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Episode 61 Ironman Talk 15th of May, 2007
This weeks news
Epic Camp is open to sign up: go to www.epiccamp.com to
find out more. Results for: Lanzararote, Florida 70.3,
Bussleton Half, Lisboa Long Distance. Up coming race:
Auburn, the worlds hardest half! Interesting cover of inside
tri. Movie review: The Flying Scotsman. Review of 70.3
champs tv coverage. Thanks to Chance Barber. Bike Jerseys are ordered!
Hot topic: Should Ironman be an Olympic sport. Give us your reasons why you think
what you think. If you want to add a comment click here: add comment then open
the discussion.
Age grouper of the week: Meritxell Portillo Araujo is this weeks age grouper. She
was the only female starter and finisher at the Ironcat iron distance race in
I ‘Ampolla. She managed to get 60th overall! The conditions were really tough and
she still managed to have a great day!
High 5 to avoid jet lag
1. Listen to last weeks show for travel tips.
2. Stay awake until reasonable be time when you arrive.
3. Keep hydrated as soon as you land.
4. Get out and do a little bit of training.
5. Get outside and keep occupied. (Shopping, tourist things)
Questions and Answers: We really focused on questions and answers this week. There were loads of good questions.
Episode 62 Ironman Talk 29th of May, 2007
This weeks news
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Results for: IM Brazil, Triple T, Auburn Half, Victoria Half. Up coming race: Hawaii 70.3, Austia 70.3, Switzerland 70.3, Bala & Weymouth Half. It was Ficker on the cover! Cycling and it’s drugs issues. Tim Don aloud to race at the Olympics. Feedback on Van Leid from Dave. ITU on FOX in the USA.
Hot topic: With John having a kid real soon I thought that we could think of a name for his child. Give a name for both sexes. I like the sound of Bevan! If you want to add a comment click here: add comment then open the discussion.
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Age grouper of the week: Anders Christofferson sent us through this weeks ager grouper. I thought that I would put his email on here, here it is: I thought I would write in a nomination for Age grouper of the week. My nomination is my father, Randy Christofferson, and I think he deserves this for a few reasons. First a little background on him. He's been in triathlon for about 8 seasons and has done 8 half IM's and 3 full IMs. He's always been very good and placed well in his age group, but never really thought about going for the win or Hawaii, etc. This winter we talked about it and he fully committed himself to getting to Hawaii. He bought a new bike, lost a lot of weight, and more importantly got hookedup with a coach for the first time. The work he has put in since the beginning of this year in incredible, inspiring really.
I'm nominating him because of his race this past weekend at the White Lake half-IM in North Carolina. This race was an important one because it was a test of all the work he has put in and also because of his competition. Four people in his age group (50-54) have done considerably better than him in the past. More importantly, 1 person in his AG has qualified for Hawaii at Ironman Florida the past 3 years and my Dad will be racing him for a slot there this November.
Needless to say he had an incredible race. He finished in a time of 4:43:13, which was a PB by more than 15 minutes! He swam 35:47, biked 2:25:13 and ran 1:38:01. This race put him in 38th place overall out of 700+ finishers, not to shabby for a 50 year old! Also, he won his age-group by more than 7 minutes! This was his first AG win in long course racing and he easily took down his main competitor for the Hawaii slot at Florida.
Coach’s Corner: Em is back this week. She covers G I. These are the things we talked about: - How does it affect training/racing. - When you finish sessions what types of things should you eat (relating it to GI) - If you bonk what types are food are best to eat (relating it to GI)
This weeks websites: Brazil: Ironman.com Triple T: americant.com Auburn Half: auburnhalf.com Victoria Half: Victoriahalf.com Hawaii 70.3 Photo of movie guy Road Rash website Austia 70.3 Doping fines in Switzerland. ITU on TV in USA Website of the week: Ten Toughest Triathlons Try mag: www.trizeit.de
Questions and Answers: We had a few questions.
Episode 63 Ironman Talk 6th of June, 2007
This weeks news: Results for: Austria 70.3, Switzerland 70.3, Hawaii 70.3, Bala HIM, Weymouth HIM. The weekends races: Scloss IM distance tri, Eagelman 70.3, One o One. John Blazeman Dies. Macca seems to be doing a lot of racing early season, like the big 4 used to.
Hot topic: Get out the popcorn and then tell us what the best tri or endurance sport movies are. Let us know when you can get them from. If you want to add a comment click here: add comment then open the discussion.
