- Today is like the actual start of Ironman week.
- This is the Ventum One,
this is called the signature edition.
(upbeat music)
- Morning trainiacs, welcome to day 3
of Ironman Hawaii 2017
and you want to see some fit people?
And feel bad about how few abs you have?
Go run up and down Ali'i Drive.
You got the fittest people in the world,
all peaking, tapering, at the same time.
Coming out here, doing their last few training runs
before the race and they're just up and down
Ali'i Drive all morning.
So, I'm going to subject myself to that.
Here, I'm out of shape, seriously.
Let's go running.
(upbeat music)
Whoo, busy.
I survived, my watch did not.
Run was supposed to be three parts,
medium, moderate, mad,
kind of around race pace.
No matter how fast I went,
the watch said I was going at a slow pace.
This island kills everything, everything.
Lots of stuff to do.
Today is like the actual start of Ironman week.
(hip hop music)
I'm a Canadian athlete, kind of.
(hip hop music)
I tell ya, sometimes the places they pick
for these events, just awful.
- Ugh, I know, the ocean's so loud.
- Ears hurt.
(hip hop music)
(multiple people conversing)
Bam, yeah, media credentials.
Ironman World Championships,
October 14th, 2017, Kailua-Kona.
M-D-A, Triathlon Magazine Canada journalist.
Sounds like a writer that can barely spell.
I'm official here.
They fell for it.
(upbeat music)
- It's brain neural stimulation device.
It's like a typical set of headphones,
but we send electrical current through these
tiny little primers to the motor cortex
of the area of the brain
and you wear it for 20 minutes when you're warming up
and it helps build a stronger connection
between your brain and your muscles.
- Okay, yeah, I'm feeling little tingles.
Like tiny, little tingles now.
- This is the Ventum One.
This is called the signature edition.
One of the things that you'll see here,
which is, obviously, our pièce de résistance
is our integrated hydration.
We're the only super bike in the world
that is faster with hydration on than off.
So, if you could do an Ironman
without drinking any water,
well, more power to you.
But, you would still leave this on empty,
because the bike is slower with this setup.
- Because there's turbulence as it wraps around?
- Part of it is turbulence
and that was one of the things
that we wanted to take a negative
and turn it into a positive.
(drilling noise)
(upbeat music)
- Explain Hoka's partnership here at Ironman.
You guys have stepped it up a lot.
- Of course the brand originated
in trail running, ultra running,
but for athletes, very quickly locked on to innovation
and our innovation specifically
has helped them maximize their overall performance
and so, I think it's been a very organic process.
(upbeat music)
- That's the expo, trainiacs.
I could have probably filled
a two hour vlog with all of the interviews
and handshaking and meeting
and hearing about products,
that we did there.
What's really nice about coming to events like this,
is that you can actually put a face to the name
with people that I've tried their stuff
over the past few years
and never actually met them.
Like, basically just a line item in the email.
So, to actually meet the founders of Ventum
or CMO of Halo Neuroscience
and kinda like chat with them one on one,
it's nicer, that it's like developing a friendship.
Instead of just, hey, can I try some stuff?
Here's a video on the stuff.
Do you like that video on your stuff?
Thanks for the stuff.
So, yeah, hit up the expo.
So this, coming up, just from that area right there,
explains why everyone is walking around.
This is the parade of nations.
I want to say that there are,
I think I overheard 67 countries represented
at Ironman this year
and they're all gonna walk out.
How do we do this?
Right down there around the corner
is where the finish line is
and it goes through the town
and then turn downtown to go that way.
(cheering)
(upbeat music)
(cheering)
(upbeat music)
Despite the slightly sketchy start with the weather,
that was fantastic.
I loved that, that was so much fun.
I missed that last time I was here.
Beach, swim start, Kona.
Well that, trainiacs, is the expo.
That was expo day.
I could do expo day all day, every day, all week
and still not meet everyone that's here.
This is fun, see?
You should all come here.
Actually, we should come here together, everyone.
21,000 trainiacs descend upon Kona and have a party?
Let's do it.
Alright, later, see you tomorrow.