Age group athletes have to have more patience because they can't do it all at once.

Even professionals can't, you know, really work on a weakness and improve a strength

and maintain or improve, you know, one of the other disciplines all at once.

That Treflon- Show, 168.

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

I'm your host Michael and on today's episode I interview Barb Lindquist, a true legend in Traathlon.

If you don't know Barb, she has 33 professional triathlon victories to her name

from sprint to Iron Man distance. She was the number one ranked female athlete in the world from 2003 to

2004 and represented the United States in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, where she was ninth.

In 2010, she was inducted into the USAT Hall of Fame.

She retired from racing in 2005 and then began to coach athletes and also to work for USA Triathlon,

where she's famous for setting up the collegiate recruitment

program, which is how athletes like Gwen Jorgensen, for example, and other dominating

U.S. female athletes were brought into triathlon. So in today's interview, we discuss a whole

variety of things, really, ranging from the elite side of things to age group

focused aspects. So that just sort of happened to be the way the conversation unfolded,

hence the somewhat generic title of the episode. But you'll just hear for yourself as we get

into it. And I think it was a really, really great discussion that anybody can get a lot out from.

But before that, big thanks to our sponsor's precision hydration.

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