Episode 319: Sika Henry; Hard work and self belief – first African American female triathlete to get pro card
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
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🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Sika Henry recently became the first African American female triathlete to get her pro card. She competed in the 2019 Ironman World Championships in Kona and she focuses on the 70.3 distance of triathlon. She has been blogging about her triathlon journey since 2013 so you can go back and read from the time she started the sport until she realized she could possibly get that pro card.
Sika was in a traumatic bike accident in 2019 and in this episode she shares about that experience and how she overcame it. Sika is passionate about increasing diversity in the sport of triathlon and in this episode she shares about ways that we can help make that happen and what she is doing to make that happen.
This was a really fun conversation and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
What we talked about:
4:05- When she plans to debut as a pro triathlete
6:00- Competing in track and field in high school and college
9:15- Her best and favorite disciplines in triathlon
10:00- Her mental strategy during a triathlon
11:40- How she got connected with Hoka as a sponsor
14:25- Being confident in her goals and sharing them publicly
15:25- Her first triathlon
21:20- Open water swimming
22:15- The rules of drafting on a bike in different triathlons
24:50- The bike crash that she had in 2019
31:35- Her training now that she is in the pro field
32:40- Sika’s coach
36:05- Learning how to train on the bike and sustain long efforts
38:00- Increasing diversity in the sport of triathlon
52:00- Pacing the Hoka One One 100k
55:35- What’s next for Sika
57:50- End of podcast questions
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| 0:51.5 | Hey everybody, welcome to All Have Another Podcast with Lindsay Hein. |
| 0:56.4 | I'm your host Lindsay and I'm so grateful you're here today. Today you're listening to |
| 1:00.5 | episode 319 and I'm talking with Seika Henry. Seika recently became the first African-American |
| 1:08.8 | female triathlete to get her pro card. She's a two-time marathon champion. |
| 1:14.9 | She competed in the Iron Man World Championships in 2019 in Kona and she focuses on the 70.3 |
| 1:22.5 | distance of triathlon. She's actually been blogging about her triathlon journey since 2013. |
| 1:29.8 | So you can go back and read from the time she started the sport just to try it out and see what it |
| 1:34.7 | was like to all the way when she realized she could possibly get that pro card. Seiko was in a |
| 1:42.7 | traumatic bike accident in 2019 and she is going to share with us about what that experience was |
| 1:49.4 | like for her and how she overcame it. Seika's passionate about increasing diversity within the sport |
| 1:55.0 | of triathlon and she's also going to share about ways we can help make that happen and what she's |
| 2:00.8 | doing to help make that happen. This was a really fun conversation and I hope that you enjoy it as |
| 2:06.8 | much as I did when I got to talk to Seika. All right, if you're looking for additional content |
| 2:12.5 | from my podcast, I have a Patreon page where we put out episodes almost weekly over there |
| 2:19.3 | and right now we're doing a really fun series. We're doing a Patreon community series where I'm |
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