IMTALK EPISODE 297 - Bevan McKinnon

News: WTC announces changes to 5150 triathlon series and more prize money in all of their championship races, Vanhoenacker is racing IMNZ, Results from Israman, Macca raced in NZ, Kona slots for Japan 70.3.

This Weeks Discussion: Jeff 'The Explosion' Curry has set up a blog: www.jellyman-jeff.blogspot.com. This lead him to ask the question. How many of you guys have your own blog, give it a plug, or regularly follow blogs of non pros? Comment here

This Weeks Photo: Tara Norton is having a baby and she is still a super model, modeling her IMTalk jersey while training. Love your work Tara. 

Age Groupers of the Week: This week we choose the top age groupers in the age group of 50-54 at last years world champs. John Mergler won the mens in a time of 9:42 and Teresa Rider the females in a time of 10:44. We'll done guys!

Interview: This week we have an interview with Bevan McKinnon from www.fitter.co.nz about being a pro, running a coaching business and much more. Check out his site here.

Website of the Week: James 'The Wiseone' Bowtell sent through a new review site called Enduraguide. It's early days but hopefully it will build into a site that will help when you are going to buy a new product.  

This Weeks Websites: James Lawrence's site to help him with doing 30 IMs this year, www.triandgiveadam.com, Training Peaks resources page. 

 

IMTALK EPISODE 296 - Gordo on training camps

News: Enduroman is coming up, that's all this week as we pre-recorded. 

Age Grouper of the Week: We picked some age group winners from Challenge Wanaka. They were Carl Read, who did a 9:24, and Julie Williamson who did an 11:28. Well done guys ;-) 

Interview: We have Gordo from www.endurancecorner.com. He covers how to put together a long training camp. Here's the link to the article that Gordo talked about in the interview. Check out some of the great camps that his team puts on here. 

Coaches Corner: John breaks down how to set a plan for the three different parts of a race. 

This Weeks Websites: Article of heart conditions. 

IMTALK EPISODE 295 - Dirk Bockel

News: Results from Wanaka, ITU and WTC look like they are opening communication with each other, More money in ITU champs. 

This Weeks Discussion: This questions got sent through from an 'unnamed listener': Recently ive been talking with a few mates about people who train with the opposite sex - all the time. The discussion was around do we think its dodgy (in terms that they are cheating on their wives/husbands) for a guy and girl to train together all the time (or very frequently), especially when one is far faster than the other one. Comment here

Interview with Dirk Bockel: John has an interview with Dirk about his latest news of joining the Trek Leapoard True Racing Team. Cheak out his website here.

Website of the Week: Dave McMillan sent through this great site that has lots of different tri calulators: Get it here. It's a fun site that can help you figure out your splits. 

IMTALK EPISODE 294

News: Chrissie Wellington is taking some time off, Challenge Wanaka and Israman are coming up this weekend, a new iron distance race called Bone Island Tri has been announced.

This Weeks Photo: Sharon and David 'The Green Light Kid' Rowe have arrived in Wanaka for this weekends race. This weeks photo is The Green Light Kid showing of Des and Troy over Wanaka. Love it!

This Weeks Discussion: We'd been told a lot about http://www.strava.com/ by Adam Titley and Luke Millar. It seems like a great app. This got us wondering, what is the best apps you use for your training? You can put one other 'non training' app in there as well ;-) Comment here.  

Interview: We have Dirk Friel from www.trainingpeaks.com this week. He talks to us about what they are doing to give you better information about your training. 

Age Grouper of the Week: Justin Waller sent through Richard Hunter (along with his guide Alan Gulledge) became only the second visually impaired athlete to break 12 hours with a 11:55 finish. This is an amazing effort as Richard has only 5% vision. 

Coaches Corner: John covers how you can use this time of the year to identiy small areas for improvement and then put some focus into it. 

Weblink of the Week, Brought to you by SLS use the code IMTalk at www.slstri.com for a 25% discount: www.trirating.com has done it again, John just loves this site. Check it out.  

This Weeks Website: Chrissies Audio Motivation. 

  

IMTALK EPISODE 293 - Tim Pigott on Stretching

News: Results from the Hits race in Naples, Cam Brown wins POT Half, Wanaka and IMNZ coming up, Kiwi triathlete takes out NZ road cycle champs. 

This Weeks Photo: Here's a shot from the media conference at the 2011 Ironman World Champs. 

This Weeks Discussion: Who is going to put in the break though performance and get in the top 10 on Thorstens rating in 2012? Comment here

Age Grouper of the Week: Stuart Anderson sent through Jenny Gowans as this weeks age grouper. She managed to get a 3rd in the 70.3 world champs and win her age group at Phuket. She did all of this while working 60 hours a week!

Interview: This week we have an interview with Tim Pigott about stretching. It's a great insight into the latest thinking in this area. Check out his website here: theperformanceclinic.co.uk 

Interview: We have a new sponsor on the show with Sebastian Linke from SLS. SLS have intelligent race apparel and the great thing for your guys is that you get 25% off when you enter the discount code IMTalk at check out. As John would say it's a no brainer! 

This Weeks Websites: Morton's link about riding carbon bikes on trainers.