when you get to those endurance events, like something like Badwater or Leadville 100, you know, those, those ultras that are well known.

Females are, you know, top contenders with the males, and I think part of that is mental.

That Trafalon Show, 170.

Yeah. That Traathlon Show, 170. Hey, what's up everybody, and welcome back to another episode of That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

I'm your host Michael and on today's episode I interview Wendy Mayder, who was on all the way back in episode 4 where we talked about training for beginner triathletes.

Wendy is a coach and a former Ironman Age Group World Champion,

overall age group world champion,

with more than 25 years of experience in triathlon.

And in this interview, we discuss what female athletes may need to consider in their triathlon training

and how it may or may not be different

from male athletes and their training. So some of the things that will cover include those

differences but also the impact of the menstrual cycle on training, the impact of age and

the aging female athlete and training, as well as differences between men

and women when it comes to psychology, mindset and confidence. And this one was a really

interesting one and something that I see in my coaching quite a lot, actually. Before we get

into the interview, big thanks to precision hydration for sponsoring today's

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