#261 - Don't Let Your Race Plan Your Body - The Building Blocks of Training
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Are you forcing your body into shape based on a date on the calendar? Today, we talk about why that is usually a losing proposition for long-term health, happiness, and success. We also hit on shortening your recovery time for effective intervals, the Sophomore slump, and why things like massages can be your worst decision on race week.
Topics:
- reverse bricks
- mental approach to long build phases
- why it takes you a while to feel right
- shortening your recovery time
- damage, repair, damage, repair
- athlete pitfalls
- the Triathlete’s Sophomore Slump
- massages good, bad, ugly
- pain from the bike that hurts the run
- fueling and hydration - all day long
- how to make your intervals effective
- the Amazon cure to loneliness
- anxiety
- meditation
- yoga
- being AWARE of everything that’s going on
- emotional and mental stress
- Your body doesn’t care
- Don’t Let Your Race Plan Your Body
- When it’s a good decision to not race
- How to deal with Race Week Anxiety
- focus on executing to the best of your ability
- start slow
- lower expectations and enjoy the day
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| 0:00.0 | What's the good word, brother? |
| 0:13.3 | Happy Monday post-Easter. |
| 0:16.4 | Monday post-Easter. |
| 0:17.9 | And what a glorious couple of days. |
| 0:20.5 | Man, no kidding. |
| 0:21.5 | After Saturday, which was Borgeline winter-esque, at least here, it was like what? |
| 0:28.6 | It was like in the low 40s and rainy. |
| 0:31.5 | Yep. |
| 0:32.1 | And very cool to, yesterday we had a blistering day of better better get your heat acclamation in quick we are ready |
| 0:40.4 | for summer and i think it's going to be what 80 again today and pretty much 80s here in Nashville |
| 0:45.3 | the rest of the week yeah i don't know if it didn't it didn't have that humid feel either which |
| 0:51.4 | maybe it did but to me it was just like perfect out there. |
| 0:54.5 | Yeah, it was, it was pretty solid. It was like, we, Ali and I ran yesterday morning together, |
| 0:59.2 | and it was where we run. It was from my mom's house. It was interesting because we went down |
| 1:04.0 | Belmont, so we were, we were those people, like, not at church. We were like dodging the Easter goers and the egg hunts and, you know, people were |
| 1:13.0 | kind of giving us the side eye. |
| 1:14.8 | And then we went down one of those side streets and hit, and went to come back on 12 |
| 1:20.1 | South. |
| 1:20.9 | So we went from being the condemned runners who aren't going to church to the fit people |
| 1:26.6 | who are out running early instead of starting |
| 1:28.6 | their day drinking on 12 south oh there was yeah because we you know we went we we went |
| 1:32.9 | blocks away yeah like two like like like a parallel street over that's like one block you know how |
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