Hey, what's up Trainiacs? Triathlon Taryn here coming to you from Iron Man, Hawaii, 2017.

Just finished up day one back at the condo and putting together all the podcasts, all the vlogs, all the videos, everything on Triathlon Magazine Canada, on Triathlon Taryn on YouTube,

and in this podcast.

Just a couple hours ago, we sat down with Patrick McCann and Mariah Bridges from Endurance Nation.

This is a huge triathlon team that's worldwide.

They have 800 members, 16 athletes here in Kona and Patrick McCran is the head coach.

And he is racing Kona here.

So we sat down with him to talk about how he recommends people prepare for Ironman Hawaii,

how people can potentially qualify for Iron Man Hawaii, how he coaches his athletes, how the race is going to unfold, hopefully for him, and basically why Iron Man Hawaii is such a hard course.

Looking at the fact that if you were to look at the elevation of the course, it should be a fairly fast course, but it is just soul crushing.

And Patrick walks through step for step, swim,

bike, run, why each leg of Iron Man Hawaii is so difficult. Here is Patrick McCran.

Are you ready? I am so ready. You're very ready. Let's do this. Okay.

We are here with Patrick McCran, right?

That's right.

McCran of the Endurance Nation.

And if anyone has been around the triathlon Taron world for more than four months, this is the

gang that actually took the first leap and let me onto their podcast a while ago.

And I got on with their coach

pat not our coach pat they have their own coach pat who is i think equally as surly uh we have

recently found out that he's not as good a pancake maker as our coach pat but he is racing here in kona

that's right.

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