#826 – Your REAL Why

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

It's hard to pull logs out once they're on fire. Today, we looking at some parts of triathlon from a different perspective and finding your Real why. We talk about why burnout is usually a choice and how you can avoid it and attack triathlon from a long term perspective instead of a short lived dream. What is your real why? This is a great time to experiment with that notion. We get into re-thinking your strengths and weaknesses. Why we don't often give our bodies enough credit. The dirty secret of Ironman. And ask if you might be eating and drinking too much in races.

Topics:

Sunny and Balmy
Getting into the cold
'Laying in the snow
Bed of nails
1st year excitement
Sophomore slump
The dirty secret of Ultras/IM
Stop short
Short lived dreams
Real Why
Why the F8ck are you doing this?
Core and nutrition
Burned out is a choice
Re-thinking strength and weaknesses
We don't give our bodies enough credit
Sticking with something
Too much water
The best time to experminent
Hard to pull logs out of the fire

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0:00.0	Well, it's zero degrees right now.
0:25.6	It's not.
0:26.8	I'm sitting on the deck recording this outside.
0:30.4	No kidding.
0:31.7	It's a balmy 14 here.
0:34.2	So, yeah, it is a, it is a balmy, balmy 14 here. But it's sunny. And you know what? We'll take it. It's winter. So we get when we move to places that we move to. It is January 14th, the year. Yeah, folks, it's 2025. We'll go where, everybody. Listen to the Crushing Iron podcast. This is episode 826.
0:54.6	Yeah, I'm looking outside and it's
0:56.6	going to be tough, but I think I'm going to venture out. I'm not sure what I'm going to
1:02.0	do, though. I'm going to get out. Go for a nice little walk.
1:06.3	At some point, I might.
1:08.5	Yeah. I mean, thinking about busting out the ski gear and putting on my ice
1:13.2	skates. Ooh. Yeah. Make sure you make sure you let someone know before you head out.
1:18.9	In case I fall through. Yeah, in case you fall through. I mean, it's been solid for a month.
1:24.7	And it's yeah, that's right. I forgot how you didn't you say it, like, it froze over the earliest you've ever seen
1:29.0	a freeze over?
1:30.2	Yeah, by far.
1:31.5	And now, I mean, there's no, there's no plunging in sight, man.
1:37.1	No, that's right.
1:37.7	I forgot.
1:38.2	Yeah.
1:38.3	You're going to have to, like, battle access to find yourself a hole.
1:42.3	Yeah.
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