The Streak Triathlon Podcast

Here’s something loooong overdue. A breakdown of the rest of Ben Bright's 1992 season. I promised this episode when Luke and I did TSP14. About the 1992 Nice Triathlon. Ben was a role model for me. As I was also planning to have a triathlon adventure in France. Then I'd come back to the UK and regale my BTS team-mates with how epic it was. And how epic I was.  I think Ben raced 13 times...

Stage 3 of the 1995 France Irontour was the Team Time Trial in Vichy. As an athlete, this is my absolute favourite format. I love the hard effort, working out a strategy and ultimately the team work involved to do well. On paper Assystem, with Pigg, Riccitello and Metters showing good form on Stages 1 and 2, were probably stronger than St. Quentin. But don’t count out the Fit For Fun Germans. They...

Stage 2 of the 1995 France Irontour was in Bescancon on Monday 21st August. Simon Lessing was leading after Stage One. Of course.  But this stage was an opportunity for the attackers and the bike daredevils to put Lessing under pressure. Mike Pigg was certainly planning something. And an on-form again Ben Bright would surely be happy to help. Let’s hear what happened! https://thestreakpodcast.com/...

Stage 1 of the 1995 France Irontour took place in Strasbourg, in the east of France on Sunday 20th August.  The questions the pundits were asking were: Will Simon Lessing be as dominant as in 1994? Or will multiple contenders show themselves? The distances were: a 1500m swim in the Baggersee lake. A 40km draft-legal bike into town and back twice. And a 3 lap 10km mixed-surface run. Here’s how it w...

Yesterday I did a podcast about the 1993 and 1994 editions. So here’s a preview of the 1995 race. It’s a quick translation of an article that appeared in the August 1995 issue of Triathlete (FR).  The main body of the article is an interview with Carole Gally. The FIT organiser. Then there’s side bars showing the jerseys on offer, the details of the stages and the composition of the 10 teams. Even...

You know by now that I’m a huge France Iron Tour nerd. So here’s a podcast series about the 1995 race. The 2nd official version. I’m going to release one episode per day this week. Until I’ve covered all the stages. And then drawn some conclusions in the final episode. What does it all mean for modern triathlon? To give you some back-story, the first episode in this series will be a re-mastered, r...

Today I will explain the TSP podcast re-launch that I’m doing. And tell you how Mark Allen re-freshed his career in the winter of 88-89. I’m also back on Instagram and YouTube after short breaks there. So let’s also keep the vintage triathlon chat going on those platforms. Other changes at TSP include: Upcoming episodes on modern triathlon. A link to podcast scripts in the show-notes. A Buy Me A C...

Today we are watching and commenting on the 1990 Nice Triathlon video that’s on YouTube. It was probably the first Nice race that Luke and I saw on VHS. IMO. It’s the best English-language triathlon video on YouTube. Fullstop. The scripted commentary by Sarah Springman and Ian Sweet is ace. And some big athletes were coming off successful 1989 seasons. Ready to go again. Of course. There’s the usu...

This episode is Part 1 of a two-parter about Season Openers. The traditional races in the late-1980s that let us know that the tri-season had started. Both domestically and internationally.   The idea came from recently leafing through two triathlon magazines that had significance to my life. That brought back waves of nostalgia from the time when I first got interested in triathlon. These season...

In 1988 Valerie Silk and her Ironman company added two more franchise races to their roster. Ironman Europe in Roth. And Ironman Australia in Forster-Tuncurry. That brought the total number to six. With Hawaii, Canada, Japan and New Zealand. However, the first Silk-sanctioned race outside of Hawaii had already come and gone. It was the Ricoh Los Angeles Ironman. In 1983. In this episode we’ll dive...

In this episode Luke and I do another 1990s race watch-along. This is our 3rd one. Check out TSP14: The 1992 Nice Triathlon and TSP20: The 1991 St. Croix Triathlon. To listen to what we said about those two races. Today we are looking at the 1993 Bordeaux Indoor Triathlon. An event that TED magazine called. A turning point for the sport. A day as historical as the first Hawaii Ironman or first Nic...

I’m back on the mic for TSP21. It’s all about wetsuits. I tell you about my first triathlon wetsuit. That I bought from total Fitness in Swindon at the end of 1989. And go over my favourite wetsuit ever. There’s also plenty of triathlon history. Including a 1986 international wetsuit kerfuffle story. Based in Milton Keynes. And you'll find out which 1980's wetsuit I like to find on eBay...

