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- This is the GTN show.
- It's the first ever GTN show.
- Sounds pretty cool, doesn't it?
- It's very exciting.
- And for this first show,
we're going to be giving you a bit more of an insight
into what's coming up on this channel.
- So coming up on this show,
we have triathlon news, home-training setup,
caption competition, comments of the week,
and our first ever GTN poll.
- And Heather, I understand you've got something
quite exciting for us.
- Yeah I have.
I was really lucky and I got a chance to catch up
with one of the legends of our sport, Chrissie Wellington.
Now, I'm not going to give too much away just yet,
but she has got some great tips.
- I'm really looking forward to seeing that.
And we've been bowled over by the amount of comments
that we've had coming in and some really great ideas
including a few questions here.
Got one from Marco Marcos.
He's asked, are we planning on doing videos
on draft legal skills and racing?
And one from Kirk Shepherd,
are we going to be doing duathlon and aquathlon content,
and Cody Schroeder has asked,
are we going to include info on Xterra triathlons?
And the simple answer is yes,
we're going to be doing it all.
- We are.
Now as much as we are a triathlon channel,
we understand that there's a lot more to our event
than purely swim, bike, and run in that order.
So, we'll be looking at duathlons.
We're gonna be looking at some power triathlons,
off road events as well.
- And don't forget draught legal
versus non draught legal racing.
There's quite a lot really.
So we're gonna be making sure
there's something for everyone on this channel.
- Yeah and we might have still missed an event
so if there's anything that you want us to talk about,
just leave it in the comments section below.
- I also forgot, swim-run, one of my favourite events,
which I've actually dabbled with
a little bit in the past,
as you can see up on the wall.
- Right we've got another comment in.
This time, from Clare Jacqueline Scott, who says,
as a triathlon newbie, I'd welcome the same sort of
friendly and informative advice for beginners
that you provide on GCN.
Well Clare, don't worry, 'cause you're not alone.
We've actually had quite a few requests
for beginner content,
and we're gonna be covering all abilities of triathletes.
- Yeah we've got some great how-to videos
and some essential triathlon tips coming up on the channel,
which to be honest, I wish were around
when I first started triathlon.
And of course, we will be covering content
for all distances, from sprint right up to long distance,
and even for those guys doing some
wacky long endurance events.
- Now, do you know what, it would be
pretty quite nice to know what distance
our viewers actually like racing over.
- Yeah, that's a good idea.
So maybe, we should get a poll on it.
So, send in your answers by clicking on the poll
and select from sprint, Olympic distance,
middle distance, and long distance.
- Let's get started.
We're really privileged to get
Chrissie Wellington on our first show.
- I know, amazing.
She's a four times Ironman world champion,
so let's hear what she's got to say.
I am delighted to say that we are joined
by Chrissie Wellington,
the legendary four times Ironman world champ.
Now, Chrissie, I think everyone at the moment
is dying to know what you're up to at the moment.
- Well life has been busy since retiring in 2012.
Most importantly, we've had our daughter,
- Congratulations.
- Who is now 20 months old.
Personally, I've been doing quite a bit of running.
I'm focusing a lot more on running,
so I ran the London Marathon this year
and enjoyed the process of having a new goal
and decided to set myself
and an even bigger challenge and did my first ultra.
So I've done a couple of ultra marathons
since London in April.
And professionally,
I am working as global head of health and well being
for Parkrun, which I absolutely love.
Extremely passionate about combining
sport and development and physical activity
and I'm also publishing my new book in September,
which I'm nervous and excited about in equal measure.
- So you've certainly filled the gap
that triathlon has left pretty well?
- And more.
(Chrissie and Heather laugh)
- Now I've got a slightly personal question I guess
from my point of view, that I'm training for Kona.
It's going to be my first ever experience at Kona.
What advice would you have for me,
and for anyone doing something for the first time
like a big event like that?
- We were all beginners once.
You know, even pro athletes were beginners once.
So I would prepare for Kona as I would any other race.
Yes, it's very very important,
but don't get caught up in the hype of Kona.
Try and just focus on it as you would
an Ironman race.
