Mark: Welcome back to The GTN Show. Now, despite lockdown, there are still some incredible
performances coming out of this pandemic. We had a staggering new 5,000-meter running
world record this past weekend as well as a new channel swimming record. Again, we have
triathletes ripping up the cycling scene. Heather is going to be joining us later on
in the show. She's also going to be bringing us the race news as well as taking a look
through some pretty fun photos sent in by you guys this week.
[music] Imagine running a kilometre in 2 minutes and
31 seconds and then backing up with another kilometre in 2 minutes and 31 seconds and
another and another and another. Well, that is basically what Joshua Cheptegei did at
the weekend over the Diamond League meet in Monaco on route to setting a new 5,000-meter
world record. The time now stands at 12:35.36. Beating the previous world record by a whole
two seconds set by none other than Bekele back in 2004. That record stood for over 16
years and you know what, the only person to have got within five seconds of that previous
world record over the 16 years is Bekele himself. Understandably, this has caused a pretty big
stir in the running world over the weekend. A lot of people just simply trying to get
their head around that insane pace. I particularly enjoyed this post from the adventure and ultra
runner Killian Jornet. Over on his instagram, he posted a video of himself running around
the athletics track and he said try heading down to your own local athletics track and
running a lap in 60 seconds or running 100 meters in 15 seconds. Then you'll start to
understand how insanely fast it is to run at this speed for five kilometres and he is
right. It works out at 60.43 seconds per lap for
12.5 laps which has given us an idea here at GTN because perhaps we can run at this
5K pace as a relay. It's pretty ambitious 60 seconds per lap. I think we're going to
need some help. If you out there think you can run a map of the athletics track in 60
seconds or maybe 200 meters at the same pace, get in touch get involved in the comment section
below or get in touch with us directly. Ideally, you have to live in the UK or you're happy
to travel quite a way but I think we've got an idea in store. It could make quite an exciting
video. Do get in touch. He was not the only one to be breaking records
over the weekend because actually in the same meet, we had the Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen
or Jakob Ingabrigtsen. In the 1,500 meters, he set a new European record in a time of
3:28.68 and at just the age of 19. Which also means he set a new Junior World Record. Perhaps
lockdown has been good for some people. Moving on from one set of records to another, we
now have the channel crossing. That is swimming from the coast of the UK to the coast of France.
The shortest route is around 21 miles obviously dependent on currents and tides.
Well, this weekend, Chloe McCardle crossed in 10 hours and 40 minutes making her 35th
channel crossing. That puts her second on the all-time list of the most channel crossings
and passes the men's record which stands at 34. Add to the stress of just the swim itself,
she also had the worry of potentially having to go into quarantine when she steps foot
in France. Fortunately, though she was advised that providing she observes social distancing
when she steps foot on land and throughout the event and she is on land for no more than
10 minutes all would be okay. She literally completed the 21 odd miles of
swimming, set foot on land for literally a few minutes before jumping back in the water
and swimming back to her support boat. What a way to finish? Well, moving on and a couple
of weeks back we discussed how triathletes seem to be dominating the cycling and time
trial scene. It seemed like they have continued to do so at least they have done here in the
UK. This weekend we had the national 100-mile time trial championship. It's actually taking
place just down the road from us here. We had a triathlete in the women's race in first,
third, and fifth. We had Katrina Matthews taking the overall
win at a time of 3 hours 55 minutes. Alex Clay was in second in 4:01. Quite a convincing
win by Katrina Matthews there. Ruth also in a third in a time of 4:06. Around 11 minutes
back on Katrina. Then we have Laura Sadow in fifth in 4 hours 10 minutes. Apparently,
Katrina Morrison was also doing really well but sadly, suffered a puncture mid-race. Now,
it has been absolutely amazing to see so many people taking on challenges during this lockdown
given that obviously so many events have been cancelled. We did witness Kieran MacPherson
taking on an Ironman in his backyard just a couple of months ago.
It seems like that wasn't quite enough for him as he really has upped the ante with this
challenge. He's decided to do a triathlon the length of New Zealand. That is, going
from Bluff to Cape Reinga. That's from the very bottom of the south island to the top
of the north. He started this crazy 2,000-kilometer challenge on the 2nd of August swimming, cycling,
and running every day a total of around 180 kilometers each day. He had got inside of
around 400 kilometers from the end when, unfortunately, Auckland went into level two lockdown due
to COVID-19. He's had to put his challenge on hold for now which is a great shame.
Apparently, if it does go down to level one soon, he will be able to it may consider continuing
but Christ, what a shame? So close and obviously doing so well covering quite a distance each
day. We hope you can continue soon Kieran. Finally, from me on the news, I think we've
all got pretty used to events being cancelled. If you're anything like me, it's all become
a bit of a blur and I'm going to be honest, I have switched off to the news of cancelled
events but there was one event that we were really looking forward to here on GTN. It
was the Super League triathlon in Jersey. It was due to take place on the weekend of
the 20th of September. Now, simply due to the uncertainty of COVID-19, unfortunately,
Super League triathlon and the government of Jersey have decided to cancel the event.
Which is, obviously, a great shame. However, Super League triathlon have decided to launch
what they call their community challenge that is involving the community, the people living
on the island of Jersey to get involved in this challenge. They collectively have to
log 20 000 kilometres of either swimming, cycling, running or walking between the 1st
of September and the 20th September which would have been that race weekend.
If they manage to do that, RBC which is the Super League triathlon's title sponsor, will
donate £20, 000 to the charity Mine Jersey which is based in Jersey which is absolutely
awesome. Get going Jersey. [music]
Heather: Hey, guys. It's my turn now and guess what, Mark has let me loose on tech news.
