As winter starts to thaw into spring racing season, we take a few minutes to chat about some strategies for managing anxiety before and during races. While race anxiety is a common and powerful driver for athletes to examine their mental preparation, it's an area of performance that all athletes can benefit from refining. Today's talks provide some tips and ways to start the process on this important and individual journey. 

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Grab a snack before you dive into this one! This week, we are fortunate to have dietician & endurance athlete Rachel Parks sharing some of her professional and practical insights to maximize fueling for our endurance endeavors. Rachel's experience includes a master's degree in dietetics & exercise physiology, serving as the dietician for the UW Badger cross country & track teams, and working with clients one-on-one at Washington University in St. Louis. From the athlete side, Rachel ran NCAA track & cross country at Iowa State and has continued competing post-collegiately in road races, multiport, and cross country skiing. 

We get some fantastic insights into the when & how of fueling to get the most out of our workouts and ensure maximum recovery and adaptation. Rachel's holistic view on fueling as a full day focus, including balancing the demands of a full schedule and unique training times, provided some awesome and accessible guidance on refining the way we fuel all that we do. 

Ascent Endurance Group provides personalized, high-performance coaching for everyone. Based in Madison Wisconsin, and serving athletes across North America, AEG helps runners, multi-sport athletes, skiers, and other endurance athletes in their endeavors, from two minutes to 24 hours and beyond.    

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Winter is coming. You've built back after your break after the last training cycle. Your next goal race is  still pretty far in the future. It must be time for base training.   

Base training gets a reputation of being boring, but we see a HUGE opportunity to grow your potential as an endurance athlete, regardless of what events you're training for in the future. We dive into how this period provides opportunity to develop as an athlete, beyond just running mileage:  

-Improve how you move 

-Build all-around strength 

-Work on your inner game   

Ascent Endurance Group provides personalized, high-performance coaching for everyone. Based in Madison Wisconsin, and serving athletes across North America, AEG helps runners, multi-sport athletes, skiers, and other endurance athletes in their endeavors, from two minutes to 24 hours and beyond.    

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What are those goals that get you most excited? Which races are on your bucket list? 

Whether there is one BIG goal, or if you have a bunch of races & you want to roll at all of them, zooming out and looking at the structure of your racing over the course of years can help make sure we are building intelligently to get the most out of our goals and race experiences. We talk about the benefits of a multi-year approach to pursuing your goals, talk about looking at the calendar & the demands of your goal races, and touch on how races along the way can help with the chase towards your ultimate goal.  

If you're curious about learning more about the specifics of multi-year peaking, check out Robert Lyden's book "Distance Running": https://www.amazon.com/Distance-Running-Robert-M-Lyden/dp/0972414401

Ascent Endurance Group provides personalized, high-performance coaching for everyone. Based in Madison Wisconsin, and serving athletes across North America, AEG helps runners, multi-sport athletes, skiers, and other endurance athletes in their endeavors, from two minutes to 24 hours and beyond.  

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Most athletes will tell you that some of the most emotionally stressful days are those leading up to a major competition. We often find that the days that follow our biggest races (whether they went perfectly or poorly) can also present some significant challenges.   

We take some time in advance of a historically full fall racing season to examine strategies to get through and get the most out of those pre- & post-race feels. While this can be a tough time for many athletes, find out why we feel that the break after a season presents such a big opportunity to take your performance and relationship with the sport to the next level.    

Ascent Endurance Group provides personalized, high-performance coaching for everyone. Based in Madison Wisconsin, and serving athletes across North America, AEG helps runners, multi-sport athletes, skiers, and other endurance athletes in their endeavors, from two minutes to 24 hours and beyond.  

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Whether your goal is chasing your debut marathon, a personal record (PR), Boston Qualifier (BQ), or Olympic Trials Qualifier (OTQ), maximizing your potential in the marathon is one of the great challenges in our sport. We've got three fantastic tools that we use with athletes of all levels of experience and ability to get them ready to rock 26.2 miles.    

Ascent Endurance Group provides personalized, high-performance coaching for everyone. Based in Madison Wisconsin, and serving athletes across North America, AEG helps runners, multi-sport athletes, skiers, and other endurance athletes in their endeavors, from two minutes to 24 hours and beyond.  

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Running a marathon to the best of your abilities takes aligning many aspects of your performance. Of all those factors, fueling is a nearly universal question of how to use during run nutrition, both in training and racing.   

We tackle some of the big questions on fueling for marathon performance, including:  

-Finding the fueling strategy that works best for you 

-Fueling during training runs 

-Progressing fueling throughout the training cycle   

Ascent Endurance Group provides personalized high-performance coaching for everyone. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, and serving athletes across North America, AEG helps runners, multisport athletes, skiers, and other endurance athletes in their endeavors, from two minutes to 24 hours.  

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We love to coach. We love partnering with endurance athletes on their journey. What we do, and how we do it, are all shaped by why we do what we do. Hear a bit about our journeys here, and why we are so passionate about the coach-athlete relationship.    

Ascent Endurance Group provides personalized high-performance coaching for everyone. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, and serving athletes across North America, AEG helps runners, multisport athletes, skiers, and other endurance athletes in their endeavors, from two minutes to 24 hours.  

www.ascentendurancegroup.com 

www.facebook.com/ascentendurancegroup 

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