- Ah, merry Christmas, Fraser.
- And happy Christmas to you too, Mark.
- Now, we thought we could celebrate Christmas
a little early here at GTN.
So, here is a little stocking for you, Fraser.
- Well, luckily I was on the same page,
there's your present too.
So, now we're ready to get going.
- Ah, thank you, Fraser.
Well, Christmas literally has come early at GTN.
But we thought this provides a lovely opportunity
for us to give you some gift ideas
for the triathlete in your life.
(Gently chiming bells)
All right, Fraser, I think you should go first.
I've got a rather large one
that I couldn't fit in your stocking.
- Ah, Mark, for me!
- Here we go.
- Thanks so much!
Right, I'm going to get going here.
(Paper rattling)
It's a dryrobe, thanks, Mark!
I've never had one of these, brilliant.
- [Mark] Yeah, these are brilliant, actually.
So, you can use these when you're swimming.
Before or after.
Pop them on.
Get changed underneath it.
Conveniently, as well, they're made with
a synthetic lambswool lining and they have
- [Fraser] It's quite heavy.
- [Mark] And they have
a waterproof and windproof outer shell,
so you're going to be pretty toasty underneath that thing.
- Even in Scotland?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Thanks, Mark.
Right, now next up, we've got something for you here.
- Ah, nice one.
Thanks, mate.
This is great.
(paper rattling)
Ooh, a Velosock!
- [Fraser} Yeah, now, these are pretty new
in the market this year.
I hadn't really heard of them until this summer
and you've seen the likes of Lucy Charles
and Jan Frodeno using these
- Hang on, hang on, GTN
- It's good, isn't it?
- Custom branding, that's cool isn't it?
- Yeah very cool.
Now the idea of these is that
if you're storing your bike inside
like a lot of us do,
then it's really good for keeping your oily chain
or muddy tires away from your furniture.
Or keeping your furniture away
from your oily chain and your muddy tires,
but either way it's really good to keep things
clean and tight or you can use it for
transporting your bike like if you're putting
on the back of the bike rack
it can keep it all nice and clean
from muddy spray off the roads and things.
So yeah, really nice little thing there.
- Yeah packs down really well as well doesn't it?
That's really cool!
I think you should go next now Fraser.
- Okay what we got here?
(paper rattling)
It's a
- [Mark] It's a Polar Vantage V yeah
- Okay yeah yeah thank but did I not
have this charging?
But I did, this is my
- Yeah hang on look c'mon be grateful it is the
thought that counts.
- Yeah
- This is a premium multi-sport GPS watch.
These well they pack a punch.
They've got all sorts of features.
We've got
- [Fraser] Fully aware I know.
- [Mark] We've got time, distance, speed, pace,
heart rate, optical heart rate built into it.
Running power even built in too.
We've got recovery data, sleep data, swimming metric.
It goes on as you can imagine and
there's a reason why so many of the pros
wear these watches.
- No thank you very much for my watch back Mark.
And onto you I've got a big present here.
(present rattling)
- Oh wow.
It's a noise
- I hope it annoys you as well.
- Here we go.
Ah yeah!
This is the Park Tool advanced mechanic tool kit.
- Now it sure is now there's an awful lot
of good stuff in there.
- Ah yeah so I've got a lot of stuff.
A cyclone chain scrubber.
We've got a torch key.
We've got, that's got checking the
length of your chain.
We've got tape measures.
Bottle opener pretty handy this time of the year.
- Yeah they do do pizza cutters as well.
- This goes on, this really does pack a punch as well.
Check this one out.
Who doesn't need that in their life?
- That's a pretty sizable bit kit there
and that is an awful lot of stuff that
Mark's got in here.
Now this might not be for everybody
unless you want to be a full on mechanic.
So Park Tool do offer their essential tool kit as well
which is a slim down version of everything
Mark's got there but hopefully enough
to get you out of trouble in most cases.
So it's got things like tire levers in there.
It's got Allen keys fold up
wrench hex keys as well.
There's also some patches if you need
to repair some punctures.
So as I said, hopefully enough to get
you out of trouble
and that's the essential kit from Park Tools.
- Brilliant well you've got another present.
- I hoped you were going to say that Mark.
Right so I'm going to get going in here.
Feels like a book, feels like a book.
- Yep this is the Plant Based Cyclist.
Now this is actually being written
- [Fraser] Thanks Mark.
- [Mark] Yeah, no worries.
It's being written with Nigel Mitchell,
who is a leading sports nutritionist.
Who's worked with the likes of British Cycling,
Team Sky, Education first, and he has basically
started trialing and working on
basically a plant based nutrition and diet.
- [Fraser] That's good.
- [Mark] Yeah and it was really interesting to see
whether you could actually perform
at an elite level in cycling,
whilst being on this diet.
And the answer was yes.
Since that, he started working with GCN
after a few videos later,
he presented us with this,
the Plant Based Cyclist.
Now as it says on the front.
"You're complete guide to plant power cycling"
It's actually really quite good.
Even for someone who's not fully plant based.
I've actually learned quite a lot from this.
- Yeah because I'm not plant based by any stretch.
Also maybe that's the thing for me,
thanks Mark.
- No worries.
I've actually also got a rather book like
looking shape here so I'm going to open this.
(paper rattling)
- [Mark] Ah Leslie Paterson's book
"The Brave Athlete Calm the" what's that say Fraser?
