Welcome to episode 453 of That Traathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

My name is Michael Erickson, and first of all, welcome to or welcome back to the podcast.

It is the first episode of 2025, so we have had about a month since the last

episode, but I've been working really hard behind the scenes, and I'm really excited for

some episodes, some amazing guests that are lined up to come out over the next couple of

months, and we're kicking things off in style today with a true legend

of triathlon coaching Lance Watson. I'll let him introduce himself in his own words and in more

detail but for those that are not familiar with him I'll just highlight something and that is

that Lance was the coach of Simon Whitfield when Simon became the first ever Olympic champion in triathlon on the men's side.

And that is something that we discuss in detail in today's interview, hearing more about Simon's training, his progression through the sport and some of the specific sessions that he was doing in the lead-up to that Olympic goal.

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