#43 - De-Coding Open Water Swimming
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This topic is right in Coach Robbie's wheelhouse and Mike is a great Guinea Pig due to his long history of open water swim anxiety. This podcast is loaded with gems on how to be a better open water swimmer. Included:
• Pre-race rituals including a great way to prep for cold water
• Getting mentally stronger
• Wet suit chest pressures
• Controlling your heart rate
• Dealing with contact
• The importance of warm ups
• How to not worry about what's under the water
• Training for congestion
• Why stroke turnover is king
• Positioning for a floating start
• How to train harder than the race
• How to use a sandy beach to make you stronger
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my friend. |
| 0:09.4 | Hey, man, what's up? |
| 0:11.0 | I'm much sorry for the delay. |
| 0:12.7 | I just got off my trek bicycling. |
| 0:16.4 | Did you now? |
| 0:17.5 | I did. |
| 0:18.7 | You hit the lab? |
| 0:19.9 | I was in the lab. Yes, indeed. Oh, man. A little jealous. |
| 0:24.2 | Well, you shouldn't be. A little, but not much. A lot of frisbees and, uh, uh, oh, what? |
| 0:30.6 | Dogs running around with no leashes and remote cars and kids. Yeah, there, yeah, there was remote cars the last time I was there. |
| 0:39.6 | And I'm waiting for it to become like a, you know, what is it? |
| 0:45.5 | The Cornelia Marie or something, like, Fort Marie or something airport. |
| 0:51.0 | And I'm just waiting for it to turn into like a drone field. |
| 0:54.3 | Oh, I know. And I'm going to do whatever I can to stop that. |
| 0:58.2 | Yeah, when I get back, that's one of my most important priorities is starting a petition |
| 1:03.7 | to ban all roller, well, not roller blades. |
| 1:08.9 | No, no, easy easy now remote control vehicles |
| 1:12.1 | remote control anything |
| 1:14.3 | created |
| 1:16.2 | um |
| 1:17.7 | for the use of remote control |
| 1:20.1 | and that could become a nuisance |
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