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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

#911 – The Surefire Path To Burnout and Regret

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8739 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Triathlon can be for today, this year, or this life depending on how you approach it. Today we take a look at not forcing fitness, training smart, and being ready for both an early race or late season race. We also look at the concept of being a better overall athlete in the long term. We talk about the importance of developing your economy and efficiency, why you shouldn't analyze every workout, and how to play the long game in racing and life. We give you the keys to getting burned out, how to make triathlon "easier," and not having regret every season. Wherever you go, there you are, so don't be in a hurry to get somewhere you don't want to be.

Topics:

  • Ironman New Zealand and Metric System
  • Cockpit problems
  • Dallas 70.3
  • Where should you be right now?
  • Early Race
  • Late Race
  • Efficiency and Economy Rules
  • Change your life
  • Not having regret
  • Find your way and commit to it
  • Measuring your economy and efficiency
  • Becoming a better overall athlete
  • Oops I did it again
  • Make this all "easier"
  • We never hear, "Can I have more Z1-Z2 work?"
  • You don't have to analyze every workout
  • Just rev the engine a little
  • How to see the least amount of improvement
  • Always searching for a win
  • The key to being burned out
  • Being in a hurry to get somewhere you don't want to go
  • Play the long game
  • Wherever you go, there you are
  • Robbie does Dallas

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right.

0:19.0

All right. Well, here we go.

0:22.3

Here we go.

0:22.9

We're ready.

0:23.3

We made it.

0:24.4

We did.

0:24.9

We survived the weekend.

0:26.0

We're back.

0:26.5

We are like got espresso running through our veins this morning.

0:30.8

So sit back, relax.

0:31.8

It is March 10th, the year, 2006.

0:35.3

And welcome to everybody.

0:36.7

You listen to the Crushing Iron Podcasts.

0:38.5

This is episode 900 and 11. Are you going European on me now with the espresso?

0:47.8

Freshly. Yeah, I'm going to start doing like the countdown in like in the metric system.

0:52.6

Slow drip. Yeah. I'll slow start referring

0:55.2

everything into like kilograms and the metric system and next thing you know I'll pull

1:00.6

up I'll be I'll be you know driving my car with the steering wheel on the side yeah

1:05.7

can we yeah I don't know what we were watching the day but Hayden was like why did they drive

1:09.5

over there oh we were watching the day, but Hayden was like, why did they drive over there? Oh, we were watching the Iron Man, New Zealand coverage on Friday night, as much as he was like,

1:16.6

Canoe Please, Hage and change the channel?

1:19.5

And I was like, dude, I'm not watching another episode of Baskwatch.

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