- Morning, Trainiacs, day three in Boulder, no, four?
Thursday in Boulder.
Now traditionally, when I travel, I dial back the work outs,
but here we are literality one exact month
away from Half Iron Worlds, so this is like peak time.
So I'm trying to keep the training as similar as possible.
It being Thursday here, that means two things.
Big swim, fast run, painful run.
Besides that though, we got some fun stuff planned today.
Have you heard of Triathlete Magazine?
I have.
I'm going to see Triathlete Magazine and more, Talbot Cox.
(upbeat music)
This swim footage is brought to you by Talbot Cox.
What did you just say?
Do you have a big one?
- I asked him if he had a big one
and I just meant like by memory card,
but your SD cards are bigger than mine.
- Yeah, yeah, right now I'm fine.
(upbeat music)
That was a very fun little encounter with Talbot,
but just an awful swim.
Altitude, travel, it all caught up to me there.
I pulled the pin after 2700.
I'm serious not joking, no no no.
Here, this is fun, Triathlon Taren SD card.
Talbot Cox SD card, stupid showy big SD card jerk.
(screech) Power stop.
So when I was first getting into triathlon,
the only magazine that I subscribed to
was Triathlete magazine.
Where do you think we're going right now?
This whole thing is just surreal.
Chatting with Julie Dibbens this morning,
getting photographed by Talbot Cox,
going to hang out with Triathlete Magazine, very thankful.
Outdoor media competitor, triathlete,
follow news, follow press, follow squad when running.
So we're cool, okay.
(upbeat music)
So this phenomenal book for strength training,
this from our pals at Purple Patch.
VeloNews, 1972, volume one.
Cold and rain marred New York openings,
Philips and Downin win training races.
All of the newspaper print from 1972.
Oh man, look at that helmet, I gotta get me one of them.
Right there, the first triathlon book I ever bought
now sits under my wheel while I cycle.
Here, probably the best triathlon book I ever bought,
even though according to Mark Allen, it's not true.
So behind me is the office for VeloPress,
Pocket Outdoor Media which is VeloNews cycling magazine,
VeloPress, which makes all kinds of triathlon
endurance running books, Triathlete Magazine,
Women's Running, Competitor Magazine?
Yes, I believe that's right.
Now, the reason that I want to come here is A,
because I don't know if you've seen,
but somebody that you know fairly well
was named one of the funniest people in triathlon.
I think they misplaced their Rolodex
of actual funny people, but this magazine here,
when I first got into triathlon,
it was the magazine that I found to be the most tactical,
whereas a lot of the other magazines just kinda talk about
like, I don't know, fluffy things in triathlon.
This triathlete magazine was much more tactical.
I could take it, I could apply it and actually use it
and help me with training, and then,
when I ended up actually starting Triathlon Taren,
I looked to this magazine, I was like,
"That is the model that you need to take.
You need to actually give people advice they can use."
So, I just took you for a little tour around the office here
and you might potentially, if I'm lucky,
see more of me in Triathlete Magazine or online
or perhaps at Kona, you never know.
It's neat here, they got everything here.
They got a giant poster of Taylor Finny taken right here.
Well, that was kinda nostalgic.
It's like being a beginner triathlete like,
"Oh, I remember that magazine, I remember that magazine."
Hope I can do more stuff with them, it's neat in there.
Nice people. I keep saying nice people.
Sport attracts nice people.
(upbeat music)
Well that, surprisingly, after
this morning swim didn't go so bad.
The main work chunk of it was seven 600 meter repeats
at under 10K race pace of 224 on the repeat
and a 90 second rest and I think I averaged two 19's.
What the heck?
This morning was just a complete disaster.
That wasn't so bad.
Is it thin Boulder air, is it?
Is it possible that I'm not as attractive as I think I am?
Also, remember what I said about
throwing a rock and being able to hit a pro triathlete here?
The racing major league triathlon in Vale this weekend,
just showing up casually.
Ran circles around me.
Whoa, in that sequence, also shot by Talbot Cox
who is hosting a pro triathlon panel later tonight,
guess who's MC?
First question, why won't you let Mets,
who is your boyfriend, you live with him,
start the Instagram channel Jeanie Sleeps?
- I don't know, I don't wanna (laughs) seem lame,
first of all, but maybe.
- Well, Justin is the person that everyone
wants in the apartment complex changing batteries
on all the fire alarms. (upbeat music)
Oh, that was pretty cool, that was fun.
It's late for me, it's just nine,
but I gotta say, okay, so Talbot Cox,
I met him Kona last year, that was when he exploded.
I'm an old dude and when I first met him I was like,
"This guy's quite the bro."
And we chatted a little bit over text
and like, Instagram, but this weekend
I have totally developed a bromance for the guy,
because he's super generous.
And for example, he took me by Tim and Rinny's place,
Miranda Carfray, Tim O'Donnel who he's good friends with
and they had a package outside,
meanwhile they're somewhere across the world racing,
and he was like, "Oh, I better go take that package inside
so it doesn't get ruined."
I'm like, "Dude, you're a generous guy."
So yeah, go subscribe to his channel.
Go subscribe to Gwen Jorgensen's channel,
which he helps run.
Go subscribe to Lionel Sanders channel,
which he helps now run.
Go subscribe to the Tim and Rinny show,
which he helps run.
Support the dude, he's good.
Later, Trainiacs.
Oh, and you are the Bonnie to my Clyde.