IMTALK EPISODE 307 - Alan Couzens and Paul Newsome

News: IM South Africa is coming, John's picks from the ITU Sydney race.

Interview: Alan Couzens from Endurance Corner on the show this week. Alan talks about setting IM pace via non maximal testing. He covers the testing for both the bike and the run. There's great insight in to how to make this work. 

Age Grouper of the Week: John 'The Mountain Snail' Hancock sent through Steve Mellsop for this weeks Age Grouper. Steve swam faster than Brown and Crowie at IM Melbourne. He did a sub 9:30 at the age of 47! Love your work Steve. 

Interview: We finally have Paul Newsome from Swim Smooth on the show. He has been one of the most requested interviews we have had over the years. This week he talks about testing and all the good stuff that they are doing at Swim Smooth.

  

IMTALK EPISODE 306

News: What's happening in the KPR rankings, John's ITU update, This week in Lance. 

This Week Discussion: John came up with this weeks discussion: If you were in charge of Challenge or WTC what things (maximum of 3) would you do to improve the organisation. Comment here. 

This Weeks Photo: Bevan with Tabstar the cat. 

Age Grouper of the Week: Martin Hollywood send through Liz Pinches for this weeks age grouper as she manage to win her age group at Abu Dhabi not long after having a hip operation. 

Website of the Week: Kid Stardust sent through www.swimmersguide.com for this weeks website. It's a great site that lists pools around the world. 

Club of the Week: Jamie Bray sent us and email in 2007 about his tri club - The Wicklow Triathlon Club. We finally have it as our Club of the Week this week. Jamie says it's a great club that gets a good balance of training and the social stuff. Check them out here.

This Weeks Website: If you want to donate to Tim Heming's fundraising effort and get him to get a London Pride Ale (anywhere in the world) to you click here. 

IMTALK EPISODE 305 - Hunter Allen

News: Results from Galverston 70.3 and Leadmen 125, Analyzing IM Melbourne's results and this week in Lance. 

This Weeks Discussion: This weeks discussion comes from Drago Dzerve, here's what he said: There is a time trial start race here in the states that has more than 1500 participants each year.  Why can't we have time trial starts for the pro's in Kona or any other race?  Let World #1 start last and have them chase the crowd down or let them go first and let the chase begin.  Put in a 15M drafting zone and make it an individual sport.  If it is good enough for the Tour de France, why isn't it good enough for our sport? Comment

Legends of a Triathlon: This months Legends of Triathlon is out. This month we have Greg Welch on the show. Click here to get the show. 

Age Grouper of the Week: Both Peter Coulson and Michael Walker sent through this weeks AGOTW Greg Farrell. Greg qualified for Kona in Arizona and the back it up with a great race in Melbourne where he was the first age grouper overall in a time of 8:48:35. 

Interview: This week we have Hunter Allen on again. This time he talks about TSS and how you can use it in your training. He also talks about the Performance Management Chart. Check out all that he does here.

IMTALK EPISODE 304 - Rachel Joyce and Felix Walchshofer from Challenge

News: Results from IM Melbourne and Hitz, John's ITU update, Texas 70.3 is this weekend and Lance is racing. 

This Weeks Discussion: This weeks discussion is coming from Will Hogarth: Training when you loose your training mojo. What have you done to get fitness back on track when the mojo has gone? Comment here.

Interview: We have Rachel Joyce on the show to have a talk about her race in Melbourne. Check out her website: http://racheljoyce.org/

Interview: We have Felix Walchshofer from Challenge to talk about what has been happening lately and where they are going from here. www.challenge-family.com

IMTALK EPISODE 303 - Justin Daerr

News: IM Melbourne is coming up this week and it has a great field, IM Cairns have 40 Kona slots plus there's a discounted rate IMNZ competitors, Michael Ralert racing Galverson 70.3.

This Weeks Discussion: Here's John's new Kona qualifying plan. Slack the championship events with slots but for championship events there is preferential entry for those that qualify. Eg in Asia Pacific there are now ~200 Qualifying spots across 5 events. John’s suggestions - Winner of each AG at each IM gets a Kona slot = ~24 slots/race. - Bump up slots at regional championship to ~120+ Kona slots. - Preferential entry for regional championship races opens one week before general entry for - 1. Top 10 in their AG at any ironman in the year before. 2. Kona Qualifiers from the year before. 3. The regional champs would move location from year to year. What do you think? Comment here

Make sure you get your IMTalk tri suit:

The tri suit order goes in this Friday so get in now. Click on this link to get yours now. 

Interview: This week we have Justin Daerr from Endurance Corner about how to train effectively in hot locations. You can check out some of Justin's pieces on www.endurancecorner.com. Make sure you check out their camps as well. 

This Weeks Websites: www.openfooddata.com, IronCamp in France, The Hits race in Florida.