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Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Find out why thousands of beginner, intermediate, and advanced athletes are improving their training and racing with accessible, functional and genuine conversation about triathlon. Two coaches, who aren't afraid to laugh at themselves, look for smart and enjoyable solutions in a sport that's often dumb and painful. Mike Tarrolly and Robbie Bruce explore the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual side of training and racing everything from Ironman to a Sprint. on Monday and Thursday.
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Dec 10, 2024

One of our responsibilities as a triathlete and a human is to figure out things that work best for us. Stress affects us all differently and one way to deal with it is to not take ourselves so seriously. Life is all about making deposits and withdrawals, where is your energy going? A big part of this sport is believing we belong and nourishing our own box. The minute we get too rigid with ourselves, we’re losing the point. Every great swimmer, cyclist, or runner has their own form and approach. We have to carve our own way and define our own success. How do we get more comfortable in our own skin and the spandex we wear on top of it?

Topics:

  • Bi-weekly dose of December therapy
  • Humanity forces humans into buckets
  • 100 ways to skin a carrot
  • Move your body
  • Hanging stress is stress is stress
  • We have the ultimate control
  • This too shall pass
  • It’s easy to give advice
  • December rules
  • Deposits and withdrawals
  • Flowing with the universe
  • Rigid training
  • Operating in the gray
  • Be a swimmer, a cyclist and a runner
  • What are you great at?
  • Belief in yourself
  • Looks like they’re not even trying
  • Being comfortable in your spandex
  • Nourish your own box
  • “I don’t know”
  • True conviction in who you are

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Dec 5, 2024

Modern life is loaded with inputs and sometimes we have to disconnect for our sanity. Today, we take a different perspective on the off-season. How can we get better without directly putting your energy into traditional triathlon activity? If you’re already jacked up about your race next Fall, you are probably running a little too rigid. There’s a time and place to sharpen the tip of the spear and starting now will likely lead to burnout. Give your mind and body some space to refuel with different angles that relate to your overall health and well-being. Relax and get back to your true center.

Topics:

  • Feels like a harsh winter
  • Training in cold vs. heat
  • Distance yourself from the grind
  • Time to experiment
  • Load management syndrome
  • Disconnect and re-energize
  • We need space
  • Take time away to think freely
  • Fend off burnout
  • Experimenting in your own mind
  • Too Much Input
  • It’s all about energy
  • Favorite bands with only two good albums
  • When it’s forced
  • Rigidity eats you up
  • Overload and obsession
  • Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
  • Sharpening the tip of the spear
  • Connecting non-connecting ideas to triathlon

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Dec 3, 2024

What are the little (but important) things that make us better athletes? Today, we look at how to work at training in a way that makes racing feel “easier.” We talk about going east and west to balance our perpetual north and south movements in triathlon. We get into the efficiency of movement and how to train in ways that make swim, bike, and run “click” in the mind. We talk about natural movement and how “thinking” can slow us down. It is often the little things that make you better than your opponent, and . . . can help make your training much more effective in the long run.

Topics:

  • Exertion levels in the cold
  • Slow Month Season
  • Vests and Ice Running
  • North and South vs. East and West
  • Efficient movement
  • Tightening with age
  • Yoga
  • Dissipating energy
  • Swimming with different strokes
  • Where does your pedal stroke fatigue first?
  • Creating weaknesses
  • Using ALL of our muscles
  • Neglecting strength, mobility, and stretching
  • Wasting energy
  • Making this sport EASIER
  • Highlighting deficiencies
  • “Thinking” we’re in good shape
  • Does it click?
  • It sucks to suck at “this”
  • Perfect practice makes perfect
  • Thinking makes you slow
  • The little things that make you better than your opponent
  • Do it without thinking
  • The 10% rule

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Nov 27, 2024

Now is a good time to be thankful you have decided to be active and are able to do the things we do. Swim, bike and run isn’t easy, but it’s a decision to invest in your health with your eye on feeling healthy and strong as long as you can. Today, we look at the challenges of triathlon from a wide lens and talk about the ability to see the big picture of your happiness and healthy journey in life. Staying positive isn’t some gimmick, it has real consequences in the ability to keep moving the right direction and hopefully feeling younger as we get older.

