#197 - Ironman Is Hard - Wisconsin Recap
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Crushing Iron was just in Madison for Ironman Wisconsin. In this podcast we recap the race including the effectiveness of the rolling start, the wind on the bike course, and the always difficult Ironman run. Whenever we spectate it's a stark reminder of just how tough it is to do this sport and offer a little inspiration and motivation to keep you going in the right direction.
• The Emotion of the Red Carpet
• How The Swim Affects Your Bike
• Dealing with hills and wind
• Choppy Water?
• Are you still underestimating the Swim?
• Preparing for rougher rides
• Mass Start vs. Rolling Start at Wisconsin
• His Longest Run Before Wisconsin was 4 miles
• Has Crushing Iron Made VIP status?
• Mike Selfies
• Pushing Through The Pain
• Age Group Male and Female Winners Married
• Looking ahead at Chattanooga, KONA, and Louisville
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from Madison, Wisconsin coach. |
| 0:16.9 | The famous Mike Taraleigh of Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:19.9 | Ooh, been busy this morning, man. |
| 0:23.2 | Let me ask you something. |
| 0:24.4 | Yes, sir. |
| 0:24.9 | Did you take more pictures of yourself and selfies with people this weekend than you have your entire life combined? |
| 0:36.0 | Oh, easily. |
| 0:37.8 | Yeah. That's what I figured. You, easily. Yeah. |
| 0:39.0 | That's what I figured. |
| 0:40.4 | You're a good man. |
| 0:43.7 | Oh, man, I was all over the place. |
| 0:46.0 | There's so many people here that are kind of fine in the podcast, man. |
| 0:50.1 | And people are, it's so funny, I feel like, you know, somebody asked me to take a selfie and |
| 0:54.5 | they'll be like, my buddy's not going to believe this. I'm like, I'm pretty sure he's going to |
| 0:58.2 | believe this. Yeah, pretty sure he's just like, some dude, yeah, exactly, pretty sure he's going to |
| 1:04.1 | believe you took a picture with, uh, who the hell is that guy? Who the hell is that guy is right? Who is a 5 o'clock shadow guy? |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, we, well, first off, welcome aboard the crushing iron triathlon podcast. |
| 1:18.6 | Episode 196-ish. |
| 1:21.5 | Yeah, I thought they're 197 maybe. |
| 1:23.0 | 96, 197. |
| 1:24.9 | September 10th, the day after Madison, Wisconsin, Iron Man, another race to |
| 1:31.1 | Santer Cruz, 70.3, Lake Placid, 70.3, and a couple other races across the pond. |
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