#846 – Fresh and Confident on Race Day

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Pre-Race nerves. How do we get ahead of them in training? Today, we look into many things we've learned as athletes and coaches to prepare for the race ahead of time. We talk about tough condition training, fueling, and getting locked into a headspace that you'll need to perform. There shouldn't be a lot surprises on race day, and if there is how do you stay calm and go through them. We talk heat training, cold training, wind training, and going into a race physically AND mentally fresh. Time to kick some a**.

Topics:

Texas Panic?
Closing in on Race Day - mentality
Dealing with wind
Bad conditions
Going into a race MENTALLY fresh
Do you have to prove the distance in training?
Cold water exposure before a race?
Heat prep. How much?
Understanding what heat and cold feels like
How to navigate being uncomfoortable
Hydration with heat prep
Sit and endure.
Racing with a mantra
IMWI rainy morning
The sum of your last 5 self talks
Bookmark good workouts in your mind
Physically and mentally fresh
Strike the match but don't let it burn down
When fatigue doesn't let you dig deep enough
What would you do if you were dropped in the middle of the ocean?
What is your REAL potential?

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0:00.0	All right.
0:04.0	All right.
0:20.8	Rolling into the week like...
0:23.6	Like panicking for Iron Man, Texas, which is what a lot of people are doing. It's April 15th, the year. It's 2020.
0:33.6	Welcome to everybody. You're listening to Crushing Guniron Podcast. This is episode 846.
0:39.5	Yeah. Is there really panic? I keep telling people it's like you can't finish your race. You haven't started yet.
0:46.2	Yeah, that's awesome. I wouldn't say, yeah, I wouldn't say that it's panic. But like, you know, it always, you know, it always surprises me.
0:56.0	Like we talked about it last week is like, you know, people are like, it's going to be so hot.
0:59.5	I'm like, you signed up for it.
1:03.2	You knew it was going to be hot.
1:04.6	And yes, like, you know, depending on where you're coming from, might be hotter, a little bit hotter and like I think it oftentimes we just get we always think about
1:11.0	the the coolest or the hottest day when we consider a race like it just it's always that like
1:16.6	texan be hot or like the one or two years has been like perfectly plus but it's always this it's always like
1:22.0	chattanooga 70.3 it's either going to be really really hot like the first hot weekend there in the
1:27.3	south or it's going to be perfectly pleasant same hot, like the first hot weekend there in the South,
1:27.8	or it's going to be perfectly pleasant.
1:29.8	Same thing with Iron Man Chattanooga at the end of September.
1:32.8	It's either going to be like the most perfect temperature or they're going to get one of those like late heat waves and they're going to smack you again.
1:38.6	Or people are shocked when they cancel swims at races that always cancel swims.
1:42.7	Like we can't be shocked at this kind of stuff yet.
1:45.9	Here we are.
1:46.9	Being shocked, right?
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