About this episode

This episode focuses on preparing for the swim segment of triathlons, emphasizing the importance of training, calming anxiety, and handling race day effectively.

Today, our goal is to help you prepare for a solid swim by learning to like, and eventually love the water. We talk about many things you can be doing right now to make your swim as strong as possible. We look at how to approach training: swim hard, swim long, swim often. We get into ways to calm anxiety along with how to handle race morning. We talk a lot about the importance of warming up the proper way and how to handle a wetsuit before your race. Despite how people say the swim is the smallest part of the race, we want to share our thoughts on why being ready, confident, and calm while respecting the situation is so important. We also throw out a few ways we think races could deliver a better situation surrounding the swim. Also, if you're thinking of doing one of these GREAT MIDWEST races, Ironman 70.3 Rockford, Ironman 70.3 Muncie, Ironman Wisconsin, or Ironman 70.3 Omaha, please use this link to sign up so we get a little credit from the boss: https://go.ironman.com/crushingiron Topics: Back to the early days of Crushing Iron podcast IM Texas Swim death We have no guarantees Outsider perspective on Ironman racing Find a way to like, then love the water Repetition equals…

Topics covered

• Back to the early days of Crushing Iron podcast
• IM Texas Swim death
• We have no guarantees
• Outsider perspective on Ironman racing
• Find a way to like, then love the water
• Repetition equals improvement

Keywords

• swim training
• triathlon
• Ironman
• race preparation
• anxiety management

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