#880 – Building Your Internal Fire In The Off Season

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

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

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Post race highs. Post race lows. And everything in between. Today, we look at this journey as something that honestly builds health. Are your expectations bringing too much pressure and anxiety into your life? Are you falling into the traps over and over? Are you really training for health or to chase false hope? We like to think of this sport as a long range compass that should build strength, health, and sustainability. Exercise is supposed to give you energy, not take it away. Stay away from too high or too low. Find something that moves you each day and makes you look forward to tomorrow.

Topics:

Easy course? Fools errand?
Ironman is always hard
Post IM Chattanooga discussion
You're never guaranteed a PR
Built up passive tension behind racing
When you want it so bad it becomes counter productive
Expectations of greatness . . . or fear
How hope can get into your psyche
Age Group traps
Learning lessons from pros
Health and human performance
Treating training differently
Creating tension in January
When we build the opposite of health
A well intended training regime
Are you doing this to be healthier?
Sacrificing everything to gain nothing
Can I accept what I do?
Long runways for races
Perpetual journey of sustainability
Don't future trip
High Races - Low Races - Moderate races
Exercise is supposed to give you energy, not take it away

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0:00.0	Yeah, all right.
0:07.0	Yeah, all right.
0:22.6	Another big Iron Man in the books.
0:24.6	Another huge one. A little, I mean, I was tracking Iron Man Chattanooga and after talking to a lot of athletes that raced it and they were there we may have made it
0:41.4	sound a little more gentle than it really than it really is yeah but hey you
0:46.4	know what that's just how it's gonna be yeah the tougher conditions I think
0:51.7	that people anticipated at Ironman Chattanooga bike course. I guess the changes were
0:56.6	You know four miles and a little more elevation makes a difference a little bit of heat a little bit of headwind
1:02.0	I mean I had had quite a few athletes that told me that they've done
1:07.2	Wasn't some you know the exact same with the humidity, but they were like the terrain and the wind
1:13.3	felt a little bit like Kona.
1:14.6	It was rolling hills, straight shots,
1:18.1	you know, stuck in the headwind the whole way and hot.
1:22.2	But yeah, I mean, it's just a day, listen,
1:25.3	Iron Man is always, and we say it's a tonne and we won't make the whole podcast about it, but I mean, Iron Man is always, and we say us a ton and we won't make the whole podcast about it, but I mean, Iron Man is always a challenge.
1:33.3	Every race presents a challenge and that's why I think like, you know, picking races based on them being quote unquote fast or, you know, providing the easiest opportunity to PR is really just a fool therein.
1:50.4	I mean I it's it's it's I've never you never really see it play out I mean you take some of the easiest courses there are quote unquote right in Florida California Texas um Arizona and even
2:06.3	those right again that you would consider pretty fast courses with the terrain and the bike or
2:11.1	maybe downstream swims like you know or Maryland too right Maryland you got you got you know
2:16.4	wind you got jellyfish you got a hard
2:19.1	swim you know sometimes you've got heat you know sometimes your run course gets flooded
2:24.2	you know California you got freaking you know tsunami rain and wind you know Arizona you got cold
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