#689 – Listener Questions - Better cycling, open water swimming, training with injuries, hills
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Some awesome questions from the group today! We start with training on the bike and how to get better. Riding alone vs. a group. How to push yourself when you're alone. We look at the best way to troll Ironman Facebook groups. We talk about how to train when you have an injury and a race coming up. Mike and Robbie share their biggest racing fears, along with what scares them as they track athletes. We shell ideas on where to start with your first racing bike. Also, you swim great in the pool, but can't put it together in open water… we get things straightened out. How to train if you're injured. Racing back to back days. Smart spends for your cycling. And tackling hills at Ironman Wisconsin. This one would be great for a drinking game.
TOPICS:
- What's up across the globe?
- ITU Rolling
- Ironman - How to get better on the bike
- Long rides solo or with groups?
- Pushing yourself when you're alone
- Mental toughness
- The best way to troll Facebook Groups
- Dealing with an injury when your race is looming
- Mike and Robbie's biggest race fears
- Our coaching fears while tracking
- I don't have a bike, where should I start?
- Turning solid pool swimming into fast open water swimming
- Recalibrating after an injury
- Racing back to back days
- Best place to spend your money as a cyclist
- Tackling hills at Ironman Wisconsin
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know what that is. |
| 0:22.2 | Sounds like the theme song. |
| 0:24.0 | It seems like the theme song for today. |
| 0:25.7 | May 30th, the year, |
| 0:28.4 | 2020. |
| 0:29.6 | Welcome on board, everybody. |
| 0:30.6 | You're listening to the Crushing Iron podcast, |
| 0:32.9 | episode 689. |
| 0:35.3 | You got it, buddy. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm hearing a little static, |
| 0:37.3 | but we can roll with that. You got static coming in? |
| 0:40.9 | That's fine. All right. Well, now that's better here on the music. Static for them. Let me, |
| 0:45.8 | let me adjust my, uh, no, you're fine. It's not you. You sure? Yeah, let's roll it out. We're rolling |
| 0:51.9 | now. Welcome to the podcast, everybody. |
| 0:54.4 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:55.2 | I hope you all had a fantastic Memorial Day weekend. |
| 0:58.2 | Hope you took a little bit of time off. |
| 1:00.5 | Your pool was probably closed, which, I mean, let's be honest, most of you weren't going to swim anyway. |
| 1:05.5 | But hope you enjoyed your weekend. It was a, I wouldn't call it a fairly busy weekend, but quite a few athletes racing had Victoria 70.3, had some ITU racing going on. All in all, low-key weekend. As we |
| 1:17.3 | gear up for the busiest part of the year, June is packed. It is another packed a month. |
| 1:23.1 | So it was July, August, a little bit calmer, and then September, October. Same thing. A whole lot |
| 1:27.3 | of racing, a whole lot of everything from 5Ks, all the way up through full distance races across the globe. You got a lot going on. And it's the summertime, your school, your kids are out. You love them. You appreciate them. You're glad you have them. But man, it's time to rearrange that schedule because once they're out of school, they're all yours. A quick thank you |
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