The Triathlon Hour

Today we are joined by last weeks brand new womens Ironman World Champion after her dominant victory against the worlds best long course triathletes at Kona. Her coach Dan Plews joins us for the chat and we talk all about the day, the race, the training in the lead up and all other things Ironman World Champs Sign up to Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/howtheytrain

The Ironman World Championships were yesterday and over the next week we will be recording episodes with the winners and big players. But today, in the meantime, we look ahead to the next big race - the Ironman 70.3 World Champs that take place in 3 weeks time. And Taylor Knibb is the favourite to win that race. She has a world class swim, the best 70.3 bike in the sport and is a solid runner. She...

The last day of our five episodes in five days to celebrate the Ironman World Champs with one of my all time favourite people in triathlon, the junkyard dog himself Joe Skipper. So many people are predicting Joe to have a massive race in Kona this weekend. He's in career best form, has the bike/run on his day to beat just about everyone in the world and in this episode he takes us right through th...

Dan Plews is one of the worlds best long course triathlon coaches, in this episode we discuss everything that goes into preparing for the Ironman Worlds Champs at Kona. We go deep on every single thing you'd want to know about preparing for this race. The training, the altitude or heat camps, nutrition, what you need to specifically train for in this race vs other races! If you like nerdy, deep di...

Day three of our Ironman World Champs week is Skye Moench! Skye came 4th at last years World Champs and with the women's race being on Thursday we are only a bit over one day away from seeing if she can better that this year. This chat with Skye is awesome, she takes us deep inside the training she's done in the lead up (and in her career as a whole). Not only do we talk about all of her training...

Braden Currie joins us to take a deep look into his training leading into the Ironman World Championships. Braden was in the lead for the first 6 hours at last years Ironman World Championships and ended up coming 3rd. This chat is all about the training he’s done to try and win. This episode was brought to you by Pillar Performance, use discount code HTT10 for 10% off at checkout https://pillarpe...

Ironman World champs week is finally here!! And to kick off our week of one podcast per day we have Daniel Baekkegard! Daniel was in the lead group of 5 at last years Ironman World Champs for the first 5 hours of the race and came 3rd at last years Ironman 70.3 World Champs. He gave more training details in this episode than any guest ever has in the past. If you're willing to do the 32 hour minim...

Mikal is the coach of Lionel Sanders, the Norwegian triathlon team and a handful of other big name pro triathletes. We talk about Lionel’s training and go deep on the Norwegian team’s approach to triathlon. There is nothing but detailed training chat in this one!   Sign up to Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/howtheytrain

Ben Kanute might be the most underrated Ironman 70.3 triathlete to have ever lived. He came 2nd at the 2017 70.3 World Championships behind Javier Gomez, 4th in 2018 behind Jan Frodeno, Alistair Brownlee & Javier Gomez and then 6th in 2021 in one of the deepest races in Ironman 70.3 history. He’s also won multiple Ironman 70.3’s in dominant fashion. We talk in extreme detail about the training tha...

A detailed look into the training block leading into wining a commonwealth games marathon gold medal. A full race debrief by Jess taking us play by play through her race, the highs, the lows and the inside stories you missed watching it on TV. We also talk race shoes, nutrition and all the little details that go into winning a marathon gold medal. Sign up to Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/howth...

Sam Laidlow is a pro triathlete who has made waves in 2022. He raced off the front of the Ironman World Championships and the Canadian Open. He’s also called out other big name triathletes and made it known he is here to be the best. This has led to some drama. We talk about that + his training on todays episode.   Sign up to Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/howtheytrain

Sebastian Kienle is one of the greatest triathletes of all time. He is an Ironman World Champion & 2 x Ironman 70.3 World Champion. He was known for being an Uber cyclist and takes us deep inside the insane bike training camps he used to do in the lead up to big races. We talk in depth about all elements of his training, he really does tell us everything he does in training. We also talk the usual...

