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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#481 – The Fear of Pain

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Ironman, Nutrition, Triathlon, Podcast, Fitness, Swimming, Training, Coaching, Health & Fitness

4.7724 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Are you at peace with your training/racing efforts, or is something holding you back? Today, we get into flirting with the fringe to explore your limits. We talk about real ways to get faster in this sport and where that process starts. We talk about tempo and interval work and how to understand your effort from Z2 through 100% and why it’s so important to push yourself in the swim and bike. We explain accumulated fatigue, how it feels and why it’s working. And finally, we explore delusional contentment. 

Topics:

  • Chattanooga cools off
  • “We’re back” to training
  • Digging Deep
  • When we forget this sport is hard
  • Long Grinding Swims, Bikes, or Runs
  • Uncomfortable tempo workouts
  • Most athletes under train the swim 
  • Recognizing your pitfalls, weaknesses and fears
  • Just keep spinning
  • Mixing cadence on the bike
  • How to build speed and power on the bike
  • Understanding 100% vs. 70 or 80% effort
  • Obsession with day to day or week to week improvement
  • Accumulated Fatigue and how it works
  • The intent is to Do Your Best
  • Why are you so afraid to bonk?
  • Fear of being uncomfortable
  • Walking on the run
  • How life translates to pushing it in races
  • What’s a real obstacle and what’s not?
  • When racing is our escape
  • Ignoring vs. Obsessing
  • Thinking things into being worse
  • Taper Phantom Pains
  • Re-directing thought patterns
  • Don’t Think About It
  • What is Contentment? 
  • Are you at peace with your training or racing effort?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I officially put away my sweatsh

0:07.0

Well, I officially put away my sweats.

0:21.6

Well, you might want to get back out out because it's supposed to be cool over the weekend.

0:25.7

Welcome aboard.

0:26.5

Oh, is it?

0:27.0

Yeah, it is.

0:28.0

Welcome aboard.

0:28.9

Today is May 28, 2021.

0:32.1

It's a Friday.

0:33.5

This is the Cushing Iron podcast, and we are episode 481.

0:38.5

481, man.

0:39.5

You know not to put away the hoodies and the sweatpants until two weeks after chat 70.3

0:46.2

because we always get really pleasant weather in the lead-up,

0:49.3

and then it's an absolute hellacious furnace, the week of.

0:53.8

And then I think I saw tomorrow here in Chattanooga.

0:57.0

I think we're, you guys are going to hate this.

0:59.9

It's a high tomorrow of 69, a low of 50, and then a high on Sunday of 76 and a low of 51,

1:07.0

perfectly sunny, which is basically like the most ideal perfect race conditions you can

1:11.5

imagine. But hey, you know what? If you've done Chattanooga at all ever, either the full or the

1:16.5

half, you know, that don't even consider like taking the weather seriously, the two weeks before

1:21.5

or the week after, it's going to be hot here. And then it was and it was awesome. But we've recovered

1:25.8

for the most part. It's where we're coming to you a little bit delayed on Friday. We played a little bit of catch up. We had a huge

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