Most of us are in the transitional period (off season) and today we talk about how to re-locate passion and fun in your life (and the sport). We are all "more" than triathlon, but it can sort of take over the brain. A lot of time it's about taking off blinders and setting boundaries. So many options, how do we settle into what's right for us and nurture our hobby at the same time? 

Topics:

• Chasing “one more race”
• Navigating the “interim”
• Off season decompressing
• Balance and Boundaries
• When you get hooked in a pattern
• Nurturing Your Hobby
• Pace someone else
• So many options, what do we pick?
• The opportunities we miss
• Self discovery
• We’re always late to our own party
• FOMO of the brain
• The Triathlon Blinders
• Common Sense Approach is Unique?
• It’s okay to Not Know
• Remembering where you came from
• Transitional Training
• Make Being Consistent a Practice
• Go have fun!

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An underrated challenging swim, a tough but fair bike, and a new run course that offers a little more elevation and three loops. Today, we look at the little things that can make a difference on the course at Ironman Louisville. We also talk about some of our favorite moments since 2012, take a few jabs at triathlon expos, and look at the overall experience that is Ironman Louisville. 

Topics:

• 3 Loop Run Course
• Our Favorite Louisville Moments
• What’s Worse, Hot or Cold Races?
• Practice Swim (Swim Finish)
• Swim Course
• Underrated Difficulty Swim
• How to breakout your effort on the swim
• Where to swim in the channel
• What to sight off
• A few jabs at the Ironman Expos
• How and where to mount your bike
• Riding river road
• Protect your nutrition on the tracks
• Comparing IML Bike to Wisconsin
• Mile 80
• New Run Course
• Lots more turns
• 4th Street Live Finish

Link to Mother/Daughter story referenced in the podcast: https://crushingiron.com/moms-daughters-and-ironman/

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The faces told the story, and the obvious topic from Ironman Chattanooga is the tough conditions–but how did athletes that raced well handle heat better than others? Today, we dig deeper into why expectations can turn into future resentments and why the toughest race you'll ever face is the one you're training for. What we learned from Chattanooga and how tough days like this help us find our "why." 

Topics:

• Lots of hot action
• The toughest race you’re going to do
• Assuming things before the race
• Fried off the bike
• Truly knowing your body
• Displays of toughness
• Out there alone finding your why
• Attaching ourselves to outcomes
• Finding your why not
• Comparing races
• Think about the obstacles you overcame
• Expectations are future resentments
• You can’t “win” every day
• When you speak things into existence
• Put for the effort, execute, and listen to yourself
• Are you worried about disappointing your coach?
• We’re never really “there”
• Change is a Process
• Internalizing your pressure
• Racing for free and fun
• Find your happy place in the race

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Mike and Robbie hit the Ironman Chattanooga Expo for a race preview podcast recorded at the Blue Plate. The vibe, the scene, some more race tips for what promises to be a hot day. 

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Topics:

• IronKids
• Race Mentality
• Procrastinating pain
• Jim Lubinski sighting
• Pro Predictions
• Is back to back races a good idea?
• Cooling Buses on the course
• Swim mindset
• Well Wishes to racers
• How to "slow down" your mind 

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Have you ever thought of post-races as a reverse taper? Sort of a cool down back to your baseline? Today, we look at some struggles Mike has faced since Ironman Wisconsin and how shifting perspective and balancing expectations is the right approach to the next goal. Moving on but taking what you have with you. How do we "re-discover discovery" after a long goal is met? We also take a look at Ironman Chattanooga race strategy towards the end. 

Topics:

• Chattanooga Heat
• Different levels of fatigue
• How long does an Ironman Recovery take?
• The reverse taper
• Phantom Pains
• “Warm Down”
• Fitness doesn’t disappear as quick as you think
• Losing the Immediacy of a race
• Races as a motivator
• Psychology behind post-ironman
• Losing weight process
• Balancing Your Expectations
• The Excitement of Discovery
• Re-discovering Discovery
• Process Oriented Thinking
• Removing Expectations
• The Little Things add Up
• Do Your Best and Leave The Rest
• Remind Yourself Why It’s Good
• Moving forward vs. Laboring In the Past
• It’s Okay to Change
• When to give up on Goals
• When goals are counterproductive
• Mini- Ironman Chattanooga Preview

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Who wins? An athlete with the most talent or the one who makes the best decisions? In long course racing, we lean toward the latter. The only things you control are effort and execution and when it's hot, those play an amplified role. Today we talk about how to make the right decisions and why you need to calibrate your thought process when race conditions are tougher than normal. 

