Lessons from Ironman Chattanooga - Plus, a Deep Dive Into Pacing
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Ironman Chattanooga was a poster child for the challenge of being prepared for race day. The fast swim lulls you to sleep, then the rain on the bike, and hot and humid sunshine just in time for the run. We talk about different things that went wrong for a lot of athletes and how it can be prevented in training. We also go into pacing and how to practice it in training long before you blow up on the race course. We look at swim safety and why most theories don’t work. Training by and understanding effort and why it’s so important when your race plan goes to sh*t.
Topics:
- Lessons From Chattanooga
- Trying to figure this sport out
- Plan A, B, C, and Platinum
- Bike course harder than you think
- All Ironman’s are HARD
- How Ironman Brand Pitches “Easy”
- Anything is Possible . . . if you work at it
- Swim Fast equals free transition
- Having a Healthy Respect for what “could” go wrong
- Ironman Swim Safety
- Forcing a slower start
- Taking races seriously
- Training your swim to start fast
- Getting your body accustomed to race pace
- How to be appropriately prepared
- Don’t try different pacing on race day
- Nothing is in your control
- Training by Effort
- Pace -Sometimes you just gotta take it or leave it
- Learning and extracting from proper pacing
- What did you learn from your race??
- Act like a professional
- Negative split mentality
- Kenyan Shuffle
- 13 minute miles
Mike Tarrolly - [email protected]
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www.crushingiron.com
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Well, yeah, I was air drumming again there, buddy. |
| 0:35.1 | Yeah. The double up, uh, air drumming again there, buddy. Yeah, the double up, the double up air drum at September 27th, the year, 2022. Looking aboard, everybody. You're listening to the Crushing Iron podcast. This is episode 620. |
| 0:38.5 | It is. And somebody's back from Chattanooga. |
| 0:43.9 | Yeah, you are barely back screeching in, coming in hot probably with the screeching the tires and the beamer. |
| 0:45.4 | Mike just got back from Iron Man Chattanooga. |
| 0:48.5 | We'll do a little bit of a recap. |
| 0:50.0 | Well, maybe not so much of recap with the race, but definitely a little bit of the conditions |
| 0:52.7 | and lesson learned, as always. |
| 0:54.2 | You were there on site watching and observing. |
| 0:56.8 | You had a bunch of athletes racing. |
| 0:58.7 | I had quite a few athletes racing there and then also Augustine all over. |
| 1:01.6 | But there's always lessons to be learned from each racing weekend, but we'll use that to chat through today. |
| 1:06.8 | But first and foremost, how's the body feeling? Would you, first question, and this should be an easy one, |
| 1:12.7 | would you rather race an iron man or spectate an Iron Man? |
| 1:16.0 | Race. |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah, easy. |
| 1:18.4 | It's a no-brainer every single time. |
| 1:21.1 | Like people, we had a bunch of athletes there also spectating, |
| 1:24.6 | and I think some volunteering in Augusta, too, |
| 1:26.7 | and they're like, money more too and they're like money more |
| 1:27.8 | and they're like I'm shelled |
| 1:28.8 | I'm done |
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