The philosophy is, at the closer in time you come to your race, the more like the race your training should become.

That Trafflin Show, episode one.

Hey, what's up everybody and welcome to episode one of That Traathlon Show. Before we get

started with today's episode where I interview Joe Friel, I want to encourage you if you

haven't already to go back and listen to Episode Zero, the pilot episode

of that Triathlon show. In that episode, you'll learn all about this podcast, what we've got

coming up over the next few weeks, what the podcast is about, who is it for, what differentiates

it from other podcasts, and so on. So it will be very helpful for you, I think,

to go and listen to that episode to learn more about that Traathlon show. But with that said,

let's die right in today's episode. So as I said, my guest today is none other than Joe

Friel, who is one of the most famous persons in the Trafland industry. If you don't know him,

Joe Friel is one of the most accomplished coaches in the triathlon industry. If you don't know him, Joe Friel is one of the most accomplished coaches in the sport of triathlon and he's by far the most successful offer, with the triathletes training Bible being just one

of over 10 excellent endurance sports books that he asked his name, and we covered the triathletes

training Bible in today's interview.

Joe has been around the sport since 1980 and he started coaching in 1983 to 1984,

opened the first triathlon store in the world in 1984 and he's well known as the co-founder

of Training Peaks which is probably many of your listeners use in your day-to-day

triathlon training. It's the largest software company in triathlon or endurance sports in general

for planning, logging and analyzing your training. So in today's interview, we'll talk about

changes to the new edition of the triathletes training Bible and why it's been completely

rewritten. Joe threw everything but the table of contents away basically and started completely

from scratch with the fourth edition. So it's interesting to learn why that is and what has changed.

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