IMTALK EPISODE 284

News: ITU World Champ and IM Florida results and The IMTalk Kona Lottery. 

This Weeks Discussion: Now that WTC have officially announced the new lottery system what do you guys and girls think about it. If you don't like it what would you do differently. Comment here. Remember that you can get video of 'A Very Dark Place' at www.thesufferfest.com

This Weeks Photo: Iron Ron Zappendorf's family completed a triathlon day together. Here's a photo of the kids with there supporters signs. 

Age grouper of the week: JM Storton sent through Erin Holmes for this weeks age grouper. Erin managed to win her age group at IM Canada and qualify for Kona. As well as doing this she managed to be the first swimmer, including the pros, out of the water. She went on to have a great Kona race as well. 

Website of the week: James 'The Wiseone' Bowtell send through this weeks websites. They are all about all about aero positions. Check out them here: Site 1, Site 2, Site 3, Site 4. 

IMTALK EPISODE 283 - Brian Roddy

News: ITU Long Distance Camps this weekend, IM Florida coming up, the great Kona IMTalk Auction for CAF, Exreme Tri for Scotland and Johns ITU update. 

This Weeks Discussion: If you were to lose 30mins of training each week and use this time to identify how you could improve as an athlete what do you think you would come up with. Oh yeah, also what was your highlight from Kona. Comment here. 

This Weeks Photos: Cormac 'Mightyduck' Ryan sent through this great shot with him wearing his IMTalk jersey with the Brownlee boys. 

Age Grouper of the Week: Iain sent through David Bartlett through for AGOTW. David had a great race at Regensbury with a 9:50 but what was really special about his race was that he was the first athlete out of the water, in front of the pros, in a time of 46:41. Check out the photo to see how happy he was. 

Interview: This week we have an interview with Brian Roddy from Rolf Prima about wheels selection. Check out www.rolfprima.com for lots of great wheels.

This Weeks Website: The swim challenge, DCRainmakers piece about the cancelations of some 5150 races. Check out Mark Tickner website and new book at www.coach4tri.com. 

IMTALK EPISODE 282 - Justin Daerr

News: Our Kona wrap up, Challenge cancels it's South Africa race, Bridgetobattleship is happening this weekend.

This Weeks Discussion: Chrissie is now 34 years old and she has won four Ironman World Championships in Kona. Bevan is wondering if you think that she'll be able to beat Paula's record of 8 Kona wins? Comment here

This Weeks Photos: James Bowtell posing with his brothers in law at Steelhead. 

Interview: We have an interview with Justin Daerr about speed training for Ironman. Check out the camps that Justin and the team at Endurance Corner, www.endurancecorner.com

IMTALK 2011 KONA SUPER SPECIAL PART 6 - Pro Media Conference

This is the last of the 2011 Kona Super Specials. In todays shoe we have the post race media conference. 

 

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IMTALK 2011 Kona Super Special Part 5 - WTC's CEO Andrew Messick, Lots of Pros and Age Groupers

Today we have an interview with WTC's CEO Andrew Messick where he announces exclusive news about Ironman Kona. 

It was a big day yesterday as we were out there right from the start getting interviews with both age groupers and pro athletes. We managed to catch up with just about all of the top pros post race. They gave great insight into their races.

We hope you enjoy the show. Make sure you spread the word by retweeting or posting about on facebook or your favorite forums. 

The Kona Super Special are brought you by: 

Donating Listeners, Endurance Sport Travel, O2Creation, Lava Java, Audio-Technica and our regular sponsors,Coffees of Hawaii, Extreme Endurance and Athlinks.com.