Hey everybody, happy 2019. Welcome to the new year. Hope it's off to a rip-roaring start for you.

Welcome to King of the Ride podcast, episode one of the new year. As always, I'm your host. I am

Ted King. And please pardon me, I'm a, I'm a nasly Ted King as I'm here on the tail end of a

lingering holiday head cold. But despite that, we have a particularly awesome show in store for you

today. Sarah Groff True is our guest on today's King of the Ride episode. Sarah True is her

married professional name, married to Ben True, professional runner in his

own right. Sarah Groff, as I once knew her in college, or S. Graffey, on her very well-spoken

Twitter handle. Sarah and I made the trip to have this conversation, relatively equidistant

from each other's homes in New England. She coming from New Hampshire and yours truly

coming from Vermont,

descending into little quaint Royalton, Vermont. And therefore, we want to take a quick second to

thank the first branch coffee shop and Upper Pass Brewery for letting us drop in to a very fun,

dynamic, let's call it, conversation in their home space. You'll hear a handful of interesting

noise and clatters throughout, but it's all nice background white noise. Definite shout out to both

of those establishments under one roof and Royalton. If you find yourself driving north-south on

Route 89, take a quick zip off exit three and pay those guys a visit.

On to Sarah, Sarah is a professional triathlete. Not just any professional triathlet. She's a two-time

Olympian, no less. She's recently and successfully moved from Olympic distance to Ironman

distance triathlon. And while there is plenty of similarities, there are plenty of similarities between

swim, bike, run world of both sports, they truly are two and direly different sports.

And so sure, we as cyclists sometimes take a, let's call it holier than thou approach to

triathlon, I think you will really dig her insight into

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