#842 – Pacing Your Season

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Triathlon is all about pacing and this goes for workouts, races, and your entire season. Today we look at how the phases of a year can affect you mentally, emotionally, physically and even spiritually. Are you expecting too much from yourself too soon? Do you overthink every little metric? Are you working on getting better in the right ways? TSS scores…. What do they really show? Are your goals really healthy? Are you changing for the sake of changing and the dopamine hits?

Topics:

Hey Coach, I’m losing fitness
Allergy season
Texas 70.3
Oceanside 70.3
PTO Singapore
Blumenfelt and Eden comebacks
Putting too much weight on early season races
Sam Long
Age groupers vs pros and prioritizing years
Abrupt changes
More isn’t always better
Changing for the sake of changing
Expecting results too quickly
Is your goal really healthy?
The stress of perfect execution
Don’t overthink
Overprescribing to the minute detail
TSS - what does it really show?
The best musicians/athletes don’t overthink
Holding watts while carrying emotional stress
The quest of getting athletes to flow
Don’t be majestic

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0:00.0	All right. Welcome, everybody.
0:21.9	We hope your team is in the final four.
0:25.8	Favorite team.
0:27.0	It's not really and ours.
0:27.8	Sure is hell and our teams.
0:29.5	Oh, we got April fooled.
0:31.0	It's April 1st, 2025.
0:33.9	Looking for everybody.
0:35.3	You listen to the Crushing Iron podcast.
0:36.8	This is episode 947 oh yeah it is
0:42.2	april fools i know today we're going to talk about basketball yeah that was my april
0:47.7	fools that was your episode 947 trying to play play a trick but yeah it didn't work out very well
0:52.2	totally forgot it that today's april fools people still do that man I'm I'm sure kids do
1:00.3	it's I don't mean I never have but I'm pretty sure kids probably still do
1:05.1	April fools I know today at school that was like Mitch match closed day I don't know
1:08.9	what it was they mean Hayden does it all time me I'm he's like hey can I race to school I don't know what it was. I mean, Hayden does it all the time. I mean, he's like, hey, can I rest of school?
1:12.3	I'm like, I don't care.
1:12.9	As long as you're covering your chest and your legs, whatever, dude.
1:16.4	Wear whatever you want, however you want.
1:18.4	Don't care.
1:19.5	Ironically, I just had to take off my sweatshirt.
1:21.4	I was getting hot. Some, yeah, chest out. It's a chest out.
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