#247 - Don't Lose The Fun
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
If you're struggling with: fatigue, getting faster, health, motivation, your "why," happiness, loneliness, having fun with training, balancing life, or Race Day stress . . . Then this is the podcast for you.
The Crushing Iron Podcast is released every Monday and Thursday.
Topics:
- Why it's good to be around races
- How that can also create bad decisions
- Running, the melting pot sport
- Are you losing the fun of it?
- Training is supposed to be an OUTLET
- Ripping Away the Fun of Training
- When was the last time you had fun?
- When you do something more you get better at it
- Running Slow is getting faster under the surface
- Seriousness numbs us
- You gotta be loose on race week
- Why you should be grateful to do this
- Nothing is fun when you're tired
- Hungry, angry, lonely, or tired?
- Triathletes Playing Poker 2
- Addiction to Disruption
- Are You on a Reactionary Mission?
- All this pain and gain
- Pushing and Proving Yourself to Yourself
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, Coach Robbie. |
| 0:12.5 | Happy Monday, man. |
| 0:14.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:15.3 | It's good to be here. |
| 0:16.6 | It's been a long time, but about 24 hours. |
| 0:19.4 | I know. |
| 0:20.1 | It's a crisp Monday morning. |
| 0:23.6 | Oh, winter is back full force for the next few days here. |
| 0:28.2 | Yep. Good running weather for me. |
| 0:30.5 | It is. Well, I think it's perfect running weather for most people as long as it's not, they're not compounded with like nine inches of snow, which seems to be like the norm now. |
| 0:40.4 | I think Allie was telling me yesterday that back in Kansas where we used to live, they haven't had something like a full week of school since like January 1st because they've had so much snowling. |
| 0:52.1 | And Kansas knows how to deal with snow. |
| 0:53.9 | We're not talking |
| 0:54.4 | like nashville where it like has a chance of a centimeter of rain accumulation they shut down for like |
| 1:00.5 | three days they know how to deal with it so yeah they're getting a little bit look my buddy in |
| 1:06.1 | wisconsin's a teacher he said they've had 12 days off this year for snow. People are getting weak, man. |
| 1:11.7 | Soft. That is this. People are getting soft. |
| 1:14.5 | I'm seriously, I remember maybe five snow days in my whole career in school. And we would get |
| 1:23.2 | pounded. It's like global warming, man. Yeah. |
| 1:29.0 | Anyway, welcome. |
| 1:30.5 | It's like hand-checking. |
| 1:32.7 | It's like hand-checking. Stop. |
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