#319 - The Gray Zone Final
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Do you live in black and white thinking and a world of highs and lows? There’s a time and a place for “hard” and a time and place for being at peace with the best you have to give. Today, we talk about moving into the Gray Zone more often as an athlete and a person. We look at self-sabotage, insecurities and talk about the secret to getting better. The Gray Zone is not a soft, lackluster place, it’s the place where the real work is done and where improvement truly happens
Topics:
- USAT Quote about Crushing Iron
- Re-connecting with friends
- Building confidence
- Black and white thinking
- Self Sabotage
- Speed work and adaptation
- Are you always more, more, more?
- Doubling down when you’re tired
- Dealing with insecurities
- Should you be doing less?
- Working with the person first
- Parallels with training and life
- The secret to getting better
- Taking the blindfold off
- Running without your watch
- I’m not going out like that
- Only You Understand Your Pain
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| 0:00.0 | No matter what the timesheet says, no matter what place you get, no matter what your finish time is, no matter what picture you take after you cross the finish line, the only thing in this world that is going to know your level of pain and the amount of effort that you gave on any day during anything you've ever done in your entire life |
| 0:21.8 | is you in your conscience. That's it. And so if you can do that, then sleep well. |
| 0:32.1 | It's time to roll, my man. |
| 0:37.9 | Good morning, my goofy and your friend. |
| 0:41.3 | Good morning, my bearded expert, buddy. |
| 0:44.3 | I was just thinking about that. |
| 0:46.3 | I had that pulled up, actually. |
| 0:48.3 | Oh, so did I. |
| 0:49.3 | Oh, look at that. |
| 0:50.3 | Man, we are just like goofy and prepared. goofy. Goofy sometimes repaired and often, or at least me, often bearded. But yeah, welcome crushing iron podcast. 320? |
| 1:05.0 | 319. See, yeah, yeah, I'm not. I'm not the opposite. Oh, man. You're moving around a lot. You're all over the board. |
| 1:10.2 | You know, I did some calculations this morning and we're at my mom's right now because we came from Chattanooga in the Nashville last night, came in early so Hayden could spend time with his nana. |
| 1:20.9 | And this is the ninth different bed I have slept in in the last three and a half. |
| 1:32.3 | But that's not a bad thing these days. |
| 1:35.5 | I mean, it's not terrible, but I mean, you know, you know, as well as anybody. |
| 1:39.2 | Like, from a guy who, like, never wanted to go anywhere and do anything this is like a total a total |
| 1:46.6 | transformation for me um we're can like pull out couches guest room beds roll away beds and hotels |
| 1:53.6 | couches in hotels beds and hotels our house our guest room here at my mom's house in this like |
| 2:00.0 | you know 1921 uh single bed and i'm like mom |
| 2:06.6 | when are you going to get rid of like those 19 like 20 like they're like wood like you look at |
| 2:12.3 | them and you're like i bet you wanted like the presidents from like the early the early at some point slipped in these like the most |
| 2:19.9 | and like the mattress is just like straight concrete uh the sheets are see-through mom i love you if |
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