The Endurance Club ZA

On today’s episode we chat with returning guest Ryno Owen. Ryno is a top-class SA triathlete, operating predominantly in the off-road space. After winning the U23 Cross Tri World Champs in 2024 Ryno gave international Xterra racing a good crack last year. He tells us about his trials and tribulations of roughing it in Europe on a budget, he tells us how last week’s Auto&General SA Champs Cross Tri played out, and let’s us in on some tips for the upcoming Xterra in Grabouw.

Always a pleasure to catch up with Ryno!

Make sure you don’t miss this week’s episode of The Endurance Club ZA

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BIG NEWS!

We are rebranding! 

On top of the regular podcasts and YouTube videos, we are expanding the club. We will be exploring many more different avenues, including merchandise, high-performance coaching, online coaching, selling training plans, and trying to get more kids in to the sport.

Hear all about our plans moving forward:

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We are lucky to be joined by Shanae Williams, one of South Africa’s premier short course / ITU triathletes. She tells us her story about how she got in to the sport with a synchro and waterpolo background, how she got chucked in the deep end with her racing, how she narrowly missed out on the Olympics due to a heart condition, her stormer 2025 season, and where she’s at now going in to the next Olympic cycle.

Notably, Shanae lets us in to some of the learnings from the tough period that she had when she was sidelined and all her colleagues were prepping for the Olympic Games.

Shanae really dropped some great nuggets of gold in this one!

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On today’s episode of the Endurance Club ZA we chat with Riana Robertson. Along being a competitive AG athlete, Riana also manages a free swim school in Pretoria, heads up the Endurance Training Hub, manages the TSA coaching education, and is the TSA high performance manager. Truly a woman of many vocations, and many good stories about it!

Tune in to hear from Riana Robertson

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The Endurance Club ZA is proudly supported by Carbon Endurance 

Learn about what Carbon Endurance has to offer, and shop nutrition on https://www.carbonendurance.co/

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Follow Riana on Instagram - rianarobertson

Follow the Endurance Training Hub on Instagram - @endurance_training_hub

For the free swim school in Pretoria - https://pretoria.co.za/place/athlete-centered-swim-acs-swimschool 

In today’s episode we sit down with off-road triathlon legend Conrad Stoltz ahead of Xterra South Africa end of Feb. We chat about his career, from road non-draft olympic distance, to his switch to Xterra. He tells us how he raced his first season of Xterra on borrowed bikes, and somehow came away with a ~10 minute win!

Since retiring he’s very active in the community as a trail builder and race host for Xterra. As we record this we’re about a month away from the Xterra South Africa in Grabouw. He tells us about the new updates of the race, and what we can expect this time next month.

Tune in to hear all about it!

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WE. ARE. BACK. After an abrupt end to our podcast season in 2025 (we had planned to finish it nicer, but ran out of time) we are back. Here to chat about our personal goals for the first bit of the year, as well as chatting through some of the race options within the SA tri scene for the age groupers as well as elites!

Welcome back to The Endurance Club ZA

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In this week’s episode, we speak to one of our very own. Thomas is back from his stint in Aus and China for the World Triathlon AG World Champs, followed by Challenge Xiamen in China. He managed to come away with a 2nd place in AG in Aus, as well as an overall win in the standard distance in China. He chats to us about his outrageous travel there. What he loved and didn’t like about international race travel, and all the good times in between.

Make sure you don’t miss this week’s episode of the Endurance Club ZA!

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The Endurance Club ZA is proudly supported by Carbon Endurance 

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In this week’s episode, we are joined by Ryan Frey just a day ahead of the 70.3 Mossel Bay. Ryan chats to us about his previous life before triathlon, and his rapid progression in the sport. We touch on some memorable race experiences along the way, as well as look at how the Mossel Bay race will play out.

NOTE: We recorded this the day before the 70.3 Mossel Bay! 

This was a great chat with Ryan, so make sure you don’t miss this one!

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On today’s show we are joined by Dale Taylor. Dale won the 70.3 Mossel Bay last week in a dominant fashion. He tells us all about his race, from the swim tactics, to the bike numbers, to the suffering on the run. He also takes us in to what it’s like to have a significant other who’s just as high-performing, as well as excited, about triathlon as he is. Dale also shares his recipe to balance quality training, a good relationship, a busy job, and having a daughter.

This was SUCH an inspiring chat with Dale. We hope you enjoy listening just as much as we did recording! 

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The Endurance Club ZA is proudly supported by Carbon Endurance 

Learn about what Carbon Endurance has to offer, and shop nutrition on https://www.carbonendurance.co/

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Follow Dale (and Nicky’s) Tri page on Instagram - @thecouplethat_tris

We are so happy to bring you our second rendition of ‘stories from the racecourse’!

Coming to you from the Mossel Bay 70.3 weekend, bringing you the stories from the people that make-up our awesome community. Big name competitors, back-markers and everything in between, including Olympians, mechanics and Ironman staff. Happy listening and best of luck to those competing!

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The Endurance Club ZA is proudly supported by Carbon Endurance 

Learn about what Carbon Endurance has to offer, and shop nutrition on https://www.carbonendurance.co/

Follow Carbon Endurance on Instagram - @carbon_endurance

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Follow us on Instagram - @endurance_clubza