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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#267 - When A Race Consumes Your Life

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7724 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Months and months of training for one day. That's a lot of pressure to put on yourself. Today we look at how training plans unfold and how you can adjust to stay mentally and physically fit on a daily basis so race day doesn't create undo stress in your life. 

Topics:

  • You can’t control the weather
  • The best remedy for a hot race
  • Running in the heat
  • Training for a hot race
  • aero helmet or aero road helmet?
  • Sleeves or Sleeveless wetsuits
  • When should I put the wetsuit on?
  • Which part do you look forward to most?
  • Race week pain
  • Mike signs up for Garmin Connect
  • Mental and Emotional Burnout
  • Planning a Wedding Analogy
  • How far out is too far out to think about races
  • Why most Ironman training plans do it wrong
  • Physical and mental limiters
  • What are your time constraints?
  • The fundamental flaws of training plans
  • "We’re doing good, but I think we can do better”
  • Starting over on a puzzle every day
  • The biggest recipe for over training and injury
  • Your body doesn’t care what your mind says
  • Are we ever truly satisfied?
  • The importance of adjusting your training plan
  • How to handle next week if you missed some this week

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Transcript

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0:00.0

In my experience, athletes are mentally and emotionally toast before they even become physically burnt out.

0:17.8

It's something that you don't want to go through with the experience.

0:20.2

It's just that it seems to have, like, consumed your life.

0:32.6

Good morning, coach.

0:34.3

Happy Monday.

0:35.9

Today is May 13, 2019 welcome aboard the crushing iron

0:39.5

podcast episode two six eight yeah come on I know 267 any try not to get ahead of

0:50.2

myself but it's hard to it's a big. But again, before we get into the big week

0:55.8

that is definitely a big week for you, big week for me, big week for, I know a ton of our listeners,

1:01.6

so at least eight or nine of you guys tuning in right now. We know you've got big weeks.

1:07.2

But thanks for joining us. This your first time listening. We have a huge back catalog of, like we said, 266 to go back and look.

1:16.6

We come to you every Monday and Thursday and have been for what will be our third year this coming, I believe, October.

1:23.6

And website, crushingiron.com.

1:26.6

Check it out, peruse it, and maybe even while you're listening it'll

1:30.8

probably make things make a lot more sense yeah a lot of people seem to be getting some things

1:36.3

from this well yeah I mean yeah like we're not the oversell we are not. But maybe we should start.

1:45.0

Yeah.

1:45.6

I would like to.

1:46.7

I would like to, and this is kind of, I know this is going to really crush from souls today, but I'd like to, I'd like to announce our new sponsor.

1:54.1

Oh boy.

1:55.3

Yeah, it's just a crush my soul, too.

1:57.1

Go for it.

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