#269 - Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga Race Recap
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Breaking down Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga. The swim, bike, run and what it's like for Coach Robbie to track 44 of his athletes racing on the same day. Plus, we get into how you can control the race instead of the race controlling you.
Topics:
- Mike talks about his best 70.3 to date
- Does run training help your bike?
- Pre Race Nerves
- The Calm before the storm
- Tracking 44 athletes as a coach
- Robbie's biggest concern on Race Day
- The City of Chattanooga
- 3800 people registered
- How do they run out of shirts?
- Congested?
- Drafting on the Bike Course?
- Did Mike really go Sub-5?
- Run Course Aid Stations
- Executing a race plan
- The Coach/Athlete Trust
- Do you NEED to pass or WANT to pass on the bike?
- Don't be Serious Seth
- Don't talk yourself into slow
- The Power of Community
- Huge Shout out to the Team
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| 0:00.0 | I think the only sign I really even remember was mile 10 on that run, and my thought wasn't, |
| 0:09.6 | oh, shit, three miles. I was more like, oh, only a 5K. And that was the first time I've ever thought that way. |
| 0:15.5 | The feeling you had was, I'm still in control. Yes, that is exactly what it was. |
| 0:21.4 | To have that feeling, because what happens is, is the longer you're able to perform, |
| 0:26.1 | the better fitness you have, the better decisions you make, and the better your training, |
| 0:30.2 | and the better your preparation, you can elongate the amount of time that you're in control |
| 0:34.1 | of the race, not the racist control of you. |
| 0:43.3 | Music that you're in control of the race, not the race is control of you. Good morning, Coach Robbie. |
| 0:45.8 | Happy Monday. |
| 0:47.0 | Oh, wait. |
| 0:47.6 | Yeah, no. |
| 0:48.7 | We are. |
| 0:49.6 | You know what, technically, man, dude, we're not really late. |
| 0:51.8 | I mean, we consistently rock monday and |
| 0:57.1 | thursday but most people don't even listen to us on monday and thursday listen to us at their own |
| 1:02.6 | leisure around their own schedule and we like that yeah you know we had a fairly busy |
| 1:09.2 | weekend and yesterday was a lot of travel, and I think you and I were just |
| 1:14.9 | pretty smoked. |
| 1:16.1 | Yeah, we're just moving ahead into the modern day, man. |
| 1:18.9 | It's not like we're sitting around trying to wait for the Brady Bunch on Friday night these |
| 1:23.0 | days. |
| 1:23.4 | People do what they want when they want. |
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