#710 – A Calm, Relaxed, and Ready Race Week
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Today, it's all about how to handle race week. We have over 40 athletes racing at Wisconsin, but this holds for all race week. We talk about what we've learned at our many pre-races and how to be calm, relaxed, and ready… both physically and mentally. We get into the best time to show up, check in, and how to pack for the least amount of stress. We also talk about driving the bike course and the important things to focus on while you're out there. We look at pre-bagging transition, nutrition prep, and carb loading. Where and when should you eat? How to not get stressed about dining options. We also talk about shrinking your circle on site, recognizing positive energy, reducing negative, and how to avoid the chaos of real life Facebook groups. And we talk about your pre-race swim and how to set the tone for a great race.
Topics:
- As the race nears
- Racing Facebook Groups
- Old race week habits
- New race week habits
- Get there as early as possible
- Packing - Un-Packing
- Pre-planning transition
- Pre-Bagging
- Race Acclimation on site
- Nutrition prep
- Trust issues
- Melting anxiety
- Food research for dining
- Carb loading
- Reduce or eliminate race week driving
- Should you drive the course?
- What to look for if you drive the course
- Rough roads? Turns?
- Avoid real life Facebook groups
- Shrink your circle
- Differentiate between negative and positive energy
- Practices Swim - DO THIS!
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, coach. |
| 0:20.8 | Hey, coach. |
| 0:21.6 | Hey, Pete. |
| 0:23.6 | How you doing? |
| 0:26.6 | Dragging it out to make up for the short pull and the short plug from Tuesday. |
| 0:32.6 | So I'm glad that we did what we always tell our athletes not to do, which is make a makeup call. |
| 0:38.5 | Hey, I skip my run and my ride on Monday and Tuesday. |
| 0:41.6 | So I figured I could add it to the swim and the bike that I've got today. |
| 0:45.3 | Yeah, I like the, I like the makeup you did there. |
| 0:47.9 | It was August 31st. |
| 0:49.1 | Six workouts in a day. |
| 0:51.5 | That's right, six workouts on a day. |
| 0:53.5 | And they all happen to turn red. It's August 31st, |
| 0:55.4 | 203. Welcome aboard everybody. You listen to the Crushing Iron podcast, episode 710. Yep, and I nailed |
| 1:04.4 | that music fade today. You did. Yeah, you're a little rusty or tapering a little early on Tuesday. |
| 1:10.2 | Yeah. It's a little anxious, man. tapering a little early on Tuesday. Yeah. |
| 1:12.1 | It's a little anxious, man. |
| 1:14.3 | Yeah, a little anxious, get thing crisp. |
| 1:18.1 | We don't want to get stale too early, you know, tapering is really challenging. |
| 1:19.2 | But, yeah, it's exciting. |
| 1:22.2 | Lower Key weekend this week coming up with Labor Day. |
| 1:23.4 | Not a lot going on. |
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