- This is the GTN show,
and this week we are getting healthy.
Well, not exactly but we are heading out and about
to find out if running a marathon is good for you
both mentally and physically.
We've also got plenty to chat about in triathlon news,
including an unfortunate injury from Lionel Sanders,
there's a new course on Zwift with and
there's a carbon neutral trainer.
- Yeah, and you guys have still been sending
us in some great pictures.
We've got those to share with you.
And now for the majority of us, we were having some
Easter chocolate eggs. The pros were still racing and
we've got those results to talk about as well.
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So running packs, all sorts of benefits,
not least the improvements to our cardiovascular strength,
the sky high calorie burn that we can
get also the bone strengthening from all
the impact on foot strike that running
involves not to mention that elusive runner's
high or endorphins rush that we can get,
but with all those benefits, there are sometimes
some sort of downsides and negatives too right?
I mean, that impact actually can cause some
overuse or even just injuries.
And actually, rough stats can show that
up to 79% of runners say that at least once a year,
they're sidelined from at least one injury,
which, to be honest, isn't very inefficient
way of training, Is it?
- Exactly. Well, health is a pretty broad subject.
So when we bring it to running,
it's hard to nail down exactly what topics or
what would encompass health.
So we thought we're going to ask the public
whether running a marathon is actually healthy.
I have to admit this audience is a little bit
biased because we went to ask runners when
they had just finished running Brighton marathon.
- I just love it. I find it very cathartic,
very chilling, and it keeps me fit.
- And yes, sir, on that topic.
Do you think running is healthy for you?
Do you have any problems from running?
- Minor nickels, but not problems, no.
- What's your worst injury been?
- Probably Achilles heel. Where I had six weeks off.
- Do you think running is bad for you know?
- No, if I was doing this, why would I think running is
bad for me?
- Have you had any any issues or injuries from running or?
- Hm, I have, but no worse than I would have
got playing football or anything like that.
- I think so, mental health yeah.
- Yeah, your mental health, your physical health,
it keeps you healthy and yeah it's great.
- We did warn you that audience can be a
little bit biased. I think they're all pretty
high on the endorphins having completed
26.2 miles successfully. But Fraser, I mean,
let's take a step back from the buzz of actually,
you know, feeling after a race.
Do you think running a marathon is healthy?
- Yeah. I mean, I wasn't very surprised to
see so many people really happy to talk about
running after having finished their race either.
I mean, I love to go out for a run I think is great.
But talking about the marathon specifically,
I do think it's a pretty daunting affair if I'm honest.
And if I was to think back of the
few marathons I did do, which are generally
through racing and Ironman,
I would say probably confidently that any injuries
I got and I didn't get very many, luckily touch wood,
they were probably all attributed to running
that marathon or certainly the training
required to do a marathon,
Because you just end up pushing or I certainly
find end up pushing the boundaries a little
bit too far to try and complete something
that's quite as far as that. I do wonder how I
might have fared if all those marathons I'd
done were off road.
But that's a different discussion for another day.
- On top of the physical side of things,
you obviously need to consider the mental
well-being that comes under the umbrella of
health and what you get from running and
which outweighs which, and what is more
important to you, because it really is a balance.
Anyway, you've heard Fraser's opinion on health and
running and then obviously those elated
runners over in Brighton, but we want
to know what you guys think.
So that leads us on to this week's GTN poll,
and we're asking,
do you think running a marathon is healthy?
- Yeah, so we've got four options for
you to have a decision about we've got Yes,
it's great for you physically.
Yes, it's great for your mental well being.
Yes, it's great for both or no-way.
So whatever you think, please let us know
click on the pole which is just
above Heather's head.
- And that now leads us on to the results
from last week's poll when we had that
seat shifter from Bob Babbitt from
his Museum of all retro tech,
and we asked you whether you would
like to have one of those and the
options were hell yes.
Why even move your saddle in the first place
and No well it's a fairly close split at first look,
but actually think it looks a little
clearer when you dive in.
So 32% said, Hell Yes, 31% of you said,
why even move your saddle it's basically saying,
No, you wouldn't want one. And then 37% said,
Nope. So actually, I think no wins on that side.
But um, we had a few interesting comments
actually in on that one.
- Yeah, we did. So Lucas Wehling said hello, GTN team.
There is a movable seat post available today.
Redshift is the manufacturer.
I use it works very well for hilly races.
Which is interesting, isn't it?
- Yeah. And also, we've got, gemmeasecond says,
you know, basically iterating they
actually use Redshift.
Uhm so quite a few people still,
I know those obviously are the ones
who said hell yes.
- Yeah, I mean, I had never actually heard of it right.
Just I thought I'd do a little quick Google.
So find their website and had a little look
at the little video of their Redshift Seat Moving
position in action and it definitely looks
a lot better than the one that we saw in Bob's house.
I think I would have trusted it a lot more.
So yeah, interesting stuff.
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We've got some news from Zwift,
they are increasing the size of their
Watopia World with a brand new route called
Fuego Flats. There's kind of a giveaway in the
name there, it is a new flat route.
