The Triathlon Hour

The 3rd of 10 episodes of Road to the PTO European Open is here. Join Collin Chartier, Frederic Funk & Mika Noodt as they take you through their weekly training in the build up to the first major PTO race of the year.  If you love the extra content, please consider signing up to support the show on Patreon. For $1 USD per week it makes bringing you this series (and hopefully more like it in the fu...

The 2016 Olympic Triathlon Champion and worlds most dominate triathlete in 2013-2017 left triathlon in her prime to pursue the goal of winning the Olympic Marathon Gold Medal. After 6 years pursuing that goal Gwen decided to return to triathlon to see if she can qualify for and race at the 2024 Olympics. We talk about her training when she was the best triathlete in the world, when she moved to ru...

Join pro triathletes Collin Chartier, Frederic Funk & Mika Noodt as they take us through week 2 of 10 in their training block leading up to the first PTO race of the year - the European Open. This is a detailed look at the day to day training pro long course triathletes do in the build up to a big race. They tell us every single bit of training they do each week.  If you love the extra content, pl...

Holly Lawrence is a former Ironman 70.3 World Champ & 17 x Ironman 70.3 winner. We talk training including detailed looks at her training weeks, structure, sessions and approaches. We also do a real deep dive on nutrition, body weight, body image & eating disorders in triathlon. There's some running shoe chat, some triathlon suit optimising chat and lots of nerdy triathlon stuff!   *Sign up to PAT...

Join Collin Chartier (winner of the 2022 PTO US Open), Frederic Funk (world #9 long course triathlete & 5th at the 2022 Ironman 70.3 Worlds and Mika Noodt (4th at the 2022 Ironman 70.3 World Champs) as they take you through their weekly training in the build up to the first major long course triathlon of the year - the PTO European Open in Ibiza on May 6th.  The three boys will talk day by day, se...

Patrick Lange is a 2 x Ironman World Champion. He was the first person to ever go under 8 hours at The Ironman World Championships when he broke the course record in 2018. He is also the fastest man ever in an Ironman marathon running 2:30:31 last year at Ironman Israel. In this episode we talk about Patrick's training, racing and life.  *Sign up to PATREON to support the show (for only $2 AUD/$1...

Will the PTO do full Ironman distance racing? Will they do a PTO world championships? The future and direction of Pro & Age Group PTO racing and do the PTO care about AG racing or not? Netflix documentaries, money/sustainability, does Sam agree with me that the Collin’s Cup needs to go and lots more. *Sign up to PATREON to support the show (for only $2 AUD/$1 USD per week it is the only reason the...

It’s time to listen to the podcast that everyone has been talking about with Ironman CEO Andrew Messick. This episode gets heated. There’s hard questions, debate, there’s back & forth and **spoiler alert** it ultimately ends with Andrew walking off the podcast. But at least he got to eat his lunch live on air before walking off *Sign up to PATREON to support the show (for only $2 AUD/$1 USD per we...

Alistair Brownlee is a 2 x Olympic Gold Medalist, 4 x World Champion, 4 x European Champion and Commonweath Games Gold Medalist. He is the most dominant Short Course Triathlete the world has ever seen. No one in the sport of triathlon has ever put in the level of performances Alistair Brownlee did at his peak. He’s also moved to long course and been a 2 x Ironman 70.3 World Champion and  multiple...

Philipp Seipp is the coach of Laura Philipp and has worked with Sebastian Kienle & Florian Angert amongst other professional triathletes.  ** Sign up to PATREON to support the show (for only $2 AUD/$1 USD per week it is the only reason the show is still going. We bloody appreciate it!) -https://www.patreon.com/howtheytrain Use code 'HTT20' to get 20% off your Pillar Performance order https://pilla...

In todays episode we talk about what training Collin did in the lead up to winning the PTO US Open with coach Mikal Iden & training partner Lionel Sanders. Lionel, Collin and Mikal decided to do a period of overreaching training prior to the PTO US Open in a bid to beat the worlds best - and it worked. We go through the training day by day and then discuss their brutal heat training. Then we talk...

For the first episode of 2023 we are joined by one of the shows reoccurring guests & best friends, Joe Skipper. Joe came 5th at the Ironman World Championships a couple of months ago so we chat about that in detail. We then talk about the Ironman World Champs moving locations. Then some training and general triathlon chat. This whole episode took place while Joe was at an airport and is chaotic in...

