Building Race Confidence (and Reducing Anxiety)
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
How do we absolutely know when we’re ready to race? Today, we look at how athletes produce non-objective expectations and why that can build unwelcome anxiety. We tend to want concrete answers, but that’s just not possible. At some point we just have to do it. This goes with many things in life beyond racing. We get into rewiring pathways to create more confidence and reduce doubt. We look at small decisions along the way in training that build confidence. We also talk about practicing getting over the little humps and how small decisions create positive momentum.
Topics:
- It’s your journey
- How do you know you’re ready?
- Different stages of readiness
- Am I ready to execute this race?
- Execute your best race best on your fitness
- Confidence in feel and pacing
- Dependence on concrete answers
- I want to KNOW I can finish before I start
- Anxiety
- Nothing is guaranteed
- Sometimes the best races are surprises
- Chin up more than chin down
- Uncertainty, anxiety, depression
- How do we know what we want?
- Overcompensating
- Confidence vs. Bravado
- Humility in confidence
- Small decisions that build your belief
- Practice getting over the little humps
- Don’t listen to all your thoughts, just acknowledge them
- Small decisions create momentum
- Let the body do what it is capable of
Mike Tarrolly - [email protected]
Robbie Bruce - [email protected]
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| 0:00.0 | you ready let's do it |
| 0:03.0 | all right All right. Can you hear me over there? We're back now. We're back. And I was going to hear a lot and clear. |
| 0:27.9 | Good. Yeah, I hear you light and clear. You're crisp. You're clean. You sound fit. It's August 2nd, folks. |
| 0:34.3 | We're already in August, man. Years flying by. It's August 2nd, 2020. We're already in August, man. It's years flying by. It's August 2nd, |
| 0:38.3 | 2022. Look on board, everybody. This is the crushing iron podcast, and you're listening to |
| 0:45.1 | episode 6004. Yeah, it is. 604. Damn, I faded out a little bit quick there. |
| 0:51.6 | Yeah, I mean, we didn't have our usual pre-podcast breakdown meeting where we outline in very detailed format the agenda for today. |
| 0:59.8 | So a little bit, a little bit lost. |
| 1:01.3 | But yeah, 604. |
| 1:02.1 | Hope you're all having a awesome start of the week. |
| 1:05.0 | Had some a little bit, a couple exciting races going on this past weekend. |
| 1:09.6 | And then you got the inaugural Ironman Alaska coming up this weekend, |
| 1:13.3 | along with Boulder 70.3. |
| 1:14.9 | So looking forward to hearing how that goes. |
| 1:18.3 | I know it's going to be cold. |
| 1:19.4 | It's got to be. |
| 1:20.2 | It's Alaska. |
| 1:20.9 | But I'm definitely interested in hearing about the experience that that race is. |
| 1:25.8 | Like we had a, |
| 1:26.7 | we had an athlete, |
| 1:31.0 | what, maybe three, three years ago, um, name was Eric. |
| 1:31.5 | He did Alaska Man. |
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