#926 – Practice Being Uncomfortable
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On some level we all dread the wind, the heat, the cold, the rough water, and the hills, but how do you learn to love it all for training benefit? Today, we look at the transition from indoors to outdoors and why it can be a shock to the system. We look at ways to build confidence and calm while preparing for anything in a race environment. How do you break out of your own personal matrix and create situations that will help you put your body in charge when the mind wants to run wild. We look at avoiding the inevitable and getting more and more comfortable with tough situations as the season rolls on.
Topics:
- Early season outdoor training
- Differences between indoor and outdoor
- The benefits of each
- Pool swims vs open water and how to break them up
- Trainer and outside riding variables
- Treadmill and the road mix
- Focusing on good posture and form
- Breaking out of your comfort matrix
- Avoiding the inevitable
- Is it chop or just water texture?
- Is it windy or just some wind?
- Cries for comfort
- Uncontrollable's are uncomfortable
- Going from the Symphony to Rage Against the Machine
- Life spans and loneliness
- Mindless mind
- You aren't guaranteed "extra space" in a race
- Repetition to train the body to lead
- RPE as it applies to understanding flow
- Thoughts that pass without engagement or judgement
- Don't avoid it
Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com
Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com
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| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:03.0 | All right. Good. Happy Tuesday to everybody. Yeah, good. |
| 0:22.4 | Happy Tuesday to everybody. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah, good. |
| 0:25.4 | Good old happy Tuesday. |
| 0:27.9 | It is, yeah, we're a full on spring now. |
| 0:28.4 | We're in May. |
| 0:30.5 | Reseason is upon us. |
| 0:33.7 | It is May 5th, the year, 2006. |
| 0:35.3 | And welcome, everybody. You listen to Crushing Iron Podcast. |
| 0:40.5 | This is episode 90026. |
| 0:42.7 | 926, yeah. |
| 0:48.7 | And, man, you know, at this time of year, I mean, yeah, I'm getting outside a little bit more and everything like it. But you're fighting that winter blues and now it's starting to get nice and sunny. |
| 0:53.9 | But man, this wind up here the last few |
| 0:57.0 | days has been insane dude um yeah we we had the same thing last week we haven't had nearly as much this |
| 1:03.2 | week it's raining in 40 year again so that's whatever but yeah it's you know it's the midwest |
| 1:08.8 | it's windy it's still worth it though right oh yeah it's like a blessing but i you know it's the Midwest, it's windy. It's still worth it though, right? |
| 1:11.4 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:11.7 | It's like a blessing, but I, you know, it's just, man, you really got to fight it. |
| 1:16.0 | It's a 35 miles an hour yesterday. |
| 1:18.6 | Yeah, seriously. |
| 1:19.5 | Like, it's, it's kind of a rude awakening for people like, I mentioned this in my, my weekly email yesterday that a lot of times people in the in the off season or off season, right, but they enter the fall winter season. |
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