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🗓️ 23 March 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Recognized around the world as the “Voice of IRONMAN,” Mike Reilly has called more than 180 IRONMAN events, including 30 straight years of the World Championship in Kona. More than 350,000 athletes have heard his iconic pronouncement, “You are an IRONMAN!” as they crossed the finish line.
Every one of those athletes has a story, and Reilly has heard hundreds of them. At long last, at the urging of many friends and athletes, Reilly has written a book about what he’s seen and what he’s learned.
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0:00.0 | Today's podcast is brought to you by a new podcast sponsor that I'm so jacked up about |
0:05.4 | Roka. |
0:07.4 | After five, six years of Roka being my go-to-wet suit, they are now part of the triathlon |
0:14.5 | Taryn family. |
0:15.4 | And fun story about this, how I ended up becoming such a big fan of Roka is I was training for an open water marathon swim. |
0:23.0 | First one that I did was 27 kilometers and I was training in this old wetsuit. |
0:28.1 | My shoulders were getting sore. |
0:30.1 | And at our honeymoon in Kona in 2013, I went up to the Roka booth when they were so small that it was the founders that were working the booth |
0:38.4 | and they had to share the booth with somebody else and I told them about this marathon swim and they |
0:42.4 | set me up with a wetsuit, take it back home and they had back then what was this revolutionary |
0:48.8 | thing. They now call it the arms up technology. It was what put Roca on the map. It's the game changing, |
0:55.2 | really flexible shoulders. They had it then and it basically turned them from this tiny little |
1:00.7 | wetsuit company into this giant company that is Roca right now. And they've still got that |
1:05.9 | arms up technology. And it's still why I use Roca wetsuits. I'm pumped. Full circle. I'm a Roka fanboy. |
1:13.2 | Well, there's an amazing, there's a couple good things coming up. First of all, there's a |
1:17.7 | coupon that they're offering to folks who are listening here to the podcast. If you go to their |
1:22.2 | website, they have a coupon code, or you use the coupon code, Taryn, you'll get $20 off of an order of $100 or more. |
1:29.5 | So that's kind of a big deal. |
1:31.5 | But bigger than that. |
1:33.1 | Bigger than that. |
1:33.8 | Much bigger. |
1:34.7 | Roca.com slash Taryn. |
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