#759 – Race With Nothing To Lose
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
The most successful athletes play free and without fear. Today, we look at how you can train and race better when you realize you have nothing to lose. This isn't about taking it for granted, but channeling pressure and anxiety in the right way. It's all energy and the more we can us it in our favor, the better we'll be. We look at the 24 hour rule as it applies to racing and training, having a "walk the plank" mentality, and using your old self as a nemisis. We look at finding solutions over problems, uncovering what missed workouts really tell us, and the ability to be moodless during your race. Find the balance between grit and grace.
Topics:
- NCAA Swim record for the 500
- How fast would the best Ironman relay team be?
- Trainer Tim
- You can do anything one time
- the 24 hour rule
- Walking the Plank
- Channeling anxiety
- Afraid of your opponent (the race)?
- Using your old self as a nemisis
- That feeling you get when you finish
- Happy with your body of work?
- Allen Iverson, Kobe and Mike
- Nothing to lose
- Happy to be there
- Grit coupled with Grace
- Looking yourself in the eye
- Finding solutions, not problems
- What are skipped workouts telling us?
- Mental sludge
- The pitfalls of going by MPH
- The ability to be moodless
- Pre-conceived Decisions
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right. You got me all hopped up on swimming now. |
| 0:23.6 | One little swim tidbit before we get going and I primed you for a, well, won't be a, I don't know, second swimming podcast. |
| 0:33.3 | It is April 2nd, the year. |
| 0:35.7 | It's still 2,000 for everybody. |
| 0:37.2 | Welcome on board. |
| 0:38.0 | Listen to the Crushing Iron podcast. |
| 0:39.6 | This is episode 759. |
| 0:43.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.6 | And you got me wanting to practice my dolphin kick, man. |
| 0:48.7 | Dude, no kidding. |
| 0:49.5 | I mean, we were just talking briefly about the insanity, which has been the NCAA Division I, |
| 0:55.6 | the swimming champs. |
| 0:57.8 | And Leon Marchand swim a 402 for the 500 free. |
| 1:02.5 | 402, folks, for those of you that struggle with your math, |
| 1:08.7 | 402 for a 500. |
| 1:10.3 | He simply averaged 48 and a half per 100 for 5100s in a row with no rest. |
| 1:17.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.5 | Which is just insane. |
| 1:20.1 | And if you want to do that, our how to not suck at swimming podcasts are all just sitting |
| 1:24.7 | out there for you. |
| 1:25.7 | That's right. |
| 1:27.4 | Would that be unbelievable if he came out and said, yeah, I was listening to the |
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