- It's the GTN Show.
And we are going big.
Talking further, faster, and longer.
As today, we are discussing some impressive
recent world records that have just been broken,
as well as one that's in the pipeline.
- Yeah, and there may only be two weeks to go
'til the IRONMAN World Championships,
but we still have plenty of racing
for us to discuss.
There's also been talk of a new owner
of the IRONMAN group,
and we have the lucky winner to announce
of our Oakley ARO7 giveaway.
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- Records are getting broken every day,
so for one to catch our eye,
it's got to be quite impressive.
We have recently discussed
new times at Enduroman,
the 12-hour running record that got broken,
but this one has taken things to another level,
because someone has just swam the English Channel
four times in a row.
- Yes.
Now Sarah Thomas from Colorado
has become the first person to swim
from England to France four times consecutively.
Now there were three other people who had done this
three times across,
but she has, by virtue of this four-crossing feat,
which she took 54 hours to do,
become the first person to swim four times.
- Yeah, so from going from the UK to France,
back again, twice,
it should have been around 80 miles,
but it actually ended up being close to 130
due to the currents changing.
So I mean, that just makes it incredible on its own.
But then if you imagine,
if anyone's ever swam in the water of the UK,
it's pretty fresh, even at this time of year,
and for it to be an official record,
it had to be without a wetsuit.
And on top of that, Sarah had to negotiate
busy shipping lanes that go up the English Channel,
as well as obviously the fact
that there's jellyfish everywhere,
the effect of salt on your body and your mouth,
and trying to take nutrition on whilst in the water.
And just to make it even more impressive,
last year Sarah recovered from breast cancer.
- Yeah, so our sister channel
across the office, GCN,
were rather busy last week in the Velodrome
riding a penny-farthing
because, yes, sometimes you do have to think
a little bit outside the box to get yourself
into that Guinness World Record Book.
So our fellow presenter, Chris Opie,
he has rode a penny-farthing,
and recorded rather,
the furthest distance ever ridden on a penny-farthing,
in an hour.
Now, if you are interested in finding out
quite how far Chris rode that penny-farthing,
then keep an eye on the GCN Channel
over the next few days.
- And that leaves running, obviously,
but a record that hasn't yet been broken.
You may well have heard us talking previously
on GTN about the Ineos 1:59.
Well that is the bed
for the reigning Olympic Champion
and current marathon world record holder,
Eliud Kipchoge,
to run under two hours,
to be the first man to break that two hour barrier
when it comes to marathon.
And his team of huge amount of support staff
and support runners who've been out
in Vienna, in Austria, where they plan
to do this in a -- just over a couple weeks time.
They've been out there practicing
and really no stone has been left unturned,
so I think it's looking pretty likely,
but an exciting one to keep an eye out on.
- Yeah, so whatever your own personal goals are,
hopefully there's some inspiration
in amongst there for you.
But none of us really know what are own boundaries are
or where we can go with our own goals,
but indeed, what are the limits
of human endurance and possibilities?
Now, Heather, I don't think
that we really should gamble too much, but
do you think that the sub-two hour's going to be broken?
- (exhales) I'm not going to give it away yet.
I've got most of an opinion on this,
but I want to know from you guys.
So that takes us on to this week's GTN poll,
and if you think Eliud Kipchoge
is going to get under two hours in October,
then let us know by clicking on the poll just up here.
That's yes or a no.
- Now in last week's poll,
you and Mark had a rather interesting conversation
about what is your favorite type of road.
So, our results are in.
And, bottom of the pile was 2% with other.
Next up was 11% for the technically challenging road,
which I can see, I quite like that.
22% was our third choice with a sea view.
Again, not bad.
24% was our second from top.
Fast and flat.
That wouldn't be my personal favorite.
This would be my favorite too.
The winner was 39% as a mountainous road.
Now a couple of weeks ago, we gave you guys
a very exciting chance to get your hands on
a brand new Oakley ARO7 Time Trial helmet,
and we do have our winner.
