#930 – Listener Q&A
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Our listeners step up today with some great questions in an extra long cast for you.
Topics:
- Clay Courts, the French Open, and Mike's Tennis past
- Should you race short course more often?
- Triple-T
- Do your own sprint
- Easier to put on a tire or go tubeless?
- Does Mike still burn his biscuits?
- Losing fitness on vaction?
- Using different bikes in training
- What to we recommend for listening on long runs - podcast, music, or dark thoughts?
- Bike fits
- How to handle the "off season" when you go from a 70.3 to a full
- What are some challenges that scare us?
- Why can't the US dominate in triathlon?
- Do it yourself nutrition
- The Feed
- Solid food
- How to handle the 18 mile wall
- Long distance swimming training techniques
- Ultra swims
- Lifing heavy and mixing it in with your triathlon plan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We just finally got it figured out after |
| 0:17.2 | We just finally got it figured out after 930 podcast. |
| 0:23.5 | Hey, you know what? |
| 0:25.1 | It just reminds us that we're still at the mercy of technology and the interwebs and all those. |
| 0:32.2 | But no, it's good to be here. |
| 0:33.1 | Hope you guys had a great Memorial Day. |
| 0:34.9 | It is May 27th, the year, 2006, and welcome over everybody. |
| 0:40.9 | You're listening to Crushing Iron Podcast. This is episode 930. Yeah, yeah, and I'm glad we got it off |
| 0:47.8 | the ground. It's... Yes, seriously. Like, but it was, I mean, I'm not going to lie to lie it was i was mildly happy because i'm |
| 0:57.5 | gonna say yeah i bet because 99 times out of 100 it's me and you're like even though we're doing |
| 1:04.1 | this for like eight or nine years you're like hey is it in the right port is it all connected |
| 1:08.8 | you got the you got the things connected and and usually yeah pretty much |
| 1:13.5 | every time it's mean you got to walk me through it like you know the geek squad over there but yeah no |
| 1:17.4 | we listen we got it done we're here we got a great little lineup posted uh or hopped into the |
| 1:23.3 | crushing iron facebook group yesterday and again if you're looking for a good group you know i mean |
| 1:30.2 | which is kind of ironic right we tell people not to be on social media but it's a pretty awesome |
| 1:34.0 | space if you're going to take the leap and you're already on facebook anyway and you're going to be |
| 1:37.4 | spending time with some screen time hop in there you can search a crushing iron group we do have a |
| 1:42.2 | question you got to answer and then we'll let you know it but it's it's a great community. A lot of times the questions are asked and it's, |
| 1:47.0 | I would say it's probably one of, if not the most reasonable groups probably out there in terms |
| 1:53.7 | of, you know, legit questions and legit answers and not like straight panic train. So yeah, |
| 1:59.6 | we hop in there every four to six weeks |
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