Rocky Harris: CEO of USA Triathlon Talks About How They’re Helping Beginner Triathletes - Triathlon Taren Podcast

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Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Rocky Harris is the new CEO of USAT (USA Triathlon) which is the governing body for triathlon in the United States. Historically USAT has operated in a silo being known primarily for offering race organizers insurance, however they're recently partnered with heavyweights like Ironman and Triathlete magazine to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to launch My Time to Tri and attempt to add 100,000 beginner triathletes to our sport each year. Topics discussed in the interview: My Time to Tri Rocky Harris on Twitter USAT Foundation

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0:00.0	Today's podcast is brought to you by for the first time.
0:03.8	Two sponsors.
0:05.4	We are literally growing by dozens of dollars a day.
0:09.5	Amazing.
0:10.2	This is fantastic.
0:11.7	And we should preface these sponsorship bits by saying that we only accept sponsors on the podcast
0:17.4	if they have a product that we really support, believe in, and or use if possible.
0:23.7	Unfortunately, we can't use the first sponsor's product, Health IQ, because they are U.S. life insurance and we are Canadians.
0:32.1	But it's still amazing because it's something that you used to rant and rave about all the time when you were
0:38.2	an investment advisor, the fact that healthy people paid more for life insurance than unhealthy
0:42.7	people, but no more.
0:44.0	Yes, health IQ has set up their company in such a way that triathletes, swimmers, cyclists,
0:50.3	runners, vegans, people who take care of themselves can get as much as a 25% savings on their
0:56.6	life insurance, which really just makes sense. That's the way that it should be. That was, yes,
1:02.6	that was one of the rantey and ravey things because guys like me, I had to pay just as much as
1:07.7	the burger and fries, never getting off the couch guy. Yes, yes, not ideal.
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1:28.2	Taryn. It's not going to save you any money because Health IQ is already.
1:32.1	Right.
1:32.2	You're saving you the money. Ideally saving you money. But let's Health IQ know that you came from us
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