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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Kyle Smith joins us to talk about the Ironman 70.3 World Championships that are happening this weekend. We talk about his training in the lead up including lots of specific sessions & training structures. We talk about race tactics and his race day plans. Body weight and ideal race weight are on the table. Who are the biggest threats to Kyle’s chances of winning his first 70.3 Worlds and lots, lots more! 

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Marten Van Riel joins us today to talk about the craziness of his debut Ironman in Cozumel where he was leading at 165km after having been solo all day before crashing his bike and colliding with a young girl on the side of the bike course. He went on to have the fastest marathon of the day running 2:39 but because of the time spent on the side of the rode he didn’t win or get his Ironman World Championship qualifying slot. We hear all the details from Marten in his first podcast since it happened. We also do a season debrief where we talk about his incredible season on the T100 World Tour becoming the first ever world champion and showing everyone that he is a force over middle distance.

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The first ever live recorded podcast on The Triathlon Hour is here with a T100 Grand Final men's race preview podcast with Fred Funk & Aaron Royle. We talk about pretty much every athlete in the race, the dynamics, the conditions, the course. We go through everything!