there were good spots in the course to move from the bike to the run course in the space of probably 200 metres max.
Laura Madsen coach (and in the men’s race I saw Antonio Benito’s brother) was in this perfect spot, he would see her twice per lap and then moved to the run course incredibly easily, they weren’t 3km apart (especially as the furthest point of the run course from the Excel was roughly 1.5km away).
Talbot’s point on viewers is ludicrous and copied across by someone on this forum that incorrectly stated that the total audience of the race is 5000 when it is geoblocked pretty much everywhere. You can watch on eurosport, tnt sports, pto website. I appreciate you tried to stop him, but then Pat just let it slide as Talbot was just shouting this nonsense.
Ironman races are not visible on tv on Eurosport unlike what he said.
Every single time Mark is not there Talbot goes nuts.
I guess they knew that not too many people would come so they preferred to keep people together to maximize impact in certain spots. Just makes for odd tv when you see pros running their hearts out and literally no one is at the sideline. Not every race can be Roth but wishing that T100 succeeds in boosting local community support and gets fans cheering to make a great broadcast product in the first place. Just compare football stadiums during COVID to how it was before or after (lousy comparison but you get the drift perhaps).
This is what you got from the podcast and thought so much inaccuracies? I think you maybe just don’t like us and that’s okay. Not everyone is going to like us or our podcast.
But to Talbot’s pov, do we think there are even 6 figures worth of viewers in areas that YT blocked? Even IM back in the day when they were doing it “free” on the FB live broadcast (which wasn’t geo-blocked) would have less than 40k total viewers at any time. I think his *greater point is that…5k viewers from the US market from 1 viewing platform—it ain’t good bob.
I think everything else was great. I think Pat covered the race pretty well, that you were on point as you very often are, Steph’s amazing and very measured with words as usual and then there was the drunk uncle.
I love the pod, listened since day 1, and tbh curious about Talbot’s claim at the end of the pod of being #1 triathlon podcast. It is based on…?
I did scroll through the rankings on Apple Podcasts (takes A LOT of scrolling as you will see) to find out the popularity of English language triathlon podcasts in my country, Poland.
Top of the list: That Triathlon Show by @mikaeleriksson (#94 in the Sports category)
Next: PTN (#116)
Next: Age Group Triathlon Podcast (#188)
That’s it (they disclose the top 200).
(There are Polish language tri pods in places 14, 18 and 60.)
(Nobody cares.)
(But a tri pod being basically a tripod is like at least 2.5/10 funny.)
Thanks, indeed, but who knows what the future will bring.
Meanwhile simple googling has brought me to this ranking - no tri podcast in the top 200 sports pods in the U.S. - weird, I thought a tripod was used to elevate things (see what I did there?):
Not replying to anyone in particular but Jess Learmonth does a weekly podcast with Bex Milnes (UK coach) and she goes into great detail about her race in London on this week’s episode.
For those not that haven’t or won’t have a listen, is there a cliff notes version?
She was curiously looking back often in the swim, even after the front 4 had made the gap. I wonder what they all were thinking when Knibb never really attacked. I’ll have a listen, just not sure when.
