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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#295 - Getting Better Is The Name of the Game

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Ironman, Nutrition, Triathlon, Podcast, Fitness, Swimming, Training, Coaching, Health & Fitness

4.7724 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Off-season is not really a thing if you want to get better. That doesn't mean you have to thrash and burn all year, but what can you do to get better today. How do you come to terms with "boring" workouts and figure out ways to make them part of an exciting result. Today we talk a lot about patience and restraint, both in training and racing. Plus give a lot of good thoughts think and attack your big race. 

Topics:

  • Coach is back from Florida 
  • Increasing Good habits v. Bad Habits
  • Mont Tremblant stories
  • Is there really an off-season?
  • Don’t skip too many classes
  • Practicing Restraint and Patience
  • How Slowing Down Makes You Faster
  • When You Feel It’s Right, It’s Probably too fast
  • How to bank energy in a race
  • The relevancy of the bike
  • Know Your body and the Point of the race
  • Restraint and Execution
  • Putting Purpose Into Your Training
  • It’s crazy what happens when you use common sense
  • Zoom out on your training
  • The Coffee shop Combo
  • How to take BORING out of training
  • Remember how you got here
  • Pre-Race texts with athletes 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Generally speaking, if you're just going by feeling, if you're going by heart rate or power, here's the deal.

0:05.8

If you feel like you're going just about right, you're probably going too fast.

0:10.2

If you feel like you're going too slow, you're probably going just about right.

0:14.0

And it is a huge practice in patience and execution of restraint because all you're thinking of is how can I finish

0:23.9

this race faster and it's so counterintuitive to think slowing down will allow will actually in

0:32.9

fact allow myself to finish this race faster.

0:46.9

Hey, hey, what's happening?

0:49.7

Back in the saddle.

0:51.0

Back in the saddle.

0:53.8

It feels like it's been like three weeks since we did a podcast.

0:55.3

A little rusty.

0:56.9

I know, I'm a little rusty.

1:03.1

I'm definitely going to have to do my best to negative split this puppy because I definitely feel a little bit out of it.

1:05.0

But yeah, welcome.

1:08.2

It's a Tuesday, which is not our normally casting day.

1:11.0

We usually try to shoot out this podcast on Monday.

1:15.0

And hey, if it's your first time listening, we appreciate you joining us.

1:19.8

And welcome aboard, the crushing iron podcast, episode 295.

1:21.1

Yes, it is.

1:23.3

Ah, see, at least I'm back with the episodes.

1:26.2

I took a little sabbatical over the weekend. Took a little vacation, took some time out,

1:28.3

and purposely did not bring any podcast equipment with me.

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