#95 - How To Pick Your Next Race(s)
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
You have to like something before you can love it. It's easy to make a rash decision to do Ironman, but is that the best way to get motivated and be better? Today we look at how setting up your race calendar can help you make better decisions, keep your focus and make you more consistent. We look at the power of shorter races and why scheduling a race too far in advance can backfire.
- Bib Lists
- How a race game plan can keep you extra motivated and focused
- Why you should step back from your first instincts after a race
- Ironman 70.3 Ohio
- Chattanooga 70.3
- Putting "Markers" in place before you sign up for an Ironman
- Realistic planning for Kona
- How shorter races make you faster and stronger for Ironman
- Don't forget about the other 364 days of the year
- Why Racing too much doesn't help you
- How to develop your true END GOAL
- Setting up an easy 8-week jump from a Half to a Full
- How Too Much Time Backfires
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| 0:00.0 | Do I deserve this honor? |
| 0:10.0 | Dude, I'm telling you right now. |
| 0:12.6 | I foresee great things in your... |
| 0:14.6 | If I was a fortune cookie, you would crack it open. |
| 0:16.8 | It would say, Mike Tarale, I foresee great things in your future. |
| 0:21.4 | Because this is... honestly, in the four or five years that we have known each other, |
| 0:28.6 | I don't know that you and I have ever spoken multiple times before 8.30 a.m. in a week. |
| 0:35.7 | Other than open water swimming, I usually didn't talk. |
| 0:39.1 | Yeah, either you either didn't talk or sometimes you didn't show up till after 830. So, I mean, |
| 0:44.0 | yeah, that's, uh, this is, on, that thing started at six. I know, I know. It's just true. You're, |
| 0:49.1 | you're true. Uh, but, you know, we're either going to say you know athletic endeavors aside |
| 0:55.1 | you know |
| 0:55.9 | or even on like you're being on the trace |
| 0:57.2 | just like normal |
| 0:58.1 | chit chat this is |
| 0:59.5 | this is a record |
| 1:00.3 | man |
| 1:02.4 | if this is what's to come for Louisville |
| 1:04.0 | watch out |
| 1:05.0 | yeah by then I might be getting up |
| 1:07.3 | at 4 a.m. |
| 1:08.4 | Man let me just say right now |
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