IMTalk Episode 601 - Keith Rieger

News: Collins Cup has moved to 2019; Challenge Roth increases prize money; Results from Tauranga Half; Coming up races; First races under new qualifying system announced; What the hell is going on. 

This Weeks Discussion: This week we have a simple statement that we want you to finish (in a triathlon related way but it can cover any area). Here we go: Whatever happened to... Comment here

This Weeks Photo: This week we have a photo of Rob Lines looking cool in his pink IMTalk top.

Age Grouper of the Week: Andrew 'Mystery Man' Weston sent through this weeks age grouper, his wife Julie Pearson. Julie had to work extremely hard to complete her Ironman under the cutoff time, which she managed to do.  

Interview: This week we have an interview with Keith Rieger. Keith completed Kona Five and wrote the book 'Kona Five - Taking on life's challenges and Kona's toughest Ultra-Triathlon'. 

This Weeks Websites: Kevin Moats positive test; ITU athlete under investigation; Fast marathon from Tyler Butterfield. 

IMTalk Episode 600

News: Pucon 70.3 results; Random news; John's ITU update, What the hell is going on. 

This Weeks Discussion: If someone was coming to your country and you could give them just one epic location to do a workout, where would it be and what would the session entail? Comment here. 

This Weeks Photo: This week we have a photo Wayne Vartabedian training in -8 degree celsius. 

Age Groupers of the Week: This week we give some love to all of the the AWA champs from 2017. 

Coaches Corner: David Levy send through a question about how to get your feet use to running without socks on. We give the best advice on how to do this. 

Questions and Answers: We answer a question from Will Desmond. 

IMTalk Episode 599 - Elizabeth Model and John Wragg

News: Changes to the Kona Pro qualifying system; Gomez will race Ironman this year; Wanda to spin off WTC.

This Weeks Discussion: This week we are putting on a theoretical race over a Half Ironman. We want to know who you think would win these races and why they would win. The boys race is Brownlee v Gomez v Frodo v Sanders. The girls race is Ryf v Duffy v Spirig v Lawrence. Comment here. 

This Weeks Photo: Here's a photo of Bevan and Porno at the top of Mt Roy. 

Interview: This week we have an interview with Elizabeth Model and John Wragg. They are prolific Ironman racers, John has completed every Ironman in the world and Elizabeth will soon. They share their amazing story with us, be ready to be inspired.

Statstastic: Dave Verschueren sent through the fastest Ironman results for Belgium athletes.  

This Weeks Websites: Tri Splits report on the new qualifying system, Tri Ratings report on the new qualifying system. 

IMTalk Episode 598 - Eric Barker

In the second of our holiday shows we have an interview with Eric Barker, the author of Barking Up The Wrong Tree - The surprising science behind why everything you know about success is (mostly) wrong. Eric has a blog, with over 300,000 subscribers, where he writes about scientific research into what creates success. On this show he shares many examples of how you can become more successful. 

You can get Barking up the wrong tree here. Here is Eric's website.