(drum roll) - Oh yes.
It is Brayden Halvorson.
So well done, Brayden.
We'll be in touch on sending you
that wonderful helmet.
- So moving on to our tri news section now.
First up, we're going to talk about
some indoor training with Zwift.
Now if you haven't already seen our video
that just got released this last weekend,
where team GTN took on Team Charles-Barclay
on a sort of convoluted indoor duathlon challenge,
well, quite frankly, I think you're missing out,
and you need to find that video
and see what we're up to.
- Well if you are a regular Zwifter
then you might well know, that
when you're in-game
or you're riding on Zwift,
that you can change and customize
what your avatar is wearing.
You may well have noticed, if you've watched
this video that Fraser's talked about,
that Mark and Fraser were wearing
GTN Kit although the avatars were,
obviously, they wear as well.
So that actually sparked a bit of conversation.
Somebody asking how you can get the same avatar kit.
- [Fraser] Yeah, so, if you too,
are keen to continue Zwifting
in GTN colors like Mark and I wear,
then please get yourself involved
and customize yourself in-game on Zwift.
- You may not be familiar with the
Professional Triathletes Organisation,
but they're a union that formed about three years ago
with the idea to have a voice
for the pro triathletes,
but there's nothing been too significant that's come
out of their action until just now.
- [Fraser] However, this week,
the organization have just appointed a new CEO
in the shape of Sam Renouf.
Now he comes with a big background
having worked at executive level with both
the ACTIVE Network and MOTIV Group.
And he also -- has coupled with them
having been an elite triathlete himself,
so he's just got an awful lot of knowledge
to bring to the table in that capacity.
And essentially with him at the helm,
the PTO have approached The Wanda Group,
who currently own IRONMAN
and all of their associated assets,
about the possibility of apparently an all cash transaction.
Now, given Wanda only bought the IRONMAN brand
not that many years ago
for many hundreds of millions of dollars, should I say,
that isn't going to be a small sum of money.
So, we'll see.
- Yeah, it's some pretty big news
and exciting to see that, you know,
the professional athletes could start to
really move things and change things in the spot,
and hopefully we'll start to see
that actually the triathlon community benefits
as a result.
Something the triathlon has gotten sorted
is giving back to the community.
From a recent event, the
Nautica Malibu Triathlon
has raised some significant funds for
a local charity.
Now this event attracts celebrities
and alongside that some great financial backing too.
- Yeah, now since the race happened some 10 days ago,
they have been able to present a cheque for
$1.3 million to the Children's Hospital of LA,
which is incredible,
plus a further
$282,000 donation from Bob Iger at team Disney.
And since the race started it has amassed over
$15 million in charitable donations.
- The brand Maurten have just released two new products,
one of which is unofficial.
Well it's officially launched,
but they're actually going for unbranded packaging.
This is because quite a few pros
are choosing to use their product,
but are actually sponsored or have relationships
with other nutrition companies
and have to officially use that.
So it's kind of a way to get around this,
and they're saying we recognize that pros
want to use our products
and here's a way you can do it.
- Yeah, it's tricky, but very interesting as well.
They've also added another product to their range
with a caffeine gel.
And what they've managed to do with their
Hydrogen technology is basically keep those
high levels of caffeine in there that are needed,
but without having to affect the flavors
and add in other masking agents to do so.
So it's just a really cool twist from this
young company really that have got
a lot of backing from the likes of Yanfidano triathlon
and molfire and il kepjaget and marathon run as well.
- I've got all that officially.
- Now moving on to our race news,
and there was many races this weekend.
But first up, was IRONMAN Italy.
And on the Men's side, there was a fantastic victory
for Australian Cameron Wurf,
in a time of seven hours 46 minutes 54 seconds,
which is quite incredible,
but we'll come back to that in a second.
Second place went to Jaroslav Kovacic, from Slovania,
and third place was Giulio Molinari from Italy.
So we had on the podium at least.
