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With just one big race left to go this season,
we're going to be looking ahead
at the XTERRA World Championships
as well as covering last weekend's racing results.
- We also have news from a recent study
that may change the way that you run on a treadmill,
as well as the GTN Pain Cave, caption competition, and more.
- Well, we're obviously back in the set.
I've just about recovered from my race
and Mark is back in good health, which is cool to see.
- Yeah, we had a fantastic week out in Kona,
we actually got to meet a lot of you out there
which is fantastic, and we got to experience Hawaii
for the first time, the big island
that everyone talks about.
How did you find it?
- Yeah, it was amazing.
I mean, it's one of those things in triathlon
is iconic, and having got to race it
I see why it's so iconic now.
I'm definitely having a bit of a break from training,
and enjoying that and enjoying actually
getting to see a little bit of island
which was cool. - Yeah.
- But, some amazing performances which leads us on
to our weekly poll. - Yeah, I mean,
we were blown away by Patrick Lange's performance.
He's getting ever so close to breaking that eight hour mark
which is why we asked last week,
will the eight hour mark ever be broken by the men?
And we have some results here for you.
- We do, and it was a pretty large percent of you
who said yes, it will, 97% are sure
that it's going to be broken.
And in the comments, actually, it was interesting to see
there were some predictions as to who it might be
and we've yet to see Javier Gomez and Alistair Brownlee
step up to the big distance, but many of you think
they could be the ones to do the sub-eight hour in Kona.
- This week, we are interested to find out
which world title means the most to you guys.
Is it the Ironman World Champion, the Ironman 70.3
World Champion, the ITU World Champion,
XTERRA World Champion, which is coming up this weekend,
or the ITU Long Distance World Champion.
What are you thinking?
- Well, I mean, that's a big choice to go from,
but there's actually even more races out there than that.
We're gonna focus on those, and for me,
two jump out: it's the ITU World Champs or the Ironman
World Champs, and I think I'm slightly biassed
towards Ironman, just cause I've raced that distance.
But outside of my personal experience, I think
it is the longer race, you can't do as many of them
in a season, it's so specialist, that distance.
So yeah, I'm gonna go with Ironman, what about you?
- I can understand that, and we did witness you suffer
for 11 hours out in Hawaii, but no, in all seriousness,
I do think Ironman 70.3 doesn't get enough credit
for actually how tough it is.
It's four hours, flat out, and you see athletes
specialising for that now, but again,
maybe I'm a bit biassed cause that's what I specialised on,
and I've never done an Ironman.
But I did come from ITU racing short distance,
and that is pretty tough as well,
and those guys also go to the Olympics,
they are class athletes.
Yeah, I think my vote lies in the ITU short distance.
- Okay, well, I think we'll have to ask you again
when you've done a full Ironman, Mark.
Well, we'd love to know what your thoughts are,
so do vote in the poll above my head.
- Well, this weekend, we have the final
triathlon world championships of the season,
and all eyes head back to Hawaii
but this time to the island of Maui
for the XTERRA World Champs, and we have
quite a mix of athletes in both the men and women's
pro fields with ITU athletes, Ironman athletes,
Ironman 70.3 athletes, and obviously,
the cross country XTERRA specialists, and Heather,
what's going to happen in the women's race?
- Well, I mean, the one to beat has to be Flora Duffy.
She's the three times winner out there
and she's recently crowned ITU world champion
and she has managed to mix in some mountain bike
training throughout her season, and that's,
you know, what is so key for the XTERRA,
is the skills on the mountain bike.
So, I mean, she's by far the one that everyone's
going to be watching, but Leslie Patterson
could give her a run for her money,
she's gonna be starting there for the eighth time,
and out of seven starts, she's actually had
four second places and two wins,
so pretty consistent on the island.
- I know she was out for a bit cause of lung disease,
isn't it? - I think so.
- Yeah, so, and I've heard she's back strong as well.
- Yeah, so, I mean, she could well be one to at least
push Flora, potentially threaten her.
Also, Laura Philipp, who's been specialising in 70.3
and got the bronze in Chattanooga.
Since then, she's been moving her sights to the XTERRA
and focusing on her mountain biking skills,
so she's one to watch along with Barbara Riveros,
who, the last couple of years, has been injured just before.
She's been on the podium in the past,
so she'll be looking to get back on there for sure.
So it's looking a strong field on the women's side.
What's it look like on the men's?
- Well, we've got the top seven finishers from last year
competing again, so, again, seriously competitive.
And of those seven, we've also got two finishers
from the men's pro field in Kona.
We got Ben Hoffman, who came ninth in Kona
and actually seventh in Maui last year.
Also, we got Braden Currie, who's gonna be
doubling up for the first time.
And actually, he's an XTERRA podium finisher
in the past, but the big name we're looking out for
is the defending champion, Mauricio Mendez,
who has been in incredible shape,
so he's definitely the strong favourite going in.
