- What's up, Trainiacs!
Welcome to this week's Triathlon Newsday Tuesday,
where, in this week's edition of Triathlon Newsday,
the half Ironman World Championship
gets awarded to one of the locations
it's been bidding for for a while.
New attempts at 100k and 50 mile course records
are taken a shot at,
and iconic races might be returning home.
(pumped up beat)
Welcome, triathletes, to Triathlon Newsday Tuesday,
where every single Tuesday, as long as I don't forget
to post this video, instead of another video,
we talk about goings on all around the triathlon world.
Make sure you stick around to the end,
where we share everyone's favorite part
of triathlon newsday and that is
a story from the Trainiac community.
And, as always, full links to everything
we talk about will be in the description below.
Let's get into it!
Ironman announced over the last week
while the half Ironman North American Championship
was taking place in St. George, Utah,
that that would be the recipient of
the 2021 half Ironman World Championships.
In addition to that, they also announced
that there would be a rotating full Ironman
distance race that goes between
several different locations in North America,
one of which being St. George, Utah,
which is going to host its first ever full Ironman.
And when it does end up going to St. George in 2023,
that full Ironman distance race will then be
the full Ironman North American championship.
So, St. George, Utah, brutal race, very hard.
We're gonna talk about it in
the results portion of today,
but they are expanding, doing more races
because it's very cool, scenic place.
Have you seen the pictures there?
Phenomenal.
Hoka Project X was announced last week
at the very last minute,
just before the Project X race announcement was made.
Now, this was an attempt at breaking
the 100 kilometer and 50 mile world record
at the same time, to help promote
the Hoka Carbon X shoe, which was designed
for these longer, ultra endurance events or marathons.
Over the course of the event,
Jim Walmsley won the 50 mile race
in a time of 4:50:08, just breaking the previous record
by less than a minute.
And that time for 50 miles is
an average pace of a 337 kilometer over a 5:49 mile.
For fifty miles.
Crazy.
Unfortunately the top finisher for the 100K race
didn't end up breaking the 100K record,
but Jim Walmsley, who had to finish the 100K race
to have the 50 mile section where
he broke the world record time,
he had to finish and he slugged it through,
trotting it in after he finished that 50 miles
in the record breaking time.
Basically, pulled over on to the side
and went into cruise mode.
We also got some shots from some of our pals.
Sarah True, for example, showed off
her new Hoka Carbon X, so we did see
what the shoe actually looked like
and it's gonna be available soon.
Canyon launched the first ever all e-cycling team.
So this is a cycling team of 10 athletes
and a race director who are going to only compete
in the Zwift KISS race series.
So this is a team that's only competing
in online simulated bike cycling races,
but they're going to do it very much like a tour race,
where all of the athletes, regardless of where they are,
they're going to be tuned in
and the race director is going to be
calling out instructions and race tactics.
So they are going to, actually, take on
other different teams all around the world
in the same types of manners that they do
in real cycling races.
Very cool!
And word just got out, and this
is very exciting for all of us Canadians,
that Ironman Canada might be returning to
where it was started in Penticton.
Now, if you know the history of this,
Ironman Penticton was one of the original
six full Ironman distances that was invented.
It was iconic.
The town of Penticton is small enough
that it really, really cared,
but big enough that they had
enough volunteers to do it.
Several years ago, the town of Penticton
started pushing back a little bit on Ironman
and Ironman, instead of pushing back
and trying to meet somewhere in the middle,
they said, you know what?
We're Ironman, we don't really need you, Penticton.
We're out.
Penticton went with Challenge, which got fractions.
Less than, I think, 20 percent of the entries
that came to full Ironman Canada when it was in Penticton.
And this has been very, very sad
for a lot of Canadians who have raced this multiple times
and it being such an iconic event,
along with Kona and Lake Placid and events like that.
It's nice to hear that it's potentially
going to come back, but the bidding process
and negotiations still need to be worked out.
In race news, the ITU Long Distance World Championships
occurred over the weekend,
with Javier Gomez winning on home soil by over six minutes.