But when I mention Cameron's time there
I thought that is an incredibly fast time
but I couldn't quite remember
what the all-time race was.
So I got in touch with a good friend
of the channel, Torton Rad, from TriRating
to see if he could fair up my suspicions.
And I was right because Cameron's time was the
ninth fastest IRONMAN distance time ever,
according to Torson, so thank you very much for that Torson.
And as a quick plug, he has just published his
Kona Report where he puts everything you could
ever want to know about Kona
into a very handy document.
So you can find that online at trirating.com
- Perfect for some bedtime reading
if you're into triathlon.
You got two weeks to get through it,
or three weeks I think.
But in the Women's race, it was a fast time.
The winning time was 8:48:23 and that was
Carolin Lehrieder who took the win.
Second place went to Jenny Schulz.
Then it was Mareen Hufe from Germany.
Actually it was a clean sweep for Germany
for one, two and three.
- Now moving down a distance to Olympic distance for
the ITU World Cup from Weihai in China.
And we had a win for Joao Silva from Portugal.
Second place went to Max Studer from Switzerland.
And third place, from my hometown in Stirling,
Grant Sheldon from the UK.
- You had to get it in didn't you?
- I did, yeah.
- The Women's race was won by Julie Derron of Switzerland.
Miriam Casillas Garcia from Spain with second.
And then Verena Steinhauser with third.
- Now moving on to
IRONMAN 70.3 Weymouth
where they had a slightly short in swim,
but they still got a triathlon to go ahead.
And the winner was George Goodwin from the UK.
Second place was Adam Bowden from the UK.
And third place was also Elliot Smales,
former winner of that race in Weymouth,
from the UK.
- Well the theme continues xx
but obviously it was a home event
and it was clean sweep for Great Britain.
The Women's side India Lee taking the win.
Claire Hann in second.
And Katrina Rye finishing third.
- So changing format slightly
we got XTERRA now
and they have now got an event
from China at Lake Kunming,
which looks stunning from the pictures, in fact.
And a win on the Men's side went to,
former World Champion from Maui, Ruben Ruzafa from Spain.
Second place was Brice Daubord from France.
And also from France,
for the final spot on the podium, was Maxim Chane.
- The Women's race was won by Fabioloa Corona.
Carina Wasle was second.
And then third place went to Lizzy Orchard.
- Now we're covering all concepts of racing this week.
But finally we have an Otillo race to cover
and it was the first qualifying event
for Nature's World Championship,
and that was the 1000 Lakes event,
which is apparently another stunning location.
So the winning Men's team
was Team HEAD - MAT/SudRunning,
and they're a French team.
- [Heather] And the mixed team was won by
Team Thule Crew.
And then the Women's team event
was won by Team Envol.
All right, it's time for us to take a look
at some of your favorite photos
and we've chosen a nice unique selection this week.
Our first one comes in from Stefan.
And it looks as though he's having a tough day
here doesn't it?
- [Fraser] Yeah he's had a little bit of a tumble.
You tell me that there was a one-foot wall
in the way that he didn't spot, is that right?
- [Heather] Yeah, apparently so.
So he's just taken just after swim
heading to T1 in his first triathlon,
so, you know, respect there,
but too tired to lift his leg up that high,
so fell over.
His wife informed him that he wasn't the only one
and he's seeing the funny side as well,
so that's all good and well done
for doing your first triathlon.
- Yeah, absolutely.
Hopefully the rest of the race went well.
And our next picture here is from
Ruman, and I'm realizing that this is
Ruman with none other than you.
- [Heather] It is, yeah.
I didn't put this photo in,
but I just thought oh I want to get into his face.
- [Fraser] Are you sure you didn't?
- [Heather] Yeah, I promise.
- So moving on, we've now
got a pretty impressive story here.
This has been sent in by Ian
and it is his son Ben competing.
I find this quite incredible.
That it is his first Olympic distance triathlon
aged eight and he has taken
only three hours and 11 minutes.
