ZenTri Podcast Episode 567 - Roth Drama

(Typical crowds at Roth. This is racing!)

Join me and Tawnee Prazak as we dish on the drama that went down at Challenge Roth!  There was vaseline in goggles, asthma attacks, and so much more.

(Tawnee destroying mere mortals in Whistler)

Also in the show, I come back to Texas from San Diego.  First job? Go to Freebirds World Burrito!

(Lord Vader approves of me coming back to Texas!)

The Training Log segment of the show is full of lots of great tips.  Also, I talk a bit about Zen and Essentialism.  Here is the book that is a good read on the subject.

Kai was visiting his grandparents, so Emily and I turned our warped attention to the dogs:

(When we get bored, we dress up our dogs like badasses.)

(Kona ready for a long run.  As a baddass.)

 Stay tuned for the next episode!  Lots of weird stuff went down at Ironman Lake Placid, so that episode will be packed with even more greatness.

Episode 564 - Find a Way

This show starts with an interview with Tina and Anne about their quest for Kona.  It's a great story!  Tina is blind and Anne is her guide, tethered to her the entire race.  They've successfully raced Challenge Atlantic City together, so Kona is next!

In the training log, We start our trip to Tennessee.  We are headed to the lakehouse, where I like to swim to and fro to this island.  

We made the trip, suprised Kai, and then hit the water.  Emily took a nice shot from our ski boat.

There's lots more inside the show, so tune in!

Episode 563 - Father's Day

(Kai kicking ass on the bike, making his dad proud.)

In this episode, Tawnee Prazak and I cover the news, I interview the CEO of Compete Hub, and then I give tons of training tips and take you with me on my Father's Day weekend escapades.  It's a great time!

To go along with the show, here are some recent pics of the ZenTri life.

I took Kai out on a bike ride and showed him how to take artsy pics of bikes.  Before we left, I showed him some examples from FixedGearGallery.com.  Kai's results are below.

We laid the bikes against a bridge and angled the camera so they were headed towards the vanishing point in the upper right corner.  Nice!  

We then rode to the high school and I showed him how people will hang their bikes in weird positions for a photo.  Putting a bike where a bike shouldn't be is just disrupting enough to make the viewer take pause and think.  Nicely Zen.

Kai is also now fast enough that he can go on our shorter workouts.  Instead of sitting around and stuffing our faces while watching reality TV, this was our Friday evening fun together.  It was so cool!

One of the reasons I'm happy and healthy at forty is my parents used to take me biking and running with them when I was a kid.  That's how you shape "normal".  Get them started early and they'll do it for life.

See you next episode! 

Podcast - Interview with Brandon Marsh

(Image lifted from Brandon's Movember site. Check it out here.)

I am very excited to bring you an interview with Brandon Marsh, the guy who brought you the fastest swim times at both Ironman Texas and the 2013 Kona World Championships.

We talk about how he swam Ironman Texas's 2.4 miles in only 46 minutes.  You read that right. 46 minutes!  Brandon also tells us how he trains in the pool and also how he executes the rest of his race day. 

The rest of the show is great as well - The always incredible Tawnee Prazak brings us the news, Kai swam 1.2 miles across Lake Bryan, and I detail tons of training info in the Training Log.

Enjoy!

ZenTri Podcast 558 - The Natural

I'm honored to have Tawnee Prazak reading the news with me on this show!  We cover the latest in new races, pros being cut out of other races, cyclist drama, and much more.  

After that, Kai gives us some open water tips in his segment, "Kai's Coaching for Kids."

Then it's on to the training log!  It's peak training weeks time for Ironman Texas, so I take you with me on some epic rides.

(Out training on part of the Ironbaby bike course.)

I talk a lot about training techniques and high volume.  There's a lot of strategies to surviving 20+ hours of training a week.

(Texas scenery. He started snorting when I got too close.)

The Training Log is full of technical details on how to do many things.  I specifically describe about a way of training that uses your "natural pace." It's really cool!

Along the way, my bike starts coming apart from all the abuse.

(The bamboo bike computer mount I made by hand.)

(More scenery on the bike)

(Attacked by wild animals while stopping for water.  Look at the rage in his eyes!)

Among other things, the rear bottle cages flew off my bike on a long ride.  Once I escaped the death grip of the beagle-wolf, I was able to stow it away to find it again later.

(I hid my rear bottle cages in the bushes after it blew off the back of my bike.)

In random news, I've made friends with whoever is behind the @TheRealStarky Twitter account.  He sent me and Kai a couple of shirts and I might be helping him with a project!  

(Kai and I got a TheRealStarky shirt!)

That's it for now.  Stay tuned and let Tawnee know on Twitter if you liked her on the show!