#709 – Listener Questions - 8-29-23
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
More awesome questions today, starting with taper discussion and going through back to back threshold sessions. What happens if you have a big setback before a race? What if you're dealing with nagging injuries or soreness? Are you a strong runner or a fast runner? How should you approach the bike in each case. Is it easier to chase the clock, or fend it off? How do you build confidence as you get closer to your race? Creating smart variation in your training. Is your default to always do more to build your race confidence? How to experiment in training. Listening to your body before your ego. When does it make sense to go rip the bike? Talking treadmill vs. running outside. When, why? How to keep things fresh and fun.
Topics:
- 3 Taper buckets
- Focus on your wins
- Dealing with big setbacks before a big race
- Tendonitis, ongoing pain . . .
- Mental confidence
- Overtraining as your confidence builder?
- Double Threshold days - with examples
- Heavily monitored training vs. winging it
- Strength, durability and intelligence in racing
- Long threshold bike coupled with short threshold runs
- Listen to your body, not ego
- Driven by lack of confidence
- Slow runner? Strong runner?
- Chasing the clock vs. fending off the clock
- Racing is experience and experiment
- Treadmill vs. running outside
- Don't force yourself to always train the same way
- Keep things fresh and fun
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Oh man, my timing was off, but here we are. |
| 0:23.2 | I was going to say, man, you're a little bit rusty. |
| 0:25.1 | We go, we don't cast for a few, for a few days, |
| 0:27.7 | and all of a sudden, you're ripping a chord on the intro song. |
| 0:31.3 | Everybody loves so much. |
| 0:32.2 | I feel really good, but I'm a little bit slow right now. |
| 0:35.1 | That's all right than usual, man. |
| 0:36.7 | You're not quite crisp yet. |
| 0:38.2 | You've got to taking a fatigue off. |
| 0:39.7 | It's August 29th, the year, |
| 0:41.9 | 2003. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome, |
| 0:43.3 | boy, everybody. |
| 0:43.9 | Listen to the Crushing Iron podcast, |
| 0:45.6 | episode 700 and 9. |
| 0:48.6 | Here it is. |
| 0:49.7 | Like it or not. |
| 0:50.9 | Coming at you. |
| 0:52.3 | Don't tell me you're getting like stale and rust yet ready you're |
| 0:55.0 | only like what one day in the taper mode for wisconsin next week you can't it can't be you can't be that |
| 1:00.3 | far off your game already because if you are then we need to we need to ramp things up for another |
| 1:04.2 | few days make sure you stay crisp oh i'm gonna be ransom attention and you know or you could just you know do like a 95 week taper like a lot of people |
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