#873 – Listener Q&A

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Some really great questions today! We talk about mental barriers on the back half of your race run. We get into how to train/taper if you feel like you’re getting sick. We take a deep dive into training for Ironman and losing weight without falling into a deficit. The struggles of endurance diets. Food as addiction. Adjusting from a road bike to TT. And how much to “save” on the bike in order to have a great run. Plus, much much more!!

Topics:

How do handle training and/or taper if you’re feeling a little or a lot sick
How do you get the through the mental barrier of getting faster or staying stronger through the end of a race?
How to lose weight in Ironman training but not be at a deficit?
Pushing through the pain and mental barriers on the back half of the run
Sifting through all of the dietary information for endurance sports
Blood and glucose spikes
Adjusting from a road bike to carbon TT
Carbs, protein, fat
Interrupting cravings
Food created to be addictive
Should it be called a 70.3 or a half Ironman?
How much should you save on the bike to nail your run??

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0:00.0	Okay.
0:03.0	Okay. We're in business. We are in business. Business has been taken care of. We're back in business. This is our business. It is a beautiful fall-like day. It's August 28th, the year, 2025. Welcome to everybody. You're listening
0:37.7	The Crushing Iron
0:38.3	podcast.
0:34.3	This is episode 8773. Yeah. It's, fall is definitely in the air up in the air up in Wisconsin. It is. And I know it's not everywhere. I mean, we call a little flack about that, but you know what? That's, that's, we all make our own choices.
0:35.1	But we're actually like,
0:36.1	we're going to do our Q&A,
0:38.2	like we promised earlier in this week.
0:55.6	We got a little flack about that, but you know what? That's, we all make our own choices. But we're actually like, we're going to do our Q&A like we promised earlier in this week. We got a lot of questions to go through on our Facebook page. So thanks for popping those in there. It's always fun to kind of go through those. It'll get as many as we can. But yeah, we are, you know, you're doing Madison. We got about 40 athletes. They're doing, you know, the Ironman, Wisconsin or the our Wisconsin 70.3.
1:13.6	And we were doing a little bit of a I mean we were being like 100% hopeful complete hypocrites least I was but
1:19.1	about not looking at the weather and uh I was checking out the the temps and I was like man like
1:25.6	Saturday perfection Sunday perfection and it was like man like Saturday perfection Sunday
1:27.5	perfection and it I told you like it it just begs the question to me like why more people
1:35.7	don't sign up for these two races like why I mean obviously you're going to take the math
1:40.8	started away and obviously it's a challenging course which scares some people
1:44.2	but if it's if i'm if i'm an athlete and i'm looking for a race that sets me up for the most success
1:52.5	let me let me break this down for you real quick and let's not even call it iron man was kind
1:56.7	let's just call it Ironman B.
2:07.7	If I told you, or, you know, Iron Man and or a 70.3B, let's call it that.
2:18.3	If I told you that you could train all summer, right, May, June, July, August, in hot, humid conditions, you'd be heat acclimated. You know, there's a lot of research that says, you know, heat training is just as good as altitude training.
2:23.3	And then I could pretty much guarantee you perfect weather on race day.
2:31.3	Not just perfect weather like in the 80s.
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