Legendary triathlon coach of Jan Frodeno, Lucy Charles-Barclay, Anne Haug and many other world class athletes Dan Lorang joins us to talk in detail about the training he sets for his athletes. We discuss specifically what each of his major athletes do, how their training is structured, what sessions they do, how much they do. We also talk about his role as Head Coach for Bora Hansgrohe, a Grand To...

Matt Hauser is one of the best short course triathletes in the world. He recently won the bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games, has been featuring on podiums at WTS events and looks to be the next guy to challenge Alex Yee, Hayden Wilde and Kristian Blummenfelt as being the king of short course. We talk about how much money triathletes make, how short course training compares to long course, wha...

Episode 50 is finally here!! Jack talks to fellow Australian podcast host Brady Threlfall from the Inside Running podcast. Brady is a 2:19 marathoner. The two boys chat all things from behind the scenes of starting your own endurance sports podcast, behind the scenes stories, things you might not know, why they do it, their love for the sports the cover and give you some insight into their lives....

Cam Wurf is a professional cyclist for the worlds biggest team, the Ineos Grenadiers (formally Team Sky). He’s also a professional triathlete and has Ironman Victories, finished 5th at the Ironman World Champs and is known as being the best cyclist in the sport. He is known to be one of the biggest personalities in endurance sport. You’ll often find him being the main attraction at a press confere...

The current state of professional triathlon, where the sport is at & where it is going, TV coverage, commentary, money, how athletes get deals made to go to races, Ironman’s future, the PTO, Challenge these are some of the topics we cover with former Pro Triathlete and now Head of Athlete Liaison for Challenge/Clash & commentator for the PTO Belinda Granger. We also share some stories about her ow...

Nick recently won Ironman Vitoria and we chat about the training in the lead up into the race and chat about the race itself. We talk about Nick’s bad experiences training with the Australian short course triathlon squad, what happened with him & Jan Frodeno no longer being training partners after almost a decade training together, being coached by Dan Lorang and what makes his coaching so special...

Sarah finished 14th in the World Championship Marathon this week and we chat about everything around that! Her training in the build up, how she structures her training, what sessions she does, her long runs, her race week prep, how she eats, her mantras on race day and race day plans. We then get a detailed race report, chat about other things like health & training, our dream women's marathon ra...

Pro triathlete Magnus Ditlev won Challenge Roth beating Jan Frodeno & Patrick Lange in their comeback full distance races as well as American Sam Long. In what was one of the most hyped races this year, Magnus takes us step by step through the race and how it played out from his perspective. We talk all about his training leading into the race, what specific weeks looked like, specific sessions, w...

This is the first episode of a brand new How They Train Podcast series called “Jack, Beth & Reedy” where the guys chat all things life, training, triathlon, running, diet, sleep, listener and questions and more. This is a Patreon Exclusive podcast that will be released every Wednesday, however this week we are making episode 1 available for everyone for free! If you want to hear the brand new epis...

Frederic Funk is one of the most promising athletes in long course triathlon. He is arguably the best cyclist in triathlon and has shown that on the big stage. On the weekend he had one of his best wins so far, we dissect that and go deep on what it takes to win big races. We also chat all things training and nutrition.   Patreon - www.patreon.com/howtheytrain

SUPPORT THE SHOW & SIGN UP TO PATREON - patreon.com/howtheytrain   Pro triathlete Kyle Smith joins us to chat about being Jan Frodeno’s main training partner, how that started, what they do, how they eat, what’s their secrets, etc etc and his race at Ironman World Champs where he was in the lead for the first 6 hours. We go into heavy detail so much detail about his training and life as a pro tria...

Triathlon royalty Brad & Radka Kahlefeldt join me for todays episode to talk all things training & life! Brad’s crazy training stories from his time as the worlds #1 ranked triathlete, Radka’s recent performance at Cairns Ironman in her Ironman debut, how they met and the story of how Brad went from being the Banana Man to Radka’s husband and much more!