#290 - Practicing In-Race Decisions
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Do you practice thinking about decisions you'll face on race day or lost in a world of Swift and Neftlix? If we go through the motions in training, race day stresses become a lot more challenging. What are you doing to prepare for thousands of decisions you'll have to make on race day? Also, distraction by IronTracker, bike handling, and changing how you feel during a race.
Topics:
- Are We Jaded About Ironman?
- Ironman Tracker Addiction
- Opportunities we miss by obsessive tracking
- People want more and more
- Is Our Bike Handling Getting Worse?
- The Problem with Pain Caves
- Distracted Training
- Putting the head down and working
- Preparing for the Unpredictable
- You are Responsible for Your Own Experience
- Fighting through
- Learning How To Make Great Decisions
- Can You Change How You Feel In Races?
- The Best Athletes Make The Best Decisions
- Take Calculated Risks
- Practicing Race Day
- Don't Let Your Beliefs Limit You
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| 0:00.0 | we have become so like inept on being driven to make our own decisions. |
| 0:10.0 | Do I feel good? Do I not feel good? Should I push it? Should I not push it? Build or not to build. There's like zero flexibility for mental and emotional adjustment and creativity based around how am I feeling today. |
| 0:22.3 | And I'm going to make this decision. And it's a skill that has to be taught, that you have to adapt to, |
| 0:28.2 | that you have to persevere through, that you have to experience before you can do it on race. |
| 0:32.4 | Because race day is about making decisions in your own head. |
| 0:45.9 | We are back. |
| 0:46.9 | It is Thursday. |
| 0:49.1 | This is crushing a podcast. |
| 0:50.3 | 290. |
| 0:52.9 | 290 it is, man. 10 away from 300 where we will have a special guest, Maddie, |
| 0:58.5 | that's our podcast episode number two. |
| 1:01.1 | It was one of our most highly rated podcast, |
| 1:03.5 | which was one of our very first, the Dogcast. |
| 1:06.7 | Yeah, we might have a redo, |
| 1:08.0 | or maybe we'll invite Kona on, |
| 1:09.2 | and they can just chat for a few minutes on episode three. |
| 1:12.5 | But no, we appreciate you joining us. |
| 1:14.2 | Again, crushing iron podcast, episode 290, where we cover all things, charathlon, life, how they intersects, how they affect each other. |
| 1:23.8 | And then most importantly, Mike and I, as both age group athletes ourselves and coaches |
| 1:29.1 | try to share our experiences over the last accumulated like 20 years or so to hopefully set you up |
| 1:36.3 | for success on your own journey help you out any way that we can and support you through that |
| 1:41.6 | we also have a closed Facebook group called Crushing Iron Group. |
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