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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#226 - Find Joy In Where You're Going

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8739 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Triathlon takes a lot of time. It's easy to feel selfish about the training, but if you look close you'll see transformations that change athletes and people around them for the better. But perspective is everything and change happens slow. Are you training for a race or an expiration date?

Topics:

  • When is Triathlon Training Selfish?
  • The Importance of Being Yourself 
  • No is a powerful word
  • The power of being honest
  • We'll Be Your Strava
  • Running Blind to Recover
  • Appreciation and Joy for Where We're Going
  • Be Excited to Get on the Road
  • Getting Rid of the Highs and Lows
  • Balancing Body and Mind
  • Trending The Best of Your Ability
  • Smart Approaches to Sickness and Injuries
  • Understanding Growing Pains
  • Why We Get Side Stitches
  • Confusing Answers With Solutions
  • So Fragile or So Invincible 
  • How Do You Approach The Day?
  • The Garage Was The Good Ole Days
  • What it's Like BECOMING an Ironman
  • Race Day or Expiration Date?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're up.

0:11.9

Welcome.

0:12.8

Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Crushing Iron Triathlon podcast, recorded at probably one of our earliest slots ever in the 200 plus episodes we have ever done.

0:25.5

It is 804 a.m. Central Standard Time. And Mike is probably walking around his house with his silk robe

0:34.6

sipping on tea as we speak. it's a beautiful morning it is a beautiful

0:40.0

morning it's gonna be 60 today here and uh here in Nashville oh it is that's good good to know

0:45.8

that uh because I was gonna go outside in a little while and I probably would have wore a winter

0:49.3

coat well I mean I think it's still a little chilly right now but yeah it's gonna be a good day I

0:54.0

think a lot of people are getting some unseasonably warm weather right now and get out and enjoy it.

0:58.9

Everybody complains about being stuck inside this time of year.

1:02.1

So don't be on the treadmill today.

1:04.3

Don't be on the trainer unless you have to get outside, enjoy things before what I imagine is going to be a next crazy week for most

1:12.4

athletes with a lot of travel and holiday action going on as we creep up to Christmas Eve

1:20.7

and Christmas, which is next week. Yeah, here I'm even looking at my hometown Beloit where I'm

1:25.3

going to be heading, and they're going to be in the mid-40s.

1:29.9

Hey, don't tell me there's no such thing as global warming.

1:33.4

Trust me, that is outdoor riding weather up there.

1:36.8

Yeah, it is.

1:37.5

It's usually like 20s and teens.

1:40.6

Well, yeah.

1:43.4

Yeah, right now for Beloit. Sure does. Yeah, right now for Bolloyt.

1:45.2

Sure does.

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