#877 –Being At Your Best On Race Day
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Today we start with an Ironman World Championship breakdown and bridge into how we can learn from how the pros race. We get into understanding what you have on certain days and adjusting on the fly. We talk about how trying to save 10 minutes on the bike can cost you an hour on the bike and why. We look at "expectations" and how they should/can be adjusted as the day goes on. Finding your Best Race with what you have that day. Learning your body's signals. What if you "kinda have it and you kinda don't?" Everyone has a plan until . . .
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Topics:
- Ironman World Championship
- They all train together
- Run surges
- Age Groupers vs. Pros
- Adjusting pace on the fly
- "Thinking" you have more than you do in the tank
- Underperforming with too much science
- Expecting your best race
- Kinda had it . . . kinda didn't have it
- Hope is not a plan
- Everyone has a plan until . . .
- Finding your 10 out of 10 on Race Day
- Understanding what you have today
- Learning your body's signals
- How to dig deeper holes
- 10 minutes on the bike can cost you an hour on the run
- Ironman analogies for life
- How this going to affect my sleep?
- Decisions create habits
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| 0:00.0 | How's going, man? We're back we we are back it feels like november because it feels like |
| 0:26.9 | it's been seven and a half week since ironman wisconsin it's been about it's been a fucking 10 days |
| 0:32.8 | uh and it seems it seems like just as long as we're last podcast, we took the earlier part of the week off, you know, to take care of things that matter more in life. |
| 0:44.2 | And, but yeah, it's September 18th, the year 2025. |
| 0:48.3 | Looking more, everybody. |
| 0:49.5 | You're listening to The Crushing Iron Podcast. |
| 0:51.5 | This is episode 877. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, and I was telling you, man. |
| 0:58.0 | It seems like Wisconsin was about, yeah, like you said, |
| 1:02.0 | two months ago. |
| 1:03.3 | It was like 10 days ago. |
| 1:06.9 | Here we are. |
| 1:08.5 | But anyway, back in the saddle and ready to dish out all the key hacks. |
| 1:16.4 | All the he hacks. |
| 1:19.1 | All the life hacks. |
| 1:19.9 | Oh, and I'm sure, dude, it's going to be, listen, like, did you watch any of the world championships |
| 1:25.5 | the past weekend? |
| 1:26.7 | I really didn't. All so i i like i give |
| 1:29.0 | me i know it's been like a huge talking point for for a lot of people and i will say like i |
| 1:35.1 | think it was you know from from all for you know everyone up top like an iron man and really just like |
| 1:43.5 | across the industry is reporting that |
| 1:45.6 | even before this last weekend in Nice that Iron Man registration and participations was at pre-COVID levels for the first time |
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