#503 – Don't Beat Yourself Into The Ground

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

There’s no such thing as a perfect lead up to a race. No matter where you are, there are things you can do to get your mind and body in the best place possible. That’s why we race. Keeping your body fresh is where we want to be.

Can you flip the switch when it matters? How many times can you go to the well?

Topics:

Serious Season
Madison Course ride weekend
when we eat sleep and breathe ironman
mentally unwinding
Swimming lake Monona
Seasonal EPO
The last two big weekends before Wisconsin
Countdown to Chattanooga
Give yourself a break
Flipping the training switch
Molly Seidel in woman’s marathon - “I just kinda wanted to stick my nose where it didn’t belong.”
Training and fitness matter, but it’s so much about mentality
Nothing is guaranteed on race day
Staying optimistic in your training
Minimal Effective Dose
When the Enormity of a race wears you down
When you have nothing to lose
Stopping at the beginning of taper
The hardest part of training
Why people give up on triathlon

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0:00.0	Welcome for Madison, Wisconsin.
0:21.9	I'm a guest from the lake again.
0:24.5	I'm not on it, but I'm not on it, but I got to give a shout out to Hilton Hotel.
0:29.7	We were right on the lake, and I am in a conference room that they gave me to do the podcast.
0:35.5	And I am looking, I told them who we were, and I said, you know, Best Western in on the podcast and I am looking I told him who we were and I said you know best
0:40.5	western in the park they really hooked this up and they're like hang on sir hang on sir
0:45.3	you can have the little fallet room and it has a beautiful view of Lake Manona which did they deliver
0:52.3	no yeah it's huge I got free soda and water in here.
0:56.8	All right, anyway. Moving on.
0:58.5	But I'm looking out at the lake, and I'm looking at the...
1:00.5	They're setting up a band on the terrace.
1:02.4	I mean, it's all good.
1:03.5	Yeah, they're playing on the top floor up there.
1:05.4	Anything else awesome going on?
1:06.7	You want to go ahead and let us know about it?
1:07.9	You can rub it in like that's that's it's a friday afternoon like we usually we'll do our in turn a minute but we usually do this on mondays and thursdays but i've
1:14.2	been so jealous and honestly just jaded the fact that you were on the lake earlier this week and you
1:20.3	were kind of rubbing in i was like i really just don't want to talk to him i think i'm just going to push off as long as I possibly can. So now we're here with you on a Friday morning.
1:27.8	But so you said Hampton in or Hilton?
1:30.4	Hilton, the Hilton, you know, the one right on the connects to the.
1:33.6	Oh, yeah.
1:34.5	Oh, man, you're going to large.
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