Ask a Cycling Coach: 121 – How an Age Grouper Qualified for Kona
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
We sat down with Emmet Kelley, a triathlete from Ireland, to learn every detail about how he trained and qualified for IRONMAN World Championships in Kona.
Topics covered in this episode:
• How qualifying for Kona works
• Which events should you pick to maximize your chances of qualifying
• What type of swim, bike and run splits would you need to qualify for Kona
• How to optimize your bike equipment
• How to follow a training plan with a busy schedule
• What made the biggest difference for Emmet
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.7 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee here in Kona Hawaii with our head coach Chad Timberman |
| 0:10.5 | I would buddy and with our our CEO Nate Pearson you forgot and I'll know it. It's kind of surprising that you're here strike one |
| 0:18.4 | It's kind of surprising that you're here because you were in the ER within 24 hours ago, so I think oh |
| 0:23.3 | Yeah 27 28 just about there some food poisoning two days ago and kind of tried to kill me |
| 0:28.6 | But I'm back, but you rallied in your hair. Yeah, awesome drugs |
| 0:31.7 | And we have a special guest with us and McKellie how you doing? |
| 0:34.9 | I'm it good guys we should be here awesome. We should explain who you are probably people are probably wondering |
| 0:40.3 | You're a trainer get on here |
| 0:42.3 | Yeah, you're a trainer road user first and foremost right? Yeah, I'm a trainer road user. I've a user from Ireland and I've been using |
| 0:48.8 | Well, you're from Ireland |
| 0:50.8 | two tree not Kansas believe it or not |
| 0:53.1 | Yeah |
| 0:55.1 | I'm using train road for a couple of years and I've qualified for the Ironman World Championships |
| 0:59.7 | So what the reason we have you on here is because I think there's a lot of people who are listening |
| 1:03.7 | Who want to qualify for Kona? I always wanted to but you've always like when you meet someone |
| 1:08.8 | You're like how'd you do it? What'd you do? What are the key things that you did and also I think there's some other |
| 1:13.9 | Cyclist listening who don't think it's that big of like I could do it right? |
| 1:17.6 | They kind of think it's not that hard because they haven't ever tried |
| 1:20.3 | They're like if I could swim I could totally qualify |
| 1:22.5 | But I we want to get into that kind of kind of the things you had to do to be able to qualify for Kona |
| 1:28.3 | So that's that's what you're gonna get in this podcast |
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