#16 - 24 Hours - From Pre-Race Meal to Ironman Finish Line
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Mike and Robbie track their 24 hours before bed until the Ironman finish line. These tactics apply to non-Ironman distance as well. If you've done (or never done) there's a lot of food for thought in this episode which discusses the following:
• Night before Race Meals
• Sleep strategies
• Wake up calls
• Morning of race meals
• Last hour before the swim thoughts/nutrition
• Tactics for the Swim
• Nutrition for first 10 miles of bike
• Gastro challenges
• The biggest mistake people make on the bike
• Prepping for run while on the bike
• Nutrition/Hydration strategies for the run
• Post-race fuel
• A great way to clean your top, shorts, and shoes
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| 0:00.0 | Happy New Year, buddy. |
| 0:08.4 | Hey, happy New Year to you, Mike. |
| 0:09.6 | How are you? |
| 0:10.6 | I couldn't be better, man. |
| 0:11.9 | I just spent two hours waiting for food at the local diner. |
| 0:18.0 | Where'd you go? |
| 0:19.0 | Well, it's a Pied Piper. |
| 0:25.6 | Well, you should have expected that on a, of all mornings. I mean, it's like, it's hungover feast. |
| 0:28.6 | Oh, I know, yeah. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm sure they this morning. |
| 0:30.6 | And oddly, there was a six top table of people wearing Packer uniforms and badger hats, and I didn't know them or anything, |
| 0:39.6 | but I saw them over there. |
| 0:41.4 | And wouldn't you know that what their order came out, and it was the boss, which is the |
| 0:48.7 | ultimate eating challenge at the Piper? |
| 0:53.2 | Shocker. |
| 0:53.6 | It was like a big, if you imagine, like a big silver platter, literally. eating challenge at the Piper. Shocker. |
| 0:56.0 | I know. It's like a big, if you imagine, like a big silver platter, literally |
| 0:58.3 | heaped with |
| 1:00.1 | pancakes, eggs, biscuits, |
| 1:02.8 | hash browns, |
| 1:04.0 | sausage, ham. |
| 1:05.9 | It was just unbelievable. It has a |
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