#47 - It's Race Season: Get Your Body and Mind Right
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This is a great podcast on how to break down your races and use them in the right ways to become faster and a better triathlete. We share when it's good to take risks in races. What is the biggest mistake you can make in a race and how to avoid it. Robbie unveils his "3 R's" strategy for attacking your race season. We also tell you when is a good time to race without looking at your data on the course.
- Getting your mind in race form
- How to handle your A, B, and C races
- Applying Coach Robbie's "Three R's" to your season
- How Reality Checks improve your performance
- Taking what you learn from one race to the next
- When and how to be more risky in your races
- Don't build in excuses
- A race is a race, not a workout
- One of the biggest mistakes you can make in a race
- When to race with no data. Can you do it??
- Why you shouldn't ride a race course too often
- How a Crushing Iron listener cut 20 seconds off her hundred yard swim time
- Upcoming Race Calendar Insight and races to follow
- Season Pass for live ITU Triathlon
- A hot Ironman 70.3 to keep an eye on
Here's the link to watch ITU races all season.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Coach. |
| 0:08.4 | Every streak is made to be broken. |
| 0:11.1 | Now, I knew you were going to go there. |
| 0:13.8 | That's why, if you go back and look at our text, I said, let's... |
| 0:16.8 | Don't even play the ish card. |
| 0:18.9 | Let's go at three-ish. |
| 0:20.7 | Yeah, I knew you were going to pull the ish card. |
| 0:24.3 | I am three for three. |
| 0:26.3 | I am still on fire being right on time. |
| 0:30.3 | You sound a little nasly. |
| 0:33.0 | I do. |
| 0:33.3 | You just come from the pool? |
| 0:34.8 | No, I've been standing outside in allergies all week. |
| 0:38.4 | Oh, man. Time on your feet. Time on my feet. No time in the pool, on the bike, or on the run. |
| 0:45.3 | Wow. But 10 hours. Well, I mean, a little bit in the pool. I went over to do the... I went over to swim today, but evidently Jesus is not a big fan of people swimming on Easter Sunday at the YMCA. |
| 0:59.9 | Yeah, the YMCA is cool if you want to work out during like the however any days you have for Hanukkah or whatever they have. |
| 1:08.8 | You can swim all you want. |
| 1:09.9 | But if you want to swim on Easter, nope. |
| 1:13.5 | Not going to happen. |
| 1:14.9 | Not going to happen. |
| 1:16.9 | But this Nashville is getting so trendy now. |
| 1:20.3 | I've been down on the gulch that I think it's just a matter. |
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