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🗓️ 25 August 2019
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Pete Jacobs is the 2012 Ironman World Champion, and he's also a strict carnivore, eating only fish, eggs, meat, water and salt on a daily basis. On this week's edition of the Triathlon Taren podcast, we find out what Pete's been up to since 2012, whether we'll see him race in Kona again, and how he fuels Ironman training and racing on a meat-only diet.
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0:00.0 | What's up Trainiacs? This is Triathlon Taryn. This is no triathlon Kim, also known as NTK. |
0:09.0 | In my 20s, I was 215 pounds and I was unhappy working the desk job I was at. Now I'm a 941 Ironman athlete who, with your much appreciated attention, gets to make a living in the sport that I love. |
0:23.0 | Through this podcast and our ever popular YouTube channel, we bring you triathlon stories, science, |
0:28.5 | and training from amazing people around the world to help you get to your start lines confident |
0:34.1 | and your finish lines strong. |
0:36.3 | And as the resident non-triathlete, I try to keep this show fun and accessible for everybody. |
0:41.6 | Let's do it. |
0:42.7 | Today's podcast is brought to you by two sponsors, Roka, our pals at Roka, wet suits, sunglasses, |
0:48.9 | floaty pants. |
0:50.0 | Everything you want under the sun can be found at roca.com forward slash taren. Now I want to talk |
0:55.7 | about specifically what wetsuit I use that people have been questioning me on well why aren't |
1:02.4 | you using the super duper high end maverick pro X wetsuit Terran. Well when I go and I train I use |
1:09.8 | the maverick comp which which is their entry-level |
1:12.8 | wetsuit. I think that that Maverick comp is as good a wetsuit as some of those eight, nine, |
1:20.5 | $1,200 wetsuits out there for a fraction of the price trainiacs. So if you are in the market |
1:27.2 | for an entry-level wetsuit, |
1:29.3 | I highly recommend that one. That one sounds like a good one. And the thing is, they |
1:33.7 | put the same kind of quality into every single one of their products. So the so-called entry |
1:38.0 | level isn't like a lesser entry level. It's just a different wetsuit. Exactly. That's why I've |
1:43.0 | been such a big fan of Roka, |
1:44.3 | from goggles to wetsuits to floaty pants, sunglasses now, pretty much everything that I've tried |
1:50.0 | from them since 2013 has been great. So go check out Roka.com forward slash Taryn. They have set |
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