#278 - Who Will You Be In 5 Years?
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Are you in triathlon for your next race or to keep getting better? We're on this "age is a number" kick and we believe your best potential is ahead of you. Will you be even better as you age? In 5 years? It's all about committing to the process and of course being patient. Is your two favorite parts of racing, signing up and finishing? Might be time to rethink your approach to the process.
Topics:
- Where Do You Want to be in 5 years?
- Getting Rid of the Pressure
- Conversations with Friends
- Do you treat races as an expiration date?
- What do you value most?
- Mike on Father's Day
- Where do you want your life to go?
- Where do you want to be as an athlete?
- Isolation tendencies
- Overtraining tendencies
- Well, you know . . .
- Shortcuts don't cut it
- The optics vs. substance
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| 0:00.8 | Be a part of something and be a part of a process because the greatest thing in the world about a process is that it's infinite. |
| 0:08.1 | You're always on the path and journey of, I just want to get better. |
| 0:11.7 | I just got better today. |
| 0:12.8 | I don't really understand or maybe have the ability to quantify it for you in a metric or an emoji or a motivational Instagram quote, but I can tell you |
| 0:23.8 | what I'll leave my head back down in night and say, I got better today. |
| 0:34.5 | There he is. Coach Robbie, how you doing, buddy? |
| 0:37.0 | Hey, man, good morning. Happy Thursday. Happy Thursday. It's what? June, June 20th? |
| 0:45.2 | I don't know. It's, uh... |
| 0:46.5 | I mean, it's June 19th for us, but this is our, uh, our Thursday edition of the Crushing Iron Trathlon podcast. |
| 0:54.8 | We come to you every Monday and usually Thursday, |
| 0:58.7 | at least twice a week pending holidays and have so for what is now 278 episodes. |
| 1:06.8 | Yeah, you're on it, 278. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, 278 today. |
| 1:10.6 | And 278 will be, sadly, but not sadly, our last podcast with you in Nashville and me in Chattanooga. |
| 1:25.5 | Or, no, with us. |
| 1:29.8 | I was waiting for some big dramatic thing, and I hung on to that dead silence for way too long |
| 1:33.3 | trying to pause for dramatic effect and then I totally |
| 1:35.4 | screwed up the re-entry but yeah this is |
| 1:38.3 | this will be our last podcast we're both in Nashville |
| 1:41.4 | I'm headed out after we have |
| 1:44.0 | tri-camp one of our triathons |
| 1:46.6 | camp starting on Thursday, which is for most people today, if you're listening. And then the |
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