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Topics:

  • That start of your run feeling
  • Do you start up, or downhill?
  • You’ve earned your gifts
  • If you’re staying the same, you’re improving?
  • Feeling younger as you get older
  • Decadeathons
  • Peter Attia
  • Are you increasing your chances to having a better quality of life?
  • Don’t ever say these words: Getting old sucks
  • Living to 100
  • Having the confidence to feel good

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Nov 21, 2024

In a way, this could be titled “small win season” but the trick is figuring out where to best put your energy. We all have weaknesses but identifying them and investing time in the right place is the catch. Today, we look at different ways to make progress so you’re not the same athlete next year as you were this season. Getting better doesn’t always have to be hard. Put your energy in the right place.

Topics:

  • What is the Midwest?
  • Fun way to break up the off season
  • Athlete rebellion
  • No man’s land
  • Create “identifying weeks”
  • Investing time in the right place
  • Performance anxiety
  • Measuring where you are
  • Exploratory training
  • We should know our weaknesses
  • The most crucial part of training
  • Margin for error
  • 10k a day in the pool
  • Sometimes you’re just gonna be stronger on one side
  • High cadence vs. lower cadence and the middle ground
  • “I hate Z2 work”
  • Keep what’s working ,ditch what’s not
  • Deficiencies
  • Go hard on what you regret not going hard on every year
  • Creating a great habit now
  • Everything doesn’t have to be hard
  • Small win season

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Nov 19, 2024

Are you focused on getting a workout done, or getting better? Today’s cast is largely about swimming, but the technique discussion applies to bike and run, too. It actually applies to everything in life if we’re being honest. We get into creating the wrong form so you know what’s right. We look at how most triathletes training patterns actually make racing harder. We look at ways to build economy and make things feel easier. We talk about having the confidence to work on the rudiments knowing that you’ll be a better athlete in the spring. Slowing down to get better and training to heal.

Topics:

  • Rockford 70.3, the city and accommodations
  • Cold Arizona swim
  • Swimming - force back moves you forward
  • Long strokes
  • Crossover
  • Get your butt in the pool
  • Self-correcting
  • Body position in water
  • Knowing what’s wrong
  • Are you focused on getting it done or getting better?
  • Chassis vs. horsepower
  • Getting more economical
  • Appropriate use
  • Prepping the chassis
  • Confidence to get better
  • Thinking about it now so you don’t have to later
  • Growth opportunities
  • Slow down to get better
  • Training to heal

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Nov 14, 2024

Today we open it up to some of our own athletes to ask questions. We get into races that may not live up to the hype, Travel, stress, and exhaustion, sleep, fueling for health, a quality of life perspective, and lowering cortisol levels. We also talk snow shoes, cross country skiing, and when is the appropriate time for Christmas decorations. 

Topics - 

  • Gray blanket season
  • What if your race doesn’t live up to the hype?
  • The hype train
  • Grass is greener
  • Christmas trees before Thanksgiving?
  • Travel, stress, and mental exhaustion
  • Are you trying to get in too much?
  • Going easy to get energy
  • Serious sleep
  • Fueling for health
  • A quality of life perspective
  • Lowering cortisol
  • Doing things right
  • When to step away from long course
  • What’s your desired outcome?
  • Mental and emotional bandwidth
  • Show shoes and cross country skiing
  • Turkey costumes and drag

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Nov 12, 2024

What was the state of your mind, body and spirit at this time last year? We look at how triathletes can get trapped in a cycle and spend time working on things that don’t move the needle. More “can” be better but we contend being more specific with your time can give you better results. We look at races as a driving force, the simple concept of repetition is the key, and look restraint vs. over reaching. How to get more out of your time and make sure you’re not dealing with the same dilemmas this time next year.

