#927 – Find Something That Breaks You

Today, we talk about a topic that a lot of us who've been in the sport a while need to think about. How to break ourselves down like we did in the beginning. Life is about being alive and challenging ourselves. We take a look at the lure of comfort and how to shake things up. Once again, we explore the reasons why we do this, and how the edges of challenge and pain shift. We look at why it's so important to face simple fears and things we don't want to do and how to use these wins. For us, triathlon has always been about breaking up the rocks, but in many ways it also becomes about tending to them in a positive way so they don't fuse back together.

Topics:

• Live every day
• Get along
• German Endurance Feast
• Robbie's Rewind
• The medal returns
• Obsession with comfort
• Find something that's gonna break you
• Breaking up the rocks
• Pain as a precursor to growth
• Your race time vs. the pursuit
• Back to that primal feeling
• Do what scares you
• Why do we do this?
• What is improvement
• When we fake it until we can't anymore
• Life circumstances and resilience
• Breaking things down over and over
• Good times, soft men
• Tending to your broken rocks
• Fake endorphines
• Tackle a simple fear

Mike Tarrolly - mike@c26triathlon.com

Robbie Bruce - robbie@c26triathlon.com