I have no idea how the app works. Looking at the web site, it sounds (to me) like there are organized Q&A sessions where the athlete is invited and the public asks questions, rather than I wake one morning and ask Jan what he's having for breakfast today.

Maybe they pay the athletes for the Q&A session ?

Well Iden isn't on the list of people for the app. And Jan has replaced the link for his sgrail race with an any questions link. I think the slow response is for changeover is probably the people who do their own social stuff and actually don't know their way around their profile.

I think what's telling are Jan's German fans writing paragraphs in German telling him this is a horrible idea.

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Washed up footy player turned Triathlete.

Avoiding crashes, handling safely and descending fast are one of the skills you might need. Sounds like you never rode a bike for real, so you might want to start with clipping in and out of the bike tho...

Well, in the meantime, I am really enjoying Lionel over on Discord, way more than I thought I would. He is having full on conversations. I can't believe that it is free.

Does anyone remember the "Which of these is not like the other," questions in grade school?

Example: Which of these is not like the others: Banana, Apple, Orange, football?

Oh I was playing the who on this list took Bahrain Money game: Frodeno, Luis, Hoffman, Kanute, Appleton, Don. . .

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Washed up footy player turned Triathlete.

Reading comprehension bro?

Ah, I didn't see that. Thanks for the link! I only saw what Marcag quoted and I thought Gustav's post on strava was "taking the piss" as if he wasn't going to be involved.

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Washed up footy player turned Triathlete.

I had exactly the same thing go through my head. Then I had the stupid song stuck in my head for an hour. Then I youtubed it, then I got stuck on Count Von Count and it went down hill from there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsRjQDrDnY8

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What you don't know is that this is a three year old thread that was resurrected yesterday..
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I replied to the following statement "Cycling = push on the pedals and steer Do you think "technical" means it has mechanical parts and numbers associated with it?" And I fully disagree, riding different terrains and with more people involve more skills than you think. But if you're e riding straight ahead on flat with no cars nor traffic, nor turns and only smooth tarmac or on zwift then is purely push the pedals....

Ah yes, I see you are a new poster so it makes sense now - you were replying to a comment from a different poster that I had quoted. That is why the comment was in my post inside a box with another username at the top - I didnt write that.

AHA! sorry, my bad as a newbie here....also my bad to comment on a 3 year old thread...

No worries, welcome

Everyone is bent out of joint that a former college runner, who did a 2;21 marathon while working in his post college career and kept up some semblance of fitness afterwards recently quit work and took up tris full time and vaulted to the mid 8 hour range, which is seeminly remarkable compared to the rest of us training or asses off for years and getting no where near those abilities. But very few of us were 2:21 marathon guys either, so while it's not impossible that the guy is doped (in that case he'd be like many 40 somethings in California), its also possible that he's a genetic mutant compared to most of us and if he took up tris in his 20's he'd be like Lionel Sanders (from what I gather he was a faster college runner than Sanders was)


Yup.

2:21 means you HAVE TO have some legit Endurance Capacity and have done a HUGE amount of work to get there. That's not something you do on a whim!

People would ask me regularly, why I was reasonably good at triathlon and achieved a moderate amount of success at it? A 31:00 10K, and 15:00 5K, before I ever got into triathlon was a HUGE reason. Before I did my first triathlon at 21 - I had been running at a high level for 6 years!! I was lucky that I seemed to be a bit of a natural on the bike - but I was always a lousy swimmer!! :-)

The funny thing I find about guys like Ed Baker, and Dev you can relate to this, is people like him made insane amounts of money, in Tech Start-Ups years ago - early-in with some key companies and then out, and now, barely even middle-aged, and they are already essentially retired from any kind of regular job, and doing whatever they want to do. More power to them, I guess! :-)

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Steve Fleck @stevefleck | Blog

Steve, why are you replying to Dev's post from 3 years ago, lol?

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Washed up footy player turned Triathlete.

Steve, why are you replying to Dev's post from 3 years ago, lol?


That's a great question (AnyQuestion!!) and I am the dummy here! :-)

I did not check the dates, on the original post, and I just assumed since Ed's name had been in the news a good amount this week with the launch of the AnyQuestion App, I thought it was a recent thread!

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Steve Fleck @stevefleck | Blog

Ed stated he had no interest in going pro on Greg Bennett's podcast saying it's not something guys do in their 40's. Interested since he's gone 3:48 and 3:58 in his last couple 70.3's winning by 12 and 9 minutes.