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Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Got Put In His Place on the Bike. Is Ironman Getting Lame? How to Open Water Swim Safely

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

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

4.7843 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this week's podcast, Taren got put in his place on the bike.  WE answer the question, is Ironman getting lame? And, how to open water swim safely.

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0:00.0

What's up, Motivators, Taryn here with no triathlon Kim N.TK.

0:05.6

Funny story from last week. Oh, yeah? Very funny story. So I've been bragging a lot about how

0:12.0

fit I'm getting on the bike. Yeah. Tuesday morning, we do a group bike ride. And last week,

0:19.3

a new guy shows up. And this is a fellow that I've heard about. I know he's

0:23.5

kind of bike fit. He showed up to a ride last year at one point but it was like with 15 people so

0:30.3

he didn't really stand out as tremendously talented. But him and I were kind of leading the ride

0:36.1

as like the most high power bike bikers in the group

0:40.4

and at the very end of the ride there is a two-minute section coming into town to finish the

0:45.4

ride and I figure hey if I go and I really hammer down at 450 watts for this final two minutes

0:52.0

I'm going to establish the pecking order.

0:54.6

And I am going to be the strongest rider in the group.

0:57.2

He's going to know it.

0:58.3

And he's going to be way off the back.

1:00.5

So I start.

1:02.1

Hold that 450 watts for the first minute.

1:04.9

And then bam, he goes past me like I was standing still.

1:09.3

And I think, oh, he's just showing off. He's trying to

1:11.9

break me here. And he's just digging in for about eight, 10 seconds. So I hop on to the back

1:17.1

of his wheel, screech uncontrollably, because it was such high power. And I had to,

1:23.0

like he went, ah, God. And then I had to hold 450 watts in his draft for the final entire minute.

1:31.8

And this is a big fella.

1:33.2

So he had a really big draft.

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