#706 – How To Love Your Training

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

There's nothing better than being excited about the day's training. So, how do we keep that feeling alive all year, or at least, more often? Today we start with a little state of Ironman discussion. Fulls cutback… 70.3's on the rise… and maybe why. Then we look at the mindset of athletes and how they think of training and racing. Hard things might suck at times, but we can use them as a compass for life. We offer a lot of thoughts on how to take the rigidity out of training and make it more enjoyable. Your plan isn't written in stone and it's important to understand your body and how it feels each day. Be open to going longer if you feel it. Be okay with going slower or shorter. There is mystery in the training cycle. Some days we don't think we have it and we do. Other times . . . Be aware of what's going on, give yourself some love and flexibility. Find purpose in what you do. And what you're training for is just one day. Save a little pain and effort for the race.

Topics:

Hoodie weather for Mike
State of Ironman
Full decline? 70.3 Increase?
Too many races?
Athletes that overcommit
People seem busier than ever
Do you NEED an event on the calendar?
Keep doing the hard things as your compass
Burnout
Keeping an even training schedule year-round
Why do you want to race?
Do things with a purpose
It's one day
Listen to the body, and understand the body
Goal: Look forward to training tomorrow
2 hours or 2:15?
Average to stay steady
Go slow until you like it again
Cleaning the basement during recovery intervals?
Be creative and find your way
Run/walk
Epitomize flexibility
How long you running today? "I don't know."

Coaching Inquiries

Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com

Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com

www.c26triathlon.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Good morning, coach. Good morning, coach.
0:23.5	Good morning.
0:25.3	It is August 18th, the year,
0:28.1	2020,
0:29.0	welcome board, everybody.
0:30.9	You listen to the Crushing Iron podcast,
0:32.7	episode 700 and 6.
0:35.5	706, it's the middle of August. I'm sitting here in a hoodie. Oh my God. How do you like that?
0:43.0	I don't. What do you mean? No, I don't like it. NB. We've had, I mean, to be honest,
0:49.5	I told you before we went live, I mean, I was Hayden had his first day of school on Wednesday,
0:54.0	and there
0:54.6	was some people that had a little birthday, get together for their daughters before schools. They had
0:59.5	donuts and stuff. And I walked down there in a hoodie because it was like mid the low 60s.
1:04.4	And right now in August, if you live basically anywhere in the country, 60s feels like 30s.
1:10.5	And because of how acclimated, you know, you are to how hot it is, just like, you know, come May or June 70s feels like 100 because you're not used to it.
1:19.5	But it'll be back into the hundreds this weekend.
1:21.7	There's already heat advisory for today.
1:23.7	It's going to get nasty.
1:25.1	It's going to get gross.
1:26.4	But that hopefully it's still like the last
1:28.5	terrible weekend. But yeah, I don't like hearing that all the time from you. But keep it
1:34.6	track. I've got a dry race board in my office. And every time you mention that, I just make a
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