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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#328 - Energy and Pacing Are Everything

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7724 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Are you truly honest with yourself about your race goals or are you basing targets on the Triathlon False Positives? Today, we look at energy exertion and how triathletes trick themselves into thinking training days equal race performance. We look at smart race planning for bike with real average and normalized watts. How running with music and cycling to movies can affect your race energy, and how Power Meters should be used to make you a better runner. 

  • Cycling paces and power on different courses
  • How football negative split applies to triathlon
  • Why do we take the swim for granted
  • Quit blaming the run
  • Rest, stress, and execution
  • Average vs. Normalized Power
  • Lower power, faster race?
  • Patience and trust
  • When to empty the tank
  • The weight of expectations
  • A gigantic mistake triathletes make
  • How to be REAL with your FTP
  • Using a power meter to be a better runner
  • 3 False Positives in Triathlon
    • 100’s in swim to the race
    • Basing percentage of watts on best training day of year
    • Basing the race run on your best long training run
  • Don’t expect training PRs on Race Day
  • If you think you’re going the right speed, it’s probably too fast
  • Running with music
  • Riding with movies
  • Guessing at a number we hope to be on race day
  • Mental fatigue from paying attention
  • Emotional Race Simulation

Transcript

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0:00.0

Based on the fitness that you have, you have a specific allotment of energy for that day

0:07.0

to raise you to the level that you want to perform and express the fitness that you have.

0:12.0

And if you overexert the energy you have on the swim, you are now going to be behind on the bike,

0:19.0

and you're going to draw from what is already a,

0:21.5

I would call a reservoir, an energy reservoir bank,

0:24.6

and you're going to draw and draw and draw,

0:27.4

and until about mile four or five of the run.

0:30.6

And then what you're going to do?

0:32.6

You're going to overdraw.

0:33.5

You're going to overdraw.

0:42.0

Music draw. There we go.

0:42.9

How's it going, Coach?

0:44.4

Happy Monday.

0:45.9

Pudy, it's good, man.

0:46.9

It's December.

0:48.0

Yes.

0:48.8

I was outside in shorts for a little bit.

0:51.7

It was like high 50s, low 60s here in Chattanooga.

0:54.7

Things are good.

0:55.8

Welcome, Cushing Iron Podcasts.

0:58.9

329?

1:00.4

I don't know, man.

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