Age grouper of the week: I listen to your show every week and look forward to hearing about "all things Ironman"
I would like to nominate an age grouper of the week. His name is Mark VanAkkeren. He is 27. Yesterday at Honu 70.3, he won the swim with a 24:09 and kept pace with the pros on the bike with a 2:15 bike split. He ended up going a 4:16, and won his age group by 16 minutes or so. He was the second amateur finisher. I know for sure that before the race he was drinking some coffee from "Coffees of Hawaii" I can't think of a better guy to receive this distinction. Maybe you can talk him into coming to epic camp this January. Cheers guys, Rob
Website of the Week: Kat Walbert sent us through this weeks website. The website is: triathlontube.com Here’s what they say the website is about: Triathlontube.com collects videos from around the web about triathlon (with a particular focus on Ironman) and related sports, with the goal of providing inspiration, information and entertainment to athletes and spectators around the world. It launched only on May 25th, so please bear with me as I build up the library! And please send advice, feedback, submissions to triathlontube at gmail dot com. Cheers, James. I love this site because I get a mention on it! Thanks Kat.
Coach’s Corner: John and I cover how to get sponsorship as an athlete. We broke it down into six different sections:
1. Who to approach? 2. How to approach them? 3. What can you offer? 4. What you proposal should contain? 5. What to ask for? 6. Maintaining the relationship. John’s written up a piece on this. It will be up when he gets his new website up.
Questions and Answers: We had a few questions.
This weeks websites: Austria, Switzerland, Hawaii 70.3: Ironman.com Bala HIM: ukresults.net Weymouth: conceptsport.co.uk One Iron 226: ultra-triathlon.com Scloss IM Distance: schloss.de One 0 One: trioneoone.com Website of the week: triathlontube.com Graeme Obree’s time trial set up. www.TRIZEIT.de
Episode 64 Ironman Talk 13th of June, 2007
This weeks news: Badmann breaks 70.3 record, Plantar Fasciitis for Cam, McCormack parts way with Kestrel. Results: 1-5 Ironman, Scloss IM distance, Eagelman 70.3, One 0 One. Coming up: IM Japan, UK 70.3, heaps of Halfs around the world.
Hot topic: Should there be a separate Kona IM for those that can’t qualify for October. Would you go? If you want to add a comment click here: add comment then open the discussion.
Age grouper of the week: Laura Sophiea is this weeks Age Grouper. Laura manage to win the 50-54 age group at the Eagleman 70.3 in an amazing time of 4:48.53. She did a 28.52 swim, 2:29.04 bike and a 145.33 run. That’s a super race. Laura, you are our age grouper of the week.
Website of the Week: Quite a few of our listener have sent this one through to us. Podrunner is a dance mix that comes in different BPM. Here’s their bit on their website: djsteveboy.com/ Steve Boyett maintains two popular podcasts: iTunes Top 50 Music Podcast Groovelectric (dance music mixes of what he calls the New Old Funk), and Podrunner (driving, nonstop, one-hour workout mixes). Podrunner is one of the world's most popular podcasts, and was an iTunes People's Choice for Best New Podcast 2006.
High 5: Neil Scholes has done the work this week. The took the initiative and wrote us up a great high 5, How to improve triathlon performance.
1. Get a coach or get some coaching advice. 2. Do what you coach says! 3. Be Patient. 4. Be consistent with your training. 5. Put things in perspective. 6. Have fun! Neil wrote up a great document with lots of detail, click here to get the pdf: Neils High 5
Coach’s Corner: John and I cover how to get sponsorship as an athlete. We broke it down into six different sections:
1. Who to approach? 2. How to approach them? 3. What can you offer? 4. What you proposal should contain? 5. What to ask for?6. Maintaining the relationship. John’s written up a piece on this. It will be up when he gets his new website up.
This weeks websites: 1-5 Ironman: ultra-triathlon.at Scloss: schlosstriathlon.com Eagelman 70.3: Ironman.com One0one: trioneoone.com
Macca’s bike change: insidetri.com Pirates on Youtube: one two Ironman Japan: ironmanjapan.com UK 70.3: half.ironmanuk.com
Cheap movies Website of the week: Podrunner
Questions and Answers: We had a few questions.
Episode 65 Ironman Talk 21st of June, 2007
I'm in Germany so the notes are only on the website this week.
Episode 66 Ironman Talk 4th of July, 2007
Age grouper of the week: Stuart Staples competed in Roth, he’s a regular listener of the show. The cool thing about Stuart was that he did the race with his father Ian. They ended up coming in together in a time of 16:42! Three years ago Ian hadn’t done any exercise for over 10 years and was two stone heavier. Now he’s an Ironman, an experience that he shared with Stuart! Well done guys.
Website of the Week: Michael Secrest broke the world 24 hour world cycling record. He road 535.86 miles in the time. This is impressive in its self but Michael is 54! This guys is unbelievable!
