There is. He is called The Rock ;) Joking aside, this dude is so humble and honest and most of all no-nonsense. A true role model

@@Crojach I came across his channel and have been training for my first iron man ever since. Humble athlete and his videos are so informational

Was thinking the same. Just shows that elite athletes think and train in different athmosphere than us hobby athletes

🤣🤣🤣🤣very light indeed

Hate to say it, im an AG doing 20 hrs per week, so for him only doing 25, that's low

josh otstot before my first Ironman, I peaked at 40 hours of training a week. I’m sure I could’ve gotten away with less, but I was nervous about not training enough! Lol! I think I did about 3 weeks of that before I started tapering. I think I started tapering about 2.5 weeks out. Turns out, I had way more than enough fitness for the race, and probably could’ve gone significantly faster. I kept my effort way under maximal threshold. I had so much energy at the end, that I negative split the last 7 miles, and I could’ve easily run 10 more. I suppose that’s called learning. I ended with a time of 11:17:03. While I didn’t think that was a bad time, I’m sure I could’ve gone at least 15-30 minutes faster. Keep in mind that I was 34 at the time, and had done a 5:10 70.3 early that season. This was with zero coaching, and just whatever training I thought was decent at the time. Not sure why I felt the need to share, but I think a lot of age-groupers might over train. I think a lot of that has to do with nerves, like Lionel admits to having.

@@petergriffin2513 that was interesting, thx for sharing!

verena krause yesss IM Frankfurt

Rémi Ardiet i agree! My jaw dropped when I heard he’s going to be doing a 70.3 2 weeks before Kona- but I have faith in him!

I agree, and what if you do a B race before your A race and crash on your bike during the B race ?

Claims to have learned his lesson but clearly did not.

yup it was that legendary brown and always very moist brown trainign room videos :) at about the same time i turned from power training to endurance training :) 6,5yrs.

I'm sure he'll destroy your brother

Umm… How much time do you think you need to recover from 8 hours race?

ebatron3000 he said in this video.. takes him 7 full days to remotely recover

I'm worried about a catch-up thought process/mentality, which could lead to over training. Augusta shouldn't be about winning but getting prepped for Kona. If you follow Patrick Lange he does enough to qualify for Kona and sometimes wins and sometimes doesn't before Kona and it doesn't appear to phase him, because he knows the big one to peak for is Kona. Then again every athlete can work differently. But I still worry as I want to see Lionel at his best in October!

Agree and believe less is more when it comes to Kona prep and for that reason don't really like the idea of doing a 70.3 race 2 weeks out, unless it's done at closer to training pace.

So they will be out here in the heat running, cycling, and swimming!? Where are they going to swim at?

I lived in Tucson until I was 6. Went to mesquite elementary school

Me too! haha! (at 1:58) ;)

Nice leg!

I hope he reads this , good tip Einstein

Matt legend lol he literally said in the video the race is won on the run

M VonWaltz well if you watch the video he explains why lol. This is very common for athletes to do. Tim Odonnell did this last year and got 4th. Matt Russell races an Ironman the week before lol.

Talbot - I love the chutzpah lol But, does a pre-Kona 70.3/IM race strongly correlate to a Kona podium finish? Do you know, is a hard pre-race, is that the secret-sauce? (I wonder what the Germans do lol)

As if to prove my point, have listen to words of the legend Javier Gomez about coming 2nd to Alistair during the London Olympics - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eteZlsxm297ZkoU.htmlm17s