#179 - Why Consistency Beats Distance
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Today on the Crushing Iron Podcast we explore the reasoning behind feeling obligated to do 20 Mile Training Runs and Century Rides. Are they in themselves keys to racing an Ironman or is it just a "peace of mind" strategy. In general, how do you stay consistent and want to wake up each day ready to get better.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Monday, Robbie, welcome back to vacation. |
| 0:17.7 | You must be charged up and ready to rock ready for another vacation are you |
| 0:23.8 | vacation from the vacation man oh not really it's more like vacation from the travel of vacation |
| 0:31.5 | oh if you live in alabama anywhere on 65 just north and just south of Birmingham is absolutely horrific. |
| 0:44.1 | Really? What is it? What is it down there? |
| 0:46.8 | Well, you know, there's, I mean... |
| 0:48.9 | Just the roads? |
| 0:50.6 | Well, no, I mean, the roads are actually paved you know really nice but you know |
| 0:54.4 | Alabama is basically the gateway |
| 0:56.5 | between two solid states |
| 0:58.1 | Tennessee and Florida |
| 1:00.2 | it's basically used as a highway |
| 1:03.0 | and every |
| 1:06.6 | course it was July 4th week |
| 1:07.7 | and so everybody in their |
| 1:08.8 | brother for the most part was headed down to some part of Florida. Gulf, you know, Panama City, Destin, wherever. They're headed on Florida. So it was just terrible. And so they were headed back on Saturday. And, uh, yeah, it's a lot of action going on. So, you know, we're back, and back in the old Tennessee. |
| 1:31.4 | I've got to say, it is a wee bit cooler than I expected it to be the last two days. |
| 1:36.1 | I think we missed, like, the gigantic heat wave that was this last weekend. |
| 1:41.2 | Yeah, you missed it. |
| 1:42.7 | Is it cool a lot? |
| 1:43.6 | I was just outside. It felt sunny sunny and hot i don't want to say |
| 1:46.7 | it's cool but i've lost complete bearings on that like it always just feels hot now it's it'll |
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