#674 – The Triathlon Rabbit Hole
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Today we answer listener questions and spend a lot of time in the rabbit hole finding good little nuggets. Mainly, there is a lot of discussion about cycling, specifically on windy or hilly courses. We go through a deep explanation of how to train and race your best with a thorough explanation of average power vs. normalized power. We also compare and contrast riding without power and how that should be approached. We look at the best tires and go into how (even though we know nobody wants to do it) important it is to be comfortable changing your tires on the race course. We also talk about when and how you should increase distance, both in training and races. A lot of good stuff in the weeds of this podcast. Enjoy and have a great weekend!
Topics:
- Long winters
- Windy running
- Camp Openings
- Support the podcast by getting some C26 Gear
- Race day bike execution
- Ironman Texas vs. a hilly course
- Recognizing tail winds
- How to ride hills
- Average Power vs. Normalized Power
- The physiological cost of riding
- No one ever says, "I think I left a lot on the bike course"
- Road surfaces
- Riding outside vs. the trainer
- Tire suggestions
- Not flatting
- Learn how to change a tire!
- New to triathlon
- Training to escape and punish ourselves
- Tired of being tired
Coaching Inquiries:
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, here we go. |
| 0:20.6 | All right, man. |
| 0:22.6 | Coming at you a little early today. |
| 0:24.5 | Coming at you early, but right on time. |
| 0:28.0 | It's April 6th. |
| 0:29.2 | It's a good Thursday. |
| 0:30.4 | It is the year, 2023. |
| 0:32.9 | Welcome on board, everybody. |
| 0:33.9 | You'll listen to the Crushing Iron Podcast. |
| 0:36.2 | We are episode 674. Yes podcast we are episodes six hundred and seventy four yes we are |
| 0:41.4 | 674 i hope uh hope you're all having a wonderful amazing week getting ready to celebrate for a lot of you |
| 0:47.8 | easter weekend or a four day weekend good friday good saturday good sunday maybe the kids are up |
| 0:52.9 | monday maybe they're not but should be a beautiful weekend for everyone, at least if you live in the majority of the U.S. |
| 0:59.3 | A lot of years have been getting snow for the last weekend. |
| 1:01.9 | We know you're over it. |
| 1:03.1 | I'd be over it too. |
| 1:04.1 | It's a, it's the season of swings. |
| 1:06.7 | I told you, since you a text yesterday, like I got home from when it was a Tuesday's podcast |
| 1:11.2 | and it was 82 degrees. |
| 1:15.9 | Legit, 82 degrees here. |
| 1:17.8 | I woke up the next morning and it was going for a run. |
| 1:22.8 | It was 27 with like 20 mile an hour winds. |
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