That's I guess appeals to us as triathletes,
and time travelers because you can do
some great training. And personally,
I love anything that's a little bit flat.
- Yeah, I mean, it, as you see is essentially
flat as a very little gradient change at all.
It's quite a simple course by the sounds of it,
it goes 10 k out to around about through
the desert throughout these Fuego Flats.
Um, so some new interesting things for
us to look at when we're on Zwift.
Go around the roundabout and back you come.
Apparently, there's an awful of inspiration
been taken in the design of this through the
surrounding area and deserts that are
close to Long Beach,
which is the headquarters for Zwift in California.
So yeah, just think it's something a
little bit more interesting to pay attention
to when you're on your bike.
Now for something a little different,
in 2014 there was a sneaker or as we call
them running shoe company started in the
U.S called Allbirds.
And their premise was to be more sustainable.
And that meant sourcing sustainable products
at the raw material stage such as eucalyptus or wool,
or using sugar rather than oil based plastics.
Now, they wanted to keep their carbon footprint
as low as they could, but they weren't neutral.
- Yeah, so that's where they came up with this
idea of the carbon fund, it's a very new idea
that they're going to tax themselves for the
carbon that it actually takes to produce such a product.
So they even looking back at the carbon produced
by the sheep from the wool that they use,
the carbon from transporting the materials across,
even to the extent that they're going to
measure the carbon that, say it takes one of
their employees on the bus coming to work.
So they really are looking at the bigger
picture and they've calculated all of this
and they reckon that per shoe,
it takes 10 kilos of of carbon.
So they're going to tax themselves relative to that,
but they're also then doing sustainable products.
So they're basically planting trees and doing
other sort of green environment schemes
that are going to help make these shoes
eventually carbon neutral.
Well, now we've got some news from Lionel Sanders
and you might have heard that he is injured unfortunately,
about a month ago, he got a bit of a niggle,
that seemed like some sciatic pain that
came on after a brick session.
And he just thought, you know,
we'll work through it and have various
physiotherapy treatments and
just wasn't quite going away.
So eventually, went to the doctor and
they thought, well, we probably should go for a scan.
Well, it does turn out that it's a sacral fracture.
- Yeah, Which is a nasty one,
as far as I'm aware,
which is not something we want to hear
Lionel having to struggle with.
And it turns out that although he
had spent three weeks waiting to go
and see the doctor, he had actually fallen
off his bike or toppled off his bike,
by the sounds of it, trying to balance
beside a water fountain, he said,
trying to look a little bit cool,
he said, but unfortunately,
those sometimes can be the worst falls
because you hit the ground a lot harder
sometimes when you're not going at speed so yeah,
I really feel for Lionel,
that's not at all something that he was
wanting to have to deal with
you're kick starting your season.
Well, it's not kick starting season at all because...
- He's got 9 to 12 weeks now of non-weight bearing,
so he's going to be focusing on his other
aspects but he's had some great words of
support if you actually look at his Instagram,
that a huge amount of the pros
giving him your well wishes,
plus a couple of funny ones
including this one from Cam Wurf.
I like this, turn it into a positive
might even smooth out that limp.
- I don't know by that,
that limps are pretty pronouncement with Lionel,
but yeah and Phil Gaimon,
who sort of goes around and takes Strava KOM's,
he's replied and said now you can
focus on your climbing KOM's,
which is just a little bit fun...
- Well that's because Lionel took one
of his and then he took it back.
So that's where that story comes from.
But yeah, we do obviously wish
Lionel well as well.
- And finally, some more news from another top Pro.
We have just spotted the current
Ironman 70.3 World Champion Jan Frodeno,
has got himself a new wetsuit brand,
that is deboer wetsuits,
which is a company that he's actually
helped design and develop their
new wetsuit width.
Two suits from this company deboer,
actually one called the Flōh,
one called Fjord, and according to Jan,
he just feels that these give him much
more flexibility and allow him to
well effectively swim,
just like he says he swims in the pool
when he's out in the open water.
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- Right now it's time for our caption
competition where we look at some of
the comments you sent in to us regarding
the picture we had of Bob Babbitt last
week wearing something a little bit silly.
- Yeah, it was a great picture and
we've had some cool caption suggestions.
This one, we've got three runners up this
week and then our winner and our first runner up,
Ahmed Bassam, what my nightmare looks like
the night before a 20 by 400 swim set.
I mean, that just sounds horrific anyway,
but we digress.
Next we've got gimmeasecond1741,
hashtag aero is everything.
- [Man] It's a long name actually, isn't it?
Next runner up is Martin Leib who says,
introducing Cap-tain Kona,
which I don't really get.
- Cap-tain Kona! Anyway,
- (laughing)
Our winner this week comes from Russel Chiodo,
Russel says, some people say triathlon is too
expensive, but I got this cap and goggles on sale.
Kind of 2 for 1 deal you know.
- It is quite a good one actually,
so well done to you, send us in your details
and we'll get that cap off to you.
- Yeah, and then for this week for your
chance to win one of our GTM swim caps.
