Ben Kanute | Professional Triathlete and Future World Champion?
Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast
Taren Gesell
4.7 • 843 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The 2nd place finisher at the 2017 70.3 World Championships and 4th in the 2018 Worlds, Ben Kanute is a professional triathlete who has had great results since bursting onto the pro scene. Most recently, he repeated as the Escape From Alcatraz champion and won Island House in 2017, but he has also had impressive results in shorter distances as well. He was on the US Olympic team in 2016, named USAT Athlete of the year in 2015, and was the USAT Sprint National Champ in 2014.
In this episode, Taren and Ben chat about moving to longer distances, having success as a youth triathlete, and how Ben could be Taren's (much faster) brother!
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| 0:00.0 | Today's podcast is brought to you by two sponsors, the first one, NTK, new to us, and they are also |
| 0:05.8 | new to sponsoring podcast, SoulStar, a European cycling in-soul manufacturer that makes |
| 0:14.4 | carbon insoles. And I got to tell you, I was pretty impressed by them. Well, first of all, welcome to |
| 0:19.6 | the podcast world, Soul Star. |
| 0:21.2 | We're glad to have you. |
| 0:22.3 | We are very glad to have Soul Star, and they sent out a couple of insoles for me to try out. |
| 0:27.6 | Now, these are like cycling in Souls, and I've had insoles before, like the $40 ones that you get from a cycling store, and it stabilizes your foot a little bit but these carbon fiber sole |
| 0:38.5 | star insoles are so stiff and they've got really tacky material on the top of the insol so that your |
| 0:48.0 | foot has nowhere to go but put power into the petals because your foot isn't slipping around |
| 0:53.3 | in the shoe and because the |
| 0:54.7 | shoe is a lot stiffer you put more power in so when Solstar sent out this trial pair for me they were like |
| 1:01.7 | give it three weeks it's going to take your body to adjust a little bit of time because you got to get |
| 1:07.1 | used to not having that flexion that you had in your foot before, but after that, |
| 1:11.2 | you might sense something. |
| 1:12.5 | Went out for a ride. |
| 1:13.6 | And even though I was like three, four weeks into my off season during this ride, I was able |
| 1:19.6 | to put out the most amount of power into the pedals than I have all year by like 10%. |
| 1:26.7 | I didn't actually know this. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.9 | And it happened. |
| 1:30.0 | And I emailed SoulStar. |
| 1:31.0 | I was like, is that what this whole thing is about? |
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