#465 – Race Energy is Back
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Let's face it, we all need some Race Energy. Texas and Florida 70.3 wait in the wings and we couldn't be more excited. How will the dynamics change? How will people race when training for 12-18 months? That competitive "first time" feeling. Will C_vid drive growth in triathlon? How many will be in the fields? Remembering why we go into the sport. Robbie's secret training. And when our "why" changes.
Topics:
- Sweet 16 talk
- Robbie's bold prediction for 2021 races
- Ironman first timers
- Growth of the sport coming after C_vid?
- Demand for Ironman
- Everyone has changed the last year
- Alcohol sales down for the first time in pandemic?
- Deferrals
- 1,000-1,500 per race?
- Texas 70.3 protocol
- Ironman Tier System
- Chattanooga
- Kona 2021
- Dusting off the cobwebs
- Just like riding a bike?
- Robbie's Secret training
- Working on transitions
- Socks or no sox on the run?
- How easily we forget why we got into the sport
- Why did YOU do your first Ironman?
- When our why changes
- Lend a hand to new triathletes
- Chattanooga nightlife on fire, says Mike
- Tupelo Honey vs State of Confusion vs. Publix
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sweet 16. It's a Saturday. We're recording us early, but for you, it's April 16 weekend. |
| 0:19.8 | Sweet 16. |
| 0:22.5 | It's a Saturday. |
| 0:25.2 | We're recording us early, but for you, it's April 1st. |
| 0:25.8 | Wow. It's already April week, maybe. |
| 0:27.4 | Yeah, we blew through Q1. |
| 0:29.1 | We're here. |
| 0:30.2 | Welcome aboard. |
| 0:30.9 | This is the Crushing Iron podcast, and we are episode 465. |
| 0:36.3 | Oh, yeah, no, yeah. |
| 0:38.2 | Yeah, 65, right? I, yeah. 465, right? |
| 0:39.5 | I nailed it. |
| 0:40.4 | You made me waffle. |
| 0:41.9 | I was trying to throw you off there. |
| 0:43.7 | We're already in April. |
| 0:45.2 | We're technically, as we record this, we're still in March. |
| 0:47.2 | We'll be out of town next week. |
| 0:48.2 | So we're recording this early on a Saturday afternoon, a muggy Saturday afternoon, |
| 0:52.3 | and, you know, sweet 16 basketball games have |
| 0:54.4 | started. And you know what? We're here. We're in the office. We're getting it done. And I appreciate |
| 0:58.1 | you, Mike, for being flexible and coming in on a, hey, wait a minute. Did you get a haircut? No, I just |
| 1:02.6 | took my hat off. Okay. Well, you know what? That's the cheapest haircut. Yeah, it is. I like how my hair looks after a hair or hat hair sometimes. When it's short, |
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