Who'd have thought that? Well, today, we are going to start with a new shoe from Puma.
It's been designed with their MIT design lab and it's for active lifestyle and runners.
This new shoe is known as the Calibrate Runner. Puma have said they worked with MIT lab design
to look at individual running athlete specifics and figure out pressure points to then design
their structure. They're using a material called Xetik or Xetik and apparently the name
of that comes from Auxetic materials which are structures that have specific behaviors
when subjected to mechanical stresses such as compression.
Rather important when it comes to training. Now, these do look as though they've been
3D printed but it's foam as opposed to plastic and the result is a rather futuristic, funky-looking
shoe. Let's move on to goggles now. We're talking smart goggles and we're not talking
form. The brand called Vuzix which until now we have to admit we've missed, I don't know
if they've been out there a while or not but it's hard to find that much on their product.
It does seem that they are based mainly on using products that can help in the office.
It's all about projecting information and data onto glasses.
Well, they've used the technology from their smart glasses, their M100 glasses and taken
this over to the goggles and the great or the exciting part about it is it doesn't actually
have to come with a set goggles. It can be used in any goggles and apparently you can
even play videos as well. As to those long boring swim sessions, you could simply just
stick GTN on and drift off, plow up and down the pool whilst watching us. I'd love to try
them but they aren't cheap. That's all we've got at the moment, but apparently, they come
in at around $499 whereas Form would be around $199. Fairly high on the price point.
[music] Race news, it's just Ironman VR number 19.
This weekend, again, the athletes were swimming 500 meters cycling 40K with a 3K run to finish.
It was Lukasz Wojt who won the men's. He's a former Olympic swimmer. I just want to note
the time of 5 minutes 16 seconds to swim 500 meters. Basically, that's about a 103 per
100 for 5 in a row. Rather impressive. Second was Clay Emge and Derk de Korver was third
in the men's. Women's was won by Lenny Ramsey. Laura Zimmermann was second and Kinsey Laine
third. [music]
Okay, it's picture time and we're going to start things off with some swimming photos
sent in by Lana in St. Petersburg, Russia. I must admit when I saw these pictures and
the event, I went and looked it up. I might be entering next year. It looks amazing this
and she says, "Racing is finally back in our neighborhood. For three years, I was dreaming
of this event. This year, I made it by pure chance and completed the open water race in
the heart of Saint Petersburg, Russia." 2.3-kilometer course around the iconic Paul and Peter Fortress
and talk of iconic places to swim. Doesn't get much better than that, does it? Awesome
and wonderful pictures as well. Thanks, Lana, for sharing those. This next one's rather
impressive as well. It's sent in by Victor. It's a very nice coffee break during a group
ride bringing some cool air on these hot days. Now, this is from Neuhausen am Rheinfall.
I'm presuming that's in Germany. It looks like we've stopped in front of a big poster
or something. Lovely. Now, Simon, this one, we've got some brilliant
pictures this week. This one says, "Looking out into our beautiful garden." Now you need
a bit of imagination into Lego world. He says, "My daughter built some gym equipment for
her Lego Superstore. We added a smart trainer, purchased a home Paincave equipped with free
weights and a treadmill. Iron man training has begun." I mean you have to look closely
at that. That's impressive dedication and imagination. Love it. Finally, from Arthas.
Now, before you say anything, yes we have had this bike modification in before but Arthas
has actually gone to the trouble of showing all the modifications step by step after I
featured it, I think, it was a couple of weeks ago.
He says, "The DIY Speedmax modification on my Fuji Norcom 2.5 works great after some
modification of the height of the aerofoil." You can also see a bento box to hold things
you need for the ride. Yes, you need to take a closer look at this one. I did ask him at
the time how it was actually out on the road. Yes, looks like modification and it's all
there. Great stuff. A wonderful selection this week. Feel quite sport but whatever you're
up to, I know we're lacking races at the moment so use your imagination and share those photos
with us. You can do it using the uploader. You can find the link in the description below
or on screen now. [music]
It's cap-com time and you remember this photo we had last week. We've got four runners up
and a winner. Let's start things off with "Keep on Tri-ing." he says. "I guess the jelly
wasn't quite set." Len Wittrock, "You know it's going to be a long race when you realize,
too late, that you put on the wrong cap and goggles for the swim." HanzyBoii, "I guess
it's not too late to do the ice bucket challenge again, right?" Syko, "Water you looking at?"
Sorry, I didn't realize until I was reading that one. I like it. You got me. Our winner
of the GTN cap this week is Timothy Wharton. "I have got to get my sweat rate figured out."
Yes, you have. Well, on Timothy, to make sure you send your details in and we'll get the
cap sent out to you. This week, we have a bit of synchro-swimming
for you guys to share your wonderful captions on. Make sure you leave those suggestions
in the comments below. As we round up the show this week, there's still plenty more,
we've got a bit of a versus thing coming up this weekend as we have a challenge of swimmer
versus runner. Mark against myself. I'm not going to let you guys know who was doing which
but that's going to be a big one. We've also got paced versus non-paced. If you're looking
for some new items to spice up your wardrobe, we've got some brand new GTN casual T-shirts
with a little bit of a summer theme to them. Do check those out in the GTN shop. The link
is on screen now. Remember, you can give this video a like if
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videos at GTN. Before you go, a couple of videos you might like to take a look at. We
had a Zwift Cat and Mouse where Tim Don was chasing down the GTN team. You can find that
one just here. We've got number three in the series of Couch to 5K where I'm coaching Pepper
to a fast 5K and that is just down here. [00:13:50] [END OF AUDIO]