Topics:

• Talent vs. Discipline and Execution
• Racing in Heat
• Mental, Physical, Emotional for Heat
• When athletes forgo being smart
• Times vs. Overall vs. the Field
• Is Mike doing Louisville?
• An official bonk
• Racing Risky vs. Haphazard
• Stay cool as long as you can
• It’s rarely your run to blame
• Giving up time on the bike
• Knowing the athlete’s strengths as a coach
• Don’t be fooled by temps on the bike
• Can you enjoy a bike pass?
• Self-sabotage
• Never compare races
• Decisions decide the outcome later
• We want gains now!
• Decisions should mostly lead to no change
• Spending more energy to get it done now
• Delegating your energy throughout the race
• Ironman Wisconsin Tribute Video

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How do you move Speed and Durability Needles for long distance racing? Planning your calendar in cycles and blocks is one of the trickiest parts of training. Mike talks about some mistakes he made going into Wisconsin and Coach Robbie gives us lots to think about when it comes to improving cardio vs. building your chassis. Plus, the key to "un-loading," why hills are so important, and how to prepare for open water swimming.

Topics:

• Open Water Swim Mentality
• How to prepare for Open Water
• Why certain bikes have more drafting
• Why Mike botched the IMWI swim
• How to Swim Ironman Chattanooga
• How to Swim Ironman Louisville
• There’s no substitute for 25’s and 50’s
• Understanding Training Blocks
• Why we get “over-trained”
• The key to “un-loading”
• Handling Odd Work Schedules
• Cardio improves faster than the Chassis
• Why Hill Work is so Important
• How much should we push the needle in running?
• How do we find the breaking point?
• Speed vs. Durability
• Giving yourself more time

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A lot of times our first instinct is to blame someone or something, but the truth usually sits within us. Our effort, our consistency, and our timing. Today, we talk a lot about off season and the best ways to make sure you're tinkering from a smart place. We also look at the concept of training backwards and the importance of building a chassis that can support the engine. 

Topics:

• Fun time of the year
• Chomping at bit or struggling to move on?
• Resting on your laurels?
• Hardest part of being a coach
• Planning backwards
• Looking at your A-Race a year out
• Building trust and restraint
• Building the chassis vs engine
• Fast and short builds
• When training gets stale
• Intensity and distribution and stress
• Accumulated stress score
• When do you need intensity?
• Strategic Tinkering
• Do you take risks?
• Consistency vs. Modification
• Goals and Guilt
• What are we willing to sacrifice?

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Today we stare down the barrel of brutally honest reflection on the training we’ve done for a particular race. How do we genuinely solve our problems. Were we lulled to sleep by peaking too early? Did you confuse a weakness for a strength? Did you run too far and not enough? Midway through this cast Robbie asks Mike a question that may entirely change the way he trains. 

Topics: 

• How do you feel after races?
• When we get a case of the BUT’S?
• Are you energized by the challenge?
• Getting better with age?
• Problem solving as a coach
• Not being distracted by what didn’t work
• Are shorter builds better?
• 70.3 vs Ironman Training
• Peak Phase 5-7 Weeks?
• 1/2 marathon vs. an easy 17 miles
• Peaking too early?
• False sense of security
• Interval cycling
• Running Frequency vs. Distance
• Double Ride Weekends are King
• Long runs overrated?
• Getting Tired Doesn’t Mean You’re fitter
• When more training makes you slower
• How to appropriately challenge yourself
• 35% Long Run formula
• Are you mistaking your strength?
• Who slows down the least defined

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Mike raced, and Robbie coached over 20 athletes to the finish line at Ironman Wisconsin. Today, they talk about the experience both from on and off the course. The washing machine of a swim and how that can affect the rest of the race. The ever present onslaught of hills. And the deceivingly tough run course. They also talk about what it was like to experience Madison with a huge throng of C26 athletes and their families. All that, plus thoughts on how you should the Ironman course that’s best for your mind and body. 

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Mike and Robbie celebrate #300 podcast by recording in front of a live audience in Madison, Wisconsin. Today, they are joined by 2011 Ironman Wisconsin winner, Jessica Jacobs. Jessica is a former pro and current C26 athlete who is back racing as an amateur after hitting the bottom as a pro. She talks about how she found the Crushing Iron podcast, her run duel with Meredith Kessler at Ironman Wisconsin and how she has found a new peace with racing. 

