#417 - Finding Your True Potential . . . And How Perceptions of Our Strengths & Weaknesses Can Be Wrong
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Endurance training offers so many opportunities but why are some are pulled toward further and others to faster? Are you training for something that is your real strength? Is it Ironman, 70.3, Olympics, sprints . . .? What we could be best at isn’t always our preference, but it's easy to think the things we enjoy most are our strengths. Today we hunt for ways to challenge yourself and find your true potential. Finding love in something you don’t enjoy. And, why you should balance indoor and outdoor training.
Topics:
- Age and comebacks
- Mike and Robbie’s age gap
- How our background shapes training perspective
- The Pull to go Farther . . .
- C26 Trail Camp weekend
- 14 x Mountain Peaks in under 45 hours
- Building your belief system
- The opportunities for different people in endurance
- You want to go further or faster?
- Do you get “flaily?”
- What’s your best race distance?
- The difference in training for 70.3 vs. Ironman
- Why your fastest distance might not be your best distance
- Endurance is all about discovery and growth
- Save Up Sammy
- Is your childhood perception still accurate?
- Which workouts do you tend to cut short?
- How to create a love for something you don’t enjoy
- Mike’s new strategy for waking up earlier
- The problem with extremes
- Why you should balance indoor and outdoor training
- Don’t limit your ability to do what you love
- The power of being flexible in diet, training, and habits
- Our tendency to perfect what we’re comfortable with
- Choose the challenging route
- The good and bad of group training
- “Big things have small beginnings” - Check out the new video about our C26 Hub Training Center
- What’s really real?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Chattanooga, everybody. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey, hey, hey, welcome aboard. Today is October 15th. The year is 2020, and this is the Crushing Iron Podcast, episode 417. I was afraid you're going to forget that. |
| 0:30.5 | It's been 30 seconds. You know, my memory is fading as I turned 40, but it is episode 417. We appreciate you tuning in. |
| 0:38.0 | If it's your first time, thank you. |
| 0:39.7 | We appreciate you giving us the opportunity. |
| 0:41.5 | We know there's a lot of options out there |
| 0:42.8 | in the podcast universe and your time is valuable. |
| 0:44.9 | We cover all things triathlon and all things life. |
| 0:47.8 | We will occasionally get into the technical aspects |
| 0:50.3 | of the sport, training, philosophy, |
| 0:52.2 | how we think you should approach training |
| 0:53.7 | from our own personal perspective and experiences, |
| 0:56.2 | give race recaps, race previews, occasionally you have on a guest, and then oftentimes we'll also pop into our close group, which if you want to search that. |
| 1:04.3 | It's on Facebook, it's a crushing iron group, answer a quick question, we will let you in. |
| 1:08.6 | A lot of great people in there, they give a lot of great feedback and responses, a lot of great wisdom, everyone from beginners to Iron Man champions. So |
| 1:16.1 | hop in there if you want, be a part of the conversation. And as the year is going to end on a high |
| 1:20.3 | note, I believe, with races all over happening major races as well. So that's a good thing. But |
| 1:25.6 | that's what we do. and i are we're not professionals |
| 1:28.0 | we're not experts we're just experienced in life uh and in triathlon i've been doing it for 15 20 years |
| 1:34.4 | mike's been doing it for eight to 10 so we've been at it uh 50 years 50 years yeah that's right you're |
| 1:41.6 | well i mean life you've been at it like 60, but we won't go there. |
| 1:45.8 | We've been there. |
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