Ironman Hawaii 2017: Bob Babbitt Picks The Winners - Triathlon Taren Podcast

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Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

While at Ironman Hawaii 2017 Triathlon Taren and No Triathlon Kim sat down with Bob Babbitt, the host and creator of Babbittville Radio which one of the longest standing pro-race coverage interview podcasts and live streams in ironman triathlon. Bob Babbitt entered his first Ironman Triathlon in 1980 when he was a gym teacher and the race, which he thought was held over two separate days, completely changes his life. Listen to Bob Babbitt sit down and talk about how the sport of ironman triathlon has evolved.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up Trainiacs?
0:01.3	Teran here with co-host, NTK, no triathlon Kim.
0:05.3	We are in Kona!
0:06.8	We are here, this is it, this is day one.
0:09.4	We're at Huggos on the Rocks, which is right off Alihi Drive.
0:12.8	You can probably hear the vehicles in the background behind us.
0:15.1	Like this is it, this is Iron Man Kona.
0:16.8	We're here for the World Championships.
0:18.1	Did you just add a soft H to Alihi? Did I?
0:21.3	A Li'i.
0:21.9	A Li'i.
0:23.4	We just got to sit down with Bob Babette, pillar of the sport.
0:27.6	He did his first Iron Man back in 1980, and since that time, it changed his entire life.
0:33.4	He became a pillar of the triathlon community, helping build Iron Man all around the world,
0:39.0	triathlon, competitor group, which is more commonly known as people would know it as Triathlet
0:44.2	magazine now.
0:45.8	And it all started from that first Iron Man that he did back in 1980 on Oahu, right?
0:51.5	Yeah.
0:52.0	It was on Oahu.
0:52.7	I think he said it was still on Oahu back then. And before
0:55.7	then, he was a phys ed teacher. So that, that race really changed his life. So we get to talk to him
1:02.4	about how Iron Man changed his life, some of his most memorable stories. And what else? He, well, he is the,
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