Pro Triathlete Ben Hoffman | USA's best hope at Kona
Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast
Taren Gesell
4.7 • 843 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Ben Hoffman is a professional triathlete from Grand Junction, Colorado. He started training for tri at the University of Montana and quickly rose to the top of the ranks at the collegiate level. He turned pro in 2007 and has had two top 5 finishes at Kona, plus several other Ironman, Half-Ironman, and National Championship victories.
On today's episode of the Triathlon Taren podcast, Taren and Ben chat about overcoming injuries, keeping focus, and Ben's expectations for himself at Kona and beyond.
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| 0:18.8 | in the open swim that I did the other day. |
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| 0:26.0 | because of this buoy because I've been worried about boats hitting you and other such things. |
| 0:29.9 | I have been worried about that too over the last couple weeks for whatever reason it was. |
| 0:33.9 | There were a couple boats and rowers that were getting really, really close and a couple times they stopped and said, you know, we really can't see you until we're like basically on top of you. |
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| 0:48.5 | instantly, boats were a long way away. And then I went up on shore and I asked somebody on |
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| 0:54.5 | if they could see me. And they said that they could see me as far out as I went, which at one point |
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