I really feel like that's the difference between good athletes and great athletes.

Great athletes are able to both look at the numbers, you know, the actual analytics, the actual data and use that data.

But they're also incredibly aware of their own sensation and, you know, and how they feel and where they are at that level

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Hey what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of that triathlon show, the podcast presented by scientificthraathlon.com.

I'm your host Michael and on today's episode, I interview coach Ryan Bolton.

Ryan was an Olympic athlete from the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

He has won Iron Man Lake Pleasant and been on the podium in various Ironman races in his long distance career.

And now he is the founder of Bolton Endurance and coaches elite triathletes and runners.

Some of his most famous athletes would be Ben Hoffman, who was fourth in Kona in 2019,

and Caroline Routich, who is a marathoner and half marathoner and is a former winner of the Boston Marathon.

So we'll get into his coaching methodology and discussions around how he periodizes

things, what he thinks about base training, etc., etc.

Tons of great things in this interview that I really, really enjoyed chatting about.

But before we do that, big thanks to our sponsors, Precisionhydration, that you can

find on precision hydration.com. If you haven't checked out Precision Hydration's blog, that's a wealth

of knowledge about not only hydration, but endurance training in general. One of the episodes that I think

is, sorry, not episodes, one of the blog posts that I think is a good to highlight from the blog is called How to Stay Hydrated During Winter Training. I will link to that in the episode description. And this is a blog post written by Andy Blow, where Andy has provided some tips for staying hydrated during the offseason or

during winter training. And he has given some takeaways. There's a list of five take-home

messages at the end of the post. So even if you think that, well, I don't have time to read

a blog post, you can get the main message of the post in just 30 seconds. If you scroll down

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