#844 – Be Ready For Anything on Race Day

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Race conditions can be unforgiving and downright brutal (see Texas 70.3). Today, we look at how training can help us prepare for the unexpected on race day.

Topics:

Texas 70.3
Rough Race Conditions
Early season on the trainer to outdoors for races
The decision to create more stress on purpose
A look at “outside stress”
Preparing for unfamiliar situations
Forcing yourself into the elements
Training fatigued vs. fresh
The work doesn’t have to be pretty
Timing for your FTP tests
Race morning mentality
Overhyped for your race?
Adapting on the fly
Controlling the controllable
Preparing for race variables
Having your A, B, and C plan
Now what am I gonna do?
Learning from bad workouts
Remember good and bad to recall during your race

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back.
0:05.0	All right, welcome back with the new champion crown.
0:27.1	The new champion crown.
0:29.9	If you ever wanted to, yeah, I mean, as a Tennessee fan,
0:34.0	it's never really fun to see Florida win,
0:35.7	but I couldn't help the picture that like Todd Golden, to me, like watching him coach a basketball game is how I feel like most triathletes look during their taper.
0:50.3	Just like tantrum after tantrum after tantrum.
0:55.2	But no, it was a great game, great game to watch.
0:58.5	But yeah, basketball season is over, which is disappointing, which means we can turn our
1:02.0	focused towards triathlons season.
1:03.9	It's April 8th.
1:05.3	The year, it's 2025.
1:07.6	Welcome board, everybody.
1:08.5	You listen to the Crushing Iron podcast.
1:10.1	This is episode 844.
1:13.9	Yeah.
1:14.5	And if I can find my password, YouTube TV will be ended today.
1:22.5	You think they ever go in and just like, you know, with all these like passwords.
1:26.1	And so, I mean, it's funny to say that
1:27.7	because i went into like my subscription apps this weekend in my phone i was trying to like delete
1:33.2	and clear some things out and i was like i don't even remember subscribing to this app like maybe
1:39.8	they got me on like the seven day free trial they make you put in their your information and then like seven days later you're like yeah
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