Half-Ironman Austin 70.3 2017 Race Recap - Triathlon Taren Podcast

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Half-Ironman Austin 70.3 happened on October 29, 2017 and Triathlon Taren placed 5th in the 35-39 age category and 82nd overall, qualifying for Half-Ironman Worlds South Africa in 2018. In this podcast Taren sits down in the grass right after the awards ceremony and discusses the things that went well from the race, what went poorly, what lessons he learned from the race, and how he needs to approach future races. Things discussed in the podcast: Results TYR Cat 5 Hurricane My Gear list

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0:00.0	Trainiacs, Trainiacs, what is up? Triathlon Taryn here coming to you.
0:11.6	Literally from the awards stage of Half Iron Man Austin 70.3.
0:18.6	They just wrapped up the awards.
0:20.2	They just awarded all of the spots to the Half Iron Man Austin, 70.3. They just wrapped up the awards. They just awarded all of the spots to the
0:23.8	Half Iron Man World Championships in South Africa in 2018. And I'm going. Made it. I'll tell you all about
0:33.8	the race today. This is a solo podcast. We're gonna try how that goes.
0:37.8	And I thought that this would be the best place
0:40.1	to give you the play by play of how the day went
0:42.2	and how your boy, Triathlon Taryn,
0:45.3	ended up qualifying for worlds.
0:48.3	I'll give you a hint.
0:49.1	It was in a roll down, but didn't have to roll down too far.
0:52.5	So I came here with very high expectations. If you watch
0:57.7	the vlog, I was looking for somewhere around a 440 race. In total, ideally, I think that's what my
1:06.9	body is capable of. But, you know, that's a, I call that my perfect race that's not what I expect
1:14.9	to do every single race and something that was said to me this week that it makes perfect sense is
1:22.9	you have ownership over the work and the process you don't have any ownership over the work and the process.
1:31.3	You don't have any ownership over the results or the outcome.
1:33.9	And today was a perfect example of that.
1:43.3	Basically, the 440 that I was looking for, it was totally attainable based on the race that I did but I did a 457 and it was largely because
1:48.6	the bike course didn't allow for a very fast bike so I was looking for a 230 bike ended up doing a
1:53.7	243 I believe had a mechanical uh dropped a chain into all that. Uh, and then because of the,
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