#917 – When Your Race Goes Sideways
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Most of us have moments within a race where things aren't going as planned. The question is, how do you handle it? Will you throw in the towel or try to figure it out? What does that even look like. We make hundreds of decisions within a race and today we're looking at how to make the best ones you can in the moment. We look at why not wearing a watch in the swim can give you a better mindset. We talk A, B, C goals and how to adjust on the fly. We talk about the courage to finish on a moderate note vs. a high or low. Finding wins no matter how you feel. Racing with gratitude all day. And exciting news about our very popular run camp.
Topics:
- Perfect personal needs bag goody?
- Ken Hammond, RD - Musselman
- When your race goes sideways
- When pros lose money racing
- Does your race turn into a workout?
- A, B, C Goals
- The benefit of not wearing a watch in the swim
- Recalibrating yourself to playing it smart
- Gratitude race mindset
- When the finish line is the goal
- Is this your A Race?
- What is your win for today?
- Are you truly doing your best?
- End on a moderate note vs. high or low
- This is a long term journey, not just one race
- What are your wins for today
- Moving on from excuses
- Exciting news about our run camp
Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com
Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, man, here we are, a good, uh, bhapped down, down, down, beer. |
| 0:19.7 | All right, man, here we are. |
| 0:21.8 | Here we are. |
| 0:22.2 | Yeah, it is a good. |
| 0:25.4 | It's a good Friday. |
| 0:26.7 | It is April 3rd, 2006. |
| 0:30.4 | Welcome aboard, everybody. |
| 0:32.0 | You're listening to the Cushing Iron Podcasts. |
| 0:34.5 | Holiday edition, episode 917. Yeah, it is. Do we get paid double on the holidays? Do we |
| 0:42.4 | clock in and be paid double time? Yeah. Is this like a holiday where people get off kind of thing? |
| 0:49.5 | Dude, I'm fairly certain. You know, it's funny to say that because, as I've said, multiple times on this podcast, |
| 0:55.4 | my kid barely goes to school because in the Blue Valley School District, it's like, you know, who the fuck needs good? The kids go to school five days a week. Let's just do fours and threes and whatever. So they're always getting like a random Friday or Monday off or like, you know, fall break winter break almost spring break spring break you know that plenty of time off you know |
| 1:12.2 | who's going to school today heyton good friday like, you know, fall break, winter break, almost spring break, spring break, you know, plenty of time off. |
| 1:32.0 | You know, who's going to school today? Aiden, good Friday. I'm like, yeah, most schools are like completely, you know, a lot of, not all right, but a lot of schools are off. You'd take, yeah, it's just, I know, things are close. People are, you know, celebrating and getting ready for Easter, getting their, you know, they're getting their uh their candy out ready to stuff some eggs and you know celebrating and getting ready for Easter getting their you know they're getting their their candy out ready to stuff some eggs and you know watch the plastic eggs shrapnel that will happen the following week when you forget about |
| 1:35.8 | eggs you don't find the lawnmower goes across and just starts crush just starts |
| 1:39.5 | crushing them hopefully don't lose any Reese's peanut butter cups or more |
| 1:42.2 | importantly hope you don't lose any Cadbury eggs over the weekend getting your pastel colors out, your pink, your purple, |
| 1:50.4 | and you know, you got to show up for church at least once this year, so why not show up for Easter? |
| 1:55.2 | Oh, man. I've actually been doing pretty good on sugar except I caved yesterday with an apple pie. |
| 2:00.6 | Ooh. You know, okay okay hear me out on this |
| 2:04.2 | and we we would do a topic today but i don't like i don't know that i consider that a cave |
| 2:11.3 | like so apple pie i call it a learning moment it's a a growth opportunity, right? Like it's a, you know, an apple like, well, there's like homemade apple pie or you like, you know, no, no, it was a quick trip. Standing in line at the quick trip. Okay, never mind. Yep. Okay. Yeah, I digress. I don't know if this was like one of your neighbors that like swung by in there like, hey, Mike, I just made this fresh apple pie, you know, and here you go. Okay. So it was more like the old school like, you know, pocket apple pie used to get for McDonald's. Like it was kind of one of those things. Okay. And I said, I looked at it and I go, this is like 460 calories. I never even thought about. And so I was like, I'm going to eat. |
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