Kona Preview - Insight and Predictions for the Ironman World Championship
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The smart money is on Blummenfelt, Iden, and Ryf, but who do we think has a chance to knock them off?
We give our predictions, plus get into Kona racing strategy, including why the swim is so important, how athletes position themselves on the bike, and why it really all boils down the the run. We talk about the legend of the Island, local perspective, and respect for the land, along with why experience is so important. Some athletes are always in the news, but it’s the ones you don’t really hear about much that understand what it takes to be a World Champion. Will that matter or will Blummenfelt and Iden run away with it? Will Ryf show her dominance from start to finish? Will Patrick Lange re-emerge? Is Lionel ready? While there are favorites, this is one of the more spread out fields in a while.
Topics:
- 2 Day Event - Is it sustainable?
- Local perspective on hosting World Championships
- Spirituality of the Island
- Kona is a Runner’s Race
- Drafting vs. Working with the group
- Why pros work so hard on this swim
- Women’s Race Picks
- Men’s Race Picks
- Favorites and Sleepers and why
- Below are some of the Pros we talk about. This is NOT prediction order:
- Daniela Ryf
- Anne Haug
- Sky Moench
- Laura Philipp
- Lucy Charles-Barclay
- Kristian Blummenfelt
- Patrick Lange
- Gustav Iden
- Lionel Sanders
- Braden Currie
- Ben Hoffman “Hoffmeister General”
- Magnus Ditlev
- Matt Hanson
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| 0:00.0 | we're heading to the lava fields |
| 0:04.2 | oh yes the podcast everybody's been waiting for. |
| 0:26.8 | It's October 6th, 2022. Looking aboard, everybody. We listen to the Crushing Iron podcast. This is episode 600 and 23. |
| 0:36.0 | Yep. And I do think they've been waiting about a long time for this one. |
| 0:40.5 | Yeah, two years. |
| 0:41.6 | It's day one. |
| 0:42.7 | We're actually about, I think, 45 to 60 minutes out from day one. |
| 0:48.0 | And then you heard it right, day one of the Iron Man World Championships in Kona, day one, because it's a two-day event this year. |
| 0:56.6 | And we're gonna keep it short and sweet. |
| 0:58.1 | We're gonna do our picks, talk a little bit about |
| 1:00.0 | the world championships itself. |
| 1:01.2 | Before we can do that, welcome. |
| 1:03.8 | For those of you tuning in for your first time, |
| 1:05.2 | we appreciate you giving it to us. |
| 1:07.5 | You know you have a lot of options |
| 1:08.7 | in the triathlon podcast universe and just podcasts in general. |
| 1:12.5 | Your time is very valuable, so we appreciate you tuning in today. We cover it all. We do a lot of swim, bike, and run, specific podcasts. We do quite a few relax, have an open, honest discussion about what we're going through in life, |
| 1:28.2 | both as human beings, |
| 1:29.2 | but also as coaches and athletes ourselves. |
| 1:31.7 | We also talk quite a lot about |
| 1:32.9 | what our own athletes are going through. |
| 1:35.1 | Mike and I both work with a wide variety of athletes |
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