Welcome to the Tridod podcast. We've got a super valuable conversation plan for today. I am joined by two coaches and two athletes and we will talk about how to level up from racing a 70.3 to a 140.6. Coaches Kurt Madden and Louise Strideham will offer their coaching advice and athletes Heather Yun and Yakoo Furry will share their

experience as athletes. Hopefully this chat will help you when the time comes to double your

race distance. I'm Vanessa, your average triathlet with elite level enthusiasm. As always,

we'll start with our warm-up question, settle into our main set conversation,

and then wind things down by having our coaches answer an audience question on the cooldown.

Lots of good stuff. Let's get to it.

This is the TriDOT podcast, the triathlon show that brings you world-class coaching with every conversation.

Let's get started with today's warm-up.

I am a sucker for surprises.

I love them so much because someone has gone out of their way to do something special for you,

and they have put thought into it without you having a clue or being

a part of the planning process. And then when you've received the surprise, it's like this

massive rush of amazing energy. And I just love that feeling so much. So what I want to know

for our warm up question today is, what is the biggest surprise you have experienced during one of your races?

Let's start with our friends from South Africa.

Louise, let's go to you first.

Okay, so the biggest surprise that I've had during a race was at Patagoneman.

So just like Norseman, you get on a ferry, they transport you to the middle of the

fjord and you have to jump.

And I never thought I would willingly jump off a ferry into these ice cold fjord waters.

I had the worst anxiety to stand, just like, how am I, how am I supposed to do this?

And another athlete just grabbed my hand out of nowhere.

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