#49 - A New Open Water Swim Race, Plus The Winner of Ironman Florida, Jack McAfee
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
One day three kids from Knoxville (including the winner of Ironman Florida) decided they wanted to start a 10K swim race. These kinds of things don't just happen and today they joined the podcast to tell us all about the race and why it's different than any other stand alone swim race in the US. Also, Jack McAfee, Winner of Ironman Florida tells us what it's like to have an Ironman fall apart, then win one only 5 weeks later.
- Starting a New Race From Scratch
- Pitfalls, Joys, Permits, etc.
- Overcoming Bike Troubles And Running Mad
- What it's like to WIN Ironman Florida
- What it's like to trip over the tape when you WIN Ironman Florida
- Swim The Suck
- Crossing Hells Mouth (Open Water Swim Documentary)
- Swim prep for open water
- Olympic 10K Swim Recap
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is up? |
| 0:10.7 | Hey, man. |
| 0:11.5 | How's it going? |
| 0:12.2 | It's good. |
| 0:12.6 | Are you doing any packing? |
| 0:14.9 | Not right now. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm doing the podcast. |
| 0:17.7 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:18.5 | I mean, previously, because you're getting ready to move by here. |
| 0:21.4 | Yeah, man, I'll be Tennessee bound in eight days. |
| 0:26.0 | First leg of the trip starts May 1st. |
| 0:28.1 | Wow, that is exciting. |
| 0:30.2 | It is. |
| 0:30.8 | It's going to be kind of a two-part trip, but I think that's the easiest way to go about it |
| 0:36.2 | with taking the dogs, Hayden and Alley down, |
| 0:39.1 | and a very minimal trip with the cars, and then I'll come back that following weekend, |
| 0:44.4 | and U-Haul the rest back. |
| 0:46.6 | Okay, well, what I want to know is when is open water swimming training starting? |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, one of our guests that we're about to have on is I already asked me that. |
| 0:56.4 | It's probably going to take me a couple days to get settled in, but as you know, I |
| 1:00.1 | literally haven't, I've only swam once since Wisconsin last year, so that's eight months. |
| 1:06.6 | So I am, I'm definitely looking forward to getting back in the water and hopefully within the first week. |
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