#181 - Recalibrating Expectations and Perspective

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

You finish a race, then reflect. What did you learn? Typically it's "I need to do more work," but do your expectations and perspective align with what that work should be? Today we talk about why "traditional" triathlon and Ironman training can throw you out of whack and take away the fun.

- What Do You Learn From Your Races?
- Are you in the overthinking trap?
- "Traditional" Ironman Training
- Mosh Pit history that transfers to the swim
- Getting Rid of Tunnel Vision
- Balancing family and Training
- You always learn something and you always have more work to do
- What she learned from a bike wreck
- Getting tougher with every race
- The Sport of Triathlon and Growth
- Long Rides Followed By Long Runs???
- Fitting Training into your Life or Your Life into Training?
- This is a Hobby and We Lose Money

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0:00.0	Hello, Coach.
0:11.9	What the hell are you doing?
0:13.9	Well, I was going to tell you before you call that we have to have a little bit of a delay,
0:17.4	it seems like, or it gets cut off on the front of him.
0:20.6	Oh, what happened? Well, no, it's just, like, gets cut off on the front of it. Oh, what happened?
0:21.7	Well, no, it's just, like, if we jump right on, the answer too hard, the recording doesn't
0:26.4	start.
0:28.0	Oh.
0:28.7	So, I was just seeing how much patience you had there.
0:32.2	I mean, it sounded like you had, like, running water in the background. It was kind of
0:36.7	soothing.
0:38.3	Well, you know, the C-26 meditation tapes are coming.
0:42.9	That's right. I'm working on.
0:45.0	We've had a few requests for those and maybe we'll do like a, maybe on the car ride or our trip to Ohio here and a week and a half or something, maybe we'll have some spare time and we can do like open water anxiety and meditation listening.
1:03.6	Yeah, man.
1:04.9	How about a pre-race?
1:07.3	Oh, yeah, we could do that.
1:09.0	That would be good, man.
1:10.1	To get them, you know, get them kind of lightening up a little bit, loosen up, relax.
1:14.8	Not too loose.
1:15.7	Not too loose, but, you know, energy.
1:17.7	You know, kind of soothe them down and then make them laugh.
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