#268 - Racing Is An Opportunity
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Do you prepare to let go in a race if it feels right? Fears, expectations, and anxiety can hold us back, but having confidence to look at a race as an opportunity can be the biggest secret to performance. Today we look at staying in the moment and making solid decisions on the course. Do you truly trust the training?
Topics:
- Taper Tantrums
- Pre-race jitters
- Worst-Case-Scenario-ville
- Triathlete’s ritual/routine
- How to deal with free time
- What to do with all the energy
- What effort level should you race at for 70.3?
- Golf and Tennis analogies
- Unforced Errors on the course
- Making a million decisions
- Staying Engaged and Present in a Race
- Competing against yourself, others, and the day
- The ONE thing you should do in a HOT race
- Staying AHEAD of the day
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- Nutrition
- Heat
- How to use the bike to prepare for the run
- Don’t be reactionary and defensive
- Coaching instills calmness
- Answering questions you don’t have yet
- How Robbie feels about coaching 40+ racers
- Do you think of this race as Digital Tombstone?
- Come See Us in Chattanooga
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| 0:00.0 | When it comes to racing, they won't flip that switch because they don't believe in themselves enough to do it. |
| 0:11.8 | They're too terrified of what the outcome might be. |
| 0:14.5 | But guess what? |
| 0:16.0 | It's all a learning experience. |
| 0:19.3 | And it's a time and a place and an environment around people that |
| 0:23.8 | hopefully that you love and that are inspired by you and that you inspire them and teammates that |
| 0:28.9 | are with you and that love you and that want to see you succeed and you're going to see |
| 0:33.2 | them on course. It's an opportunity to go do something you've never done |
| 0:39.7 | before. |
| 0:44.5 | There he is. |
| 0:49.9 | Hey! I would say good morning, but the truth is, |
| 0:53.7 | it's the afternoon. |
| 0:54.9 | Yep, right in my wheelhouse. |
| 0:56.8 | Oh, dude, you're probably on, what, second breakfast right now? |
| 0:59.5 | Well, you're getting dangerous to close to my nap time. |
| 1:02.5 | Yeah, I know. |
| 1:04.1 | You're a solid napper. |
| 1:05.8 | I've struggled at the naps, but you are a solid napper. |
| 1:09.4 | But, yeah. |
| 1:09.7 | A little bit late today, had a busy morning. |
| 1:12.1 | We are now officially kid-free here at the Bruce household till Monday, so had Hayden |
| 1:17.2 | at home this morning, and a couple other appointments at a knockout. |
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