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Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Triathlon While Black with Reggie Harrison

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

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

4.7843 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Reggie Harrison is a Black age-group triathlete from Atlanta, Georgia. A tremendously talented youth swimmer, now as an adult, he's completed several IM 70.3 races and three full IRONMAN distance races. On the podcast today, we talk with Reggie about race in triathlon, and Reggie describes the extra steps he has to take, as a Black person, just to be able to train safely, and without putting his life at risk. 

Transcript

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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.

0:42.8

Today's podcast is brought to you by our team, teamtrainiac.com.

0:47.0

Up until the end of this month, we figure that with not a lot of races going on over the rest of 2020,

0:53.0

a lot of people are starting to think, well, you know, I don't know if I really want to be

0:57.3

spending so much money on a coach, but a lot of athletes still want to do good training.

1:02.4

Well, we have some all right training at teamtrainiac.com and we are quite a bit less expensive

1:08.2

as a coach.

1:08.8

The whole premise of it is we wanted to use technology and leverage technology so that you

1:14.6

could get training that's 95, 98% as good as a coach for just 57 bucks a month.

1:21.2

But not just 57 bucks a month because everyone is probably reassessing their year right now, we have until the end of June

1:29.7

2020 an offer where if you use the coupon code when you sign up, the coupon code is stay strong

1:36.5

50. You can get 50% off for the next three months. So instead of 57 bucks a month, 28.50 a month. And this is for new athletes.

1:47.6

We have lots of offers for our existing athletes. Yeah, new athletes or athletes coming back.

1:52.6

If you've tried it out, you will be able to enter the coupon code. For the existing athletes,

1:59.4

you always have the option to go to an annual plan, which is in your dashboard about manage your account.

2:06.1

But for the new athletes or the athletes coming back, just signing up, stay strong 50 for 50% off.

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