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The TriDot Triathlon Podcast

Athlete to Triathlete (Part Two): Ten Stories from Ten Sports

The TriDot Triathlon Podcast

TriDot Triathlon Training

Running, Fitness, Sports, Health & Fitness

4.9629 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

How do cheerleading, modern pentathlon, roller derby, and racing cars all connect to triathlon? In this episode, Coach Joanna Nami and Vanessa Ronksley talk to ten athletes who came to triathlon from different sporting backgrounds. From tennis to wrestling and even surfing, these athletes share their athletic experiences and provide wisdom learned along the way. What lessons carried over? What became a challenge to overcome? Listen in as our athletes provide specific moments in training and racing where their past sporting endeavors had an impact on triathlon.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the TriDOT podcast.

0:03.9

TriDOT uses your training data and genetic profile combined with predictive analytics and artificial intelligence to optimize your training,

0:12.8

giving you better results in less time with fewer injuries.

0:16.8

Our podcast is here to educate, inspire, and entertain. We'll talk all things triathlon with expert coaches and special guests. Join the conversation and let's improve together. Together.

0:36.1

Welcome to the TriDOT podcast, friends.

0:39.2

A few weeks ago, Andrew posted in our social communities asking people what sports they

0:44.1

participated in that helped or perhaps hindered their journey to becoming a track lead.

0:49.5

Andrew was hoping to get 10 or maybe 12 responses and he ended up with over 30 of them. So today we will be

0:56.8

doing part two of athlete to triathlete. Joining me for this episode is coach Joanna Namy. Joanna is better

1:05.6

known as coach Jojo and has been coaching athletes with TriDOT since 2012. She is a co-founder of Hissy Fit Racing,

1:12.5

a member of the Betty Design Elite Squad,

1:15.1

and has double-digit Iron Man finishes on her accomplished triathlon resume.

1:19.7

She is also a three-time Iron Man World Championship finisher.

1:24.6

Joe, welcome back to the show.

1:26.7

Thanks for having me, Vanessa. I'm super excited to be

1:29.3

here. I think this is going to be very entertaining. I hope so. I really hope that it will be

1:33.8

entertaining. And here I am. I'm Vanessa, your average trifly with elite level enthusiasm.

1:40.0

And grateful as always to be hosting the show. I often say to myself, a day that includes recording a podcast

1:47.4

is always a great day, especially when I'm here with Coach Jojo.

1:51.9

As always, we'll roll through the warm up question,

1:54.5

settle in for our main set conversation,

1:56.4

and then wind things down with our cool down.

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