Topics:

  • Yellow for the win
  • More isn’t always better but it can be
  • Can we accept feeling good?
  • Train for what fits in your life
  • Decision making season
  • Races on the calendar as drivers
  • Learning every season
  • Did I set myself up for failure?
  • Stay on top of your maintenance
  • Levels of consistency
  • Distracted by ego
  • Cell phone addicts . . .
  • Repetition is the key
  • How can I get better on the bike?
  • The triathletes hierarchy of experience
  • Chassis vs. the engine
  • Frequency is king?
  • Slow down to do more
  • Don’t just do more, be specific
  • Restraint vs. overreaching
  • Working smart
  • Getting more out of your time
  • Stacking 6 missed workouts on the weekend

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Nov 8, 2024

In honor of Mike's dad's favorite Ironman pre-race song, "Let's get it started . . . now." No more overthinking. No more premature optimization plans, just go and don't let information overload push something off to tomorrow, or next month. The digital comfort food is slowing down your progress. Get supportive people around you and let it rip in what might honestly be the most important time of the year. Figure things out on the fly. What works for you. What doesn't. Now more wallowing in the past or being afraid of the future. Let's get it started. 

Topics:

  • Podcasts taking over the media
  • More choices and ideas than ever
  • Listen to the people you want
  • Powerful long-form discusssions 
  • Did Mike actually give up reading?
  • Inappropriate boundaries that hold us back
  • Digital comfort food
  • Immediat action
  • Just get started 
  • Power support
  • What if we had interventions for the lazy?
  • Reaction videos
  • Letting go of control
  • Being grounded in the moment
  • Practice for being in the now
  • Depression is in the past
  • Anxiety is in the future
  • Transcend and include
  • It's better to figure out training when your training
  • When your urge is to do nothing

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Nov 6, 2024

Are you willing to let go and leave your comfort zone? Today, we start by talking about Cam Wurf’s perspective on endurance sports and life and it takes us into an interesting discussion about “being game” to try new things. We’re seeing more athlete “going for it” with their adventures and we love it. We get into staying grounded, but taking chances. We look at building confidence by seeing speed. We talk about why Zone 2 is the ultimate mystery but key to endurance sports. And why Mike is taking a break from reading.

Topics: 

  • Being grounded
  • Ironman Florida
  • Cam Wurf’s perspective on life and endurance sports
  • Cameron Hanes
  • Giving up things that waste our time
  • Finding fun within the challenge
  • Are you game or too cautious?
  • Building confidence by seeing speed
  • Meditation, yoga as they relate to Z2
  • Getting rid of that brittle feeling
  • Creating experiences
  • The lure of C26 team events
  • More 50 and 100ks on the books
  • Use your body
  • Creating resilience
  • Tough life and experiences

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Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Oct 31, 2024

We start talking about candy and ketones and it kinda goes on from there. 

 

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Oct 30, 2024

What a race from Patrick Lange. Today, we look at how KONA unfolded and why, after all these years, it still comes down to the run . . . and maybe the swim? It's incredible to think that Lange may have strategically pulled back on the bike with a 4:06, but it definitely makes you want to look at the little things and how important they are in racing. Speed kills in shorter racing, but at the Ironman distance, mistakes can pile up. Making good decisions in your race (and training) often trumps technology, but it's all so tempting. Today, we get into many aspects of Ironman training and racing with a food for thought discussion. 

Topics:

  • Execution for the win
  • The incredible Patrick Lange
  • Ditlev's grit
  • Blummenfelt's struggles
  • The amazing Cam Wurf (and Matt Hanson)
  • Rudy von Berg, Sam Laidlow
  • The swim course record
  • The most underrated triathlete
  • All the new methods, but . . . 
  • Mistakes take you out of the race
  • Mental games
  • Was a good chunk of the field over-raced?
  • Pro triathlete's schedules 
  • Do some of us do too much?
  • The temptation of the tech short cut
  • One hit wonders, golf clubs, the Boston Red Sox and more 

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Oct 25, 2024

The Triathlete’s Christmas is upon us… Who will stand on top of the podium at the Ironman World Championships? Despite being a little later in the year, it looks like it will be hot on the course. How will that play into the race? We go through some potential race strategies, talk about the favorites, and a few dark horse candidates for the podium. In the end we give our pics.