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Link to explanation of how Ironman Wisconsin transition works: https://youtu.be/3ShFLI_EeLw

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We feel like the world is watching and our time will define us, but racing success is in the effort and execution. There are a lot of little things we can do before and during a race to ease the load. Putting all these goals, specifically time related may be unfair to yourself and will certainly increase the weight and the burden of what is already a big enough challenge. 

• Let Speed and Strength Come To You
• The off-season is exciting
• What happens when we chase results
• When emotions force poor choices
• This is MY year
• Social Media Motivation is So Easy
• Race Day Positive Thought
• Controlling Controllables 
• Let the Race Come to You
• Execution and Effort 
• The Biggest Weight You Carry on Race Day
• Letting go of the burdens
• What if the Swim is Long??
• The unreliability of scales
• You don’t know what your day’s like until mile 80
• When you have zero expectations
• Relieving yourself of the decision making process
• The Brain is your CEO 
• Acknowledge the Day . . . then accept the outcome
• Breaking News on IMWI Tri-Club Point Standings 

Link to explanation of how Ironman Wisconsin transition works: https://youtu.be/3ShFLI_EeLw

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We focus on the Ironman Wisconsin course, but anyone doing an Ironman will benefit from the strategies discussed today. We talk about the unique transition, tactics for the rectangle swim, how to tackle the hills, and what you should be doing on different parts of the run. Robbie has coached over 35 IMWI finishers and this will be Mike's 3rd time doing Wisconsin. The biggest takeaway on this course is you have to stay focused. Lots of turns, gearing, and opportunity to get caught up in the energy of the amazing spectators. 

Topics:

• Mike and Robbie's long history with Wisconsin 
• Transition Explanation
• Swim Line up
• Sighting tips
• Coming into transition
• Tips for T1 
• Staying warm as bike starts
• Getting used to the roads
• Gearing tips 
• So many turns 
• Forgetting to hydrate
• Don’t assume last stretch is downhill
• Gearing the first loop
• Stay in YOUR MOMENT
• Beware Cool Temps Misleading You
• How To Stay Focused
• Coming out of T2
• Stay your lines
• The hills
• When to do what
• The cruel tease of the second loop

Link to explanation of how Ironman Wisconsin transition works: https://youtu.be/3ShFLI_EeLw

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What’s your burnout rate? Do bad race choices make it worse? Today is all about picking the right races for you. Not only course wise, but the time of year so they don’t tangle with stressful life events. Don’t let revenge on a race course or someone else’s goals impact your decisions. Stay fresh, connected and happy with your triathlon lifestyle. 

Topics: 

• Planning Phase for next year?
• The most dangerous decision phase of training
• An Objective and healthy approach
• Should You Race or Not?
• Random Races and A-Race Jeopardy 
• The comfort of repeating races
• How to pick the right race for you?
• What the hell are you doing in transition?
• What’s the best time of year?
• Rushing your recovery
• Are you in a mistake loop?
• What getting faster really means

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We all have those little moments in training that give us thought that we may have the greatest race of our lives. Then, just as quick we think we may DNF. It's a constant battle and the true win comes down to understanding and appreciating execution. It's not about pace on a random Tuesday, it's about building fatigue, recovering, then nailing restraint so that you can execute a race to the best of who you are. 

Topics:

• Wisconsin spectator awesomeness 
• Trying but not trying
• Fatigue Masks Fitness 
• Getting back to fresh
• The Mind Game of the Taper
• The Energy burn of the recover
• Phantom Pain
• Eating more than we need in Taper
• Packing early for racing
• Making Sure You Have Nutrition
• Be careful of massages
• Visualizing thoughts and feelings of race day
• Execution and restraint 
• Resilience and toughing-it-out
• From Awesome to Terrible
• From DNF to PR
• Taking what the course gives you
• Powering over hills 
• Mashing vs. Maneuvering 
• Upcoming Live Podcast in Madison

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Off-season is not really a thing if you want to get better. That doesn't mean you have to thrash and burn all year, but what can you do to get better today. How do you come to terms with "boring" workouts and figure out ways to make them part of an exciting result. Today we talk a lot about patience and restraint, both in training and racing. Plus give a lot of good thoughts think and attack your big race. 

Topics:

• Coach is back from Florida 
• Increasing Good habits v. Bad Habits
• Mont Tremblant stories
• Is there really an off-season?
• Don’t skip too many classes
• Practicing Restraint and Patience
• How Slowing Down Makes You Faster
• When You Feel It’s Right, It’s Probably too fast
• How to bank energy in a race
• The relevancy of the bike
• Know Your body and the Point of the race
• Restraint and Execution
• Putting Purpose Into Your Training
• It’s crazy what happens when you use common sense
• Zoom out on your training
• The Coffee shop Combo
• How to take BORING out of training
• Remember how you got here
• Pre-Race texts with athletes 

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Taper is the ultimate test of patience and while you're not training as much, most athletes waste a tremendous amount of mental and emotional energy. As the race closes in, it's time to focus on confidence and visualizing what might go wrong and how you are going to get through it. Thinking through solutions not problems. The athlete who makes the fewest mistakes is the one who wins their race.

