4.7 • 843 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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On this week's edition of the Triathlon Taren podcast, we chat with Kurt Spenser, co-founder of one of the most popular brands in Triathlon today: ROKA, the creator of some of the best wetsuits in the world. We talk about how they started the company, how they came up with some of their groundbreaking innovations in wetsuit technology, and about some of their products that never got off the ground!
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0:00.0 | First sponsor of today's podcast is Roka, which has been the supplier of my wetsuit since |
0:06.0 | 2013 since they hooked me up, fortunately, on our honeymoon in Kona with a wetsuit. |
0:13.5 | And since then, I haven't really used any other, like, as my primary go-to, wet suit and swim gear supplier, anyone but Roca. |
0:23.5 | I'm a big fan. |
0:24.4 | And we have put together the biggest contest that we have ever done with Roca right now. |
0:30.3 | Over $2,000 in prizes. |
0:31.9 | Three winners will win a Roca Wetsuit, an entry to the Ironman race of their choice. That's big. That's big. |
0:40.6 | Roka sim shorts. I think some goggles are in there. Roka backpack, Roka, all of the things. |
0:46.2 | It is a very sweet deal. And you can get in on that sweet deal by entering the contest so easy. |
0:52.6 | All you have to do is go to roca.com slash |
0:55.5 | T-A-R-E-N. That's it. But you got to go and hurry because it's only open until the end of April. |
1:02.1 | So if you're listening to this after, we're sorry. Second sponsor, new sponsor, and you want to |
1:07.0 | talk about snake oil sales mini kind of products out there that I was very skeptical of. |
1:12.8 | AMP, human performance, and their PR lotion. |
1:15.9 | I did not believe that this was actually a thing until I saw that Cam Worf, |
1:19.8 | the instructor for how to bike with Cam Worf masterclass at pro triathlon training.com, uses it. |
1:26.1 | And Cam is incredibly fussy we'll say about the |
1:31.8 | gear that he uses and particularly the sponsors that he partners with and how he makes a living in |
1:38.0 | triathlon so much so that he doesn't take a dollar from any of the proceeds of the course that he produced with us at |
1:45.1 | pro triathlon training.com. |
1:46.8 | That's pretty cool. |
1:48.0 | But I started trying this PR lotion, had a killer workout, and I figured if I could |
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