It's been a wild ride, and in this 400th Crushing Iron podcast we look a toward the future with hope and talk about how we can re-enter into the race season in a smart way. We also get into what it means to power through rough spots, not only in training and racing, but this year that is 2020. Thank you for all your support along the way, we really appreciate you supporting C26 and the Crushing Iron Podcast.

Topics:

• The Obstacle is The Way and why Mike hasn't read it yet.
• The Year of the Philosopher
• It's hard to spend too much time on your base
• Major Life Changes during the pandemic
• When racing comes back
• Navigating deferral options
• Individually built for different courses
• Don't schedule races for stressful times of the year
• Planning ahead for next year's racing
• The lure of racing everything in 2021
• Reflecting and appreciating
• An entire year of training! Wow.
• Remembering the "end of race feeling"
• Training in ways to create race intensity
• Effective emotional energy
• The back half of the IM marathon
• "Finishing races" during training
• This time of year feels like the second loop of the marathon
• Practice being that finisher

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