#913 – Bike Trainer Strategies To Nail A Specific Course
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Today we talk about how to think about riding the trainer so you can be more prepared for the reality of the course. We talk about hills, wind, aero, cadence, and much more. We take a look at the last hour of your race and how you can work on being stronger as you come into T2. Do we all complicate specific workouts when the reality is we just have to be stronger both physically and mentally to deal with the demands of certain courses. We look at flat and windy along with the continually changing demands of a hilly course. Put a little more reality into your trainer rides.
Topics:
- Ramp rides
- Cadence and power
- Body shots and how to make them less impactful
- Your ability to close out a climb
- Simulating headwinds and tailwinds
- Training your body to handle long rides
- Preparing for the real demands of the bike
- Moving your ceiling
- Staying within yourself
- Making yourself more uncomfortable on a trainer
- Fighting through the wrong gear
- Putting your mind on the course while on the trainer
Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com
Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cushing Iron podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | Yes, it is March, which means it's March Madness. |
| 0:25.4 | Hope you guys filled out your brackets. |
| 0:27.2 | Everybody's got their favorite team. |
| 0:30.4 | And I want to give a special shout out to those making their March Madness bracket that have the stones to only make one. |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah, that's me. Yeah, I don't understand the |
| 0:39.6 | people that make like 40 because it just takes the whole fun. I mean, first of all, I don't know how you |
| 0:43.8 | keep up with that. And like I was like exactly, right? I did mine this morning and Hayden did his and |
| 0:50.1 | it was like, hey, you know, join a group and I clicked on this one because I was just curious |
| 0:53.5 | what said. I was like, hey, enter 25 or more brackets to be entered in for prizes. And I'm like, 25 or more. Yeah, my 20, like to me, that's the, I mean, we already talked about this too. But like, when I see something like this, it's the equivalent of somebody asking me if I'm a sign up for their rewards program at the store. I'm like, no. I'd rather just like lose a couple hundred bucks every year by not being than giving you more information like my emails and my phone numbers. No, I don't want to be a part of rewards program. It's like, how many brackets? How many brackets? can you, uh, can you, uh, can you, well, no, great, listen, great time of year, fun time of year. Hopefully, uh, those you got poured on with, you know, I would say, you know, some late excessive snow have gotten some, at least got some warmer temps. They're going to get some more attempts. I think it was 75 here yesterday, 80 today. |
| 1:45.9 | Sunny, March is here. |
| 1:47.4 | Great trainer weather this weekend, too. |
| 1:48.7 | If you're not going to get outside and enjoy it, |
| 1:50.4 | hey, at least you got basketball to watch. |
| 1:51.9 | But yeah, as Mike said, it's March 19th, the year, 2006. |
| 1:56.8 | And welcome, before, everybody. |
| 1:58.4 | You're listening to the Crushing Iron Podcasts. |
| 2:00.2 | This is episode 913 yeah i was a |
| 2:04.2 | thing it's actually local locals uh local area code for me i think oh okay good that's synergy yeah |
| 2:10.5 | i think i was laughing because the the rewards thing you're talking about i have a quick trip |
| 2:15.7 | rewards but i haven't signed up for it so i have the um like the plastic and they ask me, and I'm like, yep, and I just swipe it, and it's empty. It never works. Because I go there so much, and I'm not. The conversation. Yeah, it does. It's like, well, you could sign up. I'm like, yeah, I got one. And I swear. Sometimes I just flash it and then they'll |
| 2:36.4 | hit the thing and it'll give me the reward. Exactly, right? Yeah. There's some grocery stores like, hey, are you a sown someone? And we're like, no, they're like, yeah, fuck it. We'll just scan it anywhere. I know. Yeah, they all do that. Like, so what's the point? Like, you know, They're just trying to, you know, it is, listen, if we can save money, why aren't you letting the save? |
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