#889 – Ironman 70.3 World Championship - Courage to Come Back and Leave it on the line
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship weekend. We break down each event, including the unbelievable comebacks for Lucy and Taylor, along with the wild 3 second separation finish in the men's. We talk coming back from a bad race and turning it back on again. Having a short memory and the ability to let it rip. Great discussion about what the pros are doing and how it applies to you!
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Topics:
- Water temps
- If you're doing anything, you're doing something
- Facing the elements
- Weather Zones
- 70.3 World Championship
- Tough course
- The women bounce back
- I made mistakes, now I have an opportunity
- Short memories
- Bad races or workouts don't define us
- What's going on with your life?
- The best change can be no change
- Get back on the horse
- Showing no fear
- Men's race
- Electric Finish
- YouTube clip of final mile head to head - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B4uC3-tAgM
- Old school beach start
- Looking at watch on the run
- Pure competition wins
- Ironman has had a great year
Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com
Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:07.0 | All right. |
| 0:21.7 | Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, welcome back. |
| 0:25.9 | How, uh, what was the last cold plunge, uh, cold plunge temp you had in the lake out there? |
| 0:34.8 | It's funny. |
| 0:35.6 | You got to be in the high 40s, right? Right about now? Last night, I got in. I was like, yes, because... You've got to be in a high 40s, right? |
| 0:37.9 | Right about now? |
| 0:38.8 | Last night, I got in, I was like, |
| 0:40.9 | damn, this feels a little bit more like a bite. |
| 0:43.8 | And I've been measuring it in the morning |
| 0:46.6 | after I write for a while, |
| 0:48.4 | and I went out this morning. |
| 0:49.9 | It was 40.8. |
| 0:51.8 | Oh. |
| 0:53.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.7 | So I think it was a little chiller |
| 0:55.7 | and I thought last night. |
| 0:57.2 | Plus it was like 25 degrees |
| 0:59.0 | outside, man. |
| 1:00.9 | Windy, waves on my neck. |
| 1:03.1 | Oh, bliss. |
| 1:04.5 | Dude. |
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