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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Be Prepared To Race - Plus, Some Tough Love For The Swim

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Ironman, Nutrition, Triathlon, Podcast, Fitness, Swimming, Training, Coaching, Health & Fitness

4.7724 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A lot of things go through your mind with an Ironman approaching and today, we go through Mike’s big “test” weekend from Wisconsin. He talks about why he’s waiting to decide and how close he is to pulling the trigger. We also talk about Ohio, which turned out to be a tough swim, then dive right into a “tough love” session about swimming and how you can be more prepared to race. We break down tons of in-race issues and decisions you can make to race better along with question why Ironman is always trying to make the swim seem “easy.” Be mentally and physically ready to race by exposing yourself to what it’s going to take on the course. 

Topics:

  • Social Media Lurkers 
  • Ironman Mike?
  • Being prepared 
  • Responsible and Objective Decision Making
  • The 24 Hour Mood Swing 
  • Are 70.3’s the most popular distance?
  • Ironman used to fill up in one day
  • Do you need big goals hanging out there?
  • Bike Effort 
  • Ironman Wisconsin course discussion
  • Does the course you’re doing excite you?
  • The feeling you’ve been missing
  • Ohio 70.3 post-race 
  • Swim at Ohio
  • A firm reminder to take the swim seriously
  • Ironman’s impossible goal of making the swim “easy” 
  • People just don’t take the swim seriously, until they’re in it
  • The difference between scared and mad voice 
  • Why mass starts are safer 
  • The swim mirage
  • The trend to make everything “seem easy” 
  • Way too many opt out choices today 

Mike Tarrolly - [email protected]

Robbie Bruce - [email protected] 

www.c26triathlon.com 

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's do it.

0:18.9

All right, man. Here we go. How you feeling? Let's do it. Let's do it. It's July 26th,

0:29.3

2020. Happy Tuesday, everybody. You were listening to the crushing iron podcast. This is about to be

0:36.0

episode 600 and 2. Man, it's a big number. This is about to be episode 600 and two.

0:40.4

It's a big number. I was trying to think of what that number meant to me and I can't think

0:43.5

anything. 602.

0:47.4

Well, you moved me on that one, man. I could my heart, get your pitter-patted. I got,

0:51.6

I got my eyes are glistening. I got tears coming down. You really nailed it with that one.

0:55.2

Yeah, what does it mean to you?

0:56.9

It means we've been consistent.

0:58.2

And that's honestly really all it's meant.

1:00.0

We've been consistent.

1:01.1

We've come to you twice the week for the last, what is it?

1:04.0

Six years?

1:04.9

Yeah, about six years.

1:07.1

Yeah, I guess six years, what? September? We started this and went to October and November. It should be about six years.

1:13.9

Oh, yeah.

1:15.4

Yeah.

1:15.9

So I think Hayden was eight or 12, eight or ten weeks old and we started this.

1:22.4

Man, the side eyes and the ugly looks I got back when he was a newborn.

1:27.1

And I was like, yeah yeah I'm going to go

1:28.2

to the podcast she was like I don't even know what you're doing in there and I was like well here

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