#919 – Chasing Speed The Right Way

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We all want to be faster and today we look at the right ways to go about speed in triathlon. We talk about pushing the limits along with how putting in easy miles mix. We talk about building habits that matter and why you always have the time to do the extra things that will make a difference. New the "latest and greatest" training methods, the simple power of repetition, and why most triathletes don't fully buy in to training. We also get into the biggest traps facing age groupers that want to be faster.

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Topics:

Getting serious about distractions
The need for more speed
Algorithms and why they always hit you at the right (or wrong) time
Dealing with set backs
Feeling what hard runs feel like
When you have a lack of buy in
Building habits that matter
Always learning what works for "other people" but not yourself
Specialists vs. Primary
"I don't think I'm ready for it yet"
Building unwavering faith in what you're doing
The more you race, the more problem solving experience
"Am I on track, coach?"
New training methods . . .
Age Grouper Traps
Doing the same workouts over and over
The power of repetition
Triathlon is not glamorous
You can't beat the race every time

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

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0:00.0	All right. It is time to go.
0:07.0	It is time to go. And it is time to go and it's just like we're both on this band looking
0:27.3	that was wondering if you like freaking you know jet it on us for a second yeah it's time to go man
0:31.6	it's april 9th 2026 welcome aboard everybody you listen to the Crushing Iron Podcast. This is episode
0:38.5	919. Yeah, as always bringing the old positive triathlon energy to the world. Yeah.
0:47.2	I mean, I think that's what we do at our best. Did you just like do some yoga before we got
0:53.2	started? I actually did do one little pose. I was going to say, there you go. What's your go-to pose? I don't know what it's called. It's, uh, you cross your legs and you line up your, you know, it's like, uh, sitting on the floor. Like Chris Cross applesauce. Now we're talking here? Maybe. You put your knees.
1:11.3	You try to align your knees if you can.
1:13.2	I just did it for to realize how much work I have to do on it.
1:20.8	So you can bring your right foot over your left thigh.
1:26.3	And you try to line up your knees in front of you and then you just
1:28.8	kind of slowly breathe down and hold like so it's like a it's almost like a compression of your
1:34.9	um my hamstring just cramped ab area listening listen listen to you say that my internal organs
1:42.8	it's to massage your internal organs but yeah I wasn't very good at it. Well, I mean, you know, it's just like, they just sit in here. We've all got our deficiencies. Okay. But, you know, like, and so here's the question, right? It's like if you are you going to now go all in and sign up for some yoga matches?
2:02.3	They have yoga matches, like some yoga competitions,
2:04.5	not you figure out how immobile are you give something on the calendar
2:07.2	to give you to get excited about?
2:09.1	Yeah, I mean, that is like, those are two words that don't go together,
2:12.2	yoga and competition.
2:13.6	I know.
2:15.5	But I'm,
2:17.1	as I continue to commit to little things here and there, that is one that I, I'm
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