Topics:

  • 808 History
  • Hawaii Weather
  • The swim - can it now be lose it or win it?
  • Will they hammer the swim?
  • Bike power
  • How aggressive will they be on the bike?
  • Drop the fast runners?
  • Who can come out in a swim pack ahead of their typical swim?
  • Energy savings but faster in the water
  • Mike and Robbie’s podium predictions

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Oct 22, 2024

There’s not much worse than starting each year from scratch with rusty joints and bones, so today we look at some strategies to get the most out of your “off-season” training. Many may seem non-traditional, but the biggest key is to enjoy what you’re doing and stay in the fitness ballpark. We get into flex months, the reality of too much intensity, spending time working on things that will matter the most next year and slowing down degradation of fitness. The long game is life, so be all in on your health.

Topics: 

  • T-100
  • KONA broadcast
  • NASCAR
  • Winter hybernation
  • "What ya runnin from, boy?"
  • Exciting and consistent
  • Staying in the ballpark
  • Most important thing: enjoying what you’re doing
  • 12 months of intensity . . .
  • Falling in the triathlete’s cycle
  • Flex month after your biggest race
  • The focus is the hardest part
  • Mental and emotional tolls
  • Maintaining ballpark fitness
  • Actions speak louder than words
  • Weekend rebellion
  • Slowing down degradation of fitness
  • Stopping regression
  • Priming the engine
  • Do something simple first
  • Your body craves activity
  • The long game is life
  • All in on health and longevity

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Oct 16, 2024

Today, we tackle a thought provoking question. What’s harder, an Ironman or a stand alone marathon? Within this question are a lot of interesting thoughts about becoming a stronger endurance athlete. We compare the body blow mentality of doing and Ironman vs. the more intense effort it takes to do a marathon. We ask if most people really “race” an Ironman or survive? We look at the pain and pounding of a marathon. Levels of soreness vs. overall fatigue. Are we talking about the training input it takes to do either? Are we talking about just getting it done or racing? Are they two completely different sports?

Topics:

  • Early morning running
  • Intervals, hill repeats, and Z1-Z2
  • Are most people way overtrained?
  • Chasing a pace
  • How much more running do we do for a marathon?
  • Are you racing or surviving?
  • Optimal marathon vs. Ironman pace in the run
  • When does your body reject the speed?
  • People to pace off of
  • Crowds
  • When people are shocked by their marathon pace
  • 1 mile sprint vs. a 5k
  • Do you need to do a marathon while training for Ironman?
    • Top marathoners vs. Top Ironman athletes
  • Lot’s of food for thought
  • The answer doesn’t really matter

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Oct 10, 2024

Listeners drive today’s topics, including the highly debated topic of weight training.

We also take a deep look at the swim and discuss whether it’s worth working overtime to save a couple minutes. Also, how do you keep motivated and inspired when something like injury takes you away from triathlon. Should you bilateral breathe in the swim? The best ways to work strength training into your swim, bike, run training.

Topics:

  • Fall weather
  • Is the extra work worth saving 2 to 3 minutes in a swim?
  • Crashed bike, what now?
  • How do you keep going?
  • Using triathlon to figure out who you are
  • I’m not a triathlete, I’m a person who challenges myself and does hard things
  • Bilateral breathing worth the time?
  • Finding your best swim stroke
  • Adult onset swimming
  • Q4 the time to focus on weight training?
  • Replacement or compliment
  • Core work?

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Oct 8, 2024

Sometimes we talk with each other in a way to figure things out. Today, we dive into staying in the game, being in the moment, and living a life of experiences. We talk about letting outcomes ruin great journeys. We look at moving through things that give us fear. We get into shifting perspective on races that didn’t quite go our way. We look at how being in person is so much different than an experience on a screen. It’s so easy to fall into a comfort trap and it rarely gives us satisfaction. What will you regret if you don’t try it? It’s easy to think about a vacation or a big race all the time, but don’t miss what’s happening right now.

