- Welcome to the GTN show brought to you by Amp Human.
Now it is only the start of the year.
But we've already spotted the chance to
take off one of our predictions and
this news in itself can actually spark a
band within the running industry.
- Yes and then bringing things back
to all things try related.
We've also got news of the very anticipated arrival
of travels equivalent to the Ryder Cup.
Plus the news, a former Tour de France champion
might decide to do an Ironman in his home country
in the not too distant future.
And of course, we'll have all of our favorites too.
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- I expect you notice that we had
a new logo at the start of the show.
Well, that is because we have a
new partner for our weekly show for this year.
I'm delighted to say that we're working with Amp Human.
- Yet and this is essentially sodium bicarbonate
that has been packed into a topical lotion
now from honest so bicarbonate was not something
that I ever used when I was training or racing.
But I did speak to quite a few
other athletes who did dabble in it.
And the one thing that I do remember picking up
was that by using sodium bicarbonate,
you could get some tummy distress and
that it would be all because you're taking on orally.
- Yeah, so the squad that I actually trained
with used quite a lot and a mark that as well,
and it does buffer that lactic acid,
but you've kind of got to play with
that risk of upsetting your stomach.
Whereas the guys Amp Human have actually found
a way to get the bicarb into a fatty substance
that your skin can then actually absorb.
So in a sense, you can get the same benefits
without having to risk the stomach problems.
- Yeah, and if that means that you're
able to recover a bit quicker because you're
not as sore than that's pretty impressive.
And I'm definitely intrigued to give this
a go for any upcoming races that we might
be getting yourselves involved with and
certainly for trading day to day.
So being are you looking forward to let
you guys know exactly how we find this
and of course being able to get you
guys involved in trying some as well.
So we are increasingly seeing a trend
where elite world class runners are quite
literally racing and shoes giving them
a spring to their step and Nike have
very much been at the forefront
of this trend in recent times.
They started this trend with the Vaporfly 4%
and then we saw their next percent
shoe coming not too far after that,
but most recently we saw Eliud Kipchoge breaking
that sub-two iron barrier at Vienna using the
latest prototype the Nike have created and
that is called their AlphaFly which does seem
to even though be trickling into
their other elite athletes.
- Yeah, however, some eagle eyed viewers
of the Houston marathon spotted
a different prototype from a
major brand rival Adidas now,
we don't know much more about it because it
was just a blaring images and it is a prototype.
But it's about time we saw something come
up from from that major German player.
- Yet and the concept of carbon plated shoes
hasn't necessarily been a new development.
In fact, over recent months and even longer,
we've seen releases from pretty much every one
of the major shoe companies now getting in on
this act and even in our own sport.
We've definitely seen quite an influx of
this With the likes of Nike and
all their various models being any widely available,
we've also seen a lot of the Hoka models too.
And this was really noted at the
corner camp just last year because
there was a load of those shoes available.
And it was quite widely noted that the
men's winner young Ferdino had a sort of
prototype from his shoe company ASICs
- Yeah, it's been surprisingly,
that added so taken so long to come up
with this rival to Nike, and it's exciting.
And now the shoe industry really is starting to explode.
Whether we're going to see all the
shoes that are on the market with a carbon plate.
- Yeah, I suppose it just started to
guess think I mean,
should the IWA really know be
starting to step in and go?
Wait a minute, I think we need to stop this
tipping point and the ball rolling too far
and stop the improvements in technology.
I mean, is this something that is
really impacting world records and
PBS across the board that if you aren't getting
a set of one of the shoes to run in?
There's no point in even taking part?
- Yeah, it's pretty tough.
If you're sponsored by a shoe company that don't have it.
I mean, I don't know where that leads you,
but there have been some rumors that these
shoes are starting to get scrutinized.
And there's even rumors that a panel have
been set up to have a look at this and
maybe something's going on behind the scenes,
we don't know, because it could be
labeled as mechanical doping.
And, you know, maybe this shouldn't be allowed.
We're going to have to find out I think--
- One final note, we do remember the
Beijing Olympics and the laser suits and swimming, don't we?
I mean, how many world records got broken with--
- A brick wall record by wall one?
- Exactly. And I bet you were delighted us at the time.
But--
- Pretty base but yeah all caps.
But anyway, that leads us on to this week's poll.
We want to know if you guys think that this
shoes should be banned if they do
actually count as mechanical doping.
So our question is should carbon plate shoes
be banned by the IAAF simple yes or no?
And you can bet on that by
just clicking up here on the pole.
- Yeah, and that takes us on to the
results from last week's poll.
When we asked you will also Branly be able to
qualify for the Tokyo Olympic games as well.
Our results are pretty unanimous.
You guys, we've got a lot of faith.
Yes, 93% of you have said that he
will qualify for the Great Britain team.
