- What's up, Trainiacs?
Welcome to this week's Triathlon News Day Tuesday,
where in this week's edition of Triathlon News Day.
Ironman gives away tons
and tons of money.
One of the longest most iconic Ironman events
it looks like it's coming back home
and unfortunately actually very in a serious way
triathlon has lost a very key member of our family.
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What's up triathletes?
Welcome to this week's Triathlon News Day Tuesday
where every single Tuesday as long as I'm not traveling
and there is training, triathlon,
all kinds of news going on all around the Triathlon World
we talk about what's going on,
make sure you stick around to the end
where if this is your first time here
we talk about everyone's favorite part
of Triathlon News Day Tuesday
and that is a story from the Trainiac community
and as always full links to everything
we talk about are in the description below.
Let's start off with Ironman foundation announcing
that they will be donating $100,000 to relief efforts
in Panama to help with the housing shortage
that has been caused there by Hurricane Michael.
Now what's really interesting about this
is that this is a normal thing for the Ironman foundation
to announce in the communities that we race in,
but what is very unique about this is that the homes
that they'll be building are 3D printed houses.
This technology of 3D printing houses
in concrete blocks are.
Imagine that that's what they're using
is really really cool.
Related note unrelated to that kinda sorta.
The money does go to Ironman Foundation.
If you want to get a spot to Kona, the annual Kona auction
is live right now and you can go
and essentially buy your way to Kona,
ends up being really expensive like $10,000,
but all of the money does go to relief efforts
that the Ironman Foundation puts on.
As I mentioned last week Ironman Penticton
was the original Ironman Canada course
and it was one of the first five Ironman's in the world.
This is an iconic race,
the entire town would get excited about
and I had upwards of 3000 athletes go to Ironman Canada.
several years ago Penticton and Ironman
kind of butted heads ended up going apart from each other
Ironman Penticton changed to challenge Penticton
and the race really suffered.
Now recently Penticton announced
that they would be talking about putting in a bid
to bring Ironman back to Penticton
and last week the town council voted unanimously
to put up the funding to make this happen.
Total Funding is reported to be $663,000
and $299,000 of which is straight cash money,
$150,000 of that cash
is going towards the Ironman licensing fee.
So if you want to hold a local Ironman race,
we're talking about $150,000
smackaroonies, chedda, dinero
and there's another $110,000 worth of incline services,
so it's a very expensive proposition
and not for Joe Terran to
think that he's going to bring an Ironman to Wimpole.
Sad news that we have lost a member
of the triathlon family from around the world,
a key member of the team of
San Diegans who built triathlon to largely what it is.
One of those team members Mike Plant,
passed away last week at the age 71
from lymphocytic
leukemia
and Mike Plant was a writer, photographer, journalist,
a key member in starting up the Bud Light Triathlon Series
which then later became the US Triathlon Series.
And when I was at Triathlon Business International in 2018,
Mike plant was one of the key members.
He was like one of the OGs of triathlon.
Most of you might know him
as the author of Iron Will book about triathlon.
That is one of the more popular ones out there
and has been for a long time
and unfortunately we lost Mike
apparently a lot of people even closest to him
didn't know how ill he was
because he just kept trucking through it
in the triathlon lifestyle and attitude that we all have.
So we're very sorry to lose Mike
and our condolences go out to his family.
Now in Ironman racing,
there was a whole bundle of results that happened.
Four Half-Ironman races that had pro fields out there
so let's get right into it.
Half Ironman I'm gonna pronounce this wrong, Pays d'Aix.
Perhaps I got nothing.
Andi Boecherer and Emma Pallant won
70.3 Gulf Coast was won by T.J. Tollakson and Kari Lester.
The Half-Ironman Asia Pacific Championships in Vietnam
was won by Holly Lawrence who continues to come back
to the sport after a really really rough 2017
beginning of 2018 dominating all of these events
and our pal Patrick Langer.
I know I said that wrong.
Mel cut in the Lana Lana Lana.
- Lana.
- Do I say it somewhat properly?
- Yes, somewhat properly.
- Patrick Langer.
Ended up winning on the men's side
which we haven't really seen
from Patrick early in the season.
Who said to me in the podcast that we did with him
earlier this year that if he has the ability to win in Kona.
Everything throughout the entire year goes towards Kona,
so historically he has not really shown
a ton of fitness early in the season,
he showed it this week.
And finally Half-Ironman Monterrey happened in Mexico
with Canadian Brent McMann winning on the men's side
and podcast guest Lauren Goss winning on the women's side.
