#82 Train Smart. Race Smarter.
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
There are a ton of ways to get derailed on your triathlon training and racing. Today, Mike an Robbie look at how they're training smarter for Ironman Louisville by breaking down an Olympic they did on Sunday.
- How to think about positioning in the water for a swim
- How to swim in river current: with, against, and across
- Executing a nearly perfect river swim
- The power of training in Aero
- How to save your legs on the bike
- Why the most important part of racing an Ironman is strength
- How not to get distracted by insignificant details
- How to attack a run by feel
- Why most triathletes train too much
- The importance of "waking up" your muscles
- Running your race
- Train for the course you're racing
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Mike Terley. |
| 0:09.8 | Mike Terley in the house. |
| 0:11.8 | Mike Terley, please step up to the podium. |
| 0:14.4 | Mike Terley. |
| 0:15.6 | Wow. |
| 0:16.4 | What a day. |
| 0:17.3 | We barely missed the heat, too, it looks like. |
| 0:20.4 | Is it hot out? I just was looking at the weather. Or, it looks like. Is it hot out? |
| 0:21.5 | I just was looking at the weather. |
| 0:22.8 | It's just warm. |
| 0:23.9 | It's in the 90s now. |
| 0:25.6 | Hmm. |
| 0:26.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.0 | But what a day, man. |
| 0:30.0 | What a day, what a day. |
| 0:32.2 | See 26 athletes coming through all over. |
| 0:36.0 | It's all day, six for six. Stepping on, stepping atop Solid day. Six for six. |
| 0:38.1 | Stepping on, stepping atop the podium. |
| 0:40.5 | Wow, man. |
| 0:42.0 | Yep. |
| 0:42.8 | Pretty, uh, pretty solid day. |
| 0:44.8 | Great efforts, smart racing, and lots of fun to be had. |
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