But we've also got strong cyclist Ruben Ruzafa,
who's actually lead going on to the run
the last four occasions, he's won it in the past
but last year he was actually passed by Mendez
and Ben Allen to finish third, so he's
definitely going to be trying to go for the win.
So a really exciting race for this weekend.
- Another race coming up this weekend
is the Jurien Bay Clouds to Coast Triathlon,
which is not quite an XTERRA, but it's extreme
in it's own way.
- It's certainly unique.
It starts with a skydive, you swim to shore,
bike, and then run.
I'm certainly gonna try and get my entry in
for next year.
- Yeah, I think that's on the bucket list.
- Okay, moving on from sky diving triathlons,
and this study caught our eye.
Let's face it, running can be a little bit
uncomfortable at times, so we sometimes look
for a bit of distraction, and if you're running on the
treadmill, that distraction could be watching TV,
but, apparently, it could be causing you injuries.
- Yeah, you're right.
According to the University of Nottingham Trent
and the University of Valencia,
they have discovered that by running on a treadmill
and looking at something, like a TV in your gym
instead of looking naturally just ahead of you,
changes the position and the style that you're running in,
and it makes you higher, and then apparently you're lifting
your feet higher as a result, and therefore,
more impact on your joints, it's your ankles and knees.
And I mean, that makes sense, but I was also thinking
it was going to just change your body position,
make your more upright, and mean more of a hill stripe,
but I guess both means more impact, so maybe not so good.
- Well, do you think we should tell Lionel Sanders?
- I'll leave you to that one.
- Well, it is an interesting topic because Lionel
just came second at the Ironman World Championships,
and it's quite well known he does pretty much
all his training indoors. - [Heather] That's insane.
- Five to six hour turbo rides, two to three hour
treadmill runs, and he's even got an endless pool now.
- I know, I mean, it's not just him.
Lucy Charles, another second placer at the Ironman
World Champs, and she's a big advocate for indoor training,
so it'll be interesting to see if they have a look
at this research and maybe change
where they position their TV, who knows?
- Yeah, I mean, and they're not alone.
There's a lot of professional triathletes that are
big advocates of the indoor training.
I mean, I guess there's a lot behind
sort of the quality without being disrupted whilst training,
just get on with it really. - Yeah, yeah.
- And Training Peaks have actually just put up
Lionel's power far from the Ironman World Champs,
where he held a normalised power of 313 watts
for over four hours, and then ran off really well.
- That's impressive.
- Yeah, that's enough to sell indoor training to me.
- It is, but we'd love to know what you think
and whether indoor training is for you.
Do leave your comments in the section below.
Last week, we brought you the sad news that
Tim Don and Matt Russell got knocked off their bikes
at the Ironman World Championships in separate incidents.
And at the time, we knew that Tim Don was already
recovering well, but since then, we've heard that
Matt Russell, even though he was rushed to hospital,
he's actually going to be okay
and he's making a speedy recovery.
- Yeah, best wishes to both of them.
But moving on, and actually staying with
the Ironman World Championships, this one is for
the triathlon geeks out there, that includes me.
Every year, some experts in the industry head out to Hawaii
to count all the bike brands and the equipment brands
of the athletes that are competing
in the Ironman World Champs.
- Wow, that's a lot of counting.
That does need quite a lot of patience,
I think I'd leave that one to you, Mark.
- Yeah, to be honest, I think I'd pass as well.
But we do have a lot of results here for you,
so I'm afraid I'm gonna have to grab my laptop for this.
And, can I have a drumroll please, Heather?
- Okay.
- Alright, and with the bike brands, the top bike brand,
for another year running was Cervelo.
And then on the wheels, it was Zipp Wheels again,
for another year running.
Components went to Shimano, pedals, Shimano as well.
Power metres was Quarq, helmets, Rudy Project,
which again, for another year running.
Saddles, ISM, aero bars, Profile Design,
who also got front hydration as well.
And then rear hydration went to Xlab,
as well as frame hydration to Xlab.
- Sounds like we're at the Oscars
as you read out all the winners.
- Well, I enjoyed it, anyway.
And that geeky bit of news concludes our triathlon news.
Okay, now it's time for the caption competition,
and last week we had quite a funny photo of Heather
lying on the tarmac out in Hawaii.
We had some great captions coming in,
to kick things off, here's one from Supernpstr.
Firstly, it said, "Congratulations Heather,
Awesome result, awesome job." - [Heather] Thanks Supernpstr.
- Their caption was, "That's what you call
on the ground reporting."
- I like it, it's a tough one this week.
There's one more, and it is Andrew Tabberer,
who says, "I may be a Kona finisher
but I'm still down to Earth."
Now, Andrew, you do win this week's caption competition
so please send in your details to get your free cap.
- Yeah, just get in touch over Facebook,
but this week's photo from the Ironman 70.3
World Champs was of Gomez on the podium
drinking out of a shoe.
- [Heather] I guess it's one way to make sure
no one steals your drink.
- And we're looking forward to hearing your captions
as well, so please leave them in the comments below.
