#875 – Ironman Wisconsin 2025 Recap - How's Your Mental Game?

Triathlon is 90% mental, the other half is physical.*

Today we recap Ironman Wisconsin 2025. This was Mike’s 12th Ironman and there was some good, bad and a little ugly. We talk about everything from pre-race anxiety, to adjusting your day based on feel, and maybe most importantly, how to keep going when every bone in your body says no. They talk about riding the course and managing the hills, nutrition, and why we keep coming back for more pain. By all accounts, Ironman Wisconsin seemed like it’s coming back in full force. The weather was great, the support was off the charts, and the volunteers were more than plentiful. Doing an Ironman can really suck in the moment, but that’s exactly why we keep going.

Topics:

• Anticipation/Expectations
• Anxiety
• Pre-Race
• Mike talks about the race
• Mind over matter
• Great conditions
• Madison showed up!
• Having goals
• Swim conditions
• Swim issues
• Cold off out of the water?
• Start of the bike
• Adjusting your effort
• Understanding what the body has on race day
• Mental tests
• The hills, the downhills, the wind
• Avg Power/Normalized
• Going by feel
• Nutrition on bike
• Mental prep for a marathon
• This sucks, do it anyway
• Mantras
• Run course changes
• Why do we do this?
• Are we too comfortable?
• How do you keep running?
• Some fast people out there
• He missed qualifying by one second
• What’s it take to have your best race?
• Working your way through issues
• Is it Mike’s last race?

*Yogi Berra Quote reference.

Mike Tarrolly - [e-mail]

Robbie Bruce - [e-mail]