#52 - Building Mental Toughness
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Today we talk about real strategies you can use to get mentally tougher. In the spirit of complete transparency, we used the bullet points from this article from Triathlete.com to outline our discussion. And in the spirit of double transparency, we didn't read the article, just the 9 points and went from there. We also talk about 11 Ways to Get to Kona (per WTC) Here's the outline:
From the Article: 9 Tools For Building Mental Toughness
Make The Commitment
Build Confidence with difficult workouts
Know the purpose of each workout
Make the race a research project
Perform pre-race simulations
Focus on what can be controlled
Don't race unprepared
When Racing, think through the tough patches
Conduct a thorough post-race analysis
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| 0:00.0 | I thought I was supposed to call you. |
| 0:10.1 | Well, you were, but I figured I was running like three minutes late, so I figured you may have |
| 0:14.2 | already tried. |
| 0:15.0 | I did, and I actually was dozing off. |
| 0:20.1 | You get you ready to take your middle of the day nap. |
| 0:23.5 | You're going to stay up until 2 o'clock or something? |
| 0:25.3 | That's already done. |
| 0:26.9 | You're already done? |
| 0:27.6 | Yeah, and I'm sipping on butter coffee. |
| 0:30.4 | Oh, geez. |
| 0:31.2 | I know it's late. |
| 0:32.5 | It's too late in the day to be drinking coffee. |
| 0:34.7 | But you know how they say go into your pain and try not to resist it? |
| 0:39.6 | It's true. |
| 0:40.3 | Don't resist it. |
| 0:41.6 | So, like, I'm trying all these things so I can get better sleep at night, you know, |
| 0:45.3 | and trying to, like, get all, you know, worked up about it and all that other stuff. |
| 0:50.0 | So I'm just like, you know what? |
| 0:51.0 | I'm not even going to fight it anymore. |
| 0:52.2 | I'm just going to drink caffeine before bed. |
| 0:54.9 | Wow. |
| 0:55.5 | See if that helps. |
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