#927 – Find Something That Breaks You
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Today, we talk about a topic that a lot of us who've been in the sport a while need to think about. How to break ourselves down like we did in the beginning. Life is about being alive and challenging ourselves. We take a look at the lure of comfort and how to shake things up. Once again, we explore the reasons why we do this, and how the edges of challenge and pain shift. We look at why it's so important to face simple fears and things we don't want to do and how to use these wins. For us, triathlon has always been about breaking up the rocks, but in many ways it also becomes about tending to them in a positive way so they don't fuse back together.
Topics:
- Live every day
- Get along
- German Endurance Feast
- Robbie's Rewind
- The medal returns
- Obsession with comfort
- Find something that's gonna break you
- Breaking up the rocks
- Pain as a precursor to growth
- Your race time vs. the pursuit
- Back to that primal feeling
- Do what scares you
- Why do we do this?
- What is improvement
- When we fake it until we can't anymore
- Life circumstances and resilience
- Breaking things down over and over
- Good times, soft men
- Tending to your broken rocks
- Fake endorphines
- Tackle a simple fear
Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com
Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:03.0 | All right, welcome. You're up, you're feeling it today i feel like a little more spry and giddy than |
| 0:28.0 | you do i know i know i do you get a little plunge in this morning you have like a nice little |
| 0:35.3 | sunrise you know open water like what's going on or you just like wake up will rest and you're like a nice little sunrise, you know, open water? Like, what's going on? |
| 0:38.3 | Or you just like wake up, we'll rest. And you're like, man, today's a great day to be in a great mood. |
| 0:43.5 | Yeah, it's an interesting question. I'm glad you brought that up because I did wake up a little foggy. |
| 0:48.7 | Okay. And I was like, I wrote my way out of it, which was nice. And, I mean, not in a way to, like, bring anything down, |
| 0:59.1 | but I went to my uncle's visitation last night. |
| 1:02.4 | And came back up. |
| 1:04.9 | But while I was in the room, I mean, he had, I mean, this is just always amazing to me. |
| 1:08.3 | It's like, because I think my reception line's going to last five |
| 1:11.7 | minutes but he had he had four to seven nonstop streaming of a reception line which is just like |
| 1:20.6 | super cool you know that is awesome it's it really is it's kind of you know it's obviously sad that |
| 1:26.7 | somebody's gone but uh you know everyone was saying how energizing it is to kind of see people you haven't seen in a long time and realize how much you meant to everybody. But I actually, it was kind of like a weird, because I'm kind of weird, but I looked at that line once and I was like, you know, I looked around that room and there's, you know, probably a hundred people at the time or something. And I said, someday all of us are going to be gone. And it was kind of like a weird feeling I had. But then I was thinking, you know, but yeah, like we have to remember that. And then, but why but why do we you know we spend a lot of time |
| 2:02.4 | all we do is bitch about other people it's like we're just trying to exist in this space of life and |
| 2:07.9 | it just was like a weird but really cool kind of reminder it's like hey this thing's short man we |
| 2:13.6 | need to get after it and you know quit you know just arguing and bitching and complaining all |
| 2:20.0 | our lives you know and just you know be one with the world i don't know so i don't know if that had |
| 2:25.6 | anything to do with it or not but i had a nice treadmill i do some uh morning i have a thing that i'm |
| 2:31.7 | not prepared to share but uh it kind of put me in a good mood this morning. |
| 2:35.9 | So thanks for asking. |
| 2:36.4 | Hey, listen, we share. Yeah, you're right. I could just tell you. I mean, I didn't have the same |
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