Lessons From Kona - Breaking Down the Ironman World Championship

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Ironman, Nutrition, Triathlon, Podcast, Fitness, Swimming, Training, Coaching, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Today we recap the Ironman World Championship and look at racing strategy, the coverage, and what lessons we can learn as age groupers from an unbelievable race. We look at Iden and Blummenfelt and what their real training secret likely is. We talk about the big swim pack, drafting on the bike, and what all that did to set up the run. We talk about the shift in qualification standards, the move to make things seem easier, and fast shoes. Our belief that “once you get too hot, it’s over” played out again as did “you don’t have to catch them, they’ll come back to you.” Lots of interesting topics to go over from KONA, but we also bring it back to the amateur level and ask important questions about your dreams of getting faster, including, “Are your buddies slowing you down?”

Topics:

KONA is a special place, but should the race rotate locations?
The 2 Day format . . . good or bad?
Breaking down the broadcast
Advertising overload?
The quest to make everything possible
A mother wins
Easier and easier to qualify - does it lose its luster?
The big swim pack in the men’s race
The bike and drafting
Shower, dry off, 5k
Penalties
The swim game has changed
Not as much separation
Iden and Blummenfelt worked together the whole race
Laidlow upset the apple cart
Iden’s Hat
Bike fits
Fast Hoes
Once you get too hot, it’s over
Iden and Blummenfelt’s REAL secret sauce
You don’t have to catch them, they’ll come back to you
Are your buddies slowing you down?

Coaching Inquiries:

Mike Tarrolly - [email protected]

Robbie Bruce - [email protected]

www.c26triathlon.com

www.crushingiron.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Here we are fresh off the island fresh off the island it's october 11th the year
0:27.2	2022 welcome board everybody you're listening to the crushing iron podcast and this is episode
0:33.1	624 24 yep 624 fresh off the island with a little bit of sunburned at least well more of a
0:41.1	wind burn for those of us in the Midwest as it's cooling off a little bit I was your flight I did it
0:45.2	do what I was your flight oh yeah you know me like I'm I'm a I'm what they call a jet setter
0:51.9	I probably put in a couple million miles a year on my frequent flyer card.
0:57.7	No, listen, the mileage to me, if I get the next time I get on an airplane, I don't know when it's going to be.
1:03.1	It could be next year, but who knows, but that's going to take a lot of prep.
1:06.5	That's going to take a very heavy anxiety panic-driven training block for me to get on the plane.
1:12.5	And I feel like you, it might be a block that you and I have to share.
1:16.0	But I hope you guys all enjoyed.
1:18.6	It was a huge weekend, a giant weekend, actually, I think, for the sport.
1:22.0	And we'll go into a lot of that today.
1:24.2	Obviously, we had the Iron Man World Championships this last weekend.
1:27.2	The first time, it was a two-day event.
1:29.5	It was back in Kona for the first time since 2019, as you and I have both said since
1:34.5	basically 2020.
1:36.8	I'll believe it when I see it in terms of when they go back to Kona, how things are.
1:41.6	I got a lot of feedback from people who were there specating, from people who were racing.
1:45.8	We had men racing on both days and we had a couple close friends that were racing on Thursday.
1:51.6	So a lot of feedback, again, from people on the ground just kind of watching and giving their overall vibe.
1:56.7	Because listen, it was a big to do about this whole two-day event.
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