#48 - A Seasonal Reality Check: Training and Racing In The Heat
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Seems like it can go from cold to scorching hot in a couple of weeks these days and that can reek havoc on your training. It takes time to acclimate to heat and not taking it into account is a big mistake. It's that seasonal transition and now's the time to talk about it. We also get into racing in the heat.
- Quickly acclimating yourself to the heat
- Heart rate and what changes
- Why people bonk in Boston
- Why running with the wind can be dangerous
- Why you need to fuel more in hot weather
- How to adapt quickly
- Strategies for racing in heat
- Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga
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| 0:00.0 | Michael. |
| 0:01.0 | Okay, my new streak starts next time. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm three minutes late. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm giving you a pass, man. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm running on fumes here, so I need the extra three minutes. |
| 0:21.2 | Oh, great, great. |
| 0:22.5 | And, you know, that's the last thing we want to do is make this stressful. |
| 0:26.3 | Yeah, there's supposed to be a place we can, you know, relax and connect and find some peace. |
| 0:32.7 | This is our safe zone. |
| 0:34.9 | Oh, man, if I needed one, I'm glad we got this going. |
| 0:38.5 | Yeah, let's just talk about triathlon and have fun with it. |
| 0:43.6 | Yeah, can I, but since I'm, to be telling honest, I'm not really going to have a too much time on this podcast, but the, you know, a lot when you get off. So are you open to this Sunday having our |
| 0:59.5 | next podcast having a two guests on? Are you open for that? Um, yeah, I'm open. I'm totally open to that. |
| 1:08.1 | Well, it'd be a pretty cool dynamic, I think, that Blake, you know, who's been on the |
| 1:12.7 | podcast before, one of my athletes, he and his best friend, or one of his good friends, Jack, |
| 1:18.4 | are putting on that open water swim race in Knoxville. |
| 1:22.3 | So they want to talk to us a little bit about that. |
| 1:23.6 | But then also Jack, who won Iron Man Floridaida um overall uh this last year so he's actually |
| 1:32.1 | an iron man champion uh and going to cona this year will be on um and i think it'd be cool to ask him |
| 1:39.0 | a few questions as well about his his training and what it's like being somebody who can like |
| 1:44.0 | go you know low nine hours |
| 1:46.8 | and an iron man and uh i think you just did boston uh this coming week and did something just |
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