The enemy of The Triathlon Hour needs to be named and today may just be the day + triathlon news headlines, Ironman, T100 & Challenge get given grades for 2025 so far, a triathlon version of buy, hold or sell, the boys question weird training habits, Ari Is Angry + some silly bets to finish the pod. Buckle up!

Dan Plews is an expert in training & nutrition with 20 years of experience in the physiology & sports science space.  He was an Ironman World Championship Age Grpup athlete himself and coached Chelsea Sodaro to winning the professional Ironman World Championship. This is 90 minutes of pure training & nutrition conversation for us die hards. 

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Jake Birtwhistle joins us to talk about his training and racing following a hot start to the year at Geelong 70.3, Oceanside 70.3 and St George 70.3. We learn all about who Jake is and what training he does! Listen to this to be “early” on the Birtwhistle Bandwagon. 

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Opinions, discussions and observations from a big weekend at Ironman 70.3 St George.  

Justin Riele joins us to talk all things training, triathlon and life. How did he become such a beast on the bike while still working full time? He gives all the details on his unique and specific training methods. He talks about race visualisation, lactate and the Norwegian method, structuring training around his job and being a weekend warrior. He also gives us exact numbers on how much money he makes from triathlon with races and brand sponsorship which is very unique and honest insight. The highlight of the pod is definitely Justin singing a few bars of Mariah Carey. 

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Alex Yee joins us to talk about his training & life in details you’ve never heard before. He goes through day by day what his typical training week looked like prior to running London Marathon, including key sessions and why he did things the way he did and compared that to his typical week leading into winning Olympic gold at Paris in the triathlon. We talk about his future plans for potentially trying to break the Ironman full distance world record in a sub 6:44 challenge and going to Kona. Eliot Kipchoge, the half marathon world record, screen time, relationships, the universe and so much more training conversation make up what was a very, very special podcast for The Triathlon Hour.

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Joe Skipper joins us for the first time in almost 2 years. We catch up on what's been happening in his training, racing and life over that time. Other things on the agenda are the massive training weekend he just did, can you be Ironman World Champion if you do the T100 World Tour, lots of detailed run training chat, can Joe get back to his best, some walking down memory lane about Joe's best races and what training led to them, Triathlon Mockery, three deep questions that get Joe being serious and lots, lots more!

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Kate Waugh won Singapore T100 on the weekend by almost 7 minutes - the biggest winning margin in T100 history so far AND she did it on debut against the likes of Ash Gentle, Julie Derron and Lucy Charles-Barclay. We talk about the race, how it played out from Kate’s perspective, her move to long course, what it’s like behind the scenes at the T100 and then we do a BIG TIME deep dive into Kate’s training she did this year from her early VO2 max/polarised block into her 6 week LT2/specific block leading into the race. 

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One of the great sports science & triathlon coaching minds is back on The Triathlon Hour. We talk about a lot of training topics including intensity control and how crucial it is to being your best, how important is volume in training and can doing less with more intensity/recovery be better for your training or are you better off to focus on trying to do more, peak human performance, what is Zone 2 training and how do the Norwegian's use it in their training and then we hit some quick fire questions about long running/riding, should you use super shoes in your training and should VO2 max training be a part of everyone's programs. If you love training - this podcast with Olav is for you.

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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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