#852 – The WORK Is The Gift

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

There’s no doubt triathlon can be an isolated sport. Grinding for miles and miles with no one watching, or frankly caring. But you do. Or you should, because what you’re doing is something difficult, meaningful, and what you’re supposed to do. We rehash our Nashville Camp and crystalize why it’s so important to us to be around like minded people. It’s nice to know we’re not crazy when it’s easy to feel that way out on our own, putting ourselves through pain, and sometimes not even understanding why. Today, we look at what that why might be and share why it’s important to keep going.

Topics:

Nashville Camp recap and lessons
Riding Natchez Trace
Chasing SUP boards
Reaching that bonfire moment
Hills and Heat
Learning through the sport and analogies with life
Is the ultimate goal to be in the moment?
That magic moment when there’s not a care in the world
If 9 out of 10 people think you’re crazy, you’re probably on the right track
We’re in this together.
Importance of tribes
Going dark and loving it
One day and one moment at a time

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0:00.0	Oh, boy, are we ready. We're recovered.
0:21.7	Boy. Maybe. I don't know. Speak probably. We're recovered. Boy, maybe.
0:22.5	I don't know.
0:23.2	Speak for us. I was going to say, I mean, speak for yourself.
0:26.1	Yeah, mostly recovered, you know, physically and mentally and emotionally and massaging my introvert self the last few days.
0:33.1	But yeah, we're back from camp.
0:34.7	It's May 20th the year.
0:36.5	It's 2025. Looking more, everybody.. The year, it's 20, 25.
0:38.2	Looking more, everybody.
0:39.4	You listen to The Crushing on Your Podcast.
0:41.3	This is episode 8502.
0:44.6	Yeah, a big day already for me.
0:46.9	Had a subboard rescue.
0:48.8	Yeah, I saw that, man.
0:50.5	All I could do when you text me and you're like, hey, we're going to be behind.
0:53.1	I got a subboard I was I was picturing you and like the David Hasselhoff
0:57.0	you know because you got a solid set out you know got a solid chest and some some
0:59.8	solid chest here I was still picturing you running down the running down the
1:04.2	beach chasing after this this rogue paddle board and all the you know all the
1:09.3	the older hens you know in, in the, in the community
1:11.9	gawking at you and you're going to end up on the Facebook page, the community Facebook page,
1:16.1	or e-nebors. But yeah, then you tell me you use the, you use the aqua bike instead, which is probably
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