Topics:

  • Letting outcomes ruin great journeys
  • Is this even real?
  • How much we avoid
  • Talking yourself out of something you want to do
  • Being there is way different
  • There are no wrong or right answers, there only is what is
  • Choosing comfort
  • Not learning for yourself
  • Moving through what gives you fear
  • Age group finish placement
  • We have to shift our perspectives on accomplishments
  • We’re all flawed, quit putting so much pressure on yourself
  • Sometimes we don’t have the brain power
  • What will you regret?
  • Comfort crisis
  • Looking forward to a vacation all year long
  • Dopamine Nation

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Oct 3, 2024

We talk the best Z1 and Z2 ratios for the off season. We look at Training for unique races like the Triple T. We get into the best ways to attack ultra run training. We talk the loss of swim feel and the way to get back in the groove. Losing weight for performance or health? Time to upgrade your bike? Prepping for cold water swims. How to learn from under performing in your race. Plus a little MLB and Pete Rose.

Topics:

    • Z and Z2 training ratios for off season
    • Finding a love of Z2
    • Is Z2 boring or just hard?
    • Figure out your zones
    • Tabata style workouts for long course racing
    • Z2 Ramps
    • Triple T - Train to be fatigue resistant
    • Why is it so hard to pick up swimming after a break?
    • Feel for the water, the pedals, and the ground
    • How much should heavier athletes work on losing weight for racing?
    • Hungry or thirsty?
    • Not “trying” to lose weight
    • Bike upgrade time??
    • 90k trail race training volume
    • How to be ready for a cold water swim
    • Dealing with under achieving in your race
    • Blow ups as unreal expectations

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Oct 1, 2024

Now is the time to look deep inside and figure out where you want to go, what makes you happy, and how to find love of the process. We look at the post season mindset and investigate how what we learned can be a catalyst going forward. What do we really need to work on? Strength, endurance, overall health, attitude, our why? We also talk about how just sticking around and staying in the ballpark can make you a completely different athlete next season. We are often too deep in the inertia to realize how far we’ve come and how this sport and training has made us stronger and healthier people. It’s a time to reflect, appreciate, and keep moving forward.

Topics:

  • We failed in our Chart predictions
  • “I swear I’m never doing this again.”
  • Testament to the human spirit
  • Ironman finishin lines
  • The red carpet feeling
  • Post Ironman mindset
  • Going out into the wilderness that is an Ironman
  • Post race roller coaster
  • The best way to having a short build
  • Starting a new season in the same way but expecting change
  • Year round consistency
  • Hidden weekend off
  • Rejuvenating and refreshing
  • When our training plans become outlines and menus with choice
  • Don’t try to prove something too soon
  • Understand what makes you healthy and don’t live in sickness
  • Now is the time to figure your shit out
  • No deadline problem solving
  • Getting better looks like a lot of different things

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Sep 26, 2024

Success and getting better takes the ability to be willing to fail along the way. We can play it safe, but we’re training for Ironman, not SoftMan. On the other hand, it’s just a race and we pay to do this, so let’s take some chances? Have a plan, then a back up plan, and a back up plan for the back up plan. Roll with what’s in front of you. Quitting isn’t an option. But “giving in” on the course is the real demon. What are you going to do when things aren’t going your way? Figure out a solution, or give in? What should you be visualizing fifer a race? Easy and hard are not paces, they are efforts.