Now I don't wanna take full credit,
but I did tell her that we have a habit
of sending podcast guests off to victories
just saying, so if there are any
Jan Frodenos, Lionel Sanders out there that wanna race,
doors open.
Now speaking of the podcast as I mentioned
we just recorded an interview with Lauren Goss last week.
But yesterday,
two days ago, Sunday,
when we published our podcast
we published an interview that we did
with age grouper Chris Pinto who has lost 120 pounds
and you might not expect him to be like a typical guest
where it's like from overweight to amazing greatness.
Chris is like the average age group triathlete out there.
He's struggling to get in and the eight hour cutoff period.
He has a family.
He's a very successful business person.
I want to get him on the podcast because of the attitude
that he has about this being for health.
This not being about nothing but personal best.
And the number on the scale,
he wants to be healthy.
He wants to be fulfilled.
He wants it to work in his time frame
and whatever the results are,
sure he does want to get faster,
but when he actually didn't make it
in the cut off in Puerto Rico Half-Ironman
when I was down there with him,
he was perfectly happy because he enjoyed the experience
and his attitude I think is great for people to hear from,
so go check out the triathlon turn podcast,
it is the most highly ranked triathlon podcast
in the world on Apple podcast.
Thanks to a lot of awesome Trainiacs.
Segway into this week's Trainiacs story
which goes like this.
Hi Taren,
my name is Paige
and I just joined Team Trainiac recently.
Thank you.
So far it's going great.
Fairly new to triathlon in 2016.
I started off doing relays
and eventually graduated to sprint
before I stopped doing them altogether.
And just didn't have the motivation to train
or take part in triathlon
after my second sprint in March of 2017.
Fast forward to August of 2018,
I fell off a race horse and broke my spine
with a T-12 and L-1 compression fracture.
I couldn't do much of anything for two months.
I gained more weight than I'd like to admit
and I was mentally destroyed.
I unfortunately could not get back on a horse
when I was cleared because I lost so much fitness
and gained a lot of weight within that time.
I had to take a whole winter off from galloping
because I was nowhere near fit enough
for it to be safe for myself, the horse,
the other horses or the people around me.
So in my free time I decided to get back into triathlon
and get my fitness back.
Instead of doing sprints
where I'd barely train for them before,
I decided I needed to immediately step up
to the international or Olympic distance.
I'm not used to coach at all,
since I started training this January 2017.
I got pretty good on my own,
but I got exhausted trying to figure out
what I was supposed to do every single day.
This is where Team Trainiac has been a lifesaver for me,
telling me exactly what I need to do
at each phase of my training
even if I have to modify the workouts to fit me
or where I'm at now I know how to do that with the plan.
Along with that I went ahead
and got the full pro-triathlon training masterclass package.
I wasn't sure if it was gonna be worth the money,
but decide to take a chance and I'm glad that I did.
Hearing some concerns
that I have for myself as a triathlete,
coming from professional triathletes
really puts my mind at ease.
I've been very impatient and I would get very frustrated,
up until I started listening to these master classes,
learning that it's such a long process
and everyone goes through ups
and downs during their own training.
Even the pros was mentally relaxing.
I've completed two international triathlon since January.
I'm in Florida for the winter,
so this season starts pretty early here.
I wasn't thrilled with my performances at the time,
but coming from where I was with no coaching,
I look back and realize how far I've actually come.
I can't wait to see how progress will now happen.
Now that I'm on Team Trainiac thanks so much, Paige.
Thanks so much for sending that in Paige
and for everyone watching here,
I didn't wanna share that as an ad for Team Trainiac
or an ad for Protriathlontraining.com.
I want to share that because
what I find is a good thing for people to know
is that they aren't alone out there,
the struggles, the wonders, the worries,
the questions that everyone has out there.
they're the questions
that every new triathlete has and often
if you can find a resource whether it's Teamtrainiac.com
or Protriathlontraining.com
and learn from pros or me or a training team
from your local triathlon community
and learn from the people that have come before you
that have gone through those exact same things
you might enjoy the sport a little bit more
because you just know
that there's other people out there to learn from
and to experience things with
and that is going to get you into triathlon,
this fantastic sport that you can do
for the rest of your life and helps change your life.
So just want to share that story.
Thanks Paige that was awesome to hear.
Now if anyone else wants to get their story
shared here on Triathlon News Day,
I know a lot of you are experiencing
your first races of the year maybe ever,
send them into us.
We love hearing about them.
More community the better.
Email me at
Taren@triathlontaren.com
include some race photos
and maybe some before and after photos,
family photos whatever it is.
People love hearing about this stuff,
very motivating to everyone.
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Later Trainiacs.