#680 – Attack Your Weaknesses
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
If you're like most of us you excel at one or two of the three sports in triathlon. But guess what? Attacking your weaknesses can often improve the others as well. Today, we look at how and why to put more time into things you're not good (or natural) at. This goes from spending more time in a certain sport to figuring out the little secrets to what Free Speed means with regard to racing. We get into the idea of shooting for the sun and landing on the moon along with what that REALLY MEANS. We can talk about things, plan them out, imagine certain outcomes, but it really comes down to doing work. And that might not always be the kind of work you think it is. The easier your "fast" feels, the longer you can hold it. But how do you get to that point? What are some good training strategies that make going fast feel easier?
Topics:
- Just showing up
- Shoot for the Sun, Land on the Moon?
- Aiming differently at the target
- Rekindle competitive nature
- Rising tides raise all ships
- Seed money or sell something??
- We avoid doing things we're not good at, but . . .
- Which side of the body do you favor?
- Passive improvements
- Balancing the left and right side
- Picking races for different types of athletes
- Strong arm/Weak arm
- The key to lowering your run time
- Returns on investments
- Hibernate and shed as you go?
- Run economy
- Real Free Speed
- The easier your fast feels the longer you can hold it
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We just keep showing up |
| 0:20.2 | like a bad fly on you. Like a bad fly on you at the Mexican We just keep showing up, buddy. |
| 0:25.5 | Like a bad fly on you at the Mexican restaurant. |
| 0:28.8 | Like a bad fly on your burrito. |
| 0:29.4 | We're back. |
| 0:30.4 | You're back. |
| 0:31.4 | Hopefully better than ever. |
| 0:34.8 | It's April 27th year, 2023. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome aboard, everybody. Listen to the crushing pie podcast. This is episode |
| 0:39.7 | 680. Cushing pie podcast. Crushing fly podcast. Yeah, we should do that, you know. Yeah, |
| 0:47.4 | we're back like a fly in your burrito at the, on the patio at the La Guadalajara grill. |
| 0:53.7 | You know, that's your, there's you now, that's us. |
| 0:56.9 | We're back. |
| 0:57.4 | It's funny. |
| 0:57.7 | You said, we just keep showing up. |
| 0:59.4 | I do want to tell a quick story. |
| 1:00.7 | It's not, we're not going to make this podcast, the podcast topic, but talking about just |
| 1:05.3 | showing up because I was going to venture there today, but we're not, because I think we might actually talk about swimming today, which always kind of gets my juices flowing, which, to be fair, and we'll do our intro in here |
| 1:14.2 | a minute, sometimes I feel like when you mention the word swimming, you're kind of already |
| 1:19.0 | like kicked back in your robe with like a couple cups of coffee close by, like Netflix |
| 1:24.8 | propped up next to you, because you know that if you get me on swimming |
| 1:27.9 | that you will have to only do like maybe 10% of the legwork today and you're like you know what |
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