65. Bodybuilding and IRONMAN: Can You Do Both? Interview with Mike Reilly
The Kris Gethin Podcast
Kris Gethin
4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The IRONMAN race is a grueling 140 miles of swimming, biking, and running. People from all walks of life and all ages and genders travel for miles to push their limits to the max. What keeps people coming back?
Today's guest is known as the "Voice of Ironman." Mike Reilly has spent the majority of his career calling out IRONMAN finishers, and his voice is embedded in the memories of thousands of people. Over the years he has heard countless inspiring stories from people competing in the Ironman events, and he now has published some of the main standouts in his new book, Finding My Voice.
Ironman Hawaii on October 12, 2019 will be his 190th calling of an IRONMAN! Over 350,000 triathletes worldwide have heard his famous and heartwarming phrase "You Are an IRONMAN!"
Tune in to hear Mike's story, and what he thought about Kris when he first saw him in a wetsuit.
Time Stamps
- What Mike is doing with his IRONMAN hat collection
- Why some people won't run a race if Mike is not announcing it
- How many IRONMAN events Mike announces per year
- How Mike prepares for each race
- What aspect of IRONMAN has had the most positive impact on Mike
- Why IRONMAN attracts people of all ages
- What Mike first thought when he saw Kris (hint: he didn't think he'd finish the race)
- How Mike got to work with IRONMAN
Featured Guest: Mike Reilly
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How are you, Mike? |
| 0:02.0 | Hey, buddy. Look what I found in my hat closet, in honor of you. |
| 0:06.0 | Cordillane, Iron Man. That's awesome, buddy. |
| 0:09.0 | Thank you very much for hunting that one out. |
| 0:13.0 | I know. My wife keeps saying to me, |
| 0:16.0 | What the hell are you going to do with all those hats? |
| 0:18.0 | Do you collect everyone from every event that you call? |
| 0:23.4 | I do. |
| 0:25.0 | As a matter of fact, last year when I announced the 12 Iron Man's I was going to announce, |
| 0:30.1 | I'd go, the New Zealand hat, the Australia hat. |
| 0:33.6 | I just put all these different hats on. |
| 0:35.4 | And some of my friends would go, dude, you still got those hats. I do not believe you got all the hats. I go, yeah, I do. Wow. So do you have them just put in boxes? Do you have them on display? How do you have them even? I have some just put away in the garage and boxes, older ones, but the ones I rotate and wear a lot, they're just in a hat closet in my, |
| 0:55.4 | in the laundry room. Wow, I bet you have hundreds of those things, man. That's cool, |
| 1:00.9 | that it's good that you collect all of that. Yeah, why not? Sometimes, though, I think I shouldn't |
| 1:05.4 | come home from a race with Iron Man gear because I got so much of it. I can't wear it all. |
| 1:09.7 | Yeah, exactly. Well, it's always there as a memory. Some people have photographs. I guess you've got photographs and memorabilia. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Well, that's awesome. Well, thank you very much for coming on here, Mike. I know we've tried a couple of times going back and forth. It hasn't gone through, but all happens for a reason and they leave the |
| 1:28.8 | best to last. Yeah, yeah, there you go. That's a good analogy. Is she going to be on the |
| 1:35.1 | split screen with us like last time or no? No, no, no, it's just going to be me and yourself. |
| 1:39.3 | Oh, okay. Yeah, she's she's like the millennial that helps me with all of these things, which is over my head. |
| 1:45.9 | I know how to work email and work documents, and that's about it. |
| 1:50.1 | Yeah, I've got my son for that, thank goodness. |
| 1:52.7 | Yeah, exactly. |
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