Be In Control Of Your Race
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Today we talk about our training for Wisconsin and explore some of the different techniques and mindsets we’re bringing to the races. We look at layering intensity in the same day, building resistance to hard stuff, and how to prevent yourself from dipping into energy reserves too early. We look at swimming long, biking hard, and running steady. We also talk a lot about ways to control your race while you’re in it and why it’s so important to focus on executing to your fitness level.
Topics:
- Utilizing two specific days for intensity
- The advantages of swimming long
- Gearing up for a hard day
- Becoming resistant to hard stuff
- Swim fitness is to bike fitness is to run fitness
- You want to be fresh when you hit the run
- You only gotta do it once
- Most athletes dip into their reserves too early
- Choosing an Ironman over a half and vice versa
- Executing to your fitness level!
- Road vs. Aero Helmet
- Setting general metrics for your race
- Patience and toughness and confidence
- Are you back or “headed back?”
- Feeling on the offensive
- Being solidly in control
Mike Tarrolly - [email protected]
Robbie Bruce - [email protected]
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| 0:00.0 | here we go |
| 0:03.0 | all |
| 0:04.0 | all right All right, buddy. |
| 0:21.7 | Yeah, can't be afraid in that batters box. |
| 0:25.4 | Can't be afraid in the batters box and you can't be afraid of the knowledge we will drop on you today. |
| 0:30.7 | Welcome aboard, everybody. |
| 0:31.6 | Today is August 23rd, the year 2022. |
| 0:36.2 | You're listening to the Crushing Iron Podcasts, |
| 0:38.1 | and this is episode 600 and 10. |
| 0:41.4 | Mm-hmm, all day. |
| 0:43.4 | All day. |
| 0:44.4 | Yeah, all the last six years is what it seems like. |
| 0:47.8 | In first time tuning in, do a quick welcome, |
| 0:50.3 | but before I even do that, |
| 0:51.7 | guys, next week, it's football season. |
| 0:56.6 | It's football season. Oh football season starts next boy is it really walls are on yeah all start on Thursday night got a couple good games the |
| 1:01.6 | weekend I'm sure you know who you guys play but so yeah if you if it's your first time tuning in |
| 1:05.8 | or it's been a while remember we will we will do a little team sports uh chit-chat before we get uh rock and roll for the regular part of the cast but yeah it's football |
| 1:14.4 | season a little bit of fall weather here in overland park kansas i'm sure things are even |
| 1:17.8 | uh crisper for you uh up there in uh in beloid wisconsin what's the high today 74 uh |
| 1:24.7 | let me look i mean you probably don't even know. |
| 1:30.0 | You're probably in like a hoodie and like long pants with gloves on. |
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