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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#266 - Fine Tuning Your Race/Taper

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Ironman, Nutrition, Triathlon, Podcast, Fitness, Swimming, Training, Coaching, Health & Fitness

4.7724 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

 

Topics:

  • Emotional Roller Coaster of the taper
  • The categories of an athlete’s mindset
  • From race sign up to race taper, then . . .
  • Life happens 
  • How to find confidence in the work that you’ve done
  • The race doesn’t move 
  • Being Grateful and Appreciative 
  • Make lists of the people you need to thank
  • Take everything out of yourself
  • Erase the 6 months ago you
  • Chatt 70.3 training day
  • Don’t look for excuses 
  • "Oh, it’s just a training day” rant
  • Protecting our egos
  • Adjusting your effort during the race
  • The way you feel in race CHANGES
  • Quit looking for ways to over-analyze 
  • You become the story you tell yourself
  • Remember how you got through training days
  • Last minute Larry 
  • Race Days are opportunities
  • Don’t judge a swim, bike, or run in first 10 mins

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, you know, like, you know, six months ago I had really like plan on just nailing everything and going and going sub six in this race.

0:10.6

But, I mean, you know, I've had a couple things pop up here and there.

0:14.3

You know, it's not really worked out.

0:16.6

So I'm just going to kind of use this as more like a training day.

0:20.8

You know, like I'm really not going to go into the super arts.

0:22.9

You know, in case you didn't know, chat 7.3, hashtag training day.

0:27.1

And they go into this.

0:29.4

Like, I hate that.

0:35.3

You're done dealing with your first world problems over there?

0:40.4

Easy, man.

0:41.4

Geez, first world problems.

0:43.5

We always talk about not having a sponsor,

0:45.5

but maybe I should reach out to Xfinity

0:47.2

or whoever else does the cable and stuff around these parts.

0:52.9

But man, struggle bus on the Wi-Fi this morning but

0:56.1

better late than ever thank you for listening welcome back crushing iron podcast episode 266 oh it is man

1:07.0

266 right on the money i continue my streak. And yeah, thank you for listening.

1:13.8

I've come to you every Monday and Thursday, sometimes on time, sometimes early, but never late.

1:19.9

We appreciate you. Yep. You've got a coach and his age group athlete talking things

1:26.1

triathlon. Trying to figure this sport out through our

1:29.8

weekly twice a week conversations can i say something real quick sure can buddy

1:34.9

this sport is incredibly incredibly difficult in terms of the, in terms of, you know, you just said it, you know, and sometimes I think people, when they're a first time listener, kind of think, hey, I don't know, what the hell are these guys even talking about?

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