In this episode we go straight into how Els trains. It's very unique. She does lots of double bike days and double/triple run days which we discuss as well as talking about her unique approach to long rides. We talk big gear riding, build rides, hill reps on the run, speed/track running, using a treadmill in your running and how Els approaches her long runs. Els gives us an entire breakdown of her weekly training structure and how she adjusts it day to day based on her coaches text messages. We discuss training based on feeling, the importance of wanting to work hard & suffer in training and deciding not to train using "modern" scientific approaches like lactate, HR, power, etc. We also have a quick chat about Els love languages.

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Greg Harper is arguably the best swimmer in long course triathlon and has taken it upon himself to become swim advisor to the bad pro swimmers. He’s also on the journey himself of trying to ride & run at the level required to capitalise on his swim so that he can start winning big races. Today we talk about how he would fix Lionel Sanders & Sam Long’s swims, hear all about his own training (ride & run, mainly) and chat about our love lives. 

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This week the boys at Pro Tri News did a podcast where they talked about the Imogen Simmonds case. Inside that they talked about me in some pretty strong & negative ways. This is my response to them.

Paula Findlay joins us for the first time in over 2 years this week to talk all about her life & training. If you want to hear all about her run training, run sessions, long runs, weekly run structure, bike power, bike sessions, bike training structure and many, many more training details then THIS is the podcast for you. We also reminisce a bit on the glory days, discuss being prepared to die on the TT bike and chat about T100 and Ironman.

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The King joins us for the first time in over a year and we had SO much to talk about. Some big coaching changes which Hayden talks about in detail and gives a crazy amount of info on his new training program, sessions, structure, etc. We talk Ironman 70.3 World Champs, T100, Paris Olympics silver medal. All of it. Hayden also weighs in on which side he's picking in some long course beef. When I sat down and decided what I wanted my podcasts to be like in 2025, this episode is basically EXACTLY what I wanted so I can't wait for you to all listen.

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Fred joins us this week to talk allllll about training. We talk about his swim training in Australia with the famous swim coach JR, how the sessions look, their structure & his favourite session he's done there so far. We then spend a lot of time talking about his bike training. VO2 max, VLaMax, Z2 training, long rides, periodisation, fuelling. All of it. And then we talk about his running, run volume, run intensity, VO2 max sessions in running and the long run. This one is for all of you training nerds.

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The King of Zone 2 (who cares) joins us for the first time ever on The Triathlon Hour! We start the episode by getting to know Morgan a little bit, how he got offered a T100 contract, who by, when it happened, what his plans for 2025 with running, short course and T100 are, his plans for Ironman and his plans for the LA Olympics. We then go into his training and talk about how he trains, his coach Ryan Bolton and what will be needed in his training to have success over middle distance. Things then take a bit of a turn and we talk about the famous Zone 2 meme, the "who cares" meme and Morgan talks about his 2020 rivalry with Sam Long and his potential 2025 rivalry with Jelle Geens. As with everything Morgan does, this was a fun one!!!

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2022 Ironman World Champion Chelsea Sodaro joins us to talk about her training with new coach, Neal Henderson, and how it has changed in 2024/the start of 2025 compared to her old coach, Dan Plews. We talk about the highs & lows of 2024, 2025 race plans, dating apps, American celebrities/ podcasts and why Chelsea REFUSES to talk about something big.

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Episode 2 of 2025 is here and we are joined by the middle distance GOAT and newly crowned Ironman 70.3 World Champion/T100 World Champion Taylor Knibb. We go deep on her training, particularly the new training approach she had in 2024 with coach Dan Lorang. We talk about weekly structure, bike workouts, long rides, long runs, run week structure, sessions, etc etc etc. You name it, we talked about it. We also have a bit of a laugh about the "new" Taylor Knibb who isn't afraid to speak her mind. And if anyone wants to know what power numbers Taylor Knibb rides, then listen closely to this episode as we try to get to the bottom of it.

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We are joined by the newly crowned Ironman 70.3 World Champion Jelle Geens for our first podcast of 2025. We talk all about the training that led Jelle to be able to win the race, going particularly deep on the run training that took him to a 1:07 half marathon off the bike. We also get into the nitty gritty on his bike training and how he and his coach train. There is a detailed race recap from the 70.3 worlds from Jelle’s perspective and some conversation about his plans for 2025 balancing T100 and Ironman racing.

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