#135 - Outsmarting The Competition
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the 135th Crushing Iron Podcast. Today we springboard off the Super Bowl into how you can outsmart your competition on the race course.
We talk about everything from training to fast to getting your breath under control at the start of the swim, bike, and run. We also look at overall mindset for training and race day, starting with humility.
- How Training Fast Can Hurt Your Race
- You are only entitled to the action, not the fruit
- Quick Super Bowl Recap
- Preparing for the Unexpected
- Understanding the importance of Zone 1 and Zone 2
- The Crushing Iron "Politics" Podcast??
- Working Your Aerobic system smarter and more efficiently
- Do they have a back up for Timberlake?
- Defense Wins Championships
- Balancing confidence and humility
- Cautious optimism
- Respecting the distance
- How to deal with headwinds
- Let go of your time and mph addiction
- Why giving more race effort can hurt you
- Racing smarter usually wins
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good Monday morning, Coach. |
| 0:12.4 | Good Monday morning. |
| 0:18.4 | We are going all out. |
| 0:20.1 | Congratulations, Philadelphia. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah, fly on Rocky. |
| 0:25.9 | Super Bowl champions. |
| 0:29.1 | Wow. |
| 0:31.1 | What a game. |
| 0:32.8 | Today is February 5th, 2018. |
| 0:37.0 | This is the Crutching Iron Trathlon podcast Super Bowl Review Show. |
| 0:42.2 | Thank you for doing. |
| 0:44.9 | We're not even, we're going to talk all foot. |
| 0:46.7 | No, we're not going to talk all football today. |
| 0:49.8 | But it's kind of hard not to talk about the biggest game of the year. |
| 0:55.8 | That is, man. |
| 0:56.6 | And we'll, as usual, throw in plenty of analogies that are way too cliche and hope you enjoy them. |
| 1:02.0 | Yes. |
| 1:03.1 | The Super Bowl ratings were down 12% year-to-year in Nashville. |
| 1:08.1 | It's pretty surprising. |
| 1:10.3 | Were they? |
| 1:10.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.4 | I just heard that on the radio. |
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