Ironman Texas 2022 Preview
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Today we focus on Ironman Texas strategy, but this podcast is great for anyone racing an Ironman, especially when it’s hot. We always talk about not obsessing about the weather, but when you know it might be hot, it’s smart to prepare. We look at all kinds of hot racing strategies, talk about why Texas is a sneaky challenging course, and why you will want to prepare to suffer. This is a C26 Team race, so be sure to say hi out on the course.
Topics:
- Mushy Open
- Wetsuit legal?
- Swim strategy
- Prepare for a slower swim
- Red to Orange buoy transition
- Spectator’s paradise
- T-1 Concrete
- Bike - windy and flat
- 1st outdoor ride?
- Ice bottles before the swim
- Core temperature
- Cooling on the bike
- Fueling on the bike
- Coming off the bike
- Walking early aid stations
- It’s gonna Hurt
- Tough Love
- Find a mantra
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | what's up buddy i feel like we're fired up today we are are a little bit fired up. I hope you're fired up as well. It's a Thursday. It's April 21st, the year, 2022. Welcome on board, everybody. This is the crushing iron podcast, episode 50075. Yeah, it is. Are you still writing 22 on your checks? It's one of those, |
| 0:43.1 | I mean, is that not the year we're in? Oh, yeah. What do you mean am I still running? I mean, |
| 0:50.6 | are you not out in the future with me? I was going to say one of us is in 2023 already. |
| 0:55.7 | I mean, we always talk about staying present, and maybe you want to, maybe you |
| 0:58.8 | have to work on that for a little bit. |
| 1:00.6 | It's us in the studio. |
| 1:01.9 | It's the dogs in the studio. |
| 1:03.2 | Again, it's a wonderful Thursday. |
| 1:05.4 | It's your first time tuning in. |
| 1:06.8 | Welcome. |
| 1:07.3 | We appreciate you giving us your time uh we know you have a lot of options in the triathlon |
| 1:10.8 | podcast universe and just podcast and journal the time is viable so you appreciate you tuning in |
| 1:15.1 | today uh we cover it all we'll do swim bike and run specific podcast we'll do race recaps probably |
| 1:21.3 | like next week and we'll do race previews like today um for the most part mike and i is coaches |
| 1:27.2 | athletes best friends we just sit back, |
| 1:29.2 | relax, have an open-off discussion about what we're going through, both as humans on this planet |
| 1:33.8 | and also coaches and athletes ourselves. We also use the discussions we have with our athletes, |
| 1:39.5 | work with a wide range of athletes from beginner levels. Athletes looking to complete and complete in their very first 5K or sprint all the |
| 1:47.9 | way through elite level amateurs trying to get back to Kona and everyone in between. |
| 1:52.5 | We have quite a few athletes in the state of Tennessee, but the majority of our athletes |
| 1:56.1 | are all over the country and spread across the world. |
| 1:58.6 | We are national and international. |
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