The Triathlon Hour

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...

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 potentia...

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 race...

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 tr...

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...

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...

Greg Harper is arguably the best swimmer in long course triathlon and has taken it upon himself to become swim advisor to the bad pro swimmers. He’s also on the journey himself of trying to ride & run at the level required to capitalise on his swim so that he can start winning big races. Today we talk about how he would fix Lionel Sanders & Sam Long’s swims, hear all about his own training...

This week the boys at Pro Tri News did a podcast where they talked about the Imogen Simmonds case. Inside that they talked about me in some pretty strong & negative ways. This is my response to them.

Paula Findlay joins us for the first time in over 2 years this week to talk all about her life & training. If you want to hear all about her run training, run sessions, long runs, weekly run structure, bike power, bike sessions, bike training structure and many, many more training details then THIS is the podcast for you. We also reminisce a bit on the glory days, discuss being prepared to die...

The King joins us for the first time in over a year and we had SO much to talk about. Some big coaching changes which Hayden talks about in detail and gives a crazy amount of info on his new training program, sessions, structure, etc. We talk Ironman 70.3 World Champs, T100, Paris Olympics silver medal. All of it. Hayden also weighs in on which side he's picking in some long course beef. When I sa...

Fred joins us this week to talk allllll about training. We talk about his swim training in Australia with the famous swim coach JR, how the sessions look, their structure & his favourite session he's done there so far. We then spend a lot of time talking about his bike training. VO2 max, VLaMax, Z2 training, long rides, periodisation, fuelling. All of it. And then we talk about his running, ru...

The King of Zone 2 (who cares) joins us for the first time ever on The Triathlon Hour! We start the episode by getting to know Morgan a little bit, how he got offered a T100 contract, who by, when it happened, what his plans for 2025 with running, short course and T100 are, his plans for Ironman and his plans for the LA Olympics. We then go into his training and talk about how he trains, his coach...

2022 Ironman World Champion Chelsea Sodaro joins us to talk about her training with new coach, Neal Henderson, and how it has changed in 2024/the start of 2025 compared to her old coach, Dan Plews. We talk about the highs & lows of 2024, 2025 race plans, dating apps, American celebrities/ podcasts and why Chelsea REFUSES to talk about something big. Precision Fuel & Hydration - Use this li...

Episode 2 of 2025 is here and we are joined by the middle distance GOAT and newly crowned Ironman 70.3 World Champion/T100 World Champion Taylor Knibb. We go deep on her training, particularly the new training approach she had in 2024 with coach Dan Lorang. We talk about weekly structure, bike workouts, long rides, long runs, run week structure, sessions, etc etc etc. You name it, we talked about...

We are joined by the newly crowned Ironman 70.3 World Champion Jelle Geens for our first podcast of 2025. We talk all about the training that led Jelle to be able to win the race, going particularly deep on the run training that took him to a 1:07 half marathon off the bike. We also get into the nitty gritty on his bike training and how he and his coach train. There is a detailed race recap from t...

Kyle Smith joins us to talk about the Ironman 70.3 World Championships that are happening this weekend. We talk about his training in the lead up including lots of specific sessions & training structures. We talk about race tactics and his race day plans. Body weight and ideal race weight are on the table. Who are the biggest threats to Kyle’s chances of winning his first 70.3 Worlds and lots,...

Marten Van Riel joins us today to talk about the craziness of his debut Ironman in Cozumel where he was leading at 165km after having been solo all day before crashing his bike and colliding with a young girl on the side of the bike course. He went on to have the fastest marathon of the day running 2:39 but because of the time spent on the side of the rode he didn’t win or get his Ironman World Ch...

The first ever live recorded podcast on The Triathlon Hour is here with a T100 Grand Final men's race preview podcast with Fred Funk & Aaron Royle. We talk about pretty much every athlete in the race, the dynamics, the conditions, the course. We go through everything! 

Leon joins us to talk about his impressive 4th place finish at the Ironman World Championships in Kona. Leon gives a deep dive into the dynamics that played out in the race, his perfect aero bike position and that infamous ice bucket moment!  The Feed - Your one stop shop for all your triathlon needs http://www.thefeed.com/triathlonhour Pillar Performance - Go to Pillar Performance and use the cod...

One of America’s most talented young long course triathletes joins us to recap his race at the Ironman World Championships in Kona, talk about his training and what makes him so good. The Feed - Your one stop shop for all your triathlon needs http://www.thefeed.com/triathlonhour Pillar Performance - Go to Pillar Performance and use the code KONA for 15% off store wide! Nerd Belts - Use the discoun...

Episode 1 of your favourite new podcast is here: Triathlon Unfiltered. This is a place where you’ll hear real opinions, no holding back, no politically correct worries or fear of negative feedback. We do, however, start relatively uncontroversially for the debut episode about all things Kona from last weekend. But spicy things are to come.

Patrick Lange, Lionel Sanders, Kristian Blummenfelt, drafting, crazy pre race training destroying race day, bike tech, Magnus Ditlev, running, doping, Cam Wurf, Trevor Foley, Matt Marquardt, Leon Chevalier, Rudy Von Berg, race tactics, over biking, Gustav Iden - we go over it all + more in the ultimate Ironman World Champs debrief podcast! The Feed - Your one stop shop for all your triathlon needs...

The boys are not far off heading to Kona now! As we come to the end of the series here about Ben getting stranded in the dessert, binging hyundai santa fe reviews on the turbo and the mystery pro building their own athletics track. All this and lots more on The Road To Kona! The Feed - Your one stop shop for all your triathlon needs http://www.thefeed.com/triathlonhour Wyn Republic - To receive 15...

Join Ruth, Jackie & Nikki as they sit down together to discuss their Ironman World Championship races, training in the lead up and what’s next.   The Feed - Your one stop shop for all your triathlon needs http://www.thefeed.com/triathlonhour Pillar Performance - Go to Pillar Performance for VITAMINC - 15% off Ultra Immune C for the months of September, October & November.  TTH15 - 15% off...