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So moving on to try news now and
our first topic is the PTO,
which is the Professional Triathletes Organization.
Now we have been hearing from them
for quite some time that they will
be bringing us a Ryder Cup style competition
to the sport track or that they're
going to call the Colin's cup.
Well, this is supposed to happen in 2018,
and then they move it forward to 2019.
And then it was spawned yet again,
but we can finally announce that they
are going to be giving this event scheduled date
of 29th, the 30th of May, and that is going
to be at the x-bionic sphere in Slovakia,
which is where we are familiar with
having seen the challenge championship
happening for a number of years now.
- Yeah, now they've been pretty busy.
They've managed to find a prize purse of $2 million.
So it's going to attract the top
international athletes there's going to
be three teams, which will consist of
one from Europe, one from USA and
then the rest of world which they're
actually labeling as international and
each team is made up of 12 pros.
So six men six women, eight of which will
be automatically selected from the
PTS only world ranking.
And then there's other four.
So two men, two women will then be selected.
- Yeah, and then the race format is
again following that sir Ryder Cup match play
type situation where you've got one athlete
from each of those teams America versus
Europe versus International,
each being a match set up.
And the team captains that will be for each
of these teams will be able
to select on a rotating basis,
the first pick which will set up each match.
So for example, America might get the first pick
and then Europe might get the picks first
for the second match, and so on and so on.
And that dictates how the other captains
are decide to tactically match up
the athletes against each other.
Each match is going to go in 10 minutes,
staggered intervals, and this is going
to be over a half Ironman distance.
Now the captains are going to be able
to communicape directly with the
athletes who are on the racecourse.
They're going to be able to interact with
metrics like their heart rate and
their power and their pace, apparently,
and this is all going to be accessible by
the live audience that are watching as well in real time.
So I guess this is a completely new
experience for us as viewing traffic.
- Yeah, I think (mummers) as well.
I would definitely love that it gives you
better insights you often hear some of the
pros can be a bit cagey with their numbers
and we'll get to see them.
It's that's pretty cool.
And I mean, it's a shame it's taken this
long to actually come to fruition,
but well done to the PTO for sticking
to their commitment that they made,
they said, we're going to make it happen.
And not only that, they found a
significant financial backer, too.
- Yeah, and it is really only the name of
them sticking to what they said they would provide,
which has a brand new platform for athletes
to race in and of course,
for an audience to be able to watch as well.
So looking forward to seeing this
finally kicking off this summer and hats off to PTO.
- Two AA batteries wouldn't be enough to
power any of us to a triathlon.
But if we were 17 centimeters tall
and made of plastic, then we might have a chance.
I haven't gone entirely mad.
It's Panasonic, you've actually come out with
a robot called Mr. Evolta Neo is made of plastic,
and he's going to actually take on
the Tokyo Olympic triathlon course this summer,
though he's cheating a little bit
because there were three of him.
So there's one specifically for the swim and
the bike and the run on top of that
he's only doing 10% of the course
but probably Apparently, it's because he's 10%
of the size of the average human so--
- I'm glad that clears that up.
So starting to get a little bit threatened Mr. Neo there.
So a good word from him.
Now, moving on slightly, we all got a
little bit excited when we heard that
former Tour de France champion might be
giving traffic on a go well,
there is some truth to matter.
But let us explain it is Geraint Thomas,
who has alluded to the fact that he's more
than happy to be a professional cyclist for
at least another four years or so as he is going,
but he is in California at the moment.
As we mentioned in last week's show,
he's training with Cameron Wurf and he did
an interview with Bob barber.
And he explained that after he's finished racing his bike,
he is very happy to give our main goal and
have another goal down the line.
And we're better to start then as home Armaan and 10B
and I can only agree with him because
it is definitely a cracker race
- yeah, he said that it was one that's obvious,
not only for being a high but also being
really tough bikers that give him more.
I mean, you've written it.
- Yeah, he's going to have a cracking race there.
But obviously if you were to read years of
doing laps of France in the summer before that.
So there's some news from Zwift and there
is now an even easier way to use the Zwift app
or running feature.
Because up until now, you definitely had
to use a footboard or you needed to be
lucky enough to use a smart treadmill.
Well, there's now a new tracker device
on conjunction with an app that allows you to
not have to worry about those things.
It's a device that just sits on the treadmill
and it can measure the speed of
the beltless running underneath it.
So that obviously eliminates that need for football,
and essentially creates your standard treadmill
into an all singing all dancing smart treadmill.
And this can also measure your cadence
and it also can track the incline of the treadmill too.
So now you're going to have all of
those features that you could have
had from a smart treadmill.
- Yeah, pretty cool.
