#859 – Racing In The Heat (Rockford 70.3 Recap)
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Today, we go through all the lessons learned at Rockford 70.3 to give you strategy and ammunition for the rest of the summer. We talk about everything from race prep to nutrition to power to HR to pacing to cooling and your mindset. We go over Rockford as a host and talk about things that went right for the first time host. There are a ton of great thoughts about performing to your best in the next hot (and windy) race.
Topics:
- Rockford as a host
- Shoutout to Race Directors
- Why no race is easy
- Leveling your expectations
- Being smart and respectable within aid stations
- How to handle hills appropriate to the wind
- How the heat can deceive you
- The city and the venue
- Nutrition
- Riding with the wind vs. against
- Uphills and downhills
- When you’re dealing with oppressive conditions
- Heart Rate over all other factors
- Wetsuit decisions
- Should there be a new “wetsuit optional” formula?
- Accepting slower paces
- Easing in and systems checks
- How to start each event and especially the run
- Heat and pacing
- Whoever makes the fewest mistakes, wins
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from humid. |
| 0:24.6 | The music west. |
| 0:25.6 | The music's back. |
| 0:27.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:28.6 | I mean, it just feels, it feels right. |
| 0:30.6 | I feel like, you know, it's like waking. |
| 0:32.6 | It's like when you wear a watch all the time and you know you watch us, |
| 0:34.6 | you feel naked. |
| 0:35.6 | Like I felt naked last week without the, without the music. But yeah're back it's Tuesday it's June 24th welcome bored of the body |
| 0:42.7 | you listen to the crushing iron podcast this is episode 8159 yeah that music's like a shot of stem |
| 0:49.9 | cells or something it really it's it's like a podcast PRP injection baby. Yeah, it feels, |
| 0:56.7 | uh, it feels good. We are, uh, fresh off, um, Toasty weekend where we had the team race up at |
| 1:04.2 | Rockford 70.3. So I was going to do a little bit of a, not a little bit of a recap of the, |
| 1:08.8 | the racing. It's always fun to do like race recaps not just of like |
| 1:13.0 | the venue and obviously you were up there I wasn't but we had probably like 20 plus athletes racing |
| 1:18.4 | I know I think we ended up third on the tri-club podium we had four into yeah third yeah we |
| 1:23.4 | had four individuals on the podium so a great great turnout from from the team and it's as a |
| 1:28.6 | first year event you know there's always lots of feedback you know and again like it could be like |
| 1:34.2 | the most well run race on the planet but you're always going to get feedback because everyone has |
| 1:39.3 | you know you take like 2 200 people which is what started rockford from when i read |
| 1:43.5 | everyone has a different experience whether you were first in the water, last in the water, |
| 1:47.7 | first off the bike, last off the bike, you know, your experience to aid stations, |
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