#704 – Your Final Race Block
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Whether you feel behind or confident going into your race, this podcast is for you. Today, we look at the most important things you can do in your final training block to be ready on race day. We look at the demands of the swim and how you can prepare with your last month or so of training. We talk about the importance of the bike, including strength, ability to stay even, and how to stay away from too many surges. We look at stress, lactic build up, going from coasting to engaged, and how to balance your bike effort for 112 miles. We also look at the run and talk about why it's so dependent on a good bike. And finally, if you're behind, we talk about the most important parts of getting yourself into the strongest position possible on race day.
Topics:
- Is it hot or cool?
- Can you handle the heat?
- USAT Worlds
- You can't win on the swim, but . . .
- Crossfit Games
- Big Gear Work
- Swim preparation
- From the torso up
- Legs take up a lot of oxygen
- Having different swim speeds/zones
- 2nd loop will be choppier
- The pre-transition feeling
- Crotch rockets in traffic jams
- Smooth and in control on the bike
- Best bike day - even riding
- Average and normalized power
- Turns and surging
- Cornering
- Stress - lactic build up
- From coasting to engaged
- Strength on Strength on Speed
- Mentally strong
- Off the bike to the run
- If you feel behind . . .
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, friends and family. |
| 0:20.0 | Crossing our podcast. Welcome. Good morning, friends and family. Cressing Iron Podcast. |
| 0:24.3 | Welcome. |
| 0:24.9 | It is a gloomy, gloomy day. |
| 0:27.2 | It'll, hey, at least we're getting rain. |
| 0:28.4 | It is August 3rd, the year, 2023. |
| 0:31.5 | Welcome aboard, everybody. |
| 0:32.9 | You're listening to the Crushing Iron Podcast, episode 700 and 4. |
| 0:38.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.3 | And every day, it's been just like Saturday here in Wisconsin. |
| 0:47.3 | Oh, has it. |
| 0:48.6 | Yeah, it's beautiful. |
| 0:50.3 | Yes. |
| 0:50.9 | Thanks for rubbing that in. |
| 0:52.3 | I appreciate that. |
| 0:53.6 | A few fluffy clouds, cumuline in by. Yes. Thanks for wrapping that in. I appreciate that. A few fluffy clouds, cumuline in by. Beautiful blue sky. No, no smoke. It's just calm blue water. Well, thanks for, thanks for rubbing it in. It was the other night when I played tennis, it was feels like 108. So I appreciate that. |
| 1:13.4 | I appreciate you, uh, letting me know that somewhere. And they, it must be there, it must be like |
| 1:17.3 | that way in a other parts of the country. Because I had two people yesterday morning. |
| 1:22.4 | They, they wrote out words that I haven't heard or read in months and it was it was quite cool out this |
| 1:29.1 | morning had a great run and I'm like you know what if there was like I think there is a middle |
| 1:32.7 | finger emoji but I really wanted to click on that because I'm like just rub it in rub it in here in |
| 1:38.3 | here in Kansas you wake up and it looks like you're like huh maybe it rained last night and it didn't |
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