Today, our goal is to help you prepare for a solid swim by learning to like, and eventually love the water. We talk about many things you can be doing right now to make your swim as strong as possible. We look at how to approach training: swim hard, swim long, swim often. We get into ways to calm anxiety along with how to handle race morning. We talk a lot about the importance of warming up the proper way and how to handle a wetsuit before your race. Despite how people say the swim is the smallest part of the race, we want to share our thoughts on why being ready, confident, and calm while respecting the situation is so important. We also throw out a few ways we think races could deliver a better situation surrounding the swim.

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Topics:

• Back to the early days of Crushing Iron podcast
• IM Texas Swim death
• We have no guarantees
• Outsider perspective on Ironman racing
• Find a way to like, then love the water
• Repetition equals increased comfort levels
• Swim hard, swim often, swim long
• Attempts to ease the swim in races
• Anxious athletes
• How to warm up and why it's so important
• Swim with other people
• Own your space and position
• Being prepared and calm
• Dynamic warm up area
• We all know what to do
• Different way to start races

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com