Here’s the website with the report and photos: adventurecorps.com
High 5: Rob Ritchie sent us through this weeks High 5. Getting your colleagues bosses involved in your sport to make your training life easier
1.Train with your bosses / colleagues
2.Write up a blog / update for company newsletter
3.Enter colleagues in team races or corporate challenges
4.Write up a beginners training programme (copy one from a mag)
5.Set up a visible progress chart
6.Wear company logo on race kit (and get some photo’s in it!!)
Interview with Eneko Llanos: I was at the airport and I saw Eneko Llanon. I went up to him and asked him if he could do an interview, being the champ that he is he agree. It was great to get his perspective.
This weeks websites: Ironman.com for all the race results. Cycling drugs, website of the week: adventurecoups.com
Episode 67 Ironman Talk 11th of July, 2007
This weeks news Results: Ironman Austria, Ireman. Races coming up: World long course champs. $200,000 US prize money at IM Korea.
Ironman Talk competition! We had a great pair of Oakley transition sunglasses that Rolland sent through for us to review. We decided that we would have a competition to give them away. So here’s what you need to do: Create an ad for Ironman Talk, around 30secs to a couple mins long, put it on YouTube.com and then link to it on Athlinks. We’ll pick three finalist and then we can all have a vote for the winner. Entries close at the end of August. It’s time to create!
Age grouper of the week: Jacek Nowakowski is this weeks age grouper. There were lots of reasons why he is but the main reason was he is such a great supporter of Triathlon in Poland. He backs a lot of the Polish Ironmen by providing coaching, training camp and gear funding. It’s people like Jacek that make a difference to our sport.
Website of the week: Tom Newman is setting up a kids triathlon in New York. We thought we would give his website a plug because it’s such a good thing for kids to get involved in. Here’s his website: www.newmantriathlon.com
We are adding a new aspect to the Website of the Week section of the show. We want to hear about your triathlon club’s website. Just email it through to us.
The Terminator is back, T2! We got together with Scott Molina last week to talk about how to prepare and race in Kona. He shared lots of good insight into what to do to be successful in the biggest race in our sport. Thanks Scott, You’ll be back ;-)
This weeks websites: Ironman.com for Austria’s results, long course champs, $200,000 for IM Korea, website of the week: www.newmantriathlon.com
Episode 68 Ironman Talk 11th of July, 2007
This weeks news: Results: world long course champs, Lake Stevens 70.3. Races coming up: IM Lake Placid, Vineman 70.3. Ironman Austia 2008 sold out in 19 hours! Race Director for the 101 races. Rhoysey wins half. Ironman Talk competition! We had a great pair of Oakley transition sunglasses that Rolland sent through for us to review. We decided that we would have a competition to give them away. So here’s what you need to do: Create an ad for Ironman Talk, around 30secs to a couple mins long, put it on YouTube.com and then link to it on Athlinks. We’ll pick three finalist and then we can all have a vote for the winner. Entries close at the end of August. It’s time to create!
Topic of the week: When I interviewed Macca in Roth he came up with the idea of having a metal system for Ironman races. So for example a 13 hour athlete would get a bronze, 11 hours silver and so on. Do you think this is a good idea? Give us your reasons if you do or don’t. Plus if you think it’s a good idea how should it work. Click here to add your comment.
Age grouper of the week Alan Hanley sent through this weeks age grouper. Lee Jackson, who’s getting married in a few weeks, had a great race in Germany. He managed to do a time of 9:18. The reason he got age grouper was because his goal was to beat my time in Roth. He managed to do it by one minute. Well done Lee, you are our age grouper of the week!
Website of the week: Here’s a site that Matthew sent through: have you guys ever been over to http://weightweenies.starbike.com/ It's a site devoted to high-end cycling etc. but a lot of time you can get a lot of good information about equipment and some of the latest and greatest tech that has not been released. what i also like about it is that a lot of the contributors are from outside the us and have a real passion for the sport of cycling. Matthew James Flynn sent us through the first club website: HEAT-- Hartford Extended Area Triathletes
http://www.ctheat.org it's a good club, we have at least one Kona qualifier so far.
High 5: David Liversidge gave us this weeks high 5 on how to improve your swimming. Thanks for that David. 1) If you are not a good swimmer - get a coach or at least someone to look at your stroke. 2) Distance per stroke - By this I mean MAXIMIZE your stroke. 3) Work on drills every session. 4) Swim with your hips. 5) Don't cross the center line. 6) Don't kick to much.
Questions and Answers: We have questions and answers again this week. The main one we cover is what to do when you have a pack that just sits on your tail and you can’t drop them.