Well sticking with with last week,
I did promise to give you a more thorough update
and what happens next was with traffic on Academy,
and we've obviously all had that deadline
if you are doing it like me to complete
the six bike workouts four round workouts
and the two races so hard work done for us.
Now's where you've got to do a lot of
hardware because they have a huge amount
of data to sift through.
And again to contact,
those actually capch their eye and
look out for some swim data, because obviously,
that's not been included and also race performance.
And then I think get to know a
few characters a little bit more to
see if they work in the team,
then they're going to bring it down to
a long list of 50 of those 50.
I think the people will be asked to do
a sort of a video kind of piece about themselves
and then followed up for further interview.
And then they hope to reduce that down to
10 to 12 for some further interviews,
so that they can select the six best
amateur athletes that they feel will
actually represent the traffic on Academy.
So we should see these individuals announced
and just over a month's time,
and then later on in the spring,
hopefully we'll get to see them out in
action at the swift HQ where they go
on their training camp,
when they get all things for, you know,
the wind tunnel testing and
all expert coaching and equipment and everything.
So hopefully GTM will get to go along to that
and we'll be able to share it with you.
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- Right so now it's that time where we
have a look at those pictures that you
very kindly sent in and on that note please
do keep sending send pictures of your
pain cave if you've got anxiety you love
to get them it's always really interesting
to see all the setups that you guys have at home.
So first we've got Drew and he is
very lucky to be in Denver, Colorado.
So his and pink cave is one he said
I've built in November before the
winter completely took over here in Denver.
I'm very happy I did because it's great
for strength sessions and yoga and
the light now he's got his Canyon speed Max,
he said that that's not a speed match there.
It's a canyon endurance.
I think it's his road bike.
So it should really check that before I read it--
- Its probably has a speed--
- Also space for Gemini, so great.
So you're taking your conditioning work seriously, too.
- Yeah, and he's got a very cool poster up there.
The LA Olympic Games, which I think is really cool,
whether he was there or whether that
means something to him.
But yeah,--
- The other picture he sent in this little person.
- Yeah, I know the little person did make me smile.
- Yeah. Other bits we're using today is
from Calum and it's a walk bike atom to give it away Fraser.
- Here Well, there's a little bit of a Scottish leg--
- He is Scottish - Sees from a boy thanks girl.
But he's got quite an ingenious little setup there.
He says I'm just using an old iPhone
to have my Zwift setup and then
I've got my own four and four and
watching GTN on the legs as well.
So yes, yeah, good work.
We love getting pictures in from you guys
that shows a whole array of everything you're
getting up to in your traffic life,
whether it be your (mumuers) kids,
whether it be you racing,
all sorts of stuff, right?
- Yeah, we're pretty nosy so do share those
and you never know you might see them
get shared on our show on Instagram, Facebook,
or any of our social channels.
- Yeah, and you can upload those onto
the link that is down there below.
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Sprite, so now it's time for
our caption competition.
And the picture from last week as we
alluded to was somebody with a little bit
of a Death Stare as they're standing there
in the beach towards the water for the
imminent race start going.
So we had a few interesting caption then interesting waited,
- We did yes ,one Phil Paterson here.
That moment when they announced
the water temperature, that's me
- I know that feeling a runner up comes
from Jaap Koetsier says he says likely
loch leg's monsters wasn't spotted.
spotted yeah
- To get that you have to watch a
scene last week's caption and
had Fraser talk about the Loch Ness Monster But anyway,
it was a nice win but in the enough of
you would get it so our winner is Luke Alexander
with the caption, no one can tell
I'm pinging my wetsuit out Oh wait, no.
Which is quite good.
- So on that note, we're going to be getting you a cap.
So again get in touch and let us know
all your details so that we can get
one of those sent off to you.
- Yeah, and this week's caption picture comes
from Ironman Arizona and well go for the
I think this guy is going for the all
important power ups
- Very cute, isn't it is whether it's
the sun maybe I don't know or--
- I guess its the supporter
- I mean, it's a really cool
- Have you ever got a power up in a race before.
- I think I have always try and
give just always try and high five the
kids not sure whether I remember kids
having a period I mean,
- As a having a certain age group you
do definitely get some gray signs on the
side of it which give you quite a lot of
energy and the power ups I kind of feel I
have to like I got to be superstitious and
if I pass it then I'll run out of power.
But anyway, sorry, I digress.
Do let us know your caption suggestions
in the comment section below.
Well, that might be a wrap for this week's show.
But there is still plenty more coming
up on GTN we've got a video with on
the best speed running workout
- Yeah, and how to buy your first entry level tribe.
- I got one I had to deal with the stage
basically loads going on.
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- Yeah, and if you want to see some videos that
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and you can find that here.
- It wasn't me personally was it but now maybe
another video on treadmill mistakes
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Check it out.