Triathlon training lessons with Mary Beth Ellis | EP#32

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Mary Beth Ellis is the fastest American woman ever over a full distance triathlon. She retired in 2016, and is now coaching full time. Here, she shares her knowledge and pearls of wisdom on how age-groupers should manage and think about their triathlon training IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -Why you should prioritize rest and recovery -How going really slow and really fast will help you improve -Why having a coach can be such a massive benefit for athletes -Time management for busy triathletes LISTENER QUESTIONS: If you have questions that you want me to answer on the show or off the show (in an email), send me your question via email or Twitter (contact information below). NOTES: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ SHOWNOTES: www.thattriathlonshow.com Send feedback, questions or just wanna chat? CONTACT me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0	I think the other thing is bearing the workout stimuli, you know, trying to stay out of that,
0:05.4	that what they call the gray zone, so not doing all your workouts in that sort of moderately hard zone.
0:13.2	That Treflam's Show, episode 32. Hello, welcome back to that triathlon show, the podcast presented by ScientificTraflon.com.
0:35.2	I'm your host, Michael, and today's interviewee is none other than Mary Beth Ellis, one of the biggest names in long-distance triathlon over the past few years, 10 years or so that she's been racing as a professional triathlet.
0:50.4	She's now retired and has moved into coaching, and that is what we're going to talk about today.
0:56.6	And all her tips that she has to give to age group triathletes like the ones that she coach, but also of course like you, most of you listeners.
1:05.9	So Mary Beth, just to give you a brief intro, has won something like 11 Iron Man titles. She is an
1:12.8	idea you long distance world champion and she has finished in the top five at the Iron Man
1:18.8	World Championships as well. She also holds the record for the fastest full distance triathlon
1:24.6	time by an American woman, which was 843-34 that she set in Austria in
1:30.2	2011. So she has a long and illustrious career with training for Brett Sutton for whom she's now
1:37.8	coaching at TriSado and also Sir Lindley, so two of the greatest coaches in the sport of triathlon.
1:45.8	So as you can imagine,
1:51.5	with those two being her coaches at different parts of her career, she has picked up a thing of two that hopefully you can learn a lot from. Yeah, let's just dive right into the interview
1:57.4	and then we'll go back to the key takeaways after that, shall we?
2:04.2	So on today's interview on that triathlon show, we have Marybeth Ellis.
2:08.9	Marybeth, welcome to the show.
2:10.7	Thanks so much for having me.
2:11.9	It's great to be on.
2:13.1	And for those listeners that may not know about you, can we just start by briefly going to your
2:19.1	background? You're a former professional triathlet, but recently retired, but just give us an overview
2:26.0	of what you've been up to in your triathlon life. Yeah, as a professional, I had really enjoyed
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