#380 - Smart, Patient, and Fearless Racing
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Do you wonder why you blow up in certain races? Do you struggle with pacing? You make hundreds of decisions throughout a race and they all matter. Saving 10 seconds now could cost you 2 minutes, or more later. Today we discuss those decisions and race day mentality. It's all about the back half of the run, but what happens along the way will determine how that goes. It's playing a game of chess with yourself and today we look at the best moves.
Topics:
- FOMO
- Social media reinforcement of habit
- Step back and think it through
- 10k Test
- 10k is a tough distance
- Questioning your training in the Pandemic
- Challenges and restrictions
- Why did I blow up?
- The Mentality of race day isn’t predictable
- When too much taper can backfire
- When you should try to fail
- How to understand EFFORT
- Matching physical threshold to mental ability
- Feeling out your run
- Mountain biking and threshold
- Talking about terrain and conditions
- Pacing on hilly courses
- How to keep a reserve
- Blasting a hill bites you later
- The non expectation coach
- In this for the long haul
- are you willing to give up seconds?
- How is that going to impact my run -
- Patience coach … do your own race… it’s playing chess with yourself
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| 0:00.0 | every decision you make in a race you could put under the title of am i looking to gain seconds and give |
| 0:07.8 | a minutes it's how you finish it's about what you have in the tank are you going to be the person |
| 0:14.4 | that's walking because you blew your load or you can't person that's running that's also the |
| 0:18.6 | hard part is that you have to be so patient. |
| 0:23.2 | You have to run and do your own race. You can't get caught up in the moment. You can't make |
| 0:28.2 | those poor decisions. You can't do that. You have to be smart. You have to play the game. |
| 0:35.3 | Not the game as in, you like with other people but it's like |
| 0:38.0 | it's playing chess with yourself. |
| 0:43.3 | Good morning |
| 0:47.6 | my man. |
| 0:48.5 | Happy Monday. |
| 0:50.0 | It's June 8th, |
| 0:50.7 | 2020. |
| 0:52.5 | Welcome aboard. |
| 0:53.8 | It's crushing iron podcast. Welcome aboard. Crushing Iron Podcast, 370. |
| 0:57.8 | Yeah, 370. Is it 370? Okay, that's what I thought. |
| 1:00.8 | You're delay there had me thinking I was off, I was off kilter. But yeah, 370. We appreciate |
| 1:06.2 | you tuning in. I am Robbie. That is Mike. We come to you twice a week, for the most part, Mondays and Thursdays, |
| 1:13.2 | but always twice a week. We cover triathlon. We cover life. We cover everything in between. |
| 1:19.5 | So we appreciate you tuning in and giving us your time. We have a 369 previous podcast. You can |
| 1:26.3 | always dive back in and check those out. If you're tuning in at 370, |
| 1:29.8 | I know a lot of listeners like to kind of pick and choose the topics that might feel more top of mind for them. |
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