We've got we've got this picture from
the finishing shoot at recent Xterra in Cyprus.
- It looks like it yeah, it's quite an elaborate
jump across the finish line, isn't it?
- Yeah, if you had that much energy to come
across the line with it it's impressive.
Well, do you send in your caption suggestions
in the comment section below.
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- So now to start our race news,
we've got the Solitude Long Course Racing
that happened this weekend,
which was on the south coast of France,
at the 6th edition of the Cannes International Triathlon.
Now this race happens over a unique
racing distance of 2 K swim, 107 K bike and
16 K run, so effectively, a half Ironman distance.
This race always has a small but very
strong pro field and this year was
No different on the men's side of things
with multiple World Champion Tim Don taking part
and Kuna Bike Course record holder Cameron Wurf as well.
Now as we got into the T2 it would appear
to been Tim Don's race to lose,
but Cameron Wurf came through
with an extremely fast run.
In third place we had Switzerland's Philipp Koutny
and Tim Dom held on for that 2nd place
with the victory going to the
Australian Cameron Wurf.
Now the women's side of affairs there was
actually a group of six that loosely
exited the water together led by
home athlete Charlotte Morel,
but once I turned to the bike it was
Danish athlete, Camilla Pedersen,
who stormed into a very commanding
lead and by T2 she had a lead of
over four minutes.
A lead that she would never relinquish,
which she then managed to hold on to
and take the victory in Cannes.
Second place went to Belgium's Alexandra Tondeur,
who used an extremely fast, reached best in fact,
re split to run through to 2nd place
overhauling that early swim leader Charlotte Morel,
who held on for 3rd.
So now on to the Off-Road racing circuit at
Xterra Greece in Athens and we had extended
reigning world champion in fact,
Lesley Paterson from Scotland in the
UK dominating the affairs on the run to
take the median victory of her 2019 season,
ahead of Czech athlete Helena Erbenova
and third place was the Belgium Charlotte DeLeo.
Onto the men's side, we had a French 1, 2 dominating
the race reigning champion from last year,
Arthur Forissier was not able to hold on
a very fast charging also called Arthur,
Arthur Serrieres and third place was a
Belgian athlete much like the women's race,
Yeray Luxem.
- Now it's time to take a look at
some of the great photos you guys have sent in.
And this week, we are focusing on the
bikes hopefully to get us motivated,
and you as well and this first one
comes in from Nicholas in Bavaria,
Germany says it's his first bike
ride this season and some backdrop
to have for it.
- Yeah, I mean, I presume his first
bike ride outside because it's nearly me.
So if he's only started riding his bike.
But yeah, it's really stunning really
enjoy looking at these pictures
and he's got his nice Cervelo R5 there
and in the snow in the second picture
so yeah really nice.
Uhm, contrasting that actually on
the next picture from the snow we've
got an amazing picture in front of Pebble Beach,
California along 17 mile drive
and this is from Nathan,
it's his Cervelo P5 6 with all sorts
of fancy bits of kit for his drive chain,
he's got CeramicSpeed, Oversize Pulleys,
he's got a KeyMC chain on there but,
he says he's going to have a black
and red one for his upcoming IronMan Texas,
so that sounds rather cool.
- Yeah his attention to detail for sure.
And talking of detail he's even got a
matching helmet that has been signed
by the Iron couple, RiniCarfrae
and Tim O'donnell. So if that's going
to make you go faster,
then good luck with that one.
Now we move on back to closer to home.
This was sent in from Peter, Trekker Maunder F5,
with some modifications,
the photo was taken in Brighton
and not quite sure about the backdrop but uhm...
- We're expecting the pier.
- Yeah, as we have been there recently
for the marathon and apparently
it sounds like Peter was running
as well and seems pretty chuffed
with his time there.
But he's also training for
70 points free in Weymouth.
Well, a little while flat is not until September,
I think, but, and good luck with that one.
- So finally, our last picture is from
Chris in South London,
and that's inspired from our
retro tech show last week when we visited
Bob Babbitt and saw all sorts
of old stuff that Bob had.
And this is a really cool bike
that Chris has sent us a picture of,
it's a hand built Grandini bike
with Reynold 631 tubing,
and the really special part about this is
and he said you had to wait quite some
time to get them was at the time,
New Scott DH bars which he had shipped over,
especially from the US and they are
really quite a clever looking
peer of underwear's, ain't they?
- I mean, interesting.
I find them fascinating trying to
work out what's going on,
but when you look at it in detail,
you can see there's just basically
every kind of handlebar position
you could ever want in one handlebar,
so to speak.
- Pretty sure that was cutting edge
back in the 1990s, Heather,
that was something everybody was seeking to have.
- Well, maybe there's you know,
there's some demand go back because
his color-ways as well, pink and yellow,
I'm loving, not so sure about the red.
I would say that looks longer ago than the 90s.
But who knows. But anyway,
we do love seeing your photos,
as you can tell, and we love sharing
them back with you.
So make sure you carry on sending
them in using the uploader.
- Yeah, please do. And that really
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