#869 – Keep Your Race-Mind In Check

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Race goals too high, or maybe to low? How do you handle the ups and downs of a very long day. Never believe how you feel, for one. Practice getting through certain feelings. If you're going to obsess about certain things, make sure they are the right things. Just like life, races can go up and down. Live in the gray. Figure out a way.

Topics:

Morning activities
Second guessing
Distraction Mode
Getting your mind right
Thinking about the RIGHT things before a race
Planning for difference scenarios
Sifting through a million training thoughts
Getting over a false start
Let go of extreme emotions
Races as microcosm of life
Things will change
Thinking about a day off too much?
Cut your race into chunks
The swim course could be long (or short)
Don’t judge a race too early
Temper over-excrement and negativity
Don’t walk
There’s only so much you can withstand
Did you look at your last 72 hours?
Be in the gray on race day
Your body doesn’t care

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0:00.0	here we're here we go again.
0:21.6	Hey, yeah, twice a week, back at it.
0:24.1	It's beautiful.
0:26.2	I mean, it's like, it's so cool here right now.
0:28.5	I think I had a jacket on this morning.
0:30.4	Can't get a perfect weather outside to run.
0:32.5	It's August 14th.
0:34.2	It's 2025.
0:35.9	Welcome to everybody.
0:36.8	You'll listen to the crushing iron podcast this is episode
0:39.3	8169 yeah it's a lot of episodes yeah man it was uh it was a lot it is a lot of episodes
0:46.2	had a lot of i had a hoodie on i took it off ripped it off and went for a support this morning
0:51.4	shirtless oh perfect weather how many do you do that shirtless or do you keep the hoodie on? When you get in the water? It depends. This morning, it was sunny and warm enough. I took it off. But a lot of times I'll wear a hoodie. That's one of my favorite, like in September. Oh, yeah. Kind of just roll up the sweats. So, I mean, before we get into like them, the nitty gritty of the topic for today, you got a lot of racing coming up. You got Louisville 70.3 this weekend. We know it's going to be warm. Big deal. Pro race. You got Wisconsin, Chattanooga, Maryland, California. But big races falling here right and left.
1:29.3	But before we get that, most importantly,
1:32.0	what's the average age in the neighborhood you live in?
1:35.3	My neighborhood?
1:36.9	Yeah.
1:40.8	I'd say probably 50-ish.
1:45.0	That's not so I'd imagine.
1:48.0	How many, because then you got, you got E-Nabors,
1:51.0	you got like, you know, the neighborhood Facebook chat,
1:54.0	how many 50, you know, probably even 40s,
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