Q&A #23 - Maintaining race fitness for an entire race season and the mental battle of FTP-tests

Q&A #23 - Maintaining race fitness for an entire race season and the mental battle of FTP-tests  

• How do you keep a high race fitness for an entire season with multiple sprint and Olympic distance triathlons spread out over a period of time? 
• Should you train differently for the sprint races compared to the Olympic distance races? 
• What's the right mindset to have in FTP-tests (or other benchmarking tests) to get the most out of yourself and avoid performance anxiety?

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• Tapering and peaking in triathlon: the art and the science | EP#119
• Mikael's interview on Humans of Triathlon 

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