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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Kona Special Interview – Norman Banick – Ask a Cycling Coach 226

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

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4.9 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Norman Banick is a Kona veteran and a previous Ironman winner. This year he is using his experience with consistent training, nutrition, and equipment to be faster than ever. Tune in to learn from Norman's experience as he prepares for IRONMAN World Championships.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • What it feels like to win an IronMan
  • Can athletes be successful on a mid-volume plan?
  • How Norman started racing triathlons
  • Norman's pre-race nutrition plan
  • Positioning and pacing for the swim
  • Norman's equipment checklist
  • How Norman heat trained for Kona
  • Norman's takeaways from his previous Ironman World Championship

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist or

0:04.1

triathlete in this case. Yes, the cycling coach podcast presented by trainer

0:07.5

road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timmerman. Hi buddy. Our

0:10.6

CEO Nate Pearson. Hello. And a very special guest with us today Norman Bannock. How

0:14.7

you doing Norman? I'm fine. Hello. Where are you from first of all? I'm from

0:19.1

Germany. Although I do live in Austria, nowadays. Oh cool. Awesome. We are going to

0:24.6

talk triathon how you got to Kona all the details on how you plan to execute

0:28.7

it. Kona, but also how you got there. And first things first, we'll get into your

0:33.2

tri background a bit, but this is pretty crazy. So you qualified for Kona Ironman Vici.

0:38.4

And just going over the numbers here on this, this is pretty nuts. So one hour

0:43.5

swim, one hour and 11 11 seconds, I should say, four 33 bike really fast and

0:50.4

257 run after doing the bike like that. So you got a 837, which is insanely fast.

0:57.4

That's crazy. And then there was no pros there. Yeah, that's right. No pros, right?

1:02.6

What was that about? It's no pro race. There's a 70.3 that it before, which has

1:08.5

pros, but the full distance doesn't have any pros. So what in place did you get

1:13.6

man over the line? I won. You won. How did that feel? It was pretty, pretty unreal, to be honest.

1:21.9

I don't know, I obviously knew before I crossed the finish line that that I will win.

1:27.5

But I haven't really realized it, I guess, for a few days or so, because it's not

1:35.0

something you start in for an Ironman competition and you think, well, I will probably win that.

1:40.7

Yeah, no one, right? I'll be cool with that. But yeah. First across the tape. Did you get

1:47.1

the pin? Yeah, that was that was semi embarrassing actually because I wanted I thought about

1:51.9

what kind of move I want to make. And then I grabbed it, but I was still way too fast.

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