#723 – KONA 2023 - What We Learned
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Lucy Charles-Barclay goes wire to wire at Kona in a performance for the ages. Today, we look at tons of the little details we saw on Saturday, including pacing, strategy, nutrition, and straight up toughness. We also talk about the broadcast and a lot of the good things Ironman is doing for the sport. We get into the chess match on the course, Lucy trusting her instincts on the swim, and her decision to take control on the bike. There were tons of little stories sprinkled into an amazing race that athletes of all skill and experiences can learn from. What do pros do that can make YOU a better triathlete.
Topics:
- Our prediction wins and losses
- C26 is the Madden cover of triathlon
- Ironman is a tough sport for a mainstream watch
- Production value discussion
- Ironman racing is like chess
- Strategy over drama
- Understanding swim current
- Did Lucy make a conscious decision to put the pressure on Knibb?
- It turned out to be a 140.6 mile time trial
- Dropping bottles
- The penalty tent incident
- Running through pain
- Haug is a machine on the run
- Why Taylor Knibb was so impressive
- Bike position can make the difference
- Getting through your marathon pain
- Dan Lorang
- Using your free time more effectively
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Wow. What a weekend for triathletes. |
| 0:23.2 | Man, it was, it was, it was a barn burner. |
| 0:27.2 | It was fantastic to watch. |
| 0:28.4 | We'll go over that here shortly. |
| 0:29.6 | Today, it's October 17th, the year, 2003. |
| 0:34.5 | Welcome aboard, everybody. |
| 0:35.7 | Listen to the Crushing Iron podcast podcast and this is episode 723 |
| 0:40.6 | yes it is we nailed it and completely bombed it and i think cat matthews felt the c26 prediction |
| 0:50.2 | no kidding she's like we're like the Madden cover of triathlon predictions. When we |
| 0:56.8 | predict it fall. I'm still kind of waiting to see what like what happened because we don't know |
| 1:02.8 | yet. I haven't heard. I've been like scouring. I mean, when I say scouring, I mean like briefly and |
| 1:08.6 | randomly looking to figure out what may have gone, because |
| 1:13.3 | it's, it sounded like it happened early, uh, real, real early. Um, but yeah, it was we, listen, |
| 1:19.7 | it was a stacked loaded field. It did not pan out the way that I thought it would, which honestly |
| 1:25.3 | made it even more of a compelling day. And one the all-time performances that you're going to see. |
| 1:31.3 | We'll go into that here. |
| 1:32.4 | In a little bit, we'll do the big corner recap. |
| 1:34.8 | The ladies, they brought it. |
| 1:37.1 | And they brought it. |
| 1:37.7 | And they brought it well. |
| 1:38.0 | It was a fantastic weekend. |
| 1:39.3 | We'll go into that recap here shortly. |
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