The Triathlon Brick Session

The main topic of conversation in this episode from the guys is how Duathlon can contribute to your triathlon training. Andy Blow should know he raced Elite at the 2004 World Duathlon Championships alongside GB Elite Tom Lowe. Richard Stannard was no slouch either at the run - bike run format. Andy also chats about his awesome 10th place at the Red Bull Neptune steps event. Bloody cold day in the office.

As promised we catch up with Laura Siddall the Ironman New Zealand Champion 2018. Another great catch up with this awesome athletes and multiple Ironman Champion.

The team quickly discuss the results from ITU in Abu Dhabi and IM New Zealand over the weekend. The main subject of the show is all about the importance of pacing when racing and training. Mark also gives you another amusing cycling story!

I catch up with Laura who just missed out on the win at Wanaka 70.3 by just 11secs. However Laura did smash the bike record and will be racing IM Taupo in great shape. This is a great interview and probably one of my best to date.

Me, Richard Stannard and Andy Blow chat about what constitutes being a good remote coach and what an athlete should expect for their money. We also discuss some of the mistakes we made early in our triathlon careers that could have saved us some a lot of time and energy. This is a belter of a show so please enjoy!

Another great show today - Rich, Andy and I chat quickly chat about the awesome GB results at IM 70.3 Dubai. The main topic of conversation is the pros and cons of indoor training apposed to outdoor training. Enjoy!

A quick pre race chat with Kimberley Morrison who is racing Dubai 70.3 Friday (tomorrow). I tried to chat to Nikki Bartlett but the sound quality was poor, so we missed out there. This is a stacked field with some of the Worlds best racing so its going to be a tough one. We also have friend of the show Will Clarke racing with 3 of his BMC team mates.

In this episode the team (Richard, Andy & Mark) discuss marginal gains, we try to best answer a listeners training question regarding his training approach for 2 x 70.3 races with a four month gap.
Richard also chats about how to really get good at swimming - no short cuts, or hacks though.
Mark interviews Matthew Pritchard (AKA) Dirty Sanchez, who has stopped all his drug and booze fuelled antics for a more extreme lifestyle. Matt now challenges his mind and body in a different way, extreme physical challenges, multi disciplined events including Ironman, and undertaking a personal challenge of completing 30 x 70.3 IM in 30 days and much much more. Warning he does swear more than Mark! Enjoy

I quickly catch up with Susie Cheetham 2 x top 6 finisher at Kona and a bunch of other great results to her CV. She's racing this weekend at SA 70.3 so quickly listen to her chat about how she thinks she'll do. We're also going to get Susie and Emma Pallant back on the show together after the race to discuss how it all went.

Emma's resolve, hard work and stoic determination just shows what can be achieved with good old fashioned hard work. One of the best 70.3 Pro Triathletes in the World and this year she's going FULL IRONMAN DISTANCE. Coached and supported by her brilliant coach Michelle Dillon and Stuart Hayes.

In this bonus episode we quickly chat about her 70.3 race in SA. We'll be speaking to Emma after the race next week (which she hopefully would have won) to discuss her going to Kona 2018.