In August 1989. On a family, sports and shopping holiday to Florida. I watched an episode of Running & Racing on ESPN. A magazine show that covered running, cycling and triathlon. I’ve recently found one episode on YouTube. Also from 1989. But it’s not the one that I saw in Florida. But let’s analyze it and talk a bit more about that Florida trip.

We’re back with Season 2. I’m hoping to do more and better in 2024. Maybe aiming for one episode every fortnight.  I’m also reunited with my most popular guest slash co-host. According to the Buzzsprout statistics at least. My brother Luke.  The event we are focusing on today is the 1991 St Croix Triathlon.  Starting in 1988 St. Croix was one of a few early season races where a lot of the best ath...

In 1971, Chris Brasher, Olympic Gold medallist, 4 minute mile pacer and future co-founder of the London Marathon, was heavily involved in the developing sport of orienteering. Realising that British orienteers were finding it hard to get hold of the specialist equipment. Like off-road running shoes and compasses. Chris started sourcing, importing and selling the stuff out of his car boot at events...

I think all modern triathletes should be reading about our sport’s past.  Especially the 80s stuff. To understand the history of the game. And decide where we should take it. So today I’m talking about 12 triathlon books to get you started on your triathlon history journey. Some of the books are modern look-backs. And some are books from the early days of the sport.  That will give you a cool feel...

This is the first in a series of episodes called The Slough Demos. Mainly about what it was like growing up in Slough in the 1980s as a teenage triathlon nerd. TSP2: The Speed And The Sweat was about the first triathlon I ever did. In May 1989 in Wokingham. And these episodes will kind of follow on from that. With some prequel stuff too. Part 1 is a running tour of Slough that you can do to get an...

Over the last 18 months I’ve been putting together a 1980s tri bike. It was a  fun project. I particularly enjoyed sourcing the bits and learning more about the groupsets of the day. I’m going to race it a few times in 2024. This episode is about what I like about the bikes from this period. The inspiration for the project. And the component choices I made. https://thestreakpodcast.com/podcast/18

In TSP16 I did a bit of triathlon history from near where I grew up in the UK. And today’s podcast is about some triathlon history from my current hometown. Munich in Germany. Our story is based at the Regattastrecke in Oberschleißheim. The facility was built for the rowing and flat water canoeing events at the 1972 Olympic Games. And it’s still in use for those sports today. It’s a super place to...

In 1991 the team at 220 launched a 5 race triathlon series. It would last 5 years. Add a new narrative to the British triathlon season. And provide plenty of content to fill the pages of the magazine. One of the races on the docket was Windsor. As teenage tri-nerds, the Windsor Triathlon was a big deal for me and my brother. Because it brought a big race and top athletes to within 5km of our house...

A couple of weeks ago I was pretty psyched to see what happened at the Olympic Test Event in Paris. Yet. Triathloning isn’t new to downtown Paris. The first Triathlon International de Paris took place on 13th September 1986. And the Triathlon Hauts de Seine on the Ile de Puteaux was earlier in the 1986 season. There were also ITU World Cup races in 1991 and 1996. And a few French Grand Prix events...

This episode is going to be the first of hopefully a three part series that will look at the Summer of 1992. 1992 was the first year that I raced in France on a family holiday. And from buying Triathlete magazines in French. Which I couldn't read at the time. I started to get interested in the triathlon scene over there. The idea for this series comes from a video recently posted by Ben Brigh...

In 2021 I picked up a set of 10 Tri-Athlete Magazine postcards on ebay. From an anonymous person formerly involved in triathlon media and imports. He also helped me with TSP5: UK Triathlon Magazines 1986-1990. You could order them from Tri-Athlete for 20 French Francs. That was about 2 British Pounds. The postcards depict mainly triathlons in France. Nice, Avignon, Sallanches, Nantes and Lyon. As...

Recently I bought my first pair of running shoes in maybe 4 years. The Asics Evo Ride 3. They're great. Cushioned. Yes. But more importantly light. As I miss the old super-light racing flats of the 80s. To make my Asics Evo Ride 3s even better for triathlon I put on one of my pairs of Tinley lace locks. I got my first pair from Total Fitness in Swindon at the end of 1988. I probably had them...

I'm writing a podcast about the first year of the 220 Triathlon Series. It took place in the UK in 1991. I'll put the full episode out next Friday. But here’s some raw audio I recorded with Luke when we recreated the 1991 Windsor Triathlon. That was the 2nd race in the 220 Series. After Swindon. The Windsor Triathlon was a big deal for us as teenage tri nerds. Because it brought a big ra...