#856 – Listener Q&A - Run form and economy, staying motivated, open water swimming, ultra training

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Some great questions today! We look at run form and economy and how to be a better runner for a longer distance. We talk about what do do when you lose your motivation to train and race. We get into how much you should swim in open water vs. the pool. The differences and how to approach open water. And we talk about trail racing and how to train for races based on their terrain.

Topics:

Big 70.3 weekend
Run efficiency and technique
Economy and form
Running hills
How to feel like you’re “cruising” on your run
Negative split running
Unbalance and injuries
How to find the spark again
Struggling with motivation
Playing the long game
Do it for yourself
Turning inward to find your motivation
Pick a fake race date
How much open water swimming do you need?
How much running is too much
Different courses and terrain
Cross training for ultras

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0:00.0	And here we go.
0:19.0	It's one of those Fridays.
0:20.0	We're just banging on a podcast. It's all right those Fridays. We're just banging out of a podcast.
0:22.8	It's all right. Doing what we do on a Friday. It's June 6th, 2025.
0:28.3	Welcome aboard, everybody.
0:29.6	Listen to the Crushing Iron Podcast. This is episode 856.
0:34.2	Yeah. It really is.
0:36.9	It is. It really is. It is.
0:37.5	It really is.
0:38.1	It's a, it's kind of a sneaky busy weekend.
0:41.2	I mean, June's always busy.
0:42.8	We got Eagleman, which I think it's televised.
0:44.7	It's in a sneaky, like, loaded, not loaded.
0:48.4	Everybody says load every time.
0:49.8	Very good pro field for Eagleman this weekend.
0:52.8	I think it'll be televised on Sunday as well.
0:55.3	Then you got Des Moines, which is just about two and up hours north of me.
0:59.7	It looks pretty good. But yeah, we're in the in the meat of the season.
1:02.7	Schools out. People are on vacation, do what they want to do and doing it when they want to do.
1:07.1	But yet, here we are. Like he said, on a Friday.
1:10.3	We don't forget.
1:13.5	Doing our, do what i was going to say don't forget western mass oh yeah western mass this weekend too that's right oh yeah
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