The Koa Sports Podcast

Koa Sports are the 2025 IRONMAN Asia Pacific Champions with an enormous team performance in Busselton on the weekend.  The fastest male age grouper Pat Roberts lead all day for an 8:18. 39 starters and 39 finishers, 11 to Kona, but who would have thought the highlight would come Saturday.   That’s right, perhaps the highlight was an extraordinary punting performance from Tim at The Meadows, so muc...

Caz has joined Koa Sports as a full-time coach, and we are thrilled to have her on the team with an athletic resume to behold, and coaching philosophy that is proven to get the best out of any athlete.    ​ 2 x Triathlon World Champion  2 x IRONMAN Hawaii World Championship 6 x IRONMAN Champion 30 x IRONMAN 70.3 Champion Challenge Roth Champion Noosa Triathlon Champion   Caroline believes everyone...

We ring the bells as one of Tim and Greg favourite venues suffers a major blow, but much like the Sunshine Coast 2025 Earthquake, they will rebuild.    IRONMAN Busselton is within reach and we breakdown the Professional Race will a full field preview and detailed synopsis.  Greg offers some tips and tricks of how to handle U-Turns on your bike, this is the sort of stuff people love!   We have anot...

The team took out the Melbourne 70.3 on the weekend, to add to a ripping 3 months with Sunshine Coast, Western Sydney and Melbourne 70.3 TriClub Championships.  Standby as AusTri really start to get around us!   Talkback is becoming a thing and not just on Australian shores, we’ve gone global.  The 70.3 World Champs was run and done, incredible Pro Racing it must be said.   IRONMAN Busselton is ne...

They say life begins at 40, but Tim sees that a little differently as he joined the 40 club last week, pondering what little as been achieved and really the point of it all.  At least he has his hair…..   Noosa Triathlon, Melbourne 70.3 and IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships to name a few events previewed and reviewed.   Andy is in trouble, the story collapsed as 4 pythons are dragged from a neighbo...

Greg unlike many Australians decided to explore the unknown, that is Southeast Asia.  A true pioneer, going off the beaten track where few have gone before.  Ho Chi Minh, Phnom Penh and Siem Reap to name a few, but it wasn’t all smooth sailing and police detention at the border crossing is just the start.     Noah Finnimore M18-24 AG Champion IRONMAN Malaysia tells the tale of his race and the aft...

We say a prayer for Greg as he soon heads to Southeast Asia to ride his bike between historical temples and famous night spots.    Kona is ON and we chat to Bianca Connor who is on the island just 48 hours away from the cannon sounding along with 1500 AG females from around the world ready to take on the hardest single day endurance event on the planet, the IRONMAN World Championships Hawaii.   Ta...

For the first time in Koa Sports Podcast history we opened the lines to the audience in our first edition of “talkback”, and thankfully we got a few brave souls to pick up the phone.   The Zoot X Koa Sports party shirts make their debut in the studio, as well as Greg lowering his shorts to show off a new sample product coming soon.    15% of the podcast content was about the sport we all know and...

It was a whirlwind few weeks for Koa Sports athletes and coaches around the world, including the successful defence of both Sunshine Coast and Western Sydney 70.3 crowns, making it back-to-back titles as a club, pushing the trophy cabinet out to 15.    We reflect on all that the riff has to offer, plus catching up with Koa Sports M18-24 AG Champion Ben Barby from WS.    With two feet firmly plante...

As the team recovers from its Sunshine Coast 70.3 triumph, there is no rest for the wicked, as Western Sydney, Belgrade, Maryland, and Cozumel play host to a raft of Koa Sports athletes ready to launch!    We are joined by National Boxing Superstar Lachlan Rose, who will be on debut at Western Sydney 70.3 for Koa Sports.  What make him more nervous, stepping into the ring or stepping into the 70.3...

Pete Murray joins us in the Koa Sports Studio for the first time fresh off his Sydney Marathon World Major Race Call, getting selfies with Bruce and Kipchoge, Pete just got swept up in it all!   Plenty of laughs as we rewrite Australian triathlon history and look forward to a bumper few weeks of racing with the IRONMAN World Championships in Nice, Sunshine Coast and Western Sydney 70.3.    Did you...

As in 2024, Coach Tim was invited back (much to our surprise) by IRONMAN to brief athletes in the course for the IRONMAN World Championships this time in Nice, France, alongside kiwi counterpart Rob Dallimore.  A detailed look at race week and race day, plus some questions from the recorded audience following.  If you’re racing, be sure you’ll get some handy coaching insights.   With the IRONMAN W...

