- I had to activate my glutes.
- When you can taste the lactic acid
by just looking at the workout.
(laughing)
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(rapid clicking)
Good morning, Trainiacs.
I know what that sound and look is.
- Yes.
- It is bicycling time.
- Today is the annual first ride out with Chris
to Sanford, Manitoba and back.
You know Chris.
- I don't see any other good looking men here.
- True that.
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- And for four years, I have despised this ride,
so he has been stronger than me on the bike for four years,
and then last year,
there was a changing of the guards in one ride.
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As long as I've known and trained with Chris,
his first ride out of the year to Sanford,
which is like his stomping grounds,
he owns that strip of road, not because he's that strong.
Just because he's the only rider that really goes out on it.
He's taken me out at the beginning of the year
and smashed me, left me by myself while he pulled away.
But we're gonna see if this year is my year.
I'ma mess him up if I can.
- Sorry, Chris.
By yourself.
- Alright, first order of business is to get to Chris's.
Fortunately, all of us live about two kilometers
from each other.
- It's like a triathlon training Mecca.
- Does six people constitute a Mecca?
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- Ha, he's afraid.
- By the way, Chris hates cars.
Not really much of a car guy.
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- Wow, you still own the Sanford ride.
You are still the proud owner of the Sanford ride.
- I did better than I thought.
- You did better than I though too. (chuckling)
- I didn't feel going out there and.
- You're 10 years younger than me, Taren.
- Are you rubbing in that win?
- You should be killing me.
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- Well, this is going now.
Taren, what do you wanna talk about, Pat?
- Yeah.
- Considering that a good chunk of you
are about to be coached by Pat.
Hang on.
I'll just turn off the jets, but first,
I have to turn them on.
There we go.
- Similarly to how I have been murdered by Coach Pat,
Chris has also been murdered by Coach Pat.
I thought that we could give you all some,
insight is not the right word, warning.
- Pat rained me for about five years.
- He turned you into the triathlete that you are.
- Yeah, so I think the Pat Peacock approach
really is to break you down first.
(laughing)
Right?
I think that's sort of.
- Establish who the boss is.
- Establish that you're worthless.
If you leave with your head hung down.
When does the Pat Peacock thing start
to build you back up?
When is that?
Like I'm still waiting, but I'm pretty sure later on
he's gonna.
- I think one of these.
- He's gonna build you back up to make you feel good?
- Yeah.
- At some point,
you're supposed to feel good about yourself.
- Volume.
Fair bit of volume.
- And then when you're done that, you should do more volume?
- Yeah.
- And then put in some time.
- How many hours a week did you get up to?
- We were at 10 workouts a week.
- Oh, he went easy on you.
- There were, the way it worked was there were workouts,
and then you'd fill them out green if you had completed them
and red if you had not completed them.
So when I started to pre-fill them out red
(laughing)
before, like days before the workout,
I think that's when things kinda fell off the rails a bit.
Training tired, I guess.
- It was a lot of training tired.
- Training tired.
You know, obviously, some of that you need, right?
You need to push yourself 'cause then you can adapt.
- I had my best results with Pat, for sure, no doubt.
- Similarly, with four months of Pat,
bike times, run times, everything, instantly faster.
- Some of the workouts are just hard.
- Yeah, hard.
- So on the one hand, you may not feel
like doing the workout, knowing that you need to answer
to that workout and that it's there makes you do it,
but then you pound it out and you do it, yeah.
- Pat punishes you as much as you need to be.
- As much as we talk about how he makes us throw up and cry
and he pulverizes us.
- I needed a lot of punishment.
- It's a proper amount of punishment.
- Yeah, the reality is.
- The guy's done it for 20 years.
And coached the most successful athletes in the province.
And he himself is the most successful amateur,
probably the most successful amateur male triathlete,
like over 20 years.
- If you look up triathlon in the dictionary,
there's picture of Pat there.
He's the gold standard.
When he sleeps, I think he thinks about the next workout
and triathlon.
Has a lot of innovation and has some good ideas
and stuff like that.
Gets real excited, and then, that sort of transfers
into the workouts and the progress later on.
What was your hardest run?
I know mine.
Mine leading into Campeche was a 50 to 60 minute
race-paced run done on a treadmill.
You wanna blow it, fine.
You wanna blow your brains out?
That's it.
- When you can taste the lactic acid
by just looking at the workout,
(laughing)
I think you know you're gonna have a problem.
It's like Pavlov.
Same kind of thing with Pat's workouts.
You look at the workout (labored panting),
and your heart rate's like, hey, look,
I've got a new heart rate,
and you haven't even started the workout.
- Somebody said in the comments last week
that they can already taste the vomit in their throat.
- Nice.
- Good approach.
We make make a lot of fun of him
and talk about how we hate him,
but he is the glue that holds this triathlon community
of ours together.
- I think that was my copyright.
You said that.
(laughing)
- For sure, I couldn't imagine, at the end of the day,
triathlon without Pat.
- Yeah, and if he moves.
- We gotta move.
- We're gonna have to leave.
- Yeah, alright, that's good.
I think we scared him.
- Yeah. (laughing)
- Alright.
(upbeat Latin music)
- Couples who bike together, bike together.
(upbeat Latin music)
- Let's you, ooh!
Let's you and me go for a classy burger.
(upbeat Latin music)
Trainiacs, you're seeing a momentous day here.
How long has it been since you all have biked
17K in one day?
- When were we in Hawaii?
- I don't know if we biked 17K any days.
- Then never.
- Never biked as much as we biked today.
- It was fun.
I understand why you people like this, kind of.
- Gettin' our hooks in her.
- Still no Triathlon Kim.
- We might have a Triathlon Kim on our hands some day soon.
- No, still no.
- Very soon.
Half iron man by September.
- I had to activate my glutes.
- She activated the shirt outta those glutes.