#294 - Being Calm Through Taper and Race Day
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Taper is the ultimate test of patience and while you're not training as much, most athletes waste a tremendous amount of mental and emotional energy. As the race closes in, it's time to focus on confidence and visualizing what might go wrong and how you are going to get through it. Thinking through solutions not problems. The athlete who makes the fewest mistakes is the one who wins their race.
Topics:
- Exciting time of the year
- Pressures build
- When Coaches Worry
- Coming to terms with our training
- Patience and calm
- How do we not press on?
- Looking at collective workouts
- Bridging workouts outside of Mon-Sun
- Not letting off the gas too early
- Just don’t think about it :)
- Making fewer mistakes in taper
- Idle Taper Minds
- Thriving in drama and chaos
- Quiet Confidence from building a body of work
- Being totally dependent on yourself
- The patience of taper
- Don’t squeeze for just a little bit more
- Mental and Emotional Energy Wasted the last two weeks
- Get your mind ready for Race Decisions
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| 0:00.0 | there are going to be a million different decisions you're going to have to make on race day. |
| 0:06.6 | And if all you think about is how things are acting towards you, |
| 0:10.8 | and you're not thinking about how you're going to positively either react and adjust, |
| 0:16.6 | or more importantly, more often, how you're going to choose not to react. |
| 0:22.8 | And if you're not practicing and kind of mentally driving that thought process |
| 0:27.0 | and that decision-making process into your brain on race day, well, guess what? |
| 0:32.4 | When and if one of those millions of videos do happen on race day, |
| 0:38.2 | you're going to have no planned. |
| 0:54.2 | You're going to have no plan. Oh, dude, I thought you're going to, like, throw me a phone there and tell us what episode we're on. |
| 0:59.7 | Uh, Crushing Iron Podcast, episode number 294. |
| 1:04.0 | Ah, sweet. |
| 1:05.0 | I was actually just meant throughout the old podcast episode getting closer to 300. |
| 1:10.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.2 | But as strange as it sounds, we actually are, which is kind of nuts, man. |
| 1:19.0 | We've been doing this for almost three years, and it has been, I mean, I think I could |
| 1:24.6 | probably speak for both of us here. |
| 1:25.8 | It's been the ride of a lifetime. |
| 1:27.2 | Yeah. I can barely swim 300 meters in the pool yesterday, let alone 300 podcasts. |
| 1:34.8 | Oh my gosh. Yeah, this is, yeah, episode 294 of the crushing iron podcast where we cover life, triathlon, how they intersect and intertwine, how they affect each |
| 1:46.9 | other. And we do our best to give you, I wouldn't say tips and tricks, but I would just say that |
| 1:53.6 | we do our best to share our experiences, our knowledge, the things that we've been able to apply |
| 1:57.5 | over the course of our athletic and coaching careers the last |
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