#198 - Race Day Is About "Return On Investment"
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Coach Robbie launched a great analogy today, saying, "Look at your race like a business, it's all about return on investment." Are you making the right decisions on race morning, during the swim, or on the bike to get your best run? Today we break it all down and show why once you burn a biscuit, you can't get it back.
• You Can't Get Burned Biscuits Back
• Race Your Ironman Like It's A Business
• An Emotional Ironman Finish
• Is Mike On Board With A Power Meter?
• Linsey Corbin slapping skin with kids
• Juicing?
• Disposable Running Shorts
• Great Things People Do On The Course
• How To Have Fun In A Race
• Mental Engagement 70.3 vs. Ironman
• Handling Emotions in a Race
• Underrated Part about Lack of Preparation
• Stress is Stress is Stress
• Mistakes You Make on the Bike Don't Show Up On The Bike
• Energy on the Bike Vs. Run
• You Can't Catch Up Because You're Already Caught
• Average Power Vs. Normalized Power
• Best Bike Split
• Normalized Power is your - Cost of Business
• Why It's Easy To Pick Up 30 Minutes On The Run
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| 0:00.0 | How's it going there, my man? |
| 0:11.8 | Hey! |
| 0:15.8 | Is it just me, or does it feel like we do one of these every three or four days? |
| 0:19.7 | Man, it's starting to seem like that. |
| 0:21.9 | After what is almost 200 podcasts coming to you twice a week for what next month will be two years, |
| 0:32.9 | yeah, it's been about every three or four days for the last two years. |
| 0:36.3 | A lot of anniversaries going on. That's years. A lot of anniversaries going on. |
| 0:39.1 | That's right. |
| 0:39.7 | A lot of anniversaries coming. |
| 0:42.0 | We'll have our two-year podcast anniversary next month, the big 200 podcast, episode 200, |
| 0:49.9 | and what next week or the week after? |
| 0:57.6 | I think we're 198 today, so it'll be next week or the week after um i think we're one ninety eight today so it'll be next week wow big we're big time in it big time in it uh yeah i got uh i got confused because i |
| 1:05.8 | left ironman wisconsin monday morning and went to my parents and i drove home tuesday and |
| 1:10.8 | i kept thinking i had driven home Monday. |
| 1:13.9 | So I thought today was actually going to be Wednesday yesterday. |
| 1:18.7 | Yeah, don't be trying to take away a day for us. |
| 1:23.0 | It is, it's Thursday, which is, we'll just say we'll call it friday okay |
| 1:31.5 | yeah we'll call it today friday so if you're listening to this happy friday happy friday |
| 1:36.3 | yeah um so have you recovered from the post ironman spectatorship, because |
| 1:46.2 | I've had a lot of athletes, obviously, that |
| 1:49.3 | raced it and had quite a few, probably five to seven |
| 1:53.5 | that went and spectated. |
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