- Whoa!
Morning Trainiacs.
I've got the leaning tower of tri gear here.
Now very quickly before the intro,
these gorgeous devils.
(opens box)
Do you know what it is?
Why do you make it so difficult for blonde Canadians
to open boxes ROKA?
(opens box)
Wow!
Custom ROKA shades in triathlon Teran colors.
Stick around, and I'll tell you how you can get yourself
some of these babies for free.
These are light, man!
I'm so good looking now.
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So alright Trainiacs.
You may not have seen this or heard about it,
but at the moment, we have the biggest ROKA giveaway
that we have ever done.
Well, it's the only ROKA giveaway that we've ever done,
but it's also the biggest giveaway that we've done
in partnership with a company
that we have ever done.
Over $2,000 in ROKA gear that we're giving away
just this month.
And I didn't want any of you to be coming to me later
saying I didn't see this.
How in the world can I see this
or can I get in on the ROKA giveaway late?
Well, no, you can't get in late,
but I wanted to have a video here that is just nothing
but, I mean, essentially, it's a ROKA ad.
They are paying me to do this.
But this entire video will just be for that giveaway.
So go to ROKA.com/Teran and enter.
But I want to show you some ROKA stuff.
Okay, so when you go to ROKA.com/Teran,
wherever you are in the world,
it's going to direct you to this website,
where all you have to do is put in your email address,
and you entered to win.
The grand prize is a Maverick wetsuit,
and your choice of a race entry to whatever Iron Man race
you want to go into.
It's pretty slick.
Now I'm pretty sure how this contest is gonna work
is all of the non-winners are probably going to be given
a discount code after it's announced that they didn't win.
Now if you're looking at a wetsuit from ROKA,
I couldn't recommend them enough.
I fell in love with ROKA back in 2013.
I'll do another video talking about how that came to be,
but ROKA is still my go-to wetsuit,
'cause I think that they make some
of the best wetsuits out there.
Now granted, I got to admit
that all the other wetsuit companies have kind of caught up.
They now all have really flexible shoulders.
Most of them now have a catch panel on the forearm
so that you can feel the water a little bit better.
They almost all have bit of a difference
between the buoyancy in the legs,
providing more buoyancy in the legs,
less in the chest so that we get our legs up,
allowing our chest to go down.
But when I've gone from wetsuit to wetsuit,
ROKA has consistently been the most comfortable
without having to fiddle around with the fit.
If you are looking at getting a wetsuit,
I would say the X, top of the line.
Absolute best that there is.
If money is no object, go with that.
The next step down, the ROKA Maverick Pro.
Phenomenal wetsuit.
I would probably say just as good, and if you don't want
the absolute top of the line in looking like
the most super cool you possibly can,
go with the next step down.
It's what I swam in for years,
and it's the suit that put ROKA on the map.
If you're a little bit more budget oriented,
this is the ROKA Comp, I believe.
And I actually use this all the time
in a lot of my training, because it's a workhorse.
And the shoulders are largely as flexible as this
with the arms up technology.
Like, I'm a big fan of the ROKA wetsuits.
Second place, you get to win yourself a set
of customized advance performance sunglasses
and a transition backpack.
Okay, so when I was looking at the sunglasses
that ROKA has come out with,
the first thing that I thought
to myself was holy turd are those expensive.
Now if you don't win, and then you look at getting yourself
a pair of sunglasses, and you are shocked
at how expensive these good-looking beauties are
that you can customize
into Trainiac red, blue, and yellow colors,
I don't blame you for not getting it,
because they are very expensive.
But what I can say is I just went
for a run in them recently,
and these things are light.
These are crazy light.
The visibility without having the bar here
and the wraparound, this is the plus size,
the larger model.
It's got visibility everywhere, and I have a small face,
and it actually sits pretty well.
The transition backpack, I can't really talk about,
but one of the reasons why I like ROKA
and what I'm gonna talk about, about how I became a fanboy
of ROKA is because they do good quality work.
I like all their stuff.
The third place prize is a set of buoyancy shorts,
which the world knows are actually called floaty pants,
and a set of R1 goggles.
As far as the goggles go from ROKA, I mean, these, not bad.
I like them.
They're okay.
These are I believe the X1.
These are the enormous ones that have an absolutely huge
viewing angle, and I actually used these
for all my races back in 2018,
because come race day,
I like to have a really big viewing angle.
But as far as all the ROKA goggles go,
they fall in line with all the ROKA products.
But they are really good quality in the case
of the goggles.
I mean, a goggle is a goggle is a goggle.
I have not found a single one of these
between these R1's to these might be the R1's.
Frankly, I can't tell the ones that are ROKA goggles
from the next to these X1's.
They're all good quality goggles.
They are slightly more expensive than the average goggle,
but I haven't ever had any fit issues.
They're fairly foolproof, and they tend to last a long time.
And as far as floaty pants go,
you know that I love floaty pants.
You know that I love ROKA floaty pants.
They are the only floaty pants that have ever caressed
my sweet, sweet cheeks.
So there, that is the ROKA giveaway.
I just wanted to do a video dedicating some time
and a title that everyone can see
that nobody is going to miss
that we are running this giveaway.
ROKA is a sponsor of the podcast,
so I guess technically, yes, this is #Ad,
but they haven't sponsored this video.
They haven't actually said anything about how I should
promote this giveaway.
I'm just doing it, because like I said,
ROKA is the very first company that ever took a chance on me
with a wetsuit that they gave me back in 2013
when Track 1 Teran didn't even exist.
And in that video that I'll do another day,
where I'll explain my history with ROKA
and how quickly they've grown,
and why you saw me racing in the Tier Cat 5 wetsuit
for a little while.
It's just nice to be back in touch with ROKA,
and they have some really awesome people
that help me out with getting wetsuits,
getting discounts for Team Trainiac
and helping support the podcast,
and it's a brand that since 2013,
I have loved, and I'm really jazzed
that all those people are in place.
Thanks Melanie, thanks Sean, thanks Taylor, thanks Michael.
Thanks even to the founders.
You guys probably don't remember me,
but Rob and Kurt, back in the day, super cool meeting you.
Alright Trainiacs, ROKA.com/Teran.
Go enter to win up to more than something like $2000,
Canadian math, the exchange, monopoly money,
probably dollar value, you could buy a house in Winnipeg.
Alright Trainaics, go check it out later.