Before Canada's Beast from the East, Lionel Sanders burst on the scene, Penticton, BC's Jeff Symonds was one of a few Canucks rocking the long course triathlon world with a third at the 2011 70.3 World Championships, a Jens Voigt-like win at the 2013 Challenge Penticton, and of course the Kona Pedal Caper of 2015.

Jeff's been building steam here in BC over the past few weeks, winning The Cherry Blossom Triathlon in Kelowna and the Bare Bones Duathlon in Penticton. This week he's on Vancouver Island looking to make it three in a row at what I think (?) is Canada's first open-water tri of the season, the Westwood Lake Triathlon, near Nanaimo.

Jeff's got a full-season of big races ahead of him, including a possible return to Kona. With a Lange-like run and an improving bike (and hopefully free of crank issues) could 2018 be the Year of Ugly? Hear about Symonds return to form, a rehash of those classic getting ugly moments, his disappointing lack of any bad food habits, and of course his answer to the Fitspeek Eternal Question, "if you could be an animal, what would it be?" It's all on Fitspeek 35 at http://www.fitspeek.com

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