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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#675 – Mixing Short Course Races into Your Calendar

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8739 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Today we talk about how to prepare and race Sprints and Olympics when you're training for longer races.

But, if you're just racing short course there are tons of good nuggets about how to get a much better performance.

Sometimes we forget what it feels like to go hard and short course is a great way to calibrate yourself with your effort.

We look into whether you should taper or not and why it can simply be a waste of a week. We look at HOW to race sprints and olympics.

From training to pacing to letting it rip on the bike and figuring out the run. We talk about pain and how to go through it when you keep hearing alarm bells. Why the fastest athletes on the planet go without a watch on the run. Short course is all about finding your limits… today we look at smart and strategic ways to get there.

Topics:

  • 30 Days of our lives
  • 30 day commitment
  • Looking for excuses
  • Blaming yourself or others?
  • When running and something hurts . . . 
  • Going through the pain
  • The obstacle is the way
  • Froggy weather
  • Commit or not
  • Objective and mature decisions
  • Does your decision makes sense with your life?
  • What does your A-Race mean to you?
  • Have a plan and purpose
  • Drop a race in
  • Tapering for short races?
  • Always keep your swimming up
  • Bike - Oly - Lower volume, intensity up
  • Running - keep intensity
  • Do you deserve a taper?
  • Don't waste a week
  • Mixing in a marathon affects 5 weeks of your calendar 
  • Be engaged with your running - no plod mode
  • Calibrate yourself with racing. 
  • Running matchless
  • When all you know is how you feel
  • Do you remember what it feels like to go hard?
  • Brick runs . . . 
  • Swim hard, then bike… 
  • Bike like there is no run…
  • All these alarm bells… 
  • It's about finding your limit

Coaching Inquiries:

Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com

Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com

www.c26triathlon.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, man, let's have some fun today.

0:19.6

Let's go.

0:20.8

Let's do it.

0:21.6

April 11th, the year, 2020.

0:25.5

Welcome to it, everybody.

0:26.9

You listen to the crushing Iron Podcast, and this is episode 600 and 75.

0:32.6

Yep.

0:33.1

30 days of podcasting over the career of our life.

0:35.9

Isn't that what you just said?

0:37.8

Something close to that, yeah, a month of our lives dedicated to you, the people, the listeners,

0:44.1

my mom, your mom, and then about 14 of our closest friends.

0:48.1

That's got to be worth something, man.

0:50.1

Yeah, yeah, we did the calculation.

0:51.8

Just kind of think through things like a month of our entire, a month of life has been

0:56.6

dedicated to this podcast since we start, which is honestly really cool to think about

1:00.8

in the scheme of things and being able to do things that you love and that get your juices

1:07.0

flown and that fills your cup.

1:08.4

So I wouldn't have any in the way.

1:10.2

Happy to be here today

1:11.0

hope you had an amazing weekend and hopefully you are getting some springtime weather and if you're

1:16.5

not well the rest of us are getting some for you so you will get some springtime weather here soon

1:22.5

enough and hopefully had a great racing weekend it's a again it's April April. The year has begun in terms of the North American racing season.

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