IMTALK EPISODE 338

News: Challenge Family confirmed a new race in Italy and they are taking over Phuket, Results from Hits Palm Springs, IMWA is coming up, Chrissie has retired, Change in the drafting rules.

This Weeks Discussion: One of the pros from Team TBB came up with the idea of starting the pros later in the day at IM races. For example the pros would start at 12pm and then they would finish around 8pm when the crowds would be at their biggest. What do you guys think about this? What's the good and bad of this idea? Comment here.

This Weeks Photo: This weeks photo is of Frank McVeigh and Jeff 'The Explosion' Curry in their cool IMTalk gear at the Tri Limits Duatlon at An Creagen in Northern Ireland last weekend. 

Age Groupers of the Week: This week we have two age groupers. Jason Lentzke sent through his wife Jennifer who won the Hits IM distance race last weekend as an age grouper. Plus Don Ferguson send through Dave Orlowski. Dave competed in the first IM in 1978 where he got third. He's still racing and he's aiming to complete in every IM in the world over the next 5 years! Don says he's a great guy as well. 

High 5: Matt 'The Peaceful Tri Ninja' sent through this weeks High 5 on tips to get out of bed to train in the morning. 

Website of the Week: James 'The Wiseone' Bowtell sent through this fun site about doping. Check it out here: www.sorryidoped.com.

Coaches Corner: John give an update to his Project 2014 plan to date.

 

IMTALK EPISODE 337 - Andrew Starkowitz

News: Results from Ultraman and IM Cozumel, Challenge Family adds Challenge Vitoria, More Kona slots for IM Germany, Coming up races.

This Weeks Discussion: John wants to know if there are any good vegetarian cook books out there? If you know of any good blogs you can add them in there as well. Hopefully we'll be able to feed John for a few weeks ;-) Comment here. 

This Weeks Photo: Peter Thaus wore his IMTalk tri suit to get a 17min PB at 70.3 Shepparton. Love his work. 

Interview: This week we have an interview with Andrew Starkowitz. He broke the bike course record at IM Florida in a time of 4:04! Plus he shares a little bit about his experience at Abu Dhabi Tri. Check out his site here where you can get his book. 

High 5: Tim Heming sent through this weeks High 5, how to run half marathon dressed up as a squirrel. Check out his piece here. 

Coaches Corner: John talks about The China Study, a topic that he found very interesting. 

IMTALK EPISODE 336 - Jason Langston

News: Macca heading to Challenge Wanaka, IM Arizona results, IM Cozumel and Ultraman are coming up, Ali Brownlee is doing the Abu Dhabi Half.

This Weeks Discussion: Mark Johnston sent through this weeks discussion. It's a simple one, what is your most dreaded session and why? Comment here

This Weeks Photo: The boys with Randy Barron in Kona. 

Website of the Week: Andrew Johnson from Triumph Training has a strength training book for triathletes. Click here to get the book. 

Interview: We have an Jason Langston from 2helpthem.com. Jason has just completed 48 Ironmans in four months! In todays show he shares a few stories about his experience. 

This Weeks Websites: Guys Kona Pack, Girls Kona Pack.

IMTAlk EPISODE 335 - Marilyn McDonald

News: IM Arizona is coming up, Results from Hits, Challenge Henley has problems, Get your IMTalk Kona T-Shirt, John's ITU update, Whitfield and Rana going long, Triathlete gets done for drugs, F1 Tri.

This Weeks Discussion: Brent Campbell sent through this weeks discussion. For those of you that have gotten over a rut or period where you were over trained, how do you do it? Comment here. 

This Weeks Photo: Bevan interviewing The Admiral in Kona. 

Age Grouper of the Week: James Thomas sent through this weeks age grouper: Brett Titus. After having a bad bike crash at IM Wisconsin he continued on to complete the race in a time in 11:00:52 to get 7th in the 50-54 age group. 

Interview: Today we have Marilyn McDonald from Endurance Corner. This week she covers the importance of routine and creating your own team. Remember that you can check out more of her great work at Endurance Corner. 

Interview: We have Al from Yoga Sync on the show talking about their cool yoga website that lets you put together your own workouts based on your own needs. Click here to check it out: www.yogasync.tv. Here are the discount codes, Gold Plan: imtalkg, Platinum Plan imtalkp 

This Weeks Websites: Get your IMTalk Kona T-Shirt, The Henley vote for the Challenge Race. 

IMTAlk EPISODE 334

News: Starykowicz kills the Florida ride, Results from IM Florida, Vineman to auction for NY fundraisers, John's ITU update, Tim Don's thoughts on Olympic Tri, Hitz Lake Havasu is coming. 

This Weeks Discussion: With what happened at Miami 70.3 last weekend, we were wondering what your solution would be to fix drafting? Also if people are clearly cheating on purpose should there be stronger penalties, if so what should they be? Comment here. 

This Weeks Video: Here's a clip that got made about Bevan and his world. 

High 5: James 'The Wiseone' Bowtell sent through this weeks High 5, how to put out a bogus time. 

Coaches Corner: John is coming back to IM! In this weeks show he shares his plans for the next couple years. 

Website of the Week: Graeme Stewart has created a cycling nutrition on his website, you can check it out here: www.graemestewart.com

This Weeks Websites: Vineman, Tim Don's thoughts on ITU, Paul Ryan Marathon Calculator.