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The Return of Ugly: The Jeff Symonds Interview
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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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Last edited by: Hydrosloth: May 18, 18 18:54
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Re: The Return of Ugly: The Jeff Symonds Interview [Hydrosloth] [ In reply to ]
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I was looking at the entries for the Westwood race and I saw Jeff's name. Pretty cool.

Weather is a lot better this year. Our lake is already mid 60's and swimming great so I expect little Westwood to be the same temp (it was last year - but in the mid 50's deg F)

1500M should go pretty quick. The bike is pretty much hills @ 44 km? and then two laps 10-11km around the lake trail running.

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Re: The Return of Ugly: The Jeff Symonds Interview [SharkFM] [ In reply to ]
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It was an awesome day for the race yesterday. Lots of fast racers just hammering this course.


Jeff ran a 19:29 10K to win it :O
<https://www.sportstats.ca/...6&status=results

Race looks like this (my battery died, like me in the run). I need to get a pinch-hitter for the run for next year. It was pretty painful, even risky. Too early in the season for me.







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Re: The Return of Ugly: The Jeff Symonds Interview [SharkFM] [ In reply to ]
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That run course has teeth to it. It took a bite out of me while I was zoned out going down the first hill of the second lap. Thank goodness for endorphins to take the sting out of the trail rash. Other than Symonds "mystery time" there were no sub 40 minute runs. That says somethings.

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Re: The Return of Ugly: The Jeff Symonds Interview [Hydrosloth] [ In reply to ]
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Thanks for sharing Hydrosloth! Great interview with the one and only Getting Ugly Symonds.
Interviewer from fitspeek was good too, asking solid, insightful questions. I was wondering about Jeff, after a couple of years of unfortunate injuries and tough luck following his remarkable IM win in Australia it is great to see him training great and racing fast in BC. Keep an eye out for him in his A race this season IM Canada. He said if he recovers well enough he will do IM Mont Tremblant, but his focus and training is aimed at IM Canada. Will definitely be rooting for Jeff.
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Re: The Return of Ugly: The Jeff Symonds Interview [SharkFM] [ In reply to ]
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19:29 10k. Why is he doing triathlons? I'd just stick to the track. :D
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Re: The Return of Ugly: The Jeff Symonds Interview [Hydrosloth] [ In reply to ]
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It was nice to meet you on Sunday. It's great to have a local voice for triathlon in our community.


It was good to see Jeff out there racing at Westwood this weekend - even if he did put the boots to me!
It's always great to get the opportunity to race someone at that level and I'd love to see more pros jumping into local races as training days when it permits for them.

I thought maybe I could try to reel him in a bit on the bike on Sunday after a decent swim for me, but it wasn't to be. That bike course is very unforgiving when the legs aren't there and it's tough trail run to boot. Good to see him firing on all cylinders and I look forward to watching him race at Vic 70.3 and Whistler and maybe getting another crack at him in Cultus ;)

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Re: The Return of Ugly: The Jeff Symonds Interview [rj_tri] [ In reply to ]
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Well they correct Jeff's times which are cooking. Here are your comparison #'s relative to the P1 scores.

Swim 966
Bike 960
Run 924

Against his times, your swim /bike are strongest.

Formula is simple P1 time/Your time *1000 = relative score.

I've been riding all week then rode out to UBC yesterday and punted out a low 50's 10K. I just needed some riding under my belt, something I will do ahead of time for next year.

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