#104 - What We Learned At Ironman Louisville
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Ironman Louisville 2017 was characterized by wind, rain, and falling temps, but we all know Ironman races are tough in general. Today, we take a deeper look at the race and how some of our athletes took it by storm, even negative splitting the marathon. It was a great day with lots of interesting learning points and we cover tons of them.
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon, Mike. |
| 0:10.8 | Good afternoon, Coach Robbie. What's happening? |
| 0:14.5 | I am working on some training plans for next week. |
| 0:19.6 | Are you? Back in it, huh? |
| 0:20.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.9 | Listen, just because I ain't racing, I mean, other people ain't racing. |
| 0:25.3 | Yeah, that's true. |
| 0:26.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.8 | It's a never ending story. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm just sitting here dreaming about how I hope my next race has this kind of weather. |
| 0:38.9 | Dude, isn't it? I know. It's gorgeous. I mean, it really is. |
| 0:43.2 | It's, uh, this is like, this is the weather we all hoped and anticipated for. |
| 0:49.2 | This is prototypical, well, usually late September, early October weather for the South. |
| 0:57.1 | And the last two big races here in the South got zero of it. |
| 1:03.2 | It was either Toasty, Toasty at Chattanooga Full, or it was spring, fall, winter, and summer all in one day that you got at |
| 1:14.6 | Iron Man Louisville. So yeah, I haven't seen, I think, a cloud since I left Louisville on Monday |
| 1:22.8 | morning. I know. I know. I don't think we're going to have any like the whole week. It's crazy. |
| 1:26.8 | It's yeah, it a beautiful, beautiful weather. |
| 1:30.7 | Well, it evens out, right? |
| 1:32.2 | Because I think I remember one day when I first did my first Iron Man and went to Madison, Wisconsin in September, and it was 90 degrees on Thursday and 95 on Friday and 92 on Saturday and then it was 70 and |
| 1:46.6 | partially cloudy on race day and it was perfect so I guess that stuff all evens out you |
| 1:52.9 | know just like instant replays in sports that we don't need because the umpires are correct |
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