#791 – Louisville 70.3 Recap

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Ironman, Nutrition, Triathlon, Podcast, Fitness, Swimming, Training, Coaching, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The inaugural IM Louisville 70.3 kicked off with a bang and we have an on location report. We’ll talk about all the expectations and the realities and how they turned this into an even better experience than we predicted. The slow swim, the “fast” bike, and the challenging run. Everything’s on the table including the business acumen of the infamous Love Boutique.

Topics:

What is “pre-peak?”
“Think” bars
Louisville extroverting
Local Politics and racing
5 year contract?
Going in with low expectations
Swim fears
The swim was on all along?
Swim current “indicators”
Wetsuit optional a good choice??
The swim was actually an equalizer
Headwind in the water
Even 45 minutes is a long time in the water
Long transitions and swim could have meant 10 minutes
When and how to mount your bike
No turns, speed, and normalized power
Lots of gearing
Challenging run
Aid Stations and volunteers
6 podiums for C26
Overall even rating is . . .
Athletes like a challenge
Highlighting areas for you to improve

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Transcript

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0:00.0	exhale when you got on the when you got on the car on the car
0:16.0	exhale exhale yeah when you got on the car Exhale.
0:21.6	Exhale.
0:27.4	Yeah, when you got on the call, I heard you, you couldn't hear me, but I could hear you go.
0:31.1	That's the exhale, man.
0:35.9	It is the, you know, we used to swap those exhales when we were both shared the office at the hub.
0:38.1	We used to be scrolling through, scrolling through Cheney Peaks peaks and you get done with a few comments and you just what's that song exhale something
0:45.6	or is that like chasing waterfalls or something i don't know are we talking like tLC here now yeah
0:52.4	there's a exhale song or is that a movie?
0:55.1	Oh, it was a movie, I think, waiting to exhale or something.
0:57.9	Oh, yeah.
0:58.7	Waiting to exhale.
0:59.7	Yeah.
0:59.9	Here we are.
1:00.9	Waiting to Xx.
1:02.0	But yeah.
1:02.7	Glad you got that out of you, man.
1:04.3	I did.
1:04.7	Well, I mean, I got a few more.
1:05.9	I mean, it was that a lot this weekend but yeah it was a great weekend yeah you're you're on camera too when you
1:11.0	exhaled and i saw that and you're like your hair's looking good dude by the way oh i well thank
1:15.4	you uh i had the pre race the pre race uh travel cut um but i think the exhale was actually because
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