Have a tailored, targeted programme
that is specific to you.
And do your research.
Know the course, know the conditions,
and do what you can to integrate preparation
specifically for that race
into your training.
Whether that's heat acclimatisation,
whether that's adjusting your nutrition to suit
those conditions.
Whether it's doing some hill climbing on the bike,
because the bike is quite lumpy,
so just really really knowing the course,
knowing the conditions.
And also finally, doing your preparation,
having your transport planned,
your equipment organised,
and your accommodation ready
so you don't want to be flapping around at the last minute
trying to put those finishing touches in place.
- And I guess that goes for any event.
- Any event.
Whether it's Kona or anywhere else,
but Kona is a very very special beast
and I'm really excited for you.
- Thank you.
- 'Cause I absolutely love it.
And that's the most important tip I can give of all.
(Heather laughs)
- Thank you.
Thanks Chrissie, brilliant stuff.
Chrissie is still involved in triathlon
and she's not competing,
but it has just been announced
that she's going to be captain
of this brand new event called the Collins Cup.
Now, it's a little similar to the Ryder Cup,
in fact, this time there's gonna be 3 teams.
So, one for Europe,
which Chrissie's captaining.
Then an American team and also a team
for the rest of the world.
- Yeah, I've been reading up on this.
So it's gonna consist of a 3k swim,
a 120k bike, and a 25k run.
And it's gonna form from the top pros in the world
six men and six women for each team
and it's quite an unusual format,
so it's gonna really throw it up in the air.
- Yeah it is.
There's a lot of attention building
and it's quite exciting,
but we do have to wait until next July
to find out the winning region.
I'm gonna put you on the spot, Mark.
Where's your money at?
- That's a tricky one and purely on the mens' side,
I'm going to be a little bit biassed
and say Europe.
- Mm okay.
- Basically, a lot of the top long distance athletes
tend to be from Europe.
We've got quite a strong German contingent.
That said, especially Australia,
there's some really fast guys out there.
- You can't spread your bets that thinly, come on.
- But over this unusual format,
I think they could bring in something
real exciting to the race.
- Yeah I mean, the womens' side
is looking European dominated at the moment.
The Collins Cup has actually devised
its own ranking and the top ten,
seven of them are Europeans right now.
That said, the event's not until next July
so a lot can change between now and then
as we know in triathlons.
So, it's sure to be exciting though.
- And moving on to race results from the weekend,
we had the inaugural Ironman Hamburg,
which James Cunnama absoutely crushed
by a whole 22 minutes on second place.
- I mean, that is just huge.
I don't know how he did it.
I mean Mark, I know you know him a little bit.
Have you got any idea how he managed
to smash what looks like quite a strong field?
- I'm sure he won't mind me saying,
a few years ago he maybe was on the low a little bit
and over the last year or so
he's really started to climb.
And I think that's through changing his coach
back to his previous coach who was Brett Sutton
and yeah it's going so well for him
so I really hope he has a good season,
especially Kona coming up.
- Exactly.
I guess that will be his next big race.
He's not gonna do anything big after that is he I'm sure.
Well on the womens' side again,
there was quite a dominant win.
It was Daniella Sammler of Germany
who won just a week after her 39th birthday
by over 15 minutes and she actually led from the swim.
So domination on both sides of the race actually.
- Really impressive.
We've got a question in from Cameron McKnight
and he's asked, when can we get some GTN kit for ourselves?
I would love some swim caps and some running gear.
And we've had loads of comments like this.
So this is your chance in our first GTN giveaway.
- It is.
If you want to win one of these swimming hats,
the first swimming hat in a giveaway,
then all you need to do is caption this picture.
- Okay. - Wow.
- Alright, you start us off Heather.
- I'm thinking something along the lines of,
"Gosh, Mark, you've let things go a little since retiring."
"That's one big spare tyre."
- Well maybe you could be a little bit nicer on me
and leave your captions in the comments below
and you could win the first ever GTN swim cap.
- Pretty cool.
- Next week, we'll announce the winner.
- I think I'm gonna choose.
- Obviously you won't be the first.
