#763 – Chasing The High
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
How do you "get through" tough situations in training? Today, we look at the emotional roller coaster that is triathlon and some of the traps we all fall into, especially when chasing those elusive highs. Do you push harder when you're struggling, or step back and let the body re-calibrate? What's the deal with feeling awesome one day, then being ready to quit the sport the next? We look at mood adjustments, burning matches, and seeking highs. We also talk about how to train for situations in races that are usually mental and how to get through them. Are you addicted to feeling the high?
Topics:
- Are you taking in too much fuel?
- Sugar
- Fat Burning
- Boston Marathon
- 17 mile run on Nuun?
- Cake - post ride
- Overtraining - under recovery
- No water?
- What is a bonk?
- Withdrawal mode signals
- Pouring more gas on the fire
- The Middle Way
- Seeking a high
- Struggling with the mundane
- Addicted to Feeling
- When you know you have it
- Biggest training mistakes start here
- Can we dig as deep as we used to?
- Burning a match or is the flame just hot?
- Adjusting your mood on the fly
- We need energy
- Making good decisions.
- Coaching and the 3 headed athlete
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, here we go. |
| 0:18.4 | Let's do it. |
| 0:19.4 | Let's do it. |
| 0:20.1 | Fourth times a charm. It's April 16th the year. That's right. Let's do it. Let's do it. Fourth Times a charm. |
| 0:21.4 | It's April 16th the year. |
| 0:23.5 | That's right. |
| 0:23.9 | It's 2024. |
| 0:25.1 | Welcome aboard, everybody. |
| 0:26.1 | You listen to the Crushing Iron podcast, and this is episode 763. |
| 0:30.7 | Yeah, I had to do a quick dip out of that music because we were having a problem. |
| 0:34.8 | Yeah, well, I mean, we nailed it in the final one, right? |
| 0:36.8 | It sounded fantastic over here. |
| 0:38.2 | Yeah, but I, uh, I just wanted to get it out of there quick. |
| 0:41.2 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:42.3 | Watch this people like to dance to it. |
| 0:44.5 | That's right. |
| 0:45.1 | It's, uh, people will dance. |
| 0:46.3 | People get hyped. |
| 0:47.0 | It's, uh, but yeah, it's good to be back here on the podcast and cover quite a few topics that we hope you can relate to and fancy. But yeah, we got Iron Man, Texas next weekend. You had Boston Marathon yesterday, which still is like one of those events that when I watch it, I'm still like just amazed at the speed in which these |
| 1:12.6 | athletes run and look like they're like barely breathing. It's just like you're looking like, |
| 1:18.7 | oh, they're just out for a Sunday stroll split, 510. It's just, it's beyond me how. But it's, |
| 1:25.4 | it's efficiency, right? We talk about a lot, talked about it on one of the podcasts, I think a couple weeks ago. And when you look at like that swim right we talk about a lot talked about on the one of the |
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