#722 – IRONMAN Making Moves, PLUS, KONA 2023 Women's Preview/Predictions
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Today, we start with some of the moves Ironman is making from a product perspective and discuss why they seem to be good calls. We look at the pros and whether or not they should be the marketing angle for the sport. Then we get into this year's Ironman Women's World Championship. We define the contenders, talk about how the race may play out, and why there could be chaos on the bike. Will the runners be able to stay close enough to top bikers? Will there be too much separation in the swim? How will the run unfold? On paper, tons of variables make this one of the more intriguing races we've ever seen. Plus, Mike and Robbie's podium picks.
Topics:
- Ironman New Announcements
- Is Separate Men and Women's Racing good?
- What's going on between Ironman and KONA?
- Ironman Pro Series
- Investing in the Pros
- The Contenders at KONA
- Could this race be chaos?
- Top 3 Out of the water
- What situation out of the swim could mean game over
- What's the gap the runners can give up?
- Will the bike be a panic?
- The old guard v. the upstarts
- Allen and Scott
- Who leads the bike?
- Robbie's Picks
- Mike's Picks
- In Ironman it's not if, but when, something will go wrong and then, how will you solve it?
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, coach. |
| 0:20.2 | Sorry, it's a couple minutes later. |
| 0:21.5 | I was doing some last-minute research for today. |
| 0:25.5 | Digging in deep. |
| 0:27.1 | Yeah, there's last-minute research, |
| 0:29.5 | and then there is crunch time, Cliff Notes research. |
| 0:32.2 | But I'm sure you've done your due diligence. |
| 0:33.8 | I have no doubt whatsoever. |
| 0:35.5 | It's October 12th, the year, |
| 0:43.2 | 2023. Welcome on board, everybody. You listen to the crushing iron podcast, and this is episode 722. Nice job. I don't even know if we discussed that, and you just nailed it. |
| 0:49.2 | I didn't. I went back in the old archives of my notes and saw that last on Tuesday was 721. |
| 0:55.7 | The old archives of last Tuesday. |
| 0:58.6 | Using the, yes, right, this past Tuesday, using my, you know, my very high level education to do that quick math. |
| 1:06.5 | But before we get rolling too deep on the topics today, which is the Iron Midboard Championships in Kona, |
| 1:13.1 | featuring the ladies on Saturday, |
| 1:15.9 | a huge field, |
| 1:17.2 | insanely deep building a couple of other pretty cool announcements made by Ironman. |
| 1:21.3 | I think more to come before the race happens on Saturday. |
| 1:25.3 | But if you listen to our podcast on Tuesday, you know, it's funny because as my mom always says, |
| 1:33.1 | you never know who's listening. |
| 1:34.5 | She totally called me out of the Knife story. |
| 1:36.6 | She sent me a total little story about, you know, being impulsive and, you know, acting on things you would normally, |
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