#876 – Primal Instinct Training and Racing

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We start by talking about a C26 athlete that raced without a watch at Ironman Wisconsin and dive into the mentality of being in tune with your body. We get into the psychology of logged workouts and really understanding what's going on from day to day. We talk about why 3 Zones may be all you need to train by. We get into data trends over time and if you're chasing the wrong goals. One of the hardest parts of this sport is recognizing minimal and imperceptive changes in the short term. We talk athlete over-analysis, and why most often don't even know what they're really looking at. We look at why aerobic training works and how making things feel easy might be the most underrated part of training.

Topics:

Racing without a watch
Gauging time by the sun
Primal instincts
The psychology of logging and reading workouts
Nasal breathing as the perfect technology
Why most athletes might be better off training with only 3 Zones
Going backwards
Resisting the over analysis temptations
Things that can affect our breathing
Warming up the lungs
Chasing that labored feeling too much
When you're chasing the wrong goals
Recognizing small gains or changes
Athlete over-analysis
Why many athletes don't really understand what they're looking at
So many combinations of variables
Some of your medium sessions might be your best
Making things feel easy
The true power of aerobic work
Long term system work
World Championship Predictions

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0:00.0	All right. Back on a Friday.
0:22.2	Back on the Friday.
0:24.1	Yeah.
0:24.4	What does it?
0:24.8	Let's the kids say,
0:25.6	Friday.
0:25.9	We haven't done a Friday cast in a while.
0:27.6	It is September 12th.
0:29.7	The year, it's still 2025.
0:32.5	We'll get more everybody.
0:33.7	You listen to the Crushing Iron Podcast.
0:35.4	This is episode 876.
0:39.3	I was, uh, I was wondering if you get that because, uh, we didn't do like our usual like
0:45.1	seven second pre-show meeting, which is basically just you laughing at me, try to guess what
0:51.0	number that we're actually on. Is that right, 876? Yeah, but I, I could feel it coming. You're going to say it. And I'm like, he doesn't know. I bet he's going to go, oh, shit. I didn't ask. I got it today, man. Yeah, I got it today. It's Friday. Feeling good. Beautiful day here. A little bit warmer. But you know what? We'll take it because it was pretty it's been a pretty cool summer
1:11.1	Yeah happy to be here happy to come back this week for our second podcast and
1:16.5	How we did our obviously did the one on Tuesday fresh off Ironman Wisconsin Wisconsin
1:21.5	70.3 weekend again one of our biggest weekends of the year got a lot of great feedback from that a lot A lot of great, a lot of good, you know, a lot of questions from that too.
1:29.3	And people, I think a few comments, people are appreciating the, you know, how you should, you know, approach your races and disconnect.
1:38.3	And I think it, we didn't get this any, um, any real attention, but I think it should be noted um and as you know there's a ton of
1:47.3	special shoutouts we could give for all the the you know the insane really when you think about the
1:52.6	course like the insane amount of PRs that our squad had at that race i think most athletes that are
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