- And now for comments of the week.
And we've chosen a couple that caught our eye.
The first one is from the video
How to Set Up Your Hydration System, and Matt Dion
says, "I go for chocolate milk between the bars
and hard liquor behind the saddle."
I guess that's a quick way to get your recovery in,
as soon as you finish training, you just
take the chocolate milk out.
- And the hard liquor to numb that pain from the race
or the training? - Each to their own, Mark.
- Yeah, well, on the Triathlon Jargon video,
we had quite a few funny suggestions,
and this one from Stian Pollestad,
he said, "NA: Never Again."
I can definitely relate to that
from some training sessions and races.
- Yeah, I think that's useful, and I might
suggest that to my coach, I can put on
my training programme next time.
- Well, please keep your comments coming in,
and just drop them in the comments below.
- On to race news, and this time of the season
it's a bit quiter and then we've had an added cancellation
from last weekend at New Orleans, the 70.3 there had to be
cancelled due to bad weather, and they couldn't even manage
to shorten the goals, which was a shame.
- Well, we did have Ironman 70.3 in Miami,
and actually Igor Amorelli, who placed 14th
at the Ironman World Champs, was back racing
just a week later, and he exited the swim
with a minute deficit but turned that into a
three minute lead off the bike, and then took the win
with a five minute lead over second.
Second place went to Franz Loeschke,
and then third was Paulo Roberto Maciel.
- Well, on the women's side,
it was Ellie Salthouse, who after several months
out with an injury, she was delighted just to be
back on the start lane, and dominated.
But it was more about consistent performance,
so she was second in each individual discipline,
the swim, the bike, and the run,
which gave her the overall win ahead of
Angela Naeth of Canada and then
Sarah Lewis of Great Britain came third.
- Now for GTN Pain Cave, where we ask you to
send in photos of your own Pain Caves,
and to kick things off, we have one here
from Andrew Griffiths, and he's got his bike set up
on his turbo, and, most importantly, he has a GTN towel.
- [Heather] Most importantly, for sure.
I do like the fact that it's resting on a swivel arm chair,
so whether that's where he'd sit his coach
if he's lucky enough to have his own coach--
- Maybe his wife?
A bit of time spent together whilst he's training.
- That's one way. - Moving on,
something less glamorous, we have one here
from Paul Murphy and, let's be honest,
this is probably something I can relate with.
I have to cram my turbo into a fairly tight space,
so yeah, this shot shows it's not always nice and pretty.
- As long as it's practical.
- He's getting the job done.
- And he's using, I think, could be a freezer
to put his laptop on top of, it's very much improvised,
I like it. - Yeah.
And finally, here's one from Charlie Pennington,
he sent in over Twitter, and we do actually know
Charlie came fifth in Kona at the Ironman World Champs,
so congratulations Charlie. - Yeah, in his age group.
- And we can see why, he's got a very impressive set up.
Projector on the wall, and then another screen.
- And then just quite a few bikes,
showing off with those in the corner there.
- Yeah, and that's only the ones that we can see.
So yeah, fantastic. Please keep your GTN Pain Cave's
coming in over Facebook or over Twitter
using the hashtag #GTNPAINCAVE.
- With the XTERRA World Championships coming up
this weekend, we thought we'd make it a bit of a
mountain biking special for the triathlon zone,
and we've picked out a few of our faves,
including this one from Matt Barton,
which was from the XTERRA Utah and, what's here, Mark?
- Well, it looks like a very clean transition.
In fact, I can't actually see any run shoes,
so perhaps it is a split transition,
T1 and T2 in different locations?
Very clean for an offroad track, but anyway.
And here's one from Doug Hall from the
XTERRA European Champs, he sent this one in over Twitter.
In fact, Doug was actually racing in the Elite race,
and it's a very clean looking bike.
It's a titanium frame, very smart.
- I like it. - Very nice.
And then finally, moving on--
- Oh, this is a little bit different.
It is a mountain bike, but actually,
you probably can spot in the background there are a few
road bikes, so this isn't an XTERRA triathlon
but we thought, as it's mighty fine, we'll give it a shot.
It's Els Kooi and basically very proud of the
rainbow towel, it's all very colourful, that setup.
- Yeah, even a picnic bag.
- I like that.
- So probably not the quickest transition,
just like she's there to make sure she's comfortable
and ready to go, but yeah, please keep your
transition zone photos coming in over Facebook and Twitter.
- Hi, I'm Luke McKenzie, and this is the GTN show.
- So I want to take this opportunity to thank everybody
who left such lovely messages.
Before my race, I had loads of really encouraging
good luck messages wishing me well for the race,
and, to be honest, it did actually help
and I was thinking of all those people
watching it and following it when I was out there,
and then also for the vlog that's just gone out,
there's been some really lovely comments on that,
and do keep them coming if you've not watched it yet.
- Well, that is it for the GTN show.
We're really looking forward to bringing you the results
from the XTERRA World Championships which are this weekend,
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