We have worn one before,
but you could be the first the first in the world
other than us.
- [Heather] Exciting, eh?
This week on social media,
we've been asking you to share
some of your home training setups.
We've had some great responses actually.
- Yeah and you can see ours.
This is our GTN setup where we're gonna be doing
some really hard sessions for you to see.
- Well let's have a look at what we've been sent in.
- [Mark] So first up we've got Raphael Audo.
- [Heather] Audo, oudo, I don't know.
- [Mark] He's got a pretty cool zwift setup here
on a Tacx Neo Turbotrainer
and he's got a screen in front of him,
keyboard beside him so he can keep in touch
with everyone he's riding with.
- [Heather] That's a big keyboard.
- [Mark] Yeah.
- [Heather] I'm liking the artwork on the chair.
- [Mark] Very nice, yeah.
Pretty pro setup.
- Well here we've got Robert Gundry.
This looks a little bit more rough around the edges
maybe than the last one.
Obviously proud of his race numbers.
- Yeah, I like that touch.
I mean, we've only got one up here,
but we definitely should take a bit of advice from him
and get a few numbers-
- I'm not sure what happened to 47 and 31 though.
(Mark laughs)
- [Mark] He's obviously got a few races
that he's completed over the years.
- [Heather] Yeah, good collection of medals.
Impressive Robert.
- And Ian Horne clearly has quite a good setup
with his bikes.
He's got two on the wall
and then one on his Tacx Turbotrainer.
- [Heather] They all look immaculate as well, don't they?
- [Mark] Oh, and check out the treadmill at the end
with a mirror in front so he can check his running form
whilst he's going.
- [Heahter] You never know,
he might just want to check that his hair looks okay.
Well thanks for sending those in.
We're a little bit nosy here,
so we love seeing what you've got set up at home.
Don't forget, if you haven't done so already,
send in your images with a #GTNpaincave.
- Like I said, we've had tonnes of comments
coming in this week,
so we've picked out three of our favourite comments.
So we've got from Jiho Park, he said,
Heather could probably arm wrestle all three
GTN presenters at once and still win.
I mean I hadn't noticed but you probably could.
(Heather laughs)
Some good guns there.
- Not actually quite anything compared to yours,
but anyway, next one, from Stephen Jones,
the mini series, no sorry, this is a suggestion,
a mini series following a newbie through training
for their first event.
Already seen Dan Lloyd doing a bit of running
on Strava, ideal candidate.
Well, keep an eye on that one.
- Yeah, we might have something that will please you there.
And finally, the one that made us chuckle the most.
- Oh yeah.
- And because it made us chuckle the most,
'cause it's our first GTN show,
we're gonna give away a t-shirt to Matt Dion
who brought us something that's quite obvious
but I hadn't really thought about it.
He said, funny that their names have 'fall'
and 'fell' in them.
- I know, there's a scope for so many jokes on that.
- Hopefully we don't live up to those stereotypes.
So Matt, please send in your details.
Just message us on Facebook.
- And we'd love to hear more comments,
so keep them coming in the section below.
- Coming up on the channel over the next week,
on Thursday we have how to run like a pro.
- On Friday, we have the top nine
essential triathlon skills.
- When we're training in the pool,
we have the tiles and the lines on the floor
to follow and keep us going in the right direction,
but out here in the great outdoors,
we lose our guide or our satnav
so that's where sighting becomes
an essential triathlon skill.
And on Saturday we have a double whammy for you.
We have Alistair Brownlee's pro bike
and an Alistair Brownlee interview.
- On Sunday, we've got a feature
to see which is faster on a climb,
a TT bike or a road bike.
- I'm gonna be riding as hard as I can
for two efforts up San Salvador.
The first, on the P5X
and the second on the Cervelo S5.
On Monday, I've got my ultimate TT bike setup video for you.
- On Tuesday, we've got the lamp post interval run session.
- And on Wednesday, we are back here for the GTN show.
- And we've got some exciting news.
The GTN shop has just gone live
and we're taking pre orders,
so if you like the look of this kit,
then click on the shop link.
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