On the other hand, Podium athletes have started the year well, with some strong racing from Vannerson, Reed and Middaugh in New Zealand.
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I was kinda sneakily hoping when RV went 2km into w a strong surge, he would just go for it, but it seemed all it did was just play musical chairs on the fartlek type of move. But good results all around for them for sure.
Keep up the grind and any of those young guys, just keep grinding away at the WC level (Reed’s mature enough to race WTCS imo). Head down, grind continues podium project.
you are most likely right there is a niice dead end climb starting like 2.7 k from the sea but the road is likely way too narrow for 2 way traffic.
I hear you, but the recreational swimming or sanctioned swimming events that you’re talking about would usually happen in a pool, where you can simply control the water quality. The open water quality will always be worse, barring you’re swimming alpine lakes above pastures level.
Thank you for info. Note that the threshold was 500cfu per 100 ml before the changes made for 2025. So this ‘most states’ limit of 240cfu is/was stricter than the previous WorldTri threshold (and btw I think IRONMAN uses the WorldTri rules in this respect).
I’m talking about lakes and rivers: Title 401 Chapter 10 Regulation 031 • Kentucky Administrative Regulations • Legislative Research Commission. See section 7.
Saw that. Hopefully this means her run is improving. She’s already a great swim/ biker
3rd seems a brilliant result for a national championship, wonder if GTB still had that gravel race in her legs.
Probably GTB just hasn’t been running as much. She went on a bike training camp for one thing
https://www.instagram.com/p/DGdQcs2CZGI/?img_index=2
GTB was #4 in 2022 in the Nationals.
Yes, I have a friend who watches/ follows running more than me. Thinks that was a good run by Olivia.
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Great podcast episode with Beth Potter on Chasing the Burn. After Taylor Knibb last week, this is a good series where some Olympians take a step back to evaluate Paris with a benefit of hindsight. Beth was open and vulnerable on what happened before, during, and after the Olympics. Also heard for the first time that the Brits got sick a couple of days before the race.
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I forgot to post this. Both the Knibb episode and the Potter episode are the best triathlon interviews I’ve ever heard, period.
(Sorry @JackKelly-TTH - you are excellent but Chelsea has a different focus and a way of making these women open up that I’ve never seen anybody achieve; and curiously, the only person mentioning watts is Potter.)
And they are very very different. Knibb is the ultimate spontaneous entertainer, and Potter brought about a slightly dark reflection to the conversation; and maybe the best anecdote (crying in Alex Yee’s company for 10 minutes, and how he reacted).
These are also two different stories of failure. One woman failed to reach a goal she thought was possible to achieve, the other came in under the pressure of a red hot favorite and also fell short of her own expectations, but mainly imagined she was disappointing others - both grieving the fact that they weren’t at their best on the day.
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She mentioned watts once I think, and that was to describe that she had 60 seconds to get back on the group following a crash she managed to miss.
To put into context her meltdown with Yee. She was sick in Rio the day before her 10k race and came 31st. When the GB squad got sick having eaten lunch together she was convinced it was happening again and her race would be impacted. They took their own chef didn’t they!
TBH I found the Potter interview very moving, she gave an honest account of the pressure, her reactions to that pressure and how she didn’t enjoy triathlon after Paris. I find Knibb has an interview persona that is completely different to her actual persona. The difference between the two is quite false.
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Yeah, but that meltdown was after the Olympics. Unless you mean that, due to the “getting sick again” situation, there was just a lot more emotional overhang built up before the Olympics that she had to unload after the event.
Yes, the emotional moment (or 10) was, she said, (I think, haven’t re-listened) in Boston (or Chicago) when out there for supertri only weeks after Paris. Potter highlighted the support from Brownlee A and Yee: being able to ‘say the right thing’.
I was struck by the repeated sickness experienced by her and others pre-races. You’d think that could be screwed down, provided the reasons/sources can be identified.
Was also clear that Potter’s committed to racing through to LA28. Although thought a T100 “maybe next year” could be on her agenda.
I wonder why so few women (top 20 in the SC rankings) graduate to the harder MD / draft-illegal and are successful, compared to the men.
Chelsea really gets excellent interviews.
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I guess the reason chelsea is really getting good at this is that she has much less of an ego than most podcaster and doesn’t start every podcast with talking about herself, or constantly says, when I was racing I did x y and z .She does focus on the guest and when she adds stuff about herself its relevant.
she doesn’t do click baiting shite , and does not love to hear herself talking.
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I am surprised her confirmation of a stress reaction hasn’t gotten more press.
Just incase I don’t get around to listening, can anyone confirm who exactly was sick in/before Paris?
According to Potter, all the Brits (as iirc others in other teams) 48 hours before 31st July.
She said she was pleased to see it raining at dawn of race day as she was well used to racing in lovely (wet) Leeds. and iffy road surfaces.
Ironically, that was in the first months of 2023 forcing ?5 weeks no running. Thereafter she raced superbly throughout 2023. Then a really good first 4 months of 2024, good legs in training but and never turned up (to her high standard) in the subsequent races.
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