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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#69 - From Couch to Ironman in 16 Weeks??

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8739 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

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We posted this question in our closed Crushing Iron Facebook group and it got a ton of comments: Can you go from Couch to Ironman in 16 Weeks? Obviously it depends on where the person is in their life and what they've done before, but we think having a shorter, more focused window can actually be a benefit. This will also translate if you're doing a shorter race and think you've run out of time. You probably haven't. 

- He qualified for Ironman 70.3 Worlds in his first triathlon
- What your coach should be doing for you
- When to prioritize friends and family
- When to prioritize training
- Why you should take more days off from training
- Secretive coaching
- Listener texts as examples of progress
- Why mountain bike training matters
- Why people fade away at the wrong time when they do late season races
- When is the best time to turn up the training for your Ironman
- Throwing out "excuse crumbs"
- The best way to go from couch to Ironman
- Plus, an example of how a C26 athlete finished an Ironman with 5 weeks of training

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0:00.0

What's up, bro?

0:07.2

Welcome back to the good old state of Tennessee.

0:11.4

It's good to be back here.

0:12.2

I think I brought some of that nice weather with me.

0:14.4

Dude, it is springish.

0:17.7

Yeah, I really like it.

0:19.2

I had a dog walk this morning.

0:21.5

Oh.

0:24.2

Preping for the dogcast?

0:26.9

Prepping for a dogcast, man.

0:31.6

She said a lot of good things today, so I think... Well, let's touch on a few of them.

0:34.4

What did she have to say today?

0:36.1

She said, stop and smell the flowers. Oh, okay. I on a few of them. What did she have to say today? She said stop and smell the flowers.

0:39.5

Oh, okay.

0:40.8

I can get down with that.

0:41.8

I mean, I've got crazy allergies, so I'm not sure if I should get on board, but I get it.

0:46.1

I get where she's coming from.

0:47.6

Yeah, I was on a power walk, and she just kept wanting to stop and look around and take in the day, you know? It was like, what's the rush, bro?

0:55.7

What is the rush? It's Monday.

0:57.5

What's the rush?

0:58.5

You know, I just got off the road, a nice nine-hour drive last night,

1:02.1

and she's just ready to sink back into the local turf with her nose.

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