- The depth is definitely increasing in the field.
I feel like it's a tough crew that I'm up against this year.
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By going into the new helmet,
the booster one.
We launched that because the trend of the road era.
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- Morning trainiacs,
day five of Ironman Hawaii 2017.
About to head to the Kona Aquatic Center.
I hear it's an outdoor 50 meter pool
and it's free.
I'm Canadian, you had me at free.
Oh press conference later, yeah.
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Crap, how did I forget that today's the underpants run?
Every year, they do a, you'll see.
This is for charity.
It's a run.
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Jesus, trainiacs, I really fumbled the ball there.
World, am I doing not being in my underwear?
I'm disappointed in myself.
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well, if there's one thing I love,
it's an open air pool.
Oh, god, that was nice.
That was so nice.
Besides all the real fast swimmers
kicking the tar out of me, I loved that.
Acai bowl number,
we're hoping to get to 20.
And now let's see where this thing will take me.
Media, media, media, media, media.
I'm just gonna go ahead and follow people with cameras.
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- So, what got you started doing triathlon?
- Every swim session, they were like,
you need to get a bike, you need to get a bike,
and then eventually I got a bike
and the next thing, I did a half Ironman.
And like Justin, I was then bitten by the bug
and I've done many more since then.
- I grew up swimming and doing athletics
and then my stepdad did triathlon
and I kind of got into it through him
and went to some camp
and there I met a coach.
He brought me to a team
and I joined this team on the weekends
to train with them
and I just liked it so much.
How cool the people are there
and I just liked to go there every weekend
and I trained with them
and that's how I fell in love with the sport,
also because of the people
because it's just a great community.
- What do you bring with to the race because of that?
- Last year was a very humbling experience for me.
At 70.3 Worlds the month prior,
I had the fastest run split
and then I came here and started walking
about 13 miles into the run
and I mean, I think that's a testament
to just how brutal this race can be.
I didn't give it the respect it deserves.
I didn't come in properly prepared
and my swim was, for a lack of a better term,
pathetically poor,
and so, I vowed to improve my swim
and I certainly have done that
and really, I just came here to do the swim.
So, I don't even think I'm gonna rack my bike,
I'll just do the swim (laughing)
and that'll be the end of the race for me.
But, yeah, I came here to redeem myself for last year
and show that I will never disrespect this race ever again.
- I feel really good.
I feel like my marathon is in
its best possible place right now
and I'm excited to step off the bike
and do battle with these guys.
- Always try and think what can I ask you
that you haven't heard before.
So, in an arm wrestle with Jan Frodeno, who would win?
- I think, I have probably
lived with bigger chances
than in the race on Saturday.
(laughing)
- I would take the battle, I mean,
his arms are a little bit longer but.
(laughing)
I mean, Jan looks more like a runner,
I'm probably a little bit more like an arm wrestler.
(laughing)
- So, I know you're a lot smarter than that,
it's the results first and then look at the clock, right?
- Yeah, I don't even look at number three
or anything like that.
I think getting caught up in that
would be somewhat disrespectful
to the whole scenario that we're facing
'cause the depth is definitely increasing in the field.
I feel like it's a tough crew
that I'm up against this year
and it's one race at a time.
You just definitely have to focus on every step
because, well, we all know that Kona
can catch you on an off day very, very quickly.
So, yeah, I'm just prepared to take it
one step at a time on Saturday.
- That was fun.
Couple of findings.
Number one, Sebastian Kienle, hilarious.
New biggest fan, right here.
And number two, Daniela Ryf, is like ice.
Focused, dangerous, god.
If I caught her in an alley,
she'd just stare me down
and I'd be ah, intimidating.
Oh and Heather Jackson, just so lovely,
she's the cutest.
- Your foot is a natural pump.
Every time you take a step,
your foot is a natural pump
and it pumps blood up to your heart.
The wasteful blood that pools in your foot.
- Okay.
- When you go out there and train hard,
one, you're working your legs
pretty hard.
There's some minor swelling
that occurs. - Inflammation.
- Inflammation, yeah.
So, what Footbeat does,
it puts a little motor inside this shoe
and every 20 seconds, that motor lifts a platform
into your arch,
into the venous plexus,
of your arch and pushed blood back up to your heart.
- Okay, to get your circulation?
- It increases the circulation,
so that you get that really nice
oxygenated blood back down your leg
and then the waste blood gets back down to your foot
and gets pushed right back.
- The doppler, so this is an ultrasound.
So, other than looking at babies in the womb,
we're also able to use a setting
to see how fast blood is traveling
through the veins.
This line, right here,
that kind of represents how fast blood is moving
through the veins normally.
So, as we're sitting,
blood is casually going through our vasculature.
When Footbeat activates,
we see this sudden sharp increase in velocity.
That's the sheer force that causes nitric oxide
to be released from the vessels.
- So you don't wanna like
cut circulation off, just comfortable?
- Okay, alright, you ready?
- Hit me. - Here we go.
Did ya feet that?
- Oh yeah.
- And it goes every 20 seconds.
- Yeah?
- So, that gives the blood time
to get back down to your foot.
- Okay, Kim's gonna hate that I brag about this,
but I was voted best feet in the grade nine yearbook.
So, if you guys need a foot model for anything.
- You can see which leg had the Footbeat
and which leg doesn't.
- Really?
- Yeah. - Like there?
- So, for her, with that kind of vasodilation,
she does not have to take
15 to 20 minutes to warm up, to get going.
She can go right almost right away
because her dilation in her capillaries
and the whole leg is totally dilated.
So, the blood's pumping as good as it's gonna go.
- I can feel the muscles that I'd normally feel here.
- Okay?
- Or, not the muscles, the veins and the arteries
that normally take
a while to get dilated. - Isn't that wild?
- Alright trainiacs, I'm here with Paul Craig,
the co-founder, self-declared head shithead, apparently,
of Rudy Project North America.
That's okay, I call myself head jackass.
We all gotta don the moniker.
- Titles are just titles.
- So lately, over the last couple of months,
I've been writing a fair bit
of the new Rudy Project stuff.
I had the wing previously,
rode that for a couple of seasons
and then I've just got the Boost O One.
- Well ventilated,
it's a nice weight, it's balanced.
It's easy to get on and off in transition
and it's coupled with a flip up helmet.
Excuse me, a flip up visor.
So, easy in T-1.
The helmets have done well.
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- I'mma blow your mind here, Kim.
- What, how?
- The leg that had the Footbeat,
feels better. - Really?
- Yeah, it's had some sore achilles issues lately,
well, as you know, but you might not know.
And it feels good, one try, not bad,
I'm impressed, Footbeat.
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They look athletic.
I feel athletic.
When Kim and I are on vacation,
if there is a Mexican place within five miles,
we will stuff our face with tacos.
We will eat gauc and chips,
and we will critique the salsa.
Love our Mexican food.
We have just brutal Mexican places.
Actually, like no Mexican places in Winnipeg.
So, when we go on vacation, Mexican, tacos.
Check this out.
My attractiveness level on a scale on 1 to 10,
14, fighting Kim off with a stick tonight.