#466 – Race Week Mentality – Texas 70.3 Focus

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Ironman Texas 70.3 almost here and Coach Robbie talks about his mental approach to Race Week. We get into what not to do during your race week, how to look at nerves and anxiety, and what it means to race after such a long time off. We look at race strategy, setting A, B, and C goals. How to tackle the swim, adjust your in-race decisions, and the most important question you can ask yourself throughout the race. We also look at gratitude for racing and how wind, heat, and other variables should affect your decision making process.

Topics:

Being grateful for where we are
The 3 week training/life cycle
100% confident Texas 70.3 will happen
What does "Nervous" mean to you?
Race week anxiety
Facebook Race Groups
When is it time to pull the plug on a workout?
Setting A, B & C Race Goals
Have fun, breathe, rip it
Race week training
Put your face in the water and say "Ahh"
"I felt sluggish for 3 miles, then . . . "
Racing Free
Remembering your good training days
The first few miles are very important
"Fall into Pace"
Making the In-Race Decisions
Tailwind, heat, humidity, cold . . .
How the bike can ruin your run
Let go . . . trust the universe
Don't blow a good hand on race day
In-Race flexibility and modifying your plan
The big question: How will this decision impact the last 5 miles of the run?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	It's race week, buddy. It's race week, buddy. It's race week. It's also a Monday.
0:21.2	It's also a Monday. It's April 5th, the first podcast we've actually done this month.
0:26.7	All the other ones are pre-recorded.
0:27.9	This is the crushing iron podcast.
0:30.1	Like we said, it's April 5th, 2021.
0:32.4	This is podcast episode 469.
0:36.9	66.
0:42.2	66, sorry. I mean, I'm on vacation for a week. We did four podcasts and one week to get ahead and a little bit out. But then we talked for quite a while before the
0:46.3	podcast started. We usually, you know, check back in the archives, see where we're at. But 466?
0:51.0	Yep. That sounds good. It all sounds good. Hope you have an awesome day. It is an absolutely stellar day here in Chattanooga, sunshine, perfect weather.
0:58.9	Hope you're having some of the same.
1:00.0	But again, welcome aboard.
1:02.0	This is the crushing iron podcast.
1:03.6	We've gone in, what's a 465 of these.
1:06.4	We come to you twice a week, traditionally Mondays and Thursdays, but always twice a week, as we have been
1:10.9	for what I said about the last five years. Mike does a really awesome job of outlining all the
1:16.0	podcasts that we do. We cover all things triathlon and a whole lot of life. We do swim bike
1:20.4	run a detailed podcast and talks about training, training philosophy, and outline. We'll occasionally
1:25.2	have one of guests. We'll do race recaps, which we'll be
1:27.6	doing next week, and we do race previews. But for the most part, Mike and I is both coaches,
1:32.6	athletes, and best friends. Just sit back, relax, have a good, open-honest discussion about what we're
1:37.7	going through, what we know our athletes are going through, sometimes even hop into our closed
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