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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#848 – Lessons From Hot and Windy Ironman Texas

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7724 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On the ground report from Ironman Texas with a lot of lessons for anyone training for Ironman.

Doing Ironman Wisconsin? Check out our Camp: https://c26triathlon.com/camps/triathlon-camp-wisconsin/

Topics:

  • Some incredibly fast pro times
  • Taylor Knibb, Katt Matthews, Kristian Blummenfelt, Cam Wurf
  • Bike course
  • Tough swim
  • Wind and heat factors
  • Bike position
  • Tire pressure
  • Front pack swim exit
  • Why the swim is key to your race
  • More aero or more power
  • Working with someone on the bike
  • Heat acclimation
  • Sun exposure
  • Wetsuit or not?
  • Overheating
  • Swim cap training
  • Every race has its challenges
  • Let your lungs come around
  • The ultimate race day factors
  • Having Plan A through Plan C
  • Heat prep is harder than you think
  • In Race decisions
  • When all the stars align

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, man.

0:22.3

Everything's bigger in Texas, so let's get right into it.

0:25.6

Yeah, I mean, they say it is.

0:27.1

Everything's warmer in Texas.

0:28.3

We know that for sure.

0:29.3

It's a beautiful Tuesday.

0:31.4

It is April 29th.

0:33.5

The year, it's 2025.

0:36.1

Looking more, everybody.

0:36.7

You listen to Crushing crushing iron podcast this is episode

0:39.5

848 yeah it is man which 848 would be significantly slower than pretty much anyone in the

0:46.8

pro field raced over the weekend um yeah we were it's ridiculous too it's insane dude we'll talk

0:52.3

about that uh for sure today but yeah we were, we were out of the podcasting

0:57.2

world last week.

0:58.1

I was down in Texas, and man, it was, I mean, it was, the race itself was definitely missing

1:05.9

some of the bigger names that we thought were going to be lining up.

1:09.0

I mean, it was still, I mean, it was still a star-studded field for an early season race, but I don't know,

1:14.4

Lionel Sanders was supposed to race, and he got sick after Oceanside.

1:17.0

So he bailed, I think he got a little injury.

1:20.1

He bailed.

1:20.7

He was already in the woodlands training, I guess, with Blumenfeld and Eden a few times, and he was,

1:26.2

he was out, and then I think he's

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