#691 – Mid-Season Wake Up Calls
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
It's not always fun to have a wake up call. Today, we get into the illusion of seeking dreams without putting in the work. Mike did a Sprint over the weekend and he had to take a long, hard look in the mirror. We get into riding on success from the past, and how 90% of life is just showing up . . . but most people don't do the 10% which is learn from success or failure. We talk about confidence as a crutch, how it's good to have a healthy fear hanging over you, and why we have to own our successes and failures. Eventually being unprepared will wear you down. Woulda, coulda, shoulda, only goes so far. When we have a big, exciting dream, we should go for it, but it ultimately boils down to doing the hard part, which is the actual work.
Topics:
- Des Moines and Eagleman
- Mike's Sprint wake up
- Abandoning habits that matter
- Riding the belief train too much
- 90% of Life is showing up
- Getting stuck on your dream vision
- Not adjusting to hit your goals
- Riding past successes
- 24 Hour Rule
- Athletes and 180 degree swings
- Cramming for tests and races
- The Result IS Hard work
- Woulda, coulda, shoulda, #Didn't
- All nighter studying
- Why do you expect what you do?
- Dedicate to . . . doing your best
- It gets old going into things unprepared
- Massive underachieving
- Confidence as a crutch
- Acceptance of where you are in training
- Paralyzed by that "entry into the sport" frame of mind
- It's time for action
- The harder you work, the luckier you get
- "If I get lost, if I get injured, if I die, it's my fault"
- A healthy fear hanging over you
- It's my fault
- Own success . . . and failure.
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Good morning, everybody. Good morning to you, Coach Robbie. |
| 0:22.2 | Good morning. Coach Mike. It's June 6th, the year, 2020. |
| 0:27.3 | Welcome to board, everybody. |
| 0:28.7 | Listen to the Crushing Iron Podcast, episode 600 and 91. |
| 0:34.1 | Yeah, that's what we think. |
| 0:35.6 | That's what we think. So we know. and you know what you think is what you know |
| 0:38.9 | hope you all had an amazing weekend a lot of racing going on a lot of everywhere busy a busy time |
| 0:44.3 | this weekend i'll be headed up to a Des Moines this weekend looking forward to seeing we have |
| 0:49.0 | quite a few athletes so if you're going to be there and you see me around come say hi |
| 0:53.8 | shake the hand say hello |
| 0:55.4 | but yeah i'll be there on friday um looking forward to i guess the the actual first full version |
| 1:00.6 | of the 70.3 the first year they did that race it was i think bad storms rolled in and they cut |
| 1:05.2 | the swim short and the bike short and then last year was the full of distance but um looking |
| 1:10.3 | forward to hanging out in the city of Des Moines, downtown, and seeing everyone. |
| 1:13.9 | So, yeah, again, if you're there, come say hi. |
| 1:16.0 | And then you got Eagleman 70.3, the very popular Grand Rapids races up in Michigan. |
| 1:20.6 | So listen, it's June. |
| 1:22.2 | It's full on. |
| 1:23.0 | It's full gas. |
| 1:23.8 | Excited to be here today. |
| 1:25.4 | It's your first time tuning in. |
| 1:26.9 | Welcome. |
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