#270 - Ironman Has Gone Instagram
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Many of our athletes felt like an opportunity was taken away when they shortened the swim at Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga. We completely understand the safety reasons surrounding the swim, and know these aren't easy decisions, so today we have an open discussion to see if there are other options; including introducing a Competitive Wave for racers that want the challenge. Is all of this creating bad habits?
Topics:
- Chattanooga 70.3 Swim Shortened . . . again
- Robbed of an Opportunity
- Are you Hack-centric
- Swim Safety
- Shortening Swims
- Safety nets
- "Failure is a disease"
- Challenging Yourself
- Feeding the unprepared monster
- Judging the swim on the pros
- Need for a Competitive Wave
- Ranking toughness of Ironman Races
- Changing Ironman Race Weekend
- Wisconsin Swim Worked out
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There are so many things we could do to continue to differentiate ourselves from other sports, |
| 0:08.7 | while also making the sport welcoming to other people, which I think is important, but also keeping the integrity of why most people are doing this. |
| 0:20.1 | Because let's not say it's all, because it's not. |
| 0:22.4 | I had multiple athletes say, |
| 0:24.1 | when they said they were shortening the swim, |
| 0:25.6 | people were cheering. |
| 0:28.9 | That's ridiculous. |
| 0:31.1 | We sign up for these things to test ourselves. |
| 0:33.6 | We sign up for these things to test ourselves. yourself. |
| 0:42.7 | What's up, buddy? |
| 0:43.5 | Hey, man. |
| 0:44.1 | Happy Thursday. |
| 0:45.9 | Yeah, it's good to be back on schedule. |
| 0:47.0 | I know. |
| 0:48.8 | It was eating at me a little bit. |
| 0:49.8 | I've got to be honest. |
| 0:50.3 | Really? |
| 0:51.9 | Yeah, I'm a creature of habit, man. |
| 0:53.1 | Oh, yes, you are. I like things tend to up in my, up in my week, and then I'm like, oh, Tuesday's Monday, but it's not. |
| 0:59.1 | It's actually Tuesday, so it's a good thing. And now here we are Thursday, and it's basically |
| 1:03.0 | the weekend. So, welcome. Crushing Iron Podcast, 270. |
| 1:10.0 | 270, man. |
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