Now this is a very unique distance,
kind of in between a half Ironman and an Ironman,
with a 3K swim, 113K bike and then a 30K run.
On the women's side, Alexandra Tondeur of Belgium
ended up winning, by just about a minute.
Lot closer there.
Lots of Ironman racing occurred over the weekend.
Like I said, the North American Half Ironman Championships
happened over the weekend and leading into it,
Rudy Von Berg wasn't sure that he was even going to race.
Not feeling very good, he came out with
the win on the men's side
and Holly Lawrence cemented that she is back.
She is injury free and knocking off
race win after race win, nabbing the women's overall title.
Half Ironman Busselton also happened
with a timeless, I can't believe--
As far as all-time greatest stud triathletes,
when you look at talent over the course of many years,
the person with the best stud to all time years
of studliness ratio, Craig Alexander
came out with the win on the men's side in Busselton,
and Felicity Sheedy-Ryan won on the women's side.
While full Ironman Australia went on,
our pal and instructor from protriathlontraining.com
and the bike course, Cam Wurf, won on the men's side
while Laura Siddall, a pal of our podcast,
won on the women's side.
News with the podcast is that over the weekend,
we released an episode with Paul Laursen,
the other half of Plews and Prof,
the partner of Dan Plews, who I'm working with
on the low carb fat adaptation process.
And Paul Laursen is the head of Hit Science,
which is an organization, a website,
that teaches how to use high intensity interval training.
And what he talked about that was really interesting
in the podcast is that he believes
that with a combination of high fat, low carb
adaptation and high intensity interval training,
you can probably get a 20 hour training week kind of effect
with as little as ten hours because you are
playing into some of the most high return on investment
things that you can do as a triathlete.
This week we are recording an episode with Lauren Goss,
pro triathlete who, just a year ago,
she was on sleeping pills and anxiety medications
and never thought that she would race again.
I'm going to talk to her about why she's racing again
and racing really well, winning events.
Now, in related awesome news,
the Trainiac story for this week goes:
Hi Taren, my name is Damien
and I live in Northwest of England.
Today, I've just completed my
first spring triathlon in a pool.
It has to be said that it's the most rewarding experience
that I've ever encountered.
I took up triathlon because I forced
to retire from rugby league in 2018
due to both of my shoulders being badly damaged
and requiring surgery.
I was devastated when my consultant gave me the options,
which were either to retire or keep playing
and end up in surgery with a potential
shoulder reconstruction and a new shoulder
at the age of 29.
With this, I decided to hang up my boots
for the family's sake and take on something
that was completely different, utilizing what little bit
of ambition I could still muster up.
I'd always been intrigued with the Ironman
and Bolton, which is due to happen here in June,
but I knew that it would be too big of a task
learning each discipline of swim, bike, run
and trying to lose the rugby weight
at the same time in order to ensure
that I could get around the course confidently
and without straining due to being overweight.
I started training back in October 2018
and triathlon has helped me become a better
and more honest person and live a healthier life.
I can't quite tell you how much
triathlon has changed my outlook on training
and my lifestyle, as well as my family's outlook.
After this triathlon, I now have many training partners
and it's also inspired six more people
to each try their own race.
It's been such a great sport
and I am definitely looking at creating
a full season next year, with races all planned out.
Many thanks, Damien.
Thank you very much, Damien, for sharing your story.
It's always great to hear people
that are coming from a traditional big athlete
kind of sport because a lot of big athletes
say, well I'm not built for running,
it's too hard for me to get around,
I weigh too much on the bike,
it's too hard for me to swim 'cause I'm too muscular.
But here you are doing it.
We don't all have to be looking
for land speed records out there.
In your case, changing your life
and the lives of people around you is enough.
So, congratulations Damien, and I encourage
anyone who wants to share their story,
because I find them so motivating,
and the messages that we get are that other people
find them motivating, too.
So help them out by emailing us at
taren@triathlontaren.com.
Include some pictures and get
featured here on Triathlon Newsday.
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hit that subscribe button below.
Later, Trainiacs.
Phew, that was a nice wrap-up.
That was like one breath for 40 seconds,
that was good.
Pro!