#121 - Andrew Starykowicz Interview (Pro Triathlete)
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The Crushing Iron Podcast interviews professional triathlete, Andrew Starykowicz.Â
Topics:
- When He Started Believing He Could Go Pro
- Pretenders—>Fringe Athletes—>ContendersÂ
- His Cycling Philosophy and Why He's So Fast
- How He Discovered the Crushing Iron Podcast
- His Analysis of the Ironman Wisconsin Bike Course (Including Barlow)
- Does he prefer hats or visors
- His insight on aero helmets
- How he uses his Crushing Iron t-shirt
- He interviews usÂ
- The never-ending challenge of finding sponsorshipÂ
- How the "little things" helped him win Ironman Louisville 2017
- The Importance of Race Experience
- Swimming in the Dark at IML
- First loop vs. Second loop at 27 mph on bike
- How He Wants You To Help Triathlon Grow
- His Number One Go-To For Recovery
- What He Thinks Is The Most Underrated Part of Triathlon Training
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, Coach? |
| 0:07.9 | Happy Friday, Michael. |
| 0:09.9 | Happy Friday. |
| 0:11.0 | We got a good one today, man. |
| 0:12.7 | Yes, we are having our very first professional triathlete guest, and I honestly can't think of a better one to start with. |
| 0:24.5 | Yeah, and especially because he's been a long-time fan of the podcast. |
| 0:28.9 | Long-time lawn mowing podcast favorite. |
| 0:34.5 | And we'll get to that in a minute. |
| 0:37.4 | But yeah, he really goes into some good stuff, man. It's really cool to hear him. And we'll get to that in a minute. |
| 0:40.5 | But yeah, he really goes into some good stuff, man. |
| 0:47.1 | It's really cool to hear his perspective on racing Louisville, racing Wisconsin, |
| 0:53.1 | what can be done to improve the sport and get more people involved and stuff and it was just real chill and cool |
| 0:55.2 | conversation man do you enjoy it oh god i loved it i mean i think one of the more underrated |
| 1:00.6 | aspects of so many of these professionals is you know people just look at raw talent and see |
| 1:05.9 | ability and they what they don't understand or even like think sometimes is just how cerebral and how like |
| 1:13.9 | detailed these well these athletes should be and some are and he is definitely one of them and I'm sure |
| 1:21.6 | some of that just comes from his personality and his background as an engineer but like |
| 1:25.3 | the amount of detail and the time that he puts into |
| 1:28.9 | just the smallest things, I thought was fascinating in something that every athlete, regardless |
| 1:35.4 | of the level, can take and apply to, apply to themselves. |
| 1:42.6 | Yeah, I agree. |
| 1:43.4 | He was just, yeah, detailed and very cool. |
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