra push. So that should be fine. The bike has four gigantic hills. So I have been riding hills over the last two months. Not well. And how do I get through the hills? The same way I get through the swim. When I'm bored on the swim, I just start counting and I'm like, okay, just count to ten. One, two, three, four, five. And I count to ten. Sometimes I count to five. Sometimes I sing Beastie Boy songs in my head to, to try and do anything to keep myself from slowing down. Because there always, always comes a point in a race where you're like, God, it would be so much fun if I were just going slower. And you don't want to do that in a race. You can do that when you're practicing, but you should, you know, obviously practice like you're racing. Because my swim coach, Kyle always says, perfect practice makes perfect. It's not practice makes perfect. Because you could practice like a sack of crap. And that's probably how you will perform. Don't go anywhere more. Kennedy Saves the World right after this. 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So for me it's all about the counting and on the hills on the bike, I do 10 pedal strokes sitting down and I try and do just five standing up and then I'll go back and forth between that and hopefully that carries me through to the top. And then I will try and go really fast on the downhills and not be on the bike for four hours. That is my goal. I don't want to be on there for too long. The run, supposedly is flat. Now, the variables on the end. Here's. Here's what I love about the bike, and this is what I tell myself. On the bike is where you can eat snacks. My coach always tells me, I don't want you eating. I want you taking gels and, you know, drinking a solid bottle of electrolyte and calories. So, you know, she. She wants me to get something like 700 calories on the bike, which is great. And, you know, I. I aim to do that, but I always have some sort of actual food item on the bike. I used to make myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but I was told that the blood fills up your stomach when you eat solid food and it takes it away from your legs and you're working twice as hard. But I will have. Bonk Breaker is going out of business, and they make PB&J protein bars. So I will have a PB&J bar and I will look forward to it, and I will luxuriate in it while I'm counting. I will not eat going uphill because I will need all my energy to breathe. I will have goo Roctane in one bottle and probably a noon tablet and water in the other bottle. And then I will switch and get a water bottle. And the. The counting truly gets you through. Because if you say to yourself, I only have to run for three more light poles, you can do that. So it really is just tricking your mind into believing that you only have a short distance to go. And so you either count pedal strokes or steps or landmarks or go from one sign to the next. And I remember reading a quote from a famous female triathlete pro, and she was like, sometimes I'm so tired at the end of the race that I feel like I can't go anymore and I want to give up. And I tell myself, just run to the next street sign. And I. Sometimes I have to do that for 10 miles at a time. I hope I don't have to do that. But the. The trick that I tell people to do on the run, which is what one of my coaches at Team in Training taught me when we were raising money for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, was, you are only running one mile. It doesn't matter if it's a half marathon, a marathon, a 10k, a 5k, you are only running one mile. And your brain knows that anyone can run a mile. So all you say to yourself is, I am only running one mile. Are you going to do it at a sprint? You are not if you're smart. So you run one mile and then once you get to the next mile, you go, I'm only running one mile. I am only running between mile two and mile three. And maybe I've told you that before. Does it make me a faster runner? It does not. Historically, in races, I. I do not run fast at all. But I'm hoping, and this will be my secret weapon, I will watch videos of Sydney McLaughlin and I will watch her running because I think she is the most phenomenal runner ever. And I love the way she runs. And I will try and channel her form because if I don't have speed, if I don't have volume, I can always have good form. And if I can replicate what someone else is doing, maybe somehow good form will translate to a slightly faster time. But shockingly, I don't need a fast time in order to have a great race. I just want to race with a smile on my face. I want to push my body. I want to see if I am capable of finding another gear that my volume has not given me. And if I can do that and somehow psychologically overcome difficult moments. I think that is the point of doing difficult things and doing things that challenge you. I think that is the part of your life where you find improvement, is when you have moments where you want to give up. You feel like you cannot go another step, your body is mad at you, your legs are screaming, your lungs and your entire organ system feels completely depleted. If you can keep going and overcome that and either get into a meditative state or get into a very basic rhythm, then that in and of itself has tremendous benefit. Having people on the side who are cheering makes all the difference in the world. If you are a spectator at any race and you think that someone doesn't hear you because they look exhausted and they look like a zombie in pain, they still hear you. And it may be your little bit of encouragement that keeps them going to the next street sign and then hopefully to the finish line, because that is the. One of the best things about racing is taking the energy and the good wishes. And there's always humorous signs at Iron man races for whatever reason that the. The people, like the authors of those signs deserve a Pulitzer Prize because they really, you know, it's like, you know, hit this button if you want to poop your pants and then you go and you know, it's like free high fives. They're always amusing, but that emotional energy can absolutely get you through. So that's all I want to do. I want to find another gear and I want to see if I can complete a decent and not horrible race with half of the training that I should have at this point. Whatever. I'll do it with a smile. I will take you with me. This has been Kennedy Saves the World. I'll see you at the finish line. I'm Kennedy. Listen ad free With a Fox News Podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcasts and Amazon prime, members can listen to this show ad free on the Amazon music app. Oh, go ahead and leave me a review while you're there. I'd love to hear what you have to say. You've been listening to Kennedy Saves the World on the Fox News Podcast Network.
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