#85 - How To Handle The Last 30 Days Before Your Big Race
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Emotions tend to rise and energy tends to fall when you're 30 days away from your Ironman or other A-Race. It's easy to give in to a make-shift taper and even easier to waste all the hard work you've put in for months. Coach Robbie and Mike break down the last 30 days and how to make sure you stay healthy and are fine tuning your fitness instead of getting soft and lazy.
- Exploring "False Depression"
- Reducing Stress and Staying Focused
- The two biggest things to worry about at the athletes meeting
- A smart approach to tapering
- How to be aware of signs of overtraining and fatigue
- The difference between tapering and rest
- Why you should be swimming a lot as the race nears
- Eggs are bringing me down
- What you should be spending your time researching before the race
- Taking the Guess Work Out of Transition and Special Needs Bags
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Mike. |
| 0:13.2 | Hi, coach. How are you doing? |
| 0:15.3 | I'm doing all right. How are you? |
| 0:17.9 | Doing all right. Just got out of the pool. |
| 0:24.2 | I think I'm dealing with a little false depression. |
| 0:25.1 | Have you ever heard of that? |
| 0:26.9 | False depression? |
| 0:30.4 | No, I've always had the real deal. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm not sure. |
| 0:34.9 | Is that kind of like flu-like symptoms? |
| 0:36.7 | I don't know what it is, man. I feel like it's something that shouldn't be happening, but it's kind of his. |
| 0:40.7 | You know, we've got a lot of good things going on. |
| 0:42.1 | There's a lot of stuff going on. |
| 0:43.5 | Good stuff all over the place, but I have a theory, actually, on what could be going on. |
| 0:52.7 | Well, enlighten us. |
| 0:54.9 | Well, and I know this isn't going to be necessarily popular. |
| 0:58.1 | You know, we've been going kind of vegan, vegetarian, more vegetarian, just no meat and stuff, right? |
| 1:04.3 | But, you know, I hadn't been eating eggs either up until about this weekend. |
| 1:09.7 | And I started getting into the egg thing |
| 1:11.4 | because I was like, well, you know, I don't know. I just feel like I've been wanting them. |
| 1:16.1 | And I have a thing, a longstanding deal with eggs that I wonder if it kind of just brings me |
| 1:22.4 | down for some reason. Have you ever heard of that? Probably not because you love eggs. |
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