#358 - Small Wins
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Often our biggest breakthroughs come at a time when we're about to throw in the towel. Now is a great time to learn about yourself and build experience for later. Today we talk about building little wins that pay off down the road and help you become better athletes and humans. There is opportunity in all situations.
Topics:
- Everything is fragile
- More gratitude at races now?
- Hopeful for more connection
- Setting precedents
- When the race is stripped away?
- Why am I working out again??
- Hard for motivation
- Giant shifts in motivation
- What would you do if there weren’t races??
- Everything by effort and duration
- Long-Journey-Apprehension-and-Doubt
- Ebbs and flows of training
- Must feel like post-race-but without a race
- Seidel - sleepers show up at races
- What’s the opportunity when something looks bad?
- Testing your metal, not your medal
- It’s never a bad time to go back to basics
- When we always want a treat
- Your worst and best workouts can happen the same week
- When breakthroughs happen
- Are you always “searching?”
- The weathered wise guy or woman
- Learning through problem solving
- Sleeping while moving
- Taking the anxieties out of life and racing
- Can’t learn if everything goes well
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| 0:00.0 | If you never have a bad workout and you never have a bad race and you're not doing it enough. |
| 0:05.2 | And therefore you're not going to be your best. |
| 0:07.5 | Like the lessons that we learn in getting better comes from experience and exposure. |
| 0:11.4 | And you have to get out and you have to do things. |
| 0:13.0 | You have to do them repetitively to do them. |
| 0:14.7 | And you also have to do sometimes the same things over and over and over again to get the most out of it. |
| 0:19.9 | Like, you know, right now, |
| 0:20.9 | it's, you've got to find the wins. Because if you're looking for a race to be your win and you're |
| 0:24.6 | looking for a race to validate things or to show you that your expectations have been mad or that |
| 0:28.8 | you are who you thought you were, like, you don't know. You have no control of that. But you do |
| 0:33.4 | have control of us waking up tomorrow or getting on your bike later today or going out for a run or doing whatever you need to do to find that little win and then think all right |
| 0:40.6 | I won this today or I learn this today learning is always a win if you choose to apply it later on |
| 0:45.9 | and you don't just ignore it or don't learn from it always learn always apply things and if you can |
| 0:50.0 | do that then I promise you at the end of whatever it is, you're going to come out |
| 0:55.9 | a better athlete. |
| 1:09.5 | Hey, man, good to talk to you. Welcome aboard. |
| 1:12.9 | Questioning Iron podcast. What are we? 3.58? |
| 1:17.7 | 558. Mike and Recy. Therapy. |
| 1:20.4 | Yes, seriously. And if we haven't started a podcast already, we'd be starting one right about now. |
| 1:26.4 | But hey, we appreciate you tuning in |
| 1:28.2 | in the midst of all things crazy. Today is March 23rd, 2020. For those of you that are probably |
| 1:34.3 | listening this at a later date, yeah, lots going on. We're glad to be here, and we appreciate you |
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