Topics:

  • The INSIDE scoop on Chattanooga weather for the weekend.
  • It’s just a race that we pay to do
  • Prepare for the day to be HARD and CHALLENGING no matter the weather.
  • Plan A, B, and C
  • If something goes wrong, move on
  • Giving up vs. Giving In
  • Recliners on the race course
  • What Mike things made him a worse athlete
  • How your watch gets in your head
  • SoftMan
  • The best athletes know how to pivot
  • Creating experience so you can navigate problems
  • How to learn in training
  • What to visualize before the race
  • Controlling your environment?
  • When you’re missing the right signals
  • The point was to win the Tour de France
  • Don’t be afraid to fail
  • Easy and Hard are not paces, they’re efforts
  • Underperformance do to constant restraint

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Sep 24, 2024

If you thought we would have a big celebration for #800, you are absolutely right! Today, we talk about how doing hard things like triathlon can be fun, even when they’re not on the surface. We look at defeating race anxiety, lowering expectations while still performing well, fr-framing fun and what that means inside a race. We talk about respecting the distance and creating a healthy amount of fear no matter how confident you are. We look at the power in embracing the mystery, finding wins in figuring out the process. We talk about brining solutions and not problems into your life. Raising your mental game, breaking through the comfort zone, different levels of pain tolerance and if what we did was really hard or not. Celebrate 800 podcasts by shifting your perspective.

Topics:

  • Ironman vs. 70.3 distance
  • Fall Season kick off
  • Maryland flooding
  • Late season race anxiety builds . . .
  • NICE - descents
  • Lowered expectations
  • “I Just want to have fun”
  • Re-Framing fun
  • Once you’re in it, you’re in it
  • Treat races with respect
  • Every session matters
  • We all get derailed
  • Accepting who you are
  • Real race perspective
  • Fear
  • Overconfidence
  • Where are you in the athlete cycle?
  • Finding a good trajectory
  • Embracing the mystery of triathlon and life
  • Raising your mental game
  • When you’re alone in a race, there’s no script
  • Break your comfort zone
  • RPE is different for different athletes
  • Pain tolerance
  • Was this really “that” hard?
  • How can you challenge yourself?
  • Where you’re next gear
  • Slowing down and being careful

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Sep 19, 2024

Want to race better? Master the principles in this podcast.

Today, we look at what’s really important for long course triathlon. The ability to hold form and effort over a long period of time. You can make it rocket science if you want, but the principles are pretty easy. Don’t break down. But how do you get to that point? We talk about how to get there and nail the omnipresent philosophy of: It’s not how fast you go, but how little you slow down.

We look at how fatigue masks fitness, how it’s important to test with fatigue, holding form when you need it most and the the real concept behind being “strong” in triathlon.

Topics:

  • 800th podcast all star cast??
  • Re capping our favorite podcast guests
  • Fueling and fat oxidation
  • All this information and people are still as confused as ever
  • Fitness, form, and fatigue resistance
  • We all like to test fresh, but . . .
  • Measuring and training your ability to resist fatigue
  • Pros are one thing, but how does it apply to age groupers?
  • Closing the gap between fresh and fatigue effort
  • Fatigue that shows up in the swim
  • Time trials when you’re tired in the pool
  • Simplicity - negative split training
  • Fatigue masks fitness
  • RPE 8-9, the repeat an hour later
  • Half marathons in the middle of IM training
  • Being consistent with exact training while dealing with life
  • Holding form through discomfort
  • Your speed is irrelevant if you can’t use it at the end
  • VO2 max too high??
  • Worried about the wrong things in training
  • Age Group obsession over their fresh performances
  • Being economically efficient
  • Get strong . . . at holding form
  • Be physically and emotionally engaged for a long period of time.
  • How is your body operating?

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Sep 17, 2024

Are you too hard on yourself? Today we look at the challenges of consistency and commitment to racing and living free. It’s easy to burn our consistency matches by layering pressure on the daily. There are so many distractions and experts in the world, but ultimately this comes back to us. What works, what doesn’t, and how do we keep moving the right direction. We all have more potential than we think and sometimes it means taking a shot at breaking through your own Roger Banister 4 minute mile wall. Seeing and feeling it for yourself. Pressure is self imposed. Race and live free.

