#874 – Ironman Wisconsin and 70.3 Preview

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ready to rumble at Wisconsin? We share our insight from years of racing and coaching athletes at Wisconsin. We go in-depth on the swim, bike, and run courses for each race. We also talk about where to start in the swim, what to wear on the bike with cooler conditions, how to handle the stick, the hills, and get ready to run. We break down run course strategy and give you all we know so you can have a great race.

Topics:

What to do in Madison
Where to stay
Football, 70.3, and Farmer's Market Saturday
Pre-swim
Swim strategy. When to start. How to handle each loop.
Bike clothing
Bike course
Dealing with hills
Being patient
Being strong
Run course
How to handle the hills and each loop
Enjoy the finish
Best of luck to everyone racing!!

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Robbie Bruce - [email protected]

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right.
0:03.0	All right.
0:19.7	Here I am.
0:20.9	Here we are. He is here. Here I am. Here we are.
0:21.8	He is here.
0:23.7	It's your race week.
0:25.5	It's my spectator week.
0:26.5	I'm already full on taper mode.
0:28.3	Got the shorts on, got the hoodie on.
0:30.5	One of my favorite weeks the year.
0:31.9	September 2nd, the year,
0:34.2	2025.
0:35.7	Welcome to everybody.
0:36.9	You listen to the Crushing Iron iron podcast this is episode 8704 yep this is kind of
0:44.2	just basically my you know yearly holiday I guess I know right just mark it in the calendar
0:49.5	yeah I did um it is it's it's one of my favorite weeks here got got the US open on, college football started, and then it just kind of hit me a little bit hard. As I guess as like a spectator and like coach, like I'm traveling up on Thursday. And I was like, Hey, what's on your agenda today? And I'm like, I mean, first of I like you care, but I appreciate you asking. And I it down this whole list of things I got to do
1:11.3	he's like that sounds like a lot and I said what it is because like I took off yesterday because
1:15.6	it was Labor Day and now I got to fit in five days of work into two because I'm heading up on
1:19.9	Thursday to get ready so yeah it's a great week but still I love it the weather's awesome
1:24.7	it's one of my favorite is my favorite race to spectate year.
1:29.2	Toe in the line again this year. We got, I think, probably 40 plus toe in the line combined from Saturday to Sunday. And it's, yeah, great town, great time of year.
1:39.1	And the weather, man, I'm going to have to go dust off the old winter jacket. I mean, it looks like pretty chilly in the morning. I cannot wait. I might even have to find some gloves. Cannot wait. It's going to be awesome. We'll do our usual podcast today where we cover the 70 point Wisconsin 70. Point 3 and the full. We've got tons of experience, tons of athlete experience and hours on that course.
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