Mike In Madison - Ironman Wisconsin Preview
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Ironman Wisconsin is a great environment and the Friday before the race Mike went to the water, drove the bike course, and ran the run course. He's done Ironman Wisconsin twice and puts together a few thoughts from today and combines them with his race experiences. Casual, late-night, hotel conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's going on? This is Mike. I am in Madison, Wisconsin, and I'm watching several C-26 athletes take the course on Sunday. |
| 0:13.0 | It is now Friday night, and I thought I would give a kind of a last-minute talk about what I think and what I see and what I saw today about the |
| 0:25.8 | course and what's going on around here. First of all, Madison is just, I don't know, |
| 0:31.6 | it's just one of my favorite places in the world. It has a lot to do probably with the fact that |
| 0:35.7 | I love the Badgers and whatever, but it's just a |
| 0:38.7 | beautiful campus and a great environment for this kind of thing. It's a bustling environment and they |
| 0:44.9 | throw Iron Man right in the middle of it. The State Street area downtown, Iron Man is right downtown, |
| 0:51.9 | and there's just so many cool things going on around the sport. |
| 0:59.5 | And from what I see, the city and everyone I talk to just embraces it and they're not, they |
| 1:06.6 | think it's cool. You know, I don't think they think it's super cool necessarily, but I think they think it's cool and they are, |
| 1:13.6 | by and large, |
| 1:15.0 | very nice to everyone about the Iron Man stuff. |
| 1:19.6 | So that's a cool thing. |
| 1:21.5 | So first thing is I went down to the water today, |
| 1:24.7 | and I really love that lake. It's beautiful. It was 60s, mid 60s or upper 60s today. It felt a little cold and the cloud cover makes with the wind made that lake look a little daunting today. I can be honest, I was thinking about it. I mean, I'm standing up |
| 1:44.7 | there watching people swim and it was really pretty choppy, you know, for a lake, I guess. |
| 1:52.0 | So I'm hoping the sun comes out because I've been thinking about this swim and really how to handle |
| 1:58.8 | this swim and what, you know, based on a couple of times i've done it |
| 2:02.1 | first of all i think i've started in the wrong place i've started by the ski ramp and you kind of have to |
| 2:07.4 | sort of slide your way into the mix from the outside and then by the time you get to the buoy who knows |
| 2:14.0 | how much further you've swam technically it's supposed to be about 30 more yards or something, but I don't know. |
| 2:20.7 | Especially with the wave starts now, I think that the answer is to start on the inside |
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