#233 - The Mind Game of Racing
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
How do we know what we're capable of in a race? Are you aiming too low? Are you using training to prepare for how it will feel to empty the tank when you need to? Today, we were driven by all the inspirational quotes and how that turns into talking about action vs. taking action. How mentally handle your first Ironman, then take it to the next level.
Topics:
- Inspirational Quotes
- Don't Let Perfect Be The Enemy of The Good
- Talking and hoping for action
- What Training Plan is Right for you?
- Paralyzed in Perfection
- The Power of Doing The Same Things
- Our Need to Feel Special
- Mike's Bike
- Addiction to More And Different
- Are You Good at Making Yourself Tired?
- The Only Things You Control in a Race
- Are You Good at Getting Injured?
- Can You Say This Was All I had today?
- The Pressure of having a race time in mind
- How to take the fun out of training
- Why are we obsessed with predictions?
- Expectations are future resentments
- The Greatest Feeling of Emptiness
- The Perfect "Race Vulnerability"
- How To Empty The Tank
- The Most Underrated Part of Racing
- The Secret To Getting On The Trainer More
- The Patriot's Aren't Quite Done
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, the things we go through to get this podcast on the air. |
| 0:10.8 | You know, Skype, if we could have one sponsor, it would be Skype. |
| 0:16.6 | It would be Skype. |
| 0:17.8 | It would be Skype. |
| 0:18.4 | So Skype, if you're out there, because we definitely know you're listening, |
| 0:21.5 | because we're using you right now, we would appreciate a sponsorship where we could, in kind, |
| 0:27.7 | never have to update our audio-visual settings. |
| 0:31.0 | That would be nice. |
| 0:32.6 | And that would be it. |
| 0:34.4 | First world problems coming at you right away. |
| 0:37.1 | First world problems. We have right away. First world problems. |
| 0:39.1 | We have this ability to record from our own places whenever we wish and send it out to the world and we're complaining. |
| 0:47.2 | Yeah, well, I wouldn't say it's really complaining, but yeah, it's definitely complaining. |
| 0:52.1 | And that's not how we want to start off on monday morning so welcome |
| 0:54.8 | to the crushing iron triathlon podcast episode 233 it's monday and it is uh what january 14th |
| 1:05.0 | 2019 and we appreciate you joining us yes we do thanks for coming by for coming by. Yeah. And speaking of complaining, |
| 1:12.9 | this is one of my favorite time of year. There are favorite times of year to follow Facebook |
| 1:18.6 | feeds. Because as we kind of talked off the air last week after the podcast, it's everyone right now is like a mix between the Pope and Jillian Michaels when it comes to like |
| 1:34.7 | motivational quotes and motivating people. |
| 1:39.4 | And but it's so funny to like if you pay attention to the same people like one day they're like |
| 1:43.6 | always stay calm |
| 1:46.6 | never let things bother you be calm and collective you know nothing can harm you unless you let it harm |
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