That's incredible isn't it?
- That is rather, yeah, I mean.
- He says he's got his sights set
on trying to do it under three hours
in the same event next year.
And that was in Dubai because they have asked us
when is GTN coming back to Dubai because
he would love to meet us there.
- We'd love to come back in the Winter
while it's gray and miserable here.
Yeah, for sure.
Our final picture is here from Ramir and
Fraser didn't put this one in,
but it is a track speed concept Fraser.
Do you know what Fraser?
If you notice, and I actually
only just included this one here
because we haven't already talked about the GTN kit,
but I think you need to go back on Zwift
and get some GTN kit on your avatar.
- Because there's some GCN sneaking in, isn't there?
- I've seen the 101 of GCN.
Not happy about that one.
- Yeah thanks for sending that in.
That looks like a great little sale.
- Yeah and if you've got some photos that you want to share
with us and you want us to discuss on the show,
then do make sure you use the upload link
on the screen now or find it in the description below.
- Now it's time for our caption competition yet again.
And this week's picture is well everybody's favorite
long course British triathlete right?
It's a Lucy.
Oh wait that's not the right Lucy, Lucy Gotsed.
So here is our first one.
It is randomheroj3 has said
"come on girls, I can't do the YMCA alone"
- [Heather] C-A
Can you do it, Fraser?
Can you do it alone?
- Oh no, no.
I can't do it. - Come on, show us.
Show us your Y-M-C-A. - I can't do it anyway.
Y
M
C
A
- (cheers) (claps)
- Got it.
- Yeah Fraser can do it alone. - Right.
- Our next one comes in from Matthew Fath.
"when you find out the swim is wet suit legal"
I think there's quite a few people with you on that one
- [Fraser] Been there on that one too.
And next one Tim Fowler.
"Good morning Wales"
- Oh yeah.
Like it.
But our favorite this week is David Jennings with
"Yes, feels so good to have chicked Mark at Norseman"
now if you don't know what we're on about
you need to go back and watch the Norseman video.
But well done to David.
You're going to be having a GTN cap on its way
to you, so do get in contact for that one.
And our photo this week for you chance to win a GTN
cap comes in from a rather wet and windy looking
Weymouth from the IRONMAN 70.3 that happened
just on the weekend.
And there's all sorts going on here.
- [Fraser] Yeah I know exactly what that feels like
because I did Weymouth last year and it was equally wet
and miserable and I know exactly what that
promenade feels like, but yeah I mean --
- [Heather] Did you see any spectators,
in pants?
- [Fraser] Well there is a lot of people swim on that beach
who have got no interest in swimming in a triathlon,
so I mean it is quite a busy little beach.
- [Heather] I mean the person in the wet suit
looks quite shocked that there's someone running.
- [Fraser] (chuckles) What on earth did they do?
- Yeah but then I mean I would be more shocked
that there's a bicycle chained to a post
next to someone who's in their swimming gear.
- So all sorts going on.
So please go wild.
Drop us the comments
down there below and we'll see what you got
to say next week.
- Before you head off, we've got some great videos
coming up next week.
And if you've got your eyes set on Koner for next year
but you want to know how to get good enough,
well Mark has made a great video
and that's to keep your eyes out for that one.
Also if you want a little bit of help with
getting better at running off the bike
then chances are he's got some great tips in the video too.
- And talking about Koner, if you want to get yourself
in the vibe or the mood for supporting for --
- Into the Hawaiian spirit.
There you go Fraser.
He's ready.
- Head over to our shop because there's a brand new
Koner edition them T-shirts that you can buy there
so I'm looking forward to us getting ahold of those.
So, please do that.
Also if you've enjoyed this video hit that thumb up
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go look at all the videos we've done on the channel.
And finally if you want to see a video that we did
what we were just talking about,
The Zwift challenge with Lucy and Reese Barclay
then you can find that here.
- And one other video if you're getting some pain
from running and you want to know
when you should stop, when you should push through,
the video on that just down here.