#50 - Nailing Race Week, The Taper, and Predicting Your Race Time...Plus, Open Water Swimming

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

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We all think we have race week planned perfectly until it shows up. Today we walk through how much you should swim, bike, run and when. We also talk about nutrition, including when and how much water and electrolytes you should be consuming race week. There's also great information on how to accurately predict your race time, along with some more DON'T DOs regarding Open Water Swim Training.

- Race week Volume for Swim, Bike, and Run
- The keys of a good taper week
- Electrolyte and water consumption
- What to do the day before the race
- Why swimming on race week is so important
- Why cycling and swimming during race week are different than running
- What percentages you should use to predict your race time
- A surefire and easy way to detect whether you're training too hard for your shape
- How to get a good feel for the water

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0:00.0	Good morning.
0:08.0	Good morning, Michael.
0:10.4	The links that I go to for this podcast, I tell you.
0:13.1	Man, can we briefly share the kind of context of our text message yesterday?
0:22.5	Yeah, sure.
0:23.2	That I think most people would find funny.
0:26.4	So we're currently recording this at 9 a.m. on Wednesday for our Thursday release.
0:32.6	And Mike texted me yesterday asking if we could go early with the podcast.
0:38.9	And to tell you how different our lives are, I'm usually up at 5 o'clock.
0:44.6	And his first suggestion for early was, what was it, 11 a.m.?
0:49.6	11, yes.
0:50.7	11, yeah.
0:51.2	Yeah, so, yeah.
0:53.1	So he has taken one for the team and shown that he is, you know, unwillingly able to make it up early.
1:05.0	And he is here this morning, and I'm pretty happy about it.
1:08.3	So, take her away.
1:10.3	Take her away. I figured that's how it. So, take her away. Take her away.
1:12.8	I figured that's sick out how it's going to go.
1:15.0	You're going to record and I'm going to do the cast.
1:16.7	Is that how it's going to go?
1:17.7	Yeah, basically, I'm rolling.
1:19.3	So you can, no.
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