#54 - The "State of Triathlon" Address for May 2017

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Most of us are in triathlon because we love it, but the sport is far from perfect. In a bold attempt to save the sport from itself, Mike and Coach Robbie analyze the current state of triathlon and offer a few suggestions. Not much is off limits including: Ironman, pro triathletes, terminology, local races, and one-and-done racers.

Topics
- Ironman Race Prices
- Why isn't Ironman selling out?
- A New Plan that would would make triathletes commit to the sport
- Why your workout wasn't "epic"
- Why "Boom" has no place in our sport
- One and done bucket listers
- Triathlon "Hacks"
- Weeding through garbage triathlon information
- Why Lionel Sanders may have missed his window
- Where is the Truth in Triathlon?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi Robbie.
0:08.8	Man, this is like the perfect time for you.
0:12.2	Yeah, I'm pretty pumped about the time we picked for this recording.
0:16.9	It's kind of like the crushing iron midnight madness for you.
0:20.5	Oh, dude, it's like way past midnight madness for me.
0:23.3	Am I going to have to carry this one, man?
0:25.1	This may be your turn to finally carry one.
0:29.1	It is late for me, and the last three days have been exhausting.
0:36.4	Oh, okay.
0:37.3	Well, we can...
0:37.9	It's all right.
0:39.2	Are you going to make it?
0:40.2	I mean, it's 8 o'clock.
0:41.0	I'm going to make it.
0:41.8	Are you serious?
0:42.9	All right.
0:43.6	I mean, with all the...
0:45.4	Now, we've got a lot of activity going on in that close Facebook group.
0:50.3	So if anybody is listening, you might want to send us a little approval notice or whatever it is.
0:56.7	Search the crushing iron group and we'll hook you up.
0:59.9	There's a lot of stuff going on there.
1:01.1	Can you believe the range of geographical locations that we've got going in here?
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