After the bye week, we are back and refreshed ready to take on the remainder of 2025 and the racing calendar is stacked across the endurance world!   Constructive feedback is the life of a coach, and we always have plenty for others and ourselves, it’s a two-way street.  Clayonti Fettilaniece joins us from a sodden Ballina and hands the phone to an IRONMAN 70.3 World Champion, what a boon!   Not s...

It was a week for the popcorn eaters this week on socials, a nasty break up in the world of Triathlon, more to follow we suspect!    Greg ruins his track record and has a nasty public encounter on two wheels, and he was doing so well.  These things happen and we hope just a minor setback on his road to peace and tranquillity.    Tim has increased his social media by 3000%, no doubt will lose inter...

No better way to warm up those cold and dark southern hemisphere mornings than the Koa Sports Podcast.  Nothing is off the table in this week’s episode, and we stick to our golden rule of politics and sport should never mix.   A phone call from the world’s most powerful politician, is it AI or legit?  You decide!   The Busso Beer Mile collab is locked in, Greg talks about his behavioural changes o...

Doug Vargo the CEO of Zoot Sports joins us on the Koa Sports Podcast, an Aussie leading the charge for the most dominant brand in Triathlon Apparel globally by some margin!  They’ve undergone some recent changes and are now (again) the Official Partner of IRONMAN for Season 2025 and beyond.    With an IRONMAN TriClub boasting over 6,500 members worldwide (12x Koa Sports), we chat about the program...

Claytonalia Fettallienae joins us as he prepares to take on the Queenstown slopes and like all parents survives the school holidays.  What has the king been up to?   Greg is locked in for Langkawi IRONMAN, but is choosing to take a different route to arrive on the island, a monsoon season bike ride through Southeast Asia and he fights his way to Break 85 by IRONMAN Busselton in December, he doesn’...

EXCLUSIVE never before seen footage of Greg McDermott cutting up the d-floor circa 1993, and we hate to admit it…. the kid could dance!  There are two ways you can look at this story, what an amazing skill or what a waste of talent.   It’s marathon season and coach Tim Franklin joins us in the studio to chat about his own marathon experience from the Gold Coast and also the 14,000 others!  Also sh...

IRONMAN has updated its age group qualifying process for both the IRONMAN and 70.3 World Championship events from 2026 onwards, and there is much to unpack and understand.  As the #1 ranked coaching service in Kona 2024 we try to explain how it all works and even simulate some recent races to better explain how it would look.   Why?   ‘Based on athlete feedback and our own due diligence, we believ...

It was a bumpy 100, but we got there in the end.  A few edges to slips, dropped in the deep and a couple of monster sixes!    On this episode we are joined by a Rugby League Immortal and step through the highlights from the last 100 episodes, like the sands through the hourglass, these are the days of our lives.   Plus, a new intro tune!  Feedback?   Join the Tribe.   www.koasports.com.au

A significant change for the IRONMAN Oceania race calendar in 2026.  IRONMAN Australia has moved from May to October and Western Sydney from September to May.  What does the mean?  How will the coaches get from Kona to Port in time and in reasonable condition?  New Zealand boom time?  We just love triathlon so much. Join the Tribe. www.koasports.com.au

Antony Boyd joined Koa Sports in July 2024 with an ambition to break 10 hours in an IRONMAN, a dream he had been chasing for over a decade.  2 kids in high school, running his own business, and 12 hours a week to train (average).  At the age of 49 Ant achieved this goal at IRONMAN Cairns 2025.  A relatable story for any age group triathlete on limited time, but with an absolute hunger to achieve m...

We did it guys, Koa Sports are the 2022-2025 IRONMAN Asia Pacific TriClub Champions!  An extraordinary weekend of racing saw our athletes take out the title for a 4th year in a row, to continue the Koa dynasty.    Unpacking the race is important but Greg becoming entangled in an anti-USA protest in downtown Cairns is another.  We sampled some new establishments and profits were made by one of the...

Opinions are like noses, everyone has got one, and in Tims case it’s a BIG opinion.  But what about a race and course preview from the coaches that have delivered the last 3 Club Championships and raced many times including AG titles?  Could be worth the 60 mins.    It’s been a few years and much has changed since we did an IRONMAN Cairns ‘deep dive’, and we (actually for real) preview the course...

We’ve always held the firm belief on the Koa Sports Podcast that sport and politics should never mix, so shame on those who make that so!    Albeit, MTGA has taken a hit overnight and mum and dad are fighting downstairs on speaker phone for the world to hear.    In a major boon Koa Sports has a TriClub update and its divisional status, nothing to see here folks!   Pat Roberts joins us from Tasmani...