#204 - Stay Within Yourself and Race Smart
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
A lot of us are about to race Ironman Louisville, and dare we say this podcast holds the secret to being happier with your performance? Really, though, there are no secrets, you just have to stay within yourself and race smart. Today we talk about the best ways to do that.
• The chaos of Ironman Facebook Groups
• 10 Days to Ironman Louisville
• The Only Thing You Control Is . . .
• The Only Way You'll Make Up Time, Is To Not Try and Make Up Time
• How To Race Without Power or Hear Rate
• Kona Contest
• Taper Tantrums
• Weather Wars - not to be confused with Info Wars
• Loneliness - Community in Triathlon
• Re-Activating Your WHY
• Enhancing Perspective in a Positive Way
• Are you Happy With Your Path?
• Playing Small Ball
• What if you come out of the swim slower than you want?
• The Mistake of Chasing Minutes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good Thursday morning to you, Coach. |
| 0:13.6 | Happy Thursday, man. |
| 0:15.0 | October. |
| 0:16.3 | It is October. |
| 0:17.7 | We are in Rocktober, man. |
| 0:19.4 | Yeah, Rocktober. |
| 0:20.7 | And what is this? |
| 0:22.1 | Like, episode 204 of the Crushing Iron Triathlon podcast? |
| 0:26.6 | I think it is. |
| 0:27.7 | 204 episodes every Monday and Thursday with Mike and Coach Robbie. |
| 0:33.0 | For the last basically two years. |
| 0:37.2 | Yeah, two years of that yeah once taper dude |
| 0:40.5 | shoots serious what's the podcast taper man the podcast taper might be like the week after |
| 0:46.3 | louisville take a little uh take a little time to uh you know rejuvenate and bounce back but hey |
| 0:53.3 | we'll be there you know we've done we've done bounce back. But hey, we'll be there. You know, we've done, |
| 0:55.3 | we've done podcasts on the road. Two races, we've done podcasts the days after the immediate, |
| 1:02.2 | like day after we've raced. We've come to you on holidays. Hey, we do the best we can, but |
| 1:08.1 | we're fortunate enough to have a really, really great audience and awesome listeners. |
| 1:14.2 | And athletes that participate in our closed group on Facebook, Crushing Iron Group. |
| 1:21.2 | So it is, oh, what? |
| 1:23.9 | I was going to say, by the way, if you have sent a request to that closed group and haven't |
| 1:27.7 | been let in there yet, please send us an email at crushingiron at gmail.com and let us know |
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