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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#299 - The Emotional Weight and Burden of Racing

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7724 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We feel like the world is watching and our time will define us, but racing success is in the effort and execution. There are a lot of little things we can do before and during a race to ease the load. Putting all these goals, specifically time related may be unfair to yourself and will certainly increase the weight and the burden of what is already a big enough challenge. 

  • Let Speed and Strength Come To You
  • The off-season is exciting
  • What happens when we chase results
  • When emotions force poor choices
  • This is MY year
  • Social Media Motivation is So Easy
  • Race Day Positive Thought
  • Controlling Controllables 
  • Let the Race Come to You
  • Execution and Effort 
  • The Biggest Weight You Carry on Race Day
  • Letting go of the burdens
  • What if the Swim is Long??
  • The unreliability of scales
  • You don’t know what your day’s like until mile 80
  • When you have zero expectations
  • Relieving yourself of the decision making process
  • The Brain is your CEO 
  • Acknowledge the Day . . . then accept the outcome
  • Breaking News on IMWI Tri-Club Point Standings 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I was so relaxed that no decisions were hard.

0:06.7

You know, it's like when we're having like a really bad day or like, you know, like you used like when we started the podcast, like the first part was like you were kind of ticked off.

0:13.2

Like when we're hungry, when we're angry, when we're put under pressure, big decisions like or like small decisions seem like they're huge.

0:22.5

You're like, I don't know. You make make up your mind like you do you decide this this is i can't do this right now you're like dude i just

0:26.5

asked you like what you know what cup you want to me to put your water in it's not the big of a deal

0:30.2

relax i was a good How's it going, buddy?

0:43.0

Oh, made you sound clear.

0:44.3

That's great.

0:45.8

That's good news, man.

0:47.8

You sound like you could be in your childhood bedroom.

0:51.3

That's to cut the acoustic vibe.

0:53.5

Yeah, well, I actually, that's a good

0:55.8

projection there. I'm in the, I am in one of my childhood bedrooms. It's the basement with,

1:03.9

it's now my mom's storage area for her arts and craft store down in Beloit.

1:15.2

Yeah, there's a lot of clowns.

1:16.5

No, I'm kidding.

1:19.0

I was going to say it sounds like kind of creepy.

1:21.3

No, really, if you're coming up to the race and you're driving through Beloit, Wisconsin,

1:22.7

pop into the nest egg down there on West Grand Avenue.

1:25.6

Oh, the nest egg.

1:27.0

I like it.

1:28.0

Yep. Nest egg.

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