Craig Alexander is a 3 x Ironman World Champion, 2 x Ironman 70.3 World Champion and one of the greatest long course triathletes of all time. He’s also a good friend and regular on the show, so having him back to talk training & triathlon is always an absolute treat.  ** Sign up to PATREON to support the show (for only $2 AUD/$1 USD per week it is the only reason the show is still going. We bloody...

Emma Snowsill is one of the greatest female triathletes to have ever lived. She's an Olympic Gold Medalist and 3 x Triathlon World Champion. We talk all about Emma's training. Exactly what her swim, bike and run training looked like in order to win her Olympic Gold Medal. She takes us through specifics of her weekly training, what every single session specifically looked like, where it all was in...

In today’s episode Max Neumann & Steve McKenna join us to break down their race against each other at Ironman Busselton where they came 1st & 2nd. We hear about the race from both of their perspectives, all of the tactics and things from inside the pro race that you don’t hear about anywhere else. We also talk about their training in the lead up to the race, how they prepared to race each other an...

The World Champion Olympic distance triathlete of 2022 Leo Bergere joins us to talk about his training, racing and life. Leo tells us exactly what he does in training Monday -> Sunday. Every single session, every detail, in the lead up to winning the World Champs. You can literally copy Leos training after this podcast. We talk about his change from short, fast VO2 max style training to a more vol...

Magnus is the #3 ranked mens triathlete in the world. We chat about his Ironman World Championships training & race, 3rd place finish at the Ironman 70.3 World Champs and what he did between Kona and it and then the other big results and training in the lead in to his PTO races. Magnus Ditlev is seen by many people as the favourite to win the Ironman World Championships next year and the guy who c...

Olav is the coach of the two best triathletes in the world - Kristian Blummenfelt & Gustav Iden. In this episode Olav takes us through the training they do, how they do it, why they do it as well as talking about his methods/philosophies and approaches to training in general. Sign up to Patreon to support the show (for only $2 per week it keeps the show alive) -https://www.patreon.com/howtheytrain...

Olav is the coach of the two best triathletes in the world - Kristian Blummenfelt & Gustav Iden. In this episode Olav takes us through the training they do, how they do it, why they do it as well as talking about his methods/philosophies and approaches to training in general. Sign up to Patreon to support the show (for only $2 per week it keeps the show alive) -https://www.patreon.com/howtheyt...

Sam Long joined me for his first podcast since the Ironman 70.3 World Champs penalty drama that took over the sport of triathlon last week. Sam said to me before the episode “any question you ask me, I will answer it honestly.” And so I asked all the hard questions that we wanted to hear the answers to and Sam literally left nothing out. This is one of the most real, honest, inside access chats I’...

3rd place finisher at the Ironman 70.3 World Champs Emma Pallant-Browne joins us to chat all things training in the lead up to the World Champs. We recorded this episode in the lead up to the race and I saved it because I had this gut feeling she would podium in the race and it would be so good to post the day after the race. As fate would have it, that happened!! It was a gamble because I wouldn’...

Paula Findlay, one of the big favourites for this weeks Ironman 70.3 World Championships, joins us to talk all about her training in the lead up. What her exact swim, ride & run weeks look like. How she trains differently to other people, how she’s prepared specifically for the world champs, her big nutrition changes for the race, her competition, race strategy and what it’s like being in a relati...

All the breakdown, analysis and discussion of the Ironman World Championships you actually want to hear. Jack is joined by former runner up at the race Luke McKenzie and they go over everything from both the mens & womens races as they saw it unfold. This episode gives you the insight into the race we all wish we got when watching it live!!!  Sign up to Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/howtheytra...

Max Meumann shocked the world by coming 4th at the Ironman World Championships and being the only guy who could compete toe to toe with the Norwegians on the bike and run. He gives the best race recap from Kona I’ve ever heard, talks about Kristian Blummenfelt’s aggressive and ruthless racing on the day, his “crazy” training, how he heat prepped for the race, his poor treatment by Ironman Oceania...

Ironman World Champs Runner Up and everyones new favourite triathlete Sam Laidlow joins us for a full debrief on his crazy race at the World Champs, the training in the lead up and all the stories from the race you haven't heard. This man is the future of Triathlon! Sign up to Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/howtheytrain