#764 – Surviving The Ironman Texas Heat (or any other hot race)
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Are you ready for your hot race? Today we look at physical and mental approaches to staying cool on the race course.
From whether or not to wear a wetsuit to freezing your bottles to pulling back a little on the bike. Once you get too hot, you can't cool down, unless you stop or walk. We'll look at ways to keep your core temp down as long as possible. We talk about heat acclimation, huge mistakes, and the best way to use your watts. We also look at the week leading up to the race and some best practices to prep yourself for the weekend.
Topics:
- Rational expectations
- The week of the race
- The biggest mistakes you can make in a hot race
- Plain water vs. electrolytes
- Salt
- Heat acclimation isn't bullet proof
- You don't realize how much you sweat on the bike
- How long can you put off being HOT?
- There' no turning back
- Wetsuit or not?
- How slow can you take the swim?
- Try to get cold in transitions
- Staying cool on the bike
- How to start the run
- Aero helmets and heat
- Heart Rate and feel
- Watts as a brake
- Keep your head cool
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, man, let's go. |
| 0:20.2 | So what already? I can say height greater for the podcast. Let's go. So what already? |
| 0:21.9 | I'm trying to say height here for the podcast. |
| 0:24.5 | It's April 18th, the year. |
| 0:26.5 | It's 2024. |
| 0:27.9 | Welcome more to the body. |
| 0:29.0 | You listen to Crushing Iron Podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | This is episode 764. |
| 0:34.0 | It sure is. |
| 0:35.1 | And I know we're talking about today, but frankly, I'm trying to stay warm right now. |
| 0:41.1 | I'm just like a slow jab. |
| 0:44.7 | It was warm here yesterday, but yeah, it's not going to do me any favors. |
| 0:48.1 | I get ready for Texas, which is what our topic is today. |
| 0:50.5 | But, yeah, we just got a storm blaze. |
| 0:52.8 | There was really nice last night for the first |
| 0:54.5 | baseball game of the season for hayden um i know you love that uh well yeah he went one for two and |
| 1:00.6 | we won last night so uh which is nice way to start this nice way to start the uh start the year but yeah |
| 1:06.0 | first does right 70 games yeah exactly and then well we're in this like hard, this is, this is the deciding year of, |
| 1:16.3 | are you going to commit or are you not? |
| 1:18.0 | Because this is the last year of machine pitch. |
| 1:20.1 | Next year is kid pitch. |
| 1:22.4 | And you only commit if you're going to do kid pitch because that's when it becomes the most painful. |
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