C26 Squadcast #2 - From a Sprint Triathlon to Ironman - C26 Athlete Erika Jurkowski
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Squadcasts are ongoing series of interviews with the C26 Athletes. Traditional Crushing Iron Podcasts will continue to release on Monday and Thursday every week.
Imagine being on stage with a panel of judges picking apart every flaw of your body. Erika Jurkowski was there and hated not only that, but the lifestyle. She was bringing her own meals to dinner parties and eating out of Tupperware while everyone else feasted. She wanted to have fun again, so she dove into triathlon with the same passion as bodybuilding. She recently finished Ironman Louisville and today she tells her story on the C26 Squadcast.
- The challenge that changed her life
- Why body building made her start to hate herself
- Going from 500 calories a day to 500 on a long bike ride
- Fear of the Swim
- What convinced her to leave body building
- From figuring out how to swim to signing up to a Half
- Was she more nervous for a Sprint or Ironman?
- How her lifestyle set her up for the fast track to Ironman
- Her post-Ironman struggles
- What's next?
- The emotional roller coaster of the journey.
- Her favorite part of training for an Ironman
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The bodybuilding world is completely different. |
| 0:05.2 | I mean, just so different. |
| 0:07.7 | I mean, the primary reason why I left is because I got tired of hating myself. |
| 0:11.8 | That was Erica Jerkowski, former bodybuilder, now crushing iron C-26 athlete. |
| 0:17.1 | She joins Robbie and I today on the second ever squad cast. She talks about what it was |
| 0:22.9 | like changing sports and getting into triathlon with basically zero experience, how she went from a |
| 0:30.8 | sprint through a half and all the way up to this year competing with us at Ironman Louisville. |
| 0:38.6 | She's got a lot of great energy and some really funny stories. |
| 0:43.9 | So sit back and enjoy the second ever squadcast with Erica Jerkowski. |
| 0:51.1 | Thank you. Dirkowski. |
| 1:10.7 | And here she is, right, in the flesh. |
| 1:16.4 | In the flesh, we are testing on our first intimate video, our first intimate Skype video squadcast. |
| 1:20.5 | So we are currently all in our C-26 Snuggies and huddled around our laptops and campfire, |
| 1:31.0 | ready to share with you our second C-26 squadcast with Erica Drakowski. |
| 1:34.8 | How you doing, Erica? |
| 1:36.3 | Hey, I'm doing all right. |
| 1:38.0 | How are you guys? |
| 1:39.2 | Good. |
| 1:39.7 | Introduce yourself to the podcast universe. |
| 1:43.1 | Not much. |
| 1:45.0 | Well, say, my name is Erica Drakowski. |
| 1:48.2 | I'm out of Richmond, Virginia. |
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