#234 - Get The Most Out of Your Bike
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Do the numbers really tell the story in cycling as it applies to triathlon? Are you being honest with yourself when it comes to your actual fitness and power? Today, we look at the nuances of cycling, testing, and how that translates to the human element of Race Day.
Topics Include:
- FTP tests? Should you even do them?
- Mike's Latest Theory on busting your ass
- Absolute max heart rate
- Strategy that may change training methodology…
- Especially true through May…..
- Indoor Power vs. Outdoor Power
- That "I'm Just Wrecked" feeling
- How to play small ball in triathlon
- How to bike fresh and run a solid marathon
- Why to Look at the whole BODY of work
- The problem with ALL OUT
- Ranges within your Zones
- Misplaced Ego on the Bike
- The Human Element on Race Day
- Why people fail on the run
- The importance of warming up your ride
- Burning Biscuits out of the gate
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, what's happening? |
| 0:10.9 | It's my favorite Tom Brady lookalike, Mike Torale. |
| 0:15.0 | No. |
| 0:16.7 | Have you been getting some cat calls walking down the street this week? |
| 0:21.1 | As little as I'm out on the street now. |
| 0:24.0 | As little as you are on the street. |
| 0:26.9 | I'm usually running by people too fast. |
| 0:29.6 | That's true. |
| 0:30.3 | But yeah, in case you missed it, what, Monday on the episode, what, 233? |
| 0:36.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.5 | Mike Trolley compared himself to the great Tom Brady. |
| 0:43.3 | Not in looks. |
| 0:44.6 | I just said that his... |
| 0:45.9 | I heard in looks. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm not sure what the audience are, but I heard in looks, in stature, in life, in the bank. |
| 0:52.9 | I heard, hey, you know, |
| 0:55.4 | I was Tom Brady before Tom Brady |
| 0:58.0 | was Tom Brady. Yeah, maybe the baby |
| 1:00.0 | fat belly that I saw the pictures |
| 1:02.2 | of. |
| 1:04.6 | Just the calm |
| 1:06.0 | in the pocket. How about that? |
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