#64 - Challenge Cancun Triathlon Race Recap & Nick's Next Endurance Race Announced
The Nick Bare Podcast
Nick Bare
5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Bare Performance Podcast, Nick Bare breaks down his recent triathlon race, Challenge Cancun, that was completed in Cancun, Mexico on May 2nd, 2021.
Nick started training for Ironman Texas about 7 months ago, but after the race was cancelled the BPN team pivoted and selected to race Challenge Cancun. His finish time was 5:02:16 with a 45:04 swim, 2:24 bike and 1:45 run.
Tune in to hear Nick break down the race, nutrition strategy, lessons learned through his prep and at the end of the episode he shares his next endurance race that will take place in August.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Bear Performance Podcast. |
| 0:13.4 | I am your host Nick Bear, founder and CEO of Bear Performance Nutrition and today we |
| 0:20.3 | are talking everything. |
| 0:22.9 | Challenge cancun. |
| 0:25.1 | So this past weekend I had my triathlon race in cancun Mexico and I am going to break |
| 0:31.8 | down every part of that race. |
| 0:35.6 | Nutrition leading up to race day, going in depth on the swim, the bike and the run, how |
| 0:42.0 | I felt and overall the things that I have learned through the last seven months of training. |
| 0:49.3 | And at the end of this podcast I am going to be announcing the next endurance event that |
| 0:54.2 | I am training for which is in August. |
| 0:58.6 | Some of you guys have guessed it already but I will be announcing it today. |
| 1:04.6 | Leading into that we will not be documenting the prep for that event but we will be bringing |
| 1:10.1 | on some guests on the podcast that are specialist and experts in that specific type of training |
| 1:18.3 | to learn more and apply that to the journey ahead. |
| 1:22.5 | So without further ado, let's jump right into challenge cancun. |
| 1:27.9 | So a lot of you guys know that when we started what we called Iron Man prep season two, |
| 1:34.0 | we started that October 1st of 2020 and that was just about two weeks before my wedding. |
| 1:43.2 | We started training for Iron Man Texas at the time. |
| 1:48.1 | And Iron Man Texas was scheduled for April 24th, 2021 and we assumed and we predicted that |
| 1:59.0 | that race would 100% happen. |
| 2:03.0 | So we started training for it and about five months into the prep of Iron Man Texas, |
| 2:12.7 | we got news that Iron Man Texas ended up getting canceled, the county that it was supposed |
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