Topics:

  • Positive feedback
  • Driving good discussions
  • So many experts in the world
  • What’s right and what’s wrong??
  • All athletes have different agendas
  • Research proves what it wants to prove
  • Tunnel vision
  • Distracted by things that don’t work for us
  • Transitions in training and life
  • Take your time with junk food
  • Go easy on yourself
  • Addictive nation
  • Comfort food
  • The rebel inside
  • Progress over perfection
  • Filling a voice
  • Sugar addiction and empty calories
  • Behind the 8-Ball
  • On being tired
  • Changing perspectives on getting sick
  • Simplicity as a goal
  • Burning commitment and consistency matches
  • Pressure to always be better
  • Pressure builds for 9 months from now
  • Break through your own Roger Bannister wall
  • Race demands training

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Sep 12, 2024

Today, we give you a little food for thought on day to day nutrition and race fueling. We sort of explore the traditional triathlon thinking process and ask if you’re really doing what’s right for your long term health. We get into how to think about what’s working and how to recognize what’s not. On some levels it’s complex, but it can be really simple if you start putting yourself first in the equation. We talk about fitness over nutrition and how to build your body for long distance triathlon. We get into glycogen, fat oxidation, and ask if training your gut is really a logical approach. We look at bonking, periodizing carbs and ask you to think about how you’re fueling and if it really makes sense. The modern diet is filled with synthetic ingredients and proving to be a failure. Are we as performance athletes falling into the same trap?

Topics:

  • Critically thinking about your nutrition day to day
  • Do you believe something is wonky?
  • Nutrition for triathlon
  • Not just a triathlete, but a human
  • The highest performers are willing to try anything to win
  • The difference between an answer and an option
  • Fueling for training and racing
  • Most things are processed
  • Enormous consumption of carbs and sugars
  • Inflammation is at the root of most problems
  • Glycogen depleted state for pros
  • Fat oxidation rates
  • Train your gut??
  • Fitness over nutrition
  • Can you really burn all the calories?
  • Are we searching for the wrong answers?
  • Sugar crashes
  • Training your body to crave more junk
  • Bonking  - just as much mental?
  • Working hard all the time
  • Periodizing carbohydrates
  • Fat burning machines
  • How to be much better on race day
  • Heart palpitations
  • Telling your body how to work
  • Can you explain why you take in the calories you do?
  • $8 a Gell to become more inefficient
  • Popping pills
  • Worshiping at the alter of your nutrition brand

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

Sep 10, 2024

We go deep into what was Ironman Wisconsin and 70.3 weekend in Madison. C26 had a great showing again with over 40 athletes racing and a 2nd place tri club performance in the 70.3 and 4th in the full. Stay tuned for a deep dive into race fueling. 

We talk about why the perfect weather wasn’t exactly perfect. We look at the two loop swim challenges and why it takes more out of you than you think. We get into the bike and the constant need to be engaged. The challenges of the roads, the terrain, and the wind. We get into the bike and the course changes along with why it can sneak up on you. Then, there is an intense discussion bout Ironman Nutrition. We dive into sodium, carbs, sugar, and water and ask the question: Are most of us taking in too much? There are a lot of schools of thought and we explore why so many people have issues with their nutrition on race day. It’s a long one for us, so if you stick around till the end, we’ll be impressed.

Topics:

  • A whirlwind of a weekend and huge showing by the team.
  • Community is what drives it
  • How many people actually raced?
  • Volunteers for two days has to be a tough ask
  • Is the 70.3 diluting the full, or . . .
  • The challenges of a two loop swim
  • Was it the perfect conditions??
  • Bike course and body blows
  • Everything was fine until the wind . . .
  • Easing into the day can be tough
  • The drain of mental engagement is underrated
  • Staying present
  • The more you know . . . the less you understand?
  • Deep discussion about fueling and hydration
  • You need JUST ENOUGH nutrition and not more
  • Are we overloading on race day?
  • How does your fitness affect fueling?
  • Water and sodium
  • There must be a reason water is first at the aid stations
  • “This isn’t really healthy, but it’s what I do.”
  • Are you un-knowingly wrecking your body?
  • The emotion of the finish line
  • Why do we do this?

 

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com

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