#70 - Steve DelMonte - Inside the Mind of a Race Director (Part 2)
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Steve DelMonte is a full-time Race Director. He has incredible passion for the sport, but he's more concerned about athletes enjoying their lives. We get into a lot of things with Steve, including: planning a race, cancelling a race like Alcatraz, changing the swim at Wisconsin, dealing with upset athletes, and getting the most out of your race. It's a great and inspiring conversation that will have you ready to get outside and fall back in love with the tough parts of triathlon.
- Cancelled Swim at Escape from Alcatraz
- The story behind Escape the Cape
- Why they really changed Ironman Wisconsin's swim start
- How race directors should treat their athletes
- Working behind the scenes with city leaders, businesses and churches to secure swim, bike, and run courses
- What it's like to have two races in a row cancelled by weather
- Race insurance
- Ironman 70.3 Atlantic City news
- How to race with gratitude and excellent thoughts on how athletes can better enjoy their day
Learn more about Steve DelMonte at www.delmosports.com
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Welcome to episode 70 of the Crushing Iron podcast. I'm here with Coach Robbie. What do you think of that? |
| 0:10.2 | Man, first off, 70 podcasts. That's crazy to me. Crazy awesome. |
| 0:16.8 | Today's a special one. Yeah, man. Today, that was awesome. We always enjoy talking to Steve the second time that we've had him on. |
| 0:24.4 | And he, outside of, like, you know, the race stuff, you know, race management part of it and things getting canceled, like, you know, the part that I love is, you know, we talk about this a lot is that that racing with I think it was like maybe one of our last four or five podcasts was just that racing with gratitude and the perspective that you need to have when you come to these races and um and you know your mindset should be you know not what am I going to get out of this race? Because what are you going to do for me? |
| 0:55.1 | It should be, how am I going to be awesome today and be a good example and being grateful of just |
| 1:01.8 | the fact that I get to do this. I just love that perspective in general because we all get |
| 1:06.9 | caught up. I even get caught up in it, you know, on that day-to-day, me, me, when the reality is. |
| 1:13.1 | It's just, it's a hobby, and it should be awesome, and we should do awesome things for people. |
| 1:18.8 | Yeah, he's got a lot of great stuff to say about that. |
| 1:20.9 | We talked about his race, Escape the Cape, how that sort of lines up and compares with Alcatraz. |
| 1:27.4 | We talked about canceled races, canceled swims, changing the Wisconsin swim, how he works |
| 1:36.7 | behind the scenes with local charities and local businesses, churches, et cetera, to get the race |
| 1:43.0 | course right and all kinds of other stuff. |
| 1:45.9 | So we think you're going to love it. He's got a lot of energy and he crushed it today. |
| 1:51.3 | Crushed it. |
| 1:52.6 | Inside the Mind of a Race Director, Part 2 with Steve Del Monte. |
| 1:56.9 | I've got a rule when it comes to doing what I do. |
| 1:59.4 | If I don't wake up and feel like I got to throw up just a little bit because I got so much to do, then I'm not really challenging myself. |
| 2:12.6 | What's up, man? |
| 2:14.1 | Hey, dude. What's going on? |
| 2:15.3 | Not too much. Pretty excited about today's episode. Oh, me too, man. Hey, dude. What's going on? Not too much. Pretty excited about today's episode. |
| 2:19.6 | Oh, me too, man. |
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