Topics: 

• Exciting time of the year
• Pressures build 
• When Coaches Worry
• Coming to terms with our training
• Patience and calm
• How do we not press on?
• Looking at collective workouts
• Bridging workouts outside of Mon-Sun
• Not letting off the gas too early
• Just don’t think about it :) 
• Making fewer mistakes in taper
• Idle Taper Minds
• Thriving in drama and chaos
• Quiet Confidence from building a body of work
• Being totally dependent on yourself
• The patience of taper
• Don’t squeeze for just a little bit more
• Mental and Emotional Energy Wasted the last two weeks
• Get your mind ready for Race Decisions

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The biggest workouts in the hottest part of summer and a race that's close but never seems like it will be here. Sometimes the toughest part of training is staying fresh and sharp as your race approaches. Today we look at ways to take the last month or so before a race and turn them into our biggest mental asset. 

Topics: 

• Camp recap
• Different people, backgrounds, abilities
• A melting pot sport
• Identity through triathlon isn’t about a metric
• What is triathlon doing for your life?
• Awakening a whole new personal world
• “I’m gonna get better no matter what”
• Exposing yourself to different environments
• Personal Myth Busting
• The toughest part of building the swim
• Feed on the energy frenzy 
• Controlling your effort
• Breakthrough Performance vs. Lessons
• Sometimes the best reaction is to not
• What If You Don’t Have It Today?
• The Best Asset You Can Attain Is Knowledge
• Negative Split Mentality 
• Stop Making Decisions Before You Start
• High Fatigue and Warm Ups
• Respect how your body feels and go with that today
• Bonking isn’t running out of energy
• Why You Need to Practice Pacing
• Dealing with GI out of the swim
• Combatting Your Fatigue
• How to be relentless
• Racing Is Like A Long Work Day of Decisions
• Stress Compounds and Affects Training

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What's it take to go from beginner, to intermediate to an advanced triathlete? How do you define that and/or your personal journey? The process is the purpose and we all define that differently. Which lens are you looking through when you judge your progress and how will you write your own success?

Topics:

• From beginner, to intermediate to advanced
• The process to the purpose
• Lose weight, take life back
• Slow is relative
• When ignorance is bliss
• Which lens are you looking through?
• Defining Triathlon Success
• How do you judge yourself?
• The Old You, the New You, The Old you?
• The “Great Reminders”
• The Process is the Moment

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Triathlon is a long, complicated process that doesn't always give us clear answers. Today we look for ways to take positives away from "bad" workouts, how to use hope as your "why," and maybe even how to keep this training thing simple (or simpler). We're all a work in progress and paying attention to your life and stress matter in training. 

Topics:

• What’s your level of hope?
• Hope is Interchangeable with Your Why
• Can you step back and look at the big picture?
• Can you stick with 5-6 weeks of demanding workouts?
• Looking at the "final block” before your big race
• Is what you’ve done enough?
• Are you “MORE-ING” your way to tired and overtrained?
• If You Don’t Have Bad Days, something’s probably wrong
• Writing about your workouts
• Neglecting the little things that could make training less painful
• When It’s Not Your Fitness, It’s Your Life
• Comparison is the worst thing you can do
• Is your primary goal delusional?
• I want to feel good today 
• It’s all about effort 
• It’s always a work in progress 
• Slowing Down The Least 
• How we use fear and need for excitement
• Doing More Is a Lazy Answer 
• Getting to the top of your age group
• Minutes Matter 

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Do you practice thinking about decisions you'll face on race day or lost in a world of Swift and Neftlix? If we go through the motions in training, race day stresses become a lot more challenging. What are you doing to prepare for thousands of decisions you'll have to make on race day? Also, distraction by IronTracker, bike handling, and changing how you feel during a race. 

