Welcome to the Tridot Podcast. Today I have Coach Stephen Horan, longtime Trotid Ambassador,

and now the head coach of Iron Mind Endurance. Coach Stephen just completed his 20th Ironman

at the World Championships and Nice, so I asked him to come share the top lessons he has learned

from his own racing experience.

I'm Andrew the average triathlete, voice of the people, and captain of the middle of the pack.

We treat the show like any good workout.

We'll start with a warm-up question.

Settle into our main set conversation.

We'll see what we can learn from Coach Stephen.

And then wind things down by having Coach Stephen answer an audience

question on the cool down. Lots of good stuff. Let's get to it.

This is the TriDOT podcast, the triathlon show that brings you world-class coaching with every

conversation. Let's get started with today's warm up. All right, Coach Stephen, welcome to the show.

So happy to have you on for the very first time. And since we're talking about your race history and

all the different races you've done, we're going to hear a lot of different Iron Man,

this, Iron Man, that thrown around today. I thought a fun warm-up question would be this. From all the

races you have done, what has been your favorite swim course, your favorite bike course,

and your favorite run course? Take it away, sir. Oh, Andrew, thank you. This is very exciting

to actually be on. So glad you reached out for me to be able to be here. So it was hard, right? When you kind of think about like favorite, you have to like, okay, what is it? Is it like the best location? Is it the fastest? You know, you have to kind of think through that overall. So I'm kind of hit both both and on those in that sense, right? But, you know, swim course, my favorite

no doubt has been Pona. That is like the most beautiful

water when you go. It's hard, right? I mean, I'm not the

great drummer. I know you said similar things, right? It's like, I'm not the greatest swimmer and it's

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