Welcome to episode 454 of That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

My name is Michael Erickson, and today I interview the first ever Olympic champion guest on this podcast, Anna Kisenhofer, who won the women's road race in Tokyo 2021.

There are a few things making Anna's Olympic gold even more interesting than any Olympic gold

would of course be.

Firstly, Anna didn't race on a professional team going into the Olympics.

She combined her training with working full-time as a mathematician.

And secondly, she was self-coached and planned all of her own training going into the games.

And this training was very interesting and not the most conventional training as you'll hear about in detail in the interview.

Just a quick note, if you missed the last week's episode, to go back and check it out, I interviewed

coach Lance Watson, who has coached at five Olympic games, including coaching Simon Whitfield

to the first ever men's triathlon Olympic goal. And he has coached a number of other legendary

athletes, including Iron Man World Champions, podium finishers. So his resume is among the best

in the sport, and he had a lot of fantastic insight to share.

It was a very well-received episode and I really enjoyed it.

So be sure to go back and listen to that if you haven't already.

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