#71 - How Much Do You Really Lose During A Layoff?
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Coach Robbie didn't ride a bike from December 2016 to July 1, 2017 and today talks about the loss in power, which isn't as much as you think. We explore what a layoff means, how to keep from big losses, and how to return to action. There's also a lot of other cool stuff in here about power and it translates to your race.
- The bike layoff that didn't have much of an effect
- What to take into consideration regarding Functional Threshold Power
- Why higher power numbers can be deceiving
- New Bike psychology
- Racing without your watch
- We talk about the 5k, 10k, 1/2 marathon and marathon world records
- Roller Blading as a cross train
- Coach Robbie's Leadville update
- Mike's speculation on Ironman Louisville
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, homie? |
| 0:07.0 | How you doing, brother? |
| 0:09.0 | You know, I'm doing pretty good today, actually. Thank you. |
| 0:12.0 | That's great to know. I just drove through some crazy down porridge on the highway. |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, yeah? |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, ponding, you know, the ponding water. |
| 0:23.0 | Scary. |
| 0:24.1 | Good old ponding water. |
| 0:25.6 | Ponding water, and the semi-drivers really enjoy that. |
| 0:29.2 | Yeah, well, you know, hey, the drivers here in Nashville are just already, like, I mean, |
| 0:34.5 | they're so way above horrible that I'm sure they're already like anxious when |
| 0:41.2 | they drive through here anyway. Way above horrible or below? Like, like, well, they're just, they're |
| 0:46.9 | more than horrible, I would say. Or average. They're average horrible. Yeah. So anyway. How's your anyway. How's your weekend? My weekend's good. |
| 0:59.0 | I thought I, well, yesterday I actually cleaned out the above ground pool. I'm thinking about |
| 1:03.8 | getting it going. There's a lot of maintenance that needs to be done with some hoses and tubes and |
| 1:10.4 | the pump. And so it's not a guarantee |
| 1:13.5 | but i'm hoping you know what we may just have to skip on on one of our afternoon uh sessions at |
| 1:19.9 | camp and just do like a above ground pool cleaning well i'm hoping to have it ready by then so we |
| 1:26.8 | okay you know in case we do a lab session or some button that we can come by. |
| 1:30.4 | Oh, we're definitely doing a lab session. |
| 1:32.0 | I'll come over maybe either later this coming week or definitely I'm open that whole week before camp with a couple days. |
| 1:39.3 | We'll make sure it's up and running, glistening, and make sure the inner tubes and the floats are all up to |
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