#237 - Measuring Your Progress
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
How do you measure progress? Your watch, power meter, or simply by being healthy? Today we dive into the pressures created by analyzing our workouts, sleep patterns, diets, etc.
Topics:
• Are you measuring the right things?
• Are You Too Self-Critical?
• Run Retreat
• Should You Race Out of Season?
• Do You Measure Yourself Too Much?
• Digging Deeper into the meaning of Burnout
• The Perils of Weighing Yourself Daily
• Daily Punches In The Face
• The gadgets that control us
• Pre-measuring Success
• Does everything always have to be better?
• The best you have TODAY
• #BeatYesterday
• What Brings Triathletes Happiness?
• The most underestimated part of having a coach
• You can't turn your ship around on a dime
• Racing = Work + Ability
• David Goggins quoting
• How deep to dig Mental and Emotional Well
• When You Panic You Make Mistakes
• The Slow Burn Analogy Returns
• The Data That Matters The Most
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | here we go buddy here we go happy |
| 0:15.3 | happy Monday to you welcome aboard this freezing cold winter train that is the crushing iron triathlon podcast. |
| 0:25.5 | Did you know it was winter? |
| 0:26.9 | Because if you didn't, you can just hop on Facebook and see screenshots every three seconds. |
| 0:30.9 | Yep, it is winter, but man, it was a beautiful sunny day yesterday. |
| 0:36.3 | It was. |
| 0:37.2 | Gorgeous. And then today is going to be even nicer i think |
| 0:41.4 | it's supposed to be close to mid 50s to low 60s here in and uh Nashville and you and i are |
| 0:48.0 | headed out about an hour outside of nashville to nunley tennessee a hidden gym outside of outside of Nashville to do some recon for our upcoming |
| 0:57.4 | team run retreat. The run retreat. Man, you got a big, awesome group of people coming. |
| 1:05.1 | I'm so pumped. It's going to be... I know that no one's really looking forward to the actual run portion. |
| 1:12.6 | But if you... |
| 1:14.1 | So if you're... |
| 1:15.1 | Obviously, there are 95% of our listeners aren't athletes that we coach and work with, |
| 1:20.7 | but we have a team athletes and club athletes. |
| 1:24.6 | We have 62 athletes. Taipei, most of them, coming to Nashville, |
| 1:33.3 | a week from Thursday, and we're going to be doing a run, kind of a run camp slash run retreat |
| 1:37.8 | Thursday, February 7th through, I think that's the 10th or 11th is that Sunday. And we have a lodge that's going to sleep 38 people and then four cabins to break up the other |
| 1:51.6 | 20 plus. |
| 1:52.8 | So it is. |
| 1:53.7 | It's going to be awesome. |
| 1:55.8 | I think I'm looking for more forward to this and I have any of the other things that we've done just because of the amount of people that we're going to have. |
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