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That Triathlon Show

Time management and balance with Amy Farrell |EP#37

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Amy Farrell is a triathlon age-grouper like most of us, with a day job, family, and other commitments. Unlike most of us, however, she is an age-group Ironman world champion. One of her keys to success is great time management, and finding the right balance between triathlon and other parts of her life. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -Amy's tips for managing your time and finding time for both training and non-triathlon commitments -The importance of finding the right balance in life. -A day in the life of Amy - what it contains and how she combines training, family, and her job hour by hour, black on white. LISTENER QUESTIONS: If you have questions that you want me to answer on the show or off the show (in an email), send me your question via email or Twitter (contact information below). NOTES: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ SHOWNOTES: www.thattriathlonshow.com Send feedback, questions or just wanna chat? CONTACT me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0

Find time in the day and around my family to fit it in.

0:05.3

I spend a lot of time on the trainer just because I don't want to miss out on anything at home.

0:12.5

That triathlon show, the podcast presented by

0:32.8

Scientific Triathlon.com.

0:35.5

I'm your host, Michael, and on this week's episode or sorry today's episode,

0:41.2

we are going to have an other interview after a couple of solo episodes in the last few episodes.

0:48.0

So it's good to have this bit of variety and now we're going back to to an interview format again.

0:56.5

This time my guest is amy ferrell who is an ironman age group world champion and she's working as a PE teacher and

1:03.7

she's a mom and has a lot of things going on so i googled around to find some guests that would

1:09.7

be relatable for listeners.

1:11.6

So regular age troopers was what I was looking for and with the aim of finding somebody

1:16.6

who could talk about time management for agekeepers.

1:21.2

And I found Amy in an article on Iron Man and after she had won her age group at the World Championships in Kona, Hawaii.

1:29.6

And she agreed to come on the podcast, which is great.

1:32.5

And the interview is an interview that I think that many of you will be able to relate to

1:36.6

because, as I said, Amy works a full-time job.

1:39.9

And she has a family, a mom, and other commitments outside of triathlon.

1:43.7

And she talks a lot about not just trying to crime it all in, but finding balance and

1:49.0

finding balance with the other areas of your life as well.

1:51.9

So I'm sure that this is useful.

1:54.2

This has been a requested topic from many of you, time management and in surveys that I've

1:58.8

done as well, time management is always one of the

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