#918 – C26 Coaches vs. AI - Listener Q&A

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Today we take athlete questions and compare our answers with A.I. We get into how long to train for an Ironman after taking a chunk of time off. We look at what makes a race attractive. We look at trimming your time in an open mile run. Stationary pool band swimming. Double runs on the same day. Double rides. Along with biggest mistakes athletes make in the first Ironman.

Topics:

How much NIL would it take for us to transfer to a different podcast?
Done several Ironman races, but taken a few years off? What now?
What makes a good race
How to trim a minute off your mile time
Trail race training on a treadmill?
Stationary pool band swimming
Does it replicate real swimming?
Double run days for an ultra or Ironman?
Back to back long runs?
Biggest mistakes newbie triathletes make in Ironman
Going int your first ironman mindset
Doing the distances beforehand
Embracing the naive
Which of us would be first to do the double at IMWI
On the podium for both races
Fear of overdoing it?

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back, everyone.
0:25.5	It's portal season and our NIL donation is open.
0:27.7	We're going in hard.
0:28.8	That's it.
0:31.3	Yeah, we're open for business, baby.
0:32.7	It's podcast offseason.
0:33.9	The portal opens, what, today?
0:35.5	Yeah, so it's what's wide open.
0:52.7	You know, if you want to transfer over, you know, make us, make us an offer that we'll reject. But no, it's happy to be here. We'll have a good weekend. It's April 7th, the year, 2006. Welcome aboard, everybody. You listen to the Crushing Iron podcast. This is episode 918.
0:54.9	Oh, you got it.
0:56.4	I don't even think you asked me, man.
1:02.7	As soon as I as I riff off, I'm like, damn, I didn't ask for clarification before we start. And then as soon as I say it, I kind of like wince and wait for your, wait for confirmation or failure.
1:09.3	But yeah, I'm glad I was able to to sprout that one off yeah 918 again
1:13.7	happy to be here hope you guys had a fantastic weekend a little bit of a slower weekend on
1:18.7	their on the racing calendar given the given the holiday but things are heating right back up again
1:24.5	here on not next weekend but next weekend with Ironman
1:28.0	Texas you got Gulf Coast you got Chattanooga 70.3 it's it's full on from here so
1:33.2	given that it's full on yeah we'll do a little bit of Q&A here in a minute but I mean I think
1:40.8	we you couldn't cheer for Michigan but I think you had them as the better
1:45.2	team and as much as I didn't want to. Hey, if you're going to, like Tennessee, if you're going to lose anybody, lose to the eventual national champions. It doesn't make you feel any better, but it is what it is. So yeah, so a lot of a go, it's always funny, right? Like you coach athletes, you don't, you don't hear about any of their sport affiliation until their teams the national championship.
2:04.4	And they're like, always funny right like you coach athletes you don't you don't hear about any of their sport
2:02.0	affiliation until their teams the national championship and then they're like go blue go blue
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