This weeks websites: World long course champs, Lake Stevens 70.3, IM Lake Placid, Vineman 70.3, Austria sell out, Triathlon 101 race director, Rhoysey wins, website of the week: weightweenies.com, ctheat.org, female Germany finish, tri-mag.de, gigathlon.ch Iron Rust, Ironmen Don’t, Train Hard, Train Smart: Kia Kaha
Episode 69 Ironman Talk 25th of July, 2007
This weeks news: Results: IM Lake Placid, Vineman 70.3, Prize money increase at Timerman, Races coming up: Kalmar tri, eXtremalna Sobota, I’ve put INMZ 1990 on YouTube. It’s the closest IM finish ever. Get the link from ‘This Weeks Websites’ lower down on this page.
Ironman Talk competition: We had a great pair of Oakley transition sunglasses that Rolland sent through for us to review. We decided that we would have a competition to give them away. So here’s what you need to do: Create an ad for Ironman Talk, around 30secs to a couple mins long, put it on YouTube.com and then link to it on Athlinks. We’ll pick three finalist and then we can all have a vote for the winner. Entries close at the end of August. It’s time to create!
Topic of the week: If you were to start over again as an Ironman what are the products that you would save your money on. What things have been a waste of money? Plus which products were worth the money spent. Click here to add your comment.
Age grouper of the week: Jim ‘Jolly’ Rogers sent through this weeks age grouper. He’s a good man because he’s he sent through his girlfriend as this weeks age grouper. Denise ‘The Red Hammer’ Wood completed her first Ironman in Coeur d’Alene in a time of 12:52. That’s a great first race! Well done Denise, you are our age grouper of the week. Jim also mentioned that a previous AFOTW winner, Mac Brown, manage a 13th overall in the same race.
Website of the week: Here’s a site that Skip Kreymborg sent through: I started triathlons in 1986 and have raced ever since including a 1999 Hawaii Ironman finish... back in the day everything was neon and wild....there is a company here in the states that promotes clothing of all wild prints...
www.RunningFunky.com I have had a saddle cover for years.. mine was getting old and worn out... I asked the company if they made them..(was not able to find them anywhere) they didn’t know what one was , so i mailed them mine. They used it as a prototype and mailed one back to me. I love it! I was asked to send in a pic and now I am on their website. Go to www.RunningFunky.com click on products then on to bike seat cover. thanks for your support on this.
Paul Andreas, who is based in Kansas City, sent through this weeks club website. KC mutisport is a great place to catch up with your tri buddies in Kansas. Check out their random photos! Here’s the website: kcmultisport.com
Coach’s corner: This week I, being Bevan, take the coach’s cap and give tips for competing in Roth. There’s heaps of insight into what to look out for in this great race.
This weeks websites: IM Lake Placid, Vineman 70.3, Timberman prize money, Kalmar tri, IMNZ 1990: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, training peaks, attack point.
websites of the week: www.RunningFunky.com, kcmultisport.com
Episode 70 Ironman Talk 1st of August, 2007
This weeks news: Lake Placid 2008 sells out in minutes, there are community spots left.
Ironman Talk competition! We had a great pair of Oakley transition sunglasses that Rolland sent through for us to review. We decided that we would have a competition to give them away. So here’s what you need to do: Create an ad for Ironman Talk, around 30secs to a couple mins long, put it on YouTube.com and then link to it on Athlinks. We’ll pick three finalist and then we can all have a vote for the winner. Entries close at the end of August. It’s time to create!
Topic of the week: What are the best parenting tips we can give for the age group Ironman athlete? How can you fit training around 3 kids? Click here to add your comment.
Age grouper of the week: Steve Hollingsworth send through this weeks age grouper, here’s what he said:
Not sure if it's too late to nominate age grouper of the week from Ironman Austria but would like to nominate my mate Dan Lynch. Like me, this was his first Ironman race. 3 weeks out from the race Dan injured his knee but still toed the start line to give it his all on the day. He was doing well on the swim (1h15) and bike (5h40) but the knee blew up again on the run. He strapped the leg up and pushed on with true Ironman grit and determination for a painful 55h26 marathon. Becoming an Ironman, he crossed the finish line with a time of 12h35.
Product Review Centre: Showdown DVD Nuun
High 5: After talking about Molina’s body being tired from training for so many years Windmagnet sent through this weeks High 5: What life is like for the aging athlete.
1. Permanently stuffed;
2. Stiff and sore and worried about injuries – every little niggle is a worry
3. Always trying to go faster;
4. Struggling with diet – easy to eat too much and put on weight even when doing the big miles;
5. Tough to get out of bed and out on the road in the dark in winter.
And this is only in the easy base building section of my year with about 12 to 14 hours a week. Thanks Windmagnet
Website of the week: Ken Wallace sent through this weeks Website of the week for www.swimanything.com
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This weeks websites: Placid sell out, community spots available, Showdown DVD, Nuun
websites of the week: www.swimanything.com
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