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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#896 – What It REALLY Takes To Hit Your Race Goal

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8739 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Robbie talks about a lot of stuff and Mike's not really sure what's going on. And vice versa, probably.

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Topics:

  • Ironman changes course nutrition
  • Early season 70.3s
  • The off season is getting shorter
  • December Rules as life rules
  • The quickening
  • Money is pushing the calendar
  • Periodization
  • What part of the year do you have the most time?
  • Color coding your season
  • Building your race calendar so it makes sense
  • Change for the sake of change?
  • Being focused and Open Minded at once
  • When things get stale
  • Obsessing about Zones
  • Micro Goals
  • Simulating those race feelings
  • Exploring the demands of what you want to do in a race
  • Tri-Calc secrets
  • Intrinsic motivation
  • WANTING what is required to hit your goals
  • It's easy to want race goals

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, man.

0:19.3

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

0:22.2

Here we go.

0:23.7

Yeah, what is today?

0:24.5

Yeah, that's the 11th already.

0:28.6

That's going to remind everybody, right?

0:30.5

We're here December 11, 2025.

0:33.4

Again, from Crushing Iron Podcast, episode 896.

0:43.3

I just want to remind everybody that a few weeks ago, I told you Thanksgiving was the greatest holiday. So when I read all the training piece comments about how stressful Christmas and holiday time is,

0:48.3

I just want you rewind for a little bit and remind yourself that a few weeks ago, we had all the greatness that is of a holiday.

0:54.8

Food, family fun, football, and zero stress.

0:58.3

You're not getting your teachers, your kids' teachers, presents for Thanksgiving.

1:03.9

You're not getting cousins and aunts and steplaws and whoever else presents

1:08.2

because you feel like you have to because if you show up to the family gathering and they got you something and you didn't get them something then then you

1:16.5

look like didn't you look like the asshole like none of that happened in november everybody was

1:21.2

happy everybody was stress free everybody's enjoying life you don't have office parties you got to

1:25.7

you don't have you know you know 18 different family things you go to you don't have to worry about going to the grocery store when people are there looking for an assault charge with the way that they handle the grocery carts and then the parking situation you know like I'm just telling you just this is just a quick reminder for all of you that told me a few weeks ago that Thanksgiving was not a great holiday.

1:45.3

I feel you slowly coming on board and I'm here for it.

1:47.7

You can slide into medeams whenever you want to and apologize.

1:50.6

Thanksgiving, Superior.

1:52.4

And by the end of, you know, my time of those podcasts,

1:55.4

I think I'll have brought at least 13 people over to my side.

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