Topics:

• Are We Jaded About Ironman?
• Ironman Tracker Addiction
• Opportunities we miss by obsessive tracking
• People want more and more 
• Is Our Bike Handling Getting Worse?
• The Problem with Pain Caves
• Distracted Training 
• Putting the head down and working
• Preparing for the Unpredictable 
• You are Responsible for Your Own Experience
• Fighting through
• Learning How To Make Great Decisions
• Can You Change How You Feel In Races?
• The Best Athletes Make The Best Decisions
• Take Calculated Risks
• Practicing Race Day 
• Don’t Let Your Beliefs Limit You

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The swim set the tone. We could see it in their eyes as they got out of the water. Then conditions seemed to get worse. Tough winds on the bike and a hot sunny day made for a tough reality at Ohio 70.3. 

Triathlon is an endless puzzle and just when you think you mastered it, there will be another big lesson. Do the best you can and have fun.

Topics:

• Ohio Tough Conditions
• Be grateful 
• Good people
• Condolences for bike death
• The Wind 
• Respect the course
• Warm water, slow times
• The PR illusion 
• Us vs. the Elements
• Hot run, no clouds
• When You Should Start Swim
• The conditions aren’t the same for everyone
• When a swim dictates a race
• Nothing better than a great start
• Do the best you can and have fun

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Should you put more weight on your great workouts or bad? Probably neither because it's a process and everything is a building block. As the pressure builds it's more important to stay level when evaluating yourself. Take a look at where you've come from and figure out how a bunch of "good" workouts are the best way to great. 

Topics:

• The Spectrum of Athletes 
• Beginner, Improver, Kona Qualifier?
• Short Term Memory, Long Term Appreciation
• Good Days, Bad Days 
• After the Excitement Wears Off
• Is It All About What’s Next?
• Triathlon and Life Should Compliment
• Let Yourself Float 
• The Life Metaphor
• Do we always have to have an answer?
• Three sports is like spinning plates
• Expectations are future resentments
• Why it’s all about showing up
• Do you feel surprisingly good on Monday?
• Taking pressure off race goals
• Is “good” not enough?
• Shoot for Good over Great
• Can you restrain yourself in workouts?
• Strive for the Middle 
• Appreciate what you’re doing

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Are you piling on mileage just to make sure you're ready? Today we look at Peak Phase and why too much volume can be your worst enemy. Fatigue is a slippery slope and it's important to listen to your body first and understand the true demands of a race and how to train for them. Today, the fine line between volume and intensity. 

Topics: 

• Simulating Race Day FEEL
• Peak Phase and Volume vs. Intensity
• What kind of intensity can you hold?
• Mileage vs. Time
• Long Bikes That Crush Our Spirits
• 100 Mile Rides Overrated?
• Double Runs/Double Rides
• Accumulating in 24 Hours
• Simulating FEEL of an Ironman Marathon
• The first 30 mins are the worst
• Fatigue is Relative
• When Rest Makes You Feel Worse
• Why You Get Phantom Pain in Taper
• Listen to your body first 
• Swimming: Always take more time if you need it
• More is not a plan
• The decision and action have to come at the same time
• How mental fatigue affects your race
• Don’t let bad workout results define your race

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Do you look at the big picture of your triathlon journey? For many it becomes an endless cycle of similar results and a lot of struggle. Today, we look at things like, why feeling good could be a sign to reign it in and why your upcoming race may not be the thing to hang your hat on. How does today help your tomorrow? Getting unstuck and looking at your Taper in a totally different way. 

Topics: 

• Do You Truly Love The Sport?
• The 12 Month Training Cycle
• Periodization
• Are You Stuck?
• Is it time to scrap your year?
• Straddling the hurt and injured fence
• Regrouping and taking inventory of your situation
• Random exercise vs. Training 
• How Does Today Help Tomorrow?
• You have to be in shape to train
• The glamor and romanticism of addiction
• Pool Swimming vs. Open Water
• Why Speed Work is Risky 
• Losing Patience and when it costs you
• When Ego and Pride Clouds Judgement
• The common thread of great triathletes
• Why you shouldn’t add a short race b4 your big race
• The challenge of the Taper 
• The Final Lead in to your race
• Arrive on Time and Be Your Best 

Registration is NOW OPEN for 2020 C26 Camps. Find out more on our Camps Page. 

Struggling with your Swim? Join our new SWIM SQUAD 12 Month Program and build confidence in the water. You'll get 4 workouts a week, 4 customized video swim analysis, weekly swim tip videos and discounts on our Swim Camps. For more information go to this link. 

Support the Crushing Iron podcast on Patreon, where the community pledge is only $3.26 per month. There are other options, but every little bit helps us keep this podcast on the rails. Thanks in advance.

You can also support us at our new store at CrushingIron.com. We have some NEW classic logo t-shirts and the Official Crushing Iron Spectator shirt for sale. Support the cast and get some new gear for it!