- [Fraser] Yeah you know what
- [Mark] "Down and Rise to the Occasion."
- Now don't take the title too personally Mark,
but I do think you're going to enjoy this.
Les is a really good friend of mine.
Grew up racing with her when I was younger
and she and her husband Dr. Simon Marshall,
who's a sports psychology expert,
have created this book.
It was a couple years ago they put it altogether
and really it's just this great amalgamation
of clinical science and real world experiences
from Leslie who is a three time XTERRA World Champion
athlete herself so a lot of good stuff in there.
I think you're going to enjoy it.
- Yeah fantastic.
Thanks for that.
Well I believe you've got another present.
- Got another one, yeah getting on this now.
Where is it?
Little tight.
- Think you're going to like this one.
- That was well wrapped Mark.
Form swim goggles.
- [Mark] Yeah see I know how much you liked mine.
In fact, you used them a little bit too much.
That's why I got you your own.
But yeah these are fantastic.
If you're not already aware of what they are,
they're augmented reality display goggles.
And by that I mean you can see from this image
on the front here it'll show you your swim metrics
within your goggle without blocking
your field of vision or the view.
And also we have the Polar H one
which he just threw on the floor.
You can now get heart rate in the goggles as well.
So pretty fancy stuff.
It was really kind of of well I guess
we've had this sort of stuff in cycling
and running.
Why not in swimming?
It's taking swimming to the next level.
- Thanks very much Mark.
You know I like to get in the pool.
All right I've got one more here for you.
Here Mark so you can get stuck into that one.
(paper rattling)
- [Mark] Ah cool some neoprene shorts!
- Exactly, now don't take it too personally Mark.
I know you're a good swimmer.
You can do well but these are really useful tools
for replicating having a pool boy in your legs
or of having a wetsuit but without the hassle
of having a pool boy or a wetsuit.
So they're a really good trade off.
It's good for people who want to focus
on fixing their technique.
If they have quite sinky legs
or if you want to think about having
a nice easy swim when you're tired
after having done a big bike or run.
So just give you a little bit of a break.
Think you're going to enjoy them?
- I know Josh Amberger uses these and
he let out toner.
- [Fraser] If you go
- [Mark] If they're good enough for him,
I'll have those.
You've got another one Fraser.
- More and you're brilliant right what do we got?
Nice little one here.
- I've also wrapped this one.
- You've wrapped this up really hard.
- I like my sellotape.
(fast forward buzz)
- Getting there.
- It is
- Swift runpod.
- Swift runpod, yeah.
So winter loves indoor running at the moment
on the treadmill.
(whispers) it's not great here in the UK
the weather outside.
So yeah this Swift runpod it's not only going
to allow you to get onto Swift,
but also actually just useful for indoor training
because you can connect this to your run watch.
The idea being that these pods
they've got accelerometers in them
that can track your foot movement.
Therefore how fast you're going
so actually you can record quite actually
how hard you've been running on the treadmill.
Or take it to the next level,
connect it to swift, get stuck into that virtual world.
Have a load of fun running with other people
all over the world.
- [Fraser] We can even have some races as well.
You're a bit too quick for me Mark,
but yes that's a a good idea.
I'm a bit of a data geek so thanks for that.
All right go on get your next one.
- Ah yeah okay.
(paper rattles)
- I think you're going to like this one.
(paper rattles)
- Haha some Sporcks.
- [Fraser] Yes no I thought this
was appropriate for you Mark because
I know how much you love bikes.
That's why we both love bikes.
So between the two of us I think we've got
a bit of a guilty pleasure.
Far too many sets of riding and biking socks,
but I thought you'd like them.
- They are awesome!
I mean you can't go wrong with running socks,
can you?
- No exactly.
- [Mark] Any new socks to ride in is fantastic,
but to go festive as well,
even better.
- And if you guys like another option.
Then actually Sporcks have got these one here
which is a very cool Lucy Charles Barclay
edition set.
So she's got her own little graphics on there.
I have a quick look.
There's some um wow
(shuffling)
- Oh the mermaid ones yeah these be really popular.
Very cool.
Well man we're onto our last couple here so another one
- Thank you very much Mark.
(paper rattling)
Thanks Mark!
- I thought you'd like these.
These are the Continental Grand Prix 4 Season tire.
I've actually popped a set of these
on my own bike just recently a 28
- I thought I noticed.
- Just cause the roads around here
in the UK are so wet, greasy, muddy, leafy
at this time of year.
It's just nice having a little bit more confidence
and more puncture resistance.
- Look forward to getting some miles on those,
thank you very much.
Now last one get after it.
- This is yeah it's a little one.
(paper rattling)
- I wrapped that a bit too tight too.
- The Koo Billy.
- [Fraser] Yeah now this is a great little idea.
Wack that on your top tube
or even your handle bars
and then you can just pop your sunglass on there
so that you can just get them out of the way
if you don't need them when you're riding along
or another good alternative when you're racing,
stick that there have your glasses on them,
hit T1, get out onto the bike
and then you can put them on
without having to rush it.
- That's a good little time saving method isn't it?
- I think you'll like those.
- I have to, that's a good little stocking filler.
Very well, we hope you guys have enjoyed
this today.
It's certainly been great fun for us.
- Yeah it has been.
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some really good Christmas triathlon gift ideas
please let us know we'd love to know
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