929 – Stroking Your Ego or Making Progress?

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes we have to understand why we're bitching all the time and uncover the best way to enjoy training and life. Today we start by discussing dopamine detox and how that might help us enjoy the simpler things in training. It sort of morphs into this discussion about how we can create an excitement trap that has us satiating the ego vs making progress. More races, more intensity, more burnout? More depression? How do we snap this cycle and find satisfaction with a Zone 2 buzz? We also look into the power of training by breath alone. How it can help you fall back in love with training that can otherwise make you want to cry. And finally, are we all chasing inflammation?

Topics:

Dopamine detox
Power and yada yada
More is getting lost than found
Ego or growth?
What's your why… no really.
What are we trying to accomplish today?
How much does Ironman make off of DNS?
I want it now
Lowering the dopamine input
Be strong in your journey
Morning routine
The sensation vs. the superlatives
Z2 is a great buzz
Zones by breath
Controlled ventaliztion
Help your riding . . . help your mood
I can't take any more intensity
Chasing inflammation
Walking is gold.

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, man, I just went deep into that music meditationally dude you did i i am so ready for this
0:28.5	i did this is like you're way you're way more excited now than you were 48 seconds ago when
0:33.8	you tried to lift this off the first time but i couldn't get my fucking mute button to work. But yeah, that's a, you went deep in the music.
0:39.2	I had to like pull the earphone off to the side and, and make sure I could still hear.
0:43.1	But no, good to be here.
0:45.0	I'm happy to both be here.
0:46.9	It is May 21st, the year, 2006.
0:50.9	And welcome, everybody.
0:52.7	You're listening to the Crushing Iron Podcast. This is about to be episode
0:55.8	929. You're right. Yeah. I'm on track right. I'm on track right. I got it I got to go in this
1:04.9	week. We had 928 earlier 929 ready to roll. Hey, but is it uh we usually get like a little weather check for it
1:13.5	because that's what old people do is it feeling like pretty amazing up where you are right now
1:16.8	i don't know it looks amazing i mean i mean like i mean like yesterday was it nice me he
1:24.9	was gorgeous here yesterday like Monday or Tuesday
1:27.8	We went to the podcast. It was completely it was just dreary and cool and rainy and it was like one of those days where
1:34.3	You know, you're like you just mailing in and like take a nap watch a few watch a couple movies and then yesterday was just like flat out gorgeous like the low 60s high 50s
1:49.0	Not a cloud in the sky gorgeous day um which is weird because like four days ago was 92 um but yeah it's like it's so it's i figured like if it's
1:54.0	perfect here it's got to be even better there it could be yeah i mean i got blackout shades
1:58.4	everywhere right now i've been i know i'm kidding uh no
2:05.2	it's beautiful man yeah i was on the subboard yesterday i haven't been out this morning but it is nice
2:09.9	it's 60 and partially sunny and uh uh you know it's not cruise weather but uh it's not cruise weather, but...
2:17.8	It's not cruise weather.
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