Triathlon Blog

You prepare weeks, even months before the triathlon event. You tone your body to a T, trained like an addict, worked out until your pass out, ate only healthy food and no junk, and just basically, lived and breathed for the day of the race. And then on that very day, that one important day you’ve been busting your arse off for, you look at yourself on the mirror, finally realize what’s happening, and then suddenly get cold feet. For seasoned triathlon veterans, this might not be true any longer. However, for first-timers who worked real hard to join a triathlon, it might be a heart-thumping situation.

So, how do you mentally prepare yourself before a triathlon event?

1. Get It Off Your Mind or Treat it Like an Ordinary Day

When you’ve been preparing for something for a long time — and triathlon trainings would really take a while — you begin to feel the pressure upon you as the day of the event nears. It might be better if you program yourself to think that that it’s just another ordinary day in training so you won’t feel high-strung and nervous during the event itself.

2. Build an Unbreakable Confidence

The first method might not work for some people. Convincing themselves that the even itself is another ordinary day might strip off their competitive spirit. If a person has the tendency to be that way, then it might be better to build up an unbreakable confidence on one’s abilities during the course of the training so that on the day of the event, one would feel confident enough for the competition.

Triathlon, unlike other sporting event, takes up and drains ones resources. To compete in less than your optimal condition would be disastrous unless you’re Ertel.