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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Kona Special Interview – John Borton – Ask a Cycling Coach 227

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

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4.9 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

John Borton is coming to Kona for the first time, but he has done his research and is ready to race. He plans to use his insights in aerodynamics, nutrition, and course knowledge to be as fast as ever. Tune in to hear exactly how John has prepared for IRONMAN World Championships.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • John by the numbers
  • How John qualified for IronMan Kona
  • Balancing life, work, and triathlon
  • How John got aero
  • John's nutrition strategy
  • How John plans to execute the run
  • Who will win this year?

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timberman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson hello and once again with a very special guest with us

0:13.1

John Borton from the UK trainer road user and Kona qualifier thanks for coming on man thanks for having me. So you've

0:19.9

And for people that I guess don't know about what how we do Kona usually obviously we do these podcasts and then we also ride with with different folks and especially trainer

0:28.4

road users in the morning and you've joined us for a few rides. It's just been a ton of fun and your your wife is also here with us right now. She's also joined us every day. She's a hammer. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

0:37.6

Stole two QOMs this morning, which is pretty awesome. So yeah, yeah, definitely. So we've had we've had some good time to

0:44.1

pick your brain and get in all the nitty gritty details. If your bike set up and everything else that you've done the qualify for Kona

0:49.5

and we're going to go through all that now because it's pretty exciting stuff. So but first things first

0:54.9

Let's go into your numbers. That's the first thing. So you have a 330 FTP roughly. You think? Yeah, yeah, buddy. I've been trying out recently.

1:03.3

Good. Cool. And you're 78 kilograms. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. I weighed a couple of weeks ago. Okay.

1:09.2

78.77 puts you at about 4.28 watts per kilogram. Yeah. So we're in there. Okay. Cool. How tall are you?

1:15.6

I'm 5.9 and a half five. What's that in centimeters? Oh

1:21.2

176. Cool. Thank you. He was about to Google it. It's great. Thank you, John. You're fantastic.

1:27.8

So that is 172. Cool. The right pounds. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or yeah, 78 kilograms. Yeah. So some around 172.

1:36.8

Very close. Thanks Chad. Fantastic. You're welcome. Let's get into some of the details. So first things first you qualified at I am Copanagan.

1:45.6

I'm a Copanagan. That's it. What was your time? What were your splits? It was 846. Fast. Yeah.

1:55.2

Yeah. The goal was sub nine. So yeah, to go then the stretch goal was sub 850. So to get to 846, I'm pretty bad. Very pleased with.

2:03.6

So did a 102 swim, a 444 bike and then a 250 run. That's an insane run. Have you done a marathon open before?

2:12.4

After a fast bike. I've done, yeah, I've done two two open marathons and won this year, one last year. What were those times?

2:19.4

So my first one last year I did 253 and then this year I did the Boston marathon being in the year. I did a 235. That's crazy.

2:27.9

Geez. Do you have a running background? How did you become such a good runner?

2:32.8

So at school, I was a cross-country athletics by use pay rugby. So the seasons was you paid rugby and then you did cross-country in the next term.

2:40.8

Then you did athletics in the next term, all you did cricket. I was more proficient at running, let's say that.

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