#18 - Couch to Sub-12 Ironman at 50 Years Old
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
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Today, Coach Robbie grills Mike about what it was like to go from the couch to Ironman as a 50-year-old. The whole process started with a 5K and ended at Ironman Wisconsin 18 months later. They discuss the physical and mental components of changing a lifestyle in such a dramatic fashion and what was learned along the way. Some of the topics are:
- What convinced Mike he could tackle and Ironman
- The importance of recovery as you get older
- Turning points in Mike's belief system
- How Mike went from a 42 minute Olympic swim to a 1:20 Ironman at Wisconsin
- How to virtually guarantee a solid Ironman run
- Mike's longest run ever was 14 miles
- How Coach Robbie kept him focused over a long 9-month-plan
- Overcoming mental and emotional burnout
- The mind game Mike played with himself to assure a sub-12 Ironman
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, buddy? |
| 0:10.8 | Hey man, how are you? |
| 0:12.5 | I can't complain. It's a little chilly here, but things are going on. |
| 0:17.2 | It's chilly everywhere. |
| 0:20.3 | Ooh. |
| 0:21.4 | It's chilly everywhere. Yeah chilly everywhere You fighting it? |
| 0:22.6 | Don't |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah, dude, I'm fighting it for real |
| 0:25.6 | Hayden gave both Allie and I a little bit of the junk |
| 0:28.5 | From the hospital |
| 0:30.3 | And so we're trying to get back and radar rolled for the work week |
| 0:33.9 | Oh man |
| 0:35.4 | Well, it's a good thing we're about a thousand miles away and I can't |
| 0:39.4 | catch it from you. Because I'm still... Yeah, I definitely would have passed it along right there. |
| 0:45.1 | I mean, everybody's messing with this right now. And I'm in and out, man. I was over it. |
| 0:50.8 | Now I'm kind of like, yeah, still on the fence. |
| 0:57.2 | Right now I'm currently straddling that fence of, |
| 0:59.1 | I'm probably about out of the woods, |
| 1:03.1 | or should I go ahead and, like, bail and take some medication? |
| 1:06.2 | I'm like, I'm like, right there, and I'm like, |
| 1:07.1 | I'll just wait until tomorrow. |
| 1:08.2 | Then I'll wait till tomorrow. |
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