#409 - Simplify Your Mission - A Triathlete's Redshirt Season
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
One more podcast from the road before being back in the studio. Today, Mike & Robbie talk about the complexities of life colliding with the complexities of triathlon. How to "create your own race" in the sense of a short term goal. Motivation to get better and not use race day as an ending. They also talk about building a 3-sport engine and what you should be working on most with regard to your strengths and weaknesses. Also why tests don't tell the whole story.
Topics:
- Triathlon redshirt
- How has this year changed us?
- The C26 Weekend Ironman
- Races can be whatever you want it to be
- No race is the same
- Race lead ups are never the same
- What to do when you don’t have a race
- Do you look beyond the race at hand?
- It’s easy to get lost in long term planning
- Zen . . . race as enlightenment
- No absolutes
- Understanding sacrifices
- It's incredibly complex
- Are you up for a 2-3 year plan?
- Robbie’s fresh perspective on training
- What’s your natural sport of the 3?
- Can you get that back quicker than others
- Why tests don’t tell the story
- The power of adding an hour of cycling a week
- Building a 3-Sport Engine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This triathlon is so incredibly complex. Is it rocket science? No. You know, start from the top, yourself, your sleep, your nutrition, your life, your work stress, your personal stress, your relationship stress. Oh, let's add in some swimming. Let's add in some biking. Let's add in some running. All right. How do we fuel for these things and equipment? How do we plan for races? How do we do? That's a lot to kind of just like handle all at one time. |
| 0:23.7 | So it's incredibly complex. |
| 0:38.3 | Quick draw McGraw. Quick draw McGraw, McGraw, today. |
| 0:39.3 | Quick draw McGraw. |
| 0:41.3 | Welcome. |
| 0:42.3 | Welcome, welcome. |
| 0:43.3 | Today is September 17th, 2020, and this is the Crushing Iron Podcast, episode 400. |
| 0:50.3 | She's Real Fine, my 409. |
| 0:53.3 | 409. 409. |
| 0:55.0 | Are we 409? |
| 1:00.2 | That's a little old-school reference for those of you that might be of millennials that don't know your 60s and 70s music. |
| 1:01.2 | A great tune. |
| 1:02.9 | A great job McGraw in a 4-09. |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah, it's a tune I used to in the backseat of the Volvo station wagon that my mom and dad used to drive around on the old radio 96.3 oldies fm |
| 1:12.4 | Nashville Tennessee that's wild man my first thought only I saw 409 was a cleaning supplies |
| 1:18.6 | well hey you know what that's that's that's life we all have our own reality and yours was cleaning |
| 1:24.4 | and mine was an oldie so hey we appreciate it's are you feeling good |
| 1:27.9 | you feeling great you've been in madison or in beloy now for the last few days the weather from what |
| 1:32.6 | i gather has been probably perfect as it usually is in wisconsin this time of year how are you |
| 1:38.0 | feeling i feel good yeah it's uh let me try and look here. It's chilly. |
| 1:45.2 | It was night. |
| 1:45.7 | It's 61 right now. |
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