#756 – High IQ Early Season Racing

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Are you running on gas or fumes at the end of your races? Today, we take a deep look into how to start the season smart and snowball that into better races as the year goes on. We talk about creating momentum and how to use your first race in a way that will actually teach you something about getting better. We look at heat, wind, dew point, along with why pacing is always your best friend. We talk about how to race from before the swim all the way to the end of the run and why most of us make huge mistakes before we even realize it. We look at why so much of passing on the run is final . . . along with how bad little decisions earl can make for a miserable race. There's nothing better than finishing a race on your terms. Today, we look at the best strategies to do just that.

Topics:

Is winter "that bad?"
Making your strength stronger
Playing little games in training
Momentum vs. Complacency
Do what you love
Creating momentum
Perceived fears that aren't real
Local endorsements
Wind, heat, dew point
Be ready for a pop in the heat
Gain Fitness without shelling yourself
Throw expectations out the window?
What do you want to learn today?
Using your race to prepare for what's next
Allow yourself to figure things out
We learned: you're impulsive and can't pace
Cold or hot — you have to warm up
Many people implode in early races
Pace, pace, pace
Conditions dictate your race
Are you passing or are people coming back to you?
Your placement against the field
High IQ racing
Running on Gas or Fumes?
I got sick of burning on fumes
Passing on the run is final

Coaching Inquiries

Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com

Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com

www.c26triathlon.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Good morning, everybody.
0:07.0	Good morning, everybody. Good morning, everybody.
0:23.6	Good morning.
0:24.7	It's a Friday.
0:26.2	Beautiful Friday.
0:27.3	Couldn't think of a better way to end the week off and heading the weekend.
0:31.3	It is March 15th, the year, 2024.
0:34.6	Welcome aboard everybody.
0:35.7	You listen to the Crushing Iron Podcast, and this is episode
0:38.1	7506. You nailed it. You nailed it. And we're rolling into the season, it looks like,
0:45.2	but this weather. We are. It is on. It is on like Donkey Kong. It has a little bit of a star with
0:50.3	some, I think, Iron Man, New Zealand. We had an athlete doing that. and you got some of the South American races going on. You got Puerto, yeah, Puerto Rico 70.3 this weekend,
0:59.3	got an athlete over Australia doing Geelong next weekend, then you got a week on a break,
1:03.9	then you got Oceanside, Texas 70.3, then you got Iron Man, Texas, then you got Gulf Coast. I mean, it's, we're here.
1:11.3	It's on.
1:11.9	You even had a little bit of the rust, a rust buster this last weekend with some of the nationally televised races for the pros.
1:19.5	If you can see any of it, or at least the women's race, because it's been mostly in the dark.
1:23.2	But yeah, it is here.
1:24.5	It's getting warmer.
1:25.8	Daylight savings time has happened. It's staying light until 8 o'clock. The sun is out. That's on the cloud in the sky today here in Overland Park, Kansas. And it's time to get racing. So I hope you having an awesome week. If you're racing this weekend, no matter what distance and what discipline, have fun. Get out there and enjoy yourself. And we'll talk up a little bit about that today during the podcast. But if it's your first time tuning in today, welcome.
1:45.9	We appreciate you giving us for time.
1:47.4	We know you have quite a lot of options in the triathlon podcast universe and just podcasts in general.
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