Matt Reed was born in New Zealand, moved to Australia when he was nine and became a US citizen in 2007. He shares his stories about moving to France and Germany in his early 20’s to try to make it as a professional triathlete, which can be tough when you are 6’5” tall and are new to the language, the food and the culture. Matt overcame all the odds to represent the US in the Olympic Triathlon in Beijing. What’s next? An Olympic medal in London and an Ironman World Championship.

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Australia’s Mirinda Carfrae, the 2007 Ford Ironman 70.3 World Champion, went to Kona this past October to try her hand at the world’s most important triathlon. So how did she do? She took second to England’s Chrissie Wellington and broke the women’s run course record (2:56:51) in her first ever marathon. The former basketball star discussed her quick transition from the hardwood to the lava fields.

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Kara Goucher was a 2008 Olympian at 10,000 meters where she took tenth in a personal best of 30:55. A few months later, she did her first ever marathon and took third in New York, the first American woman to make the podium there since 1994. In 2009 she took third in Boston where the top three were separated by a total of nine seconds. Later in the year she won the Rock ‘n’ Roll Chicago Half Marathon overall-the first PERSON to cross the line- in 1:08:05. GREAT interview.

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Dathan Ritzenhein is a runner on a roll. In 2009 he set personal records at 5,000 (12:56.27), 10,000 (27:22.28), the half marathon (1:00:00) and the marathon (2:10:00). His 5K PR also happened to be the fastest 5000 in American history. Dathan came on a few days after celebrating his 27^th birthday. Besides being a great runner, Dathan was also a blast to chat with.

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Being truly race-ready on race day is trickier than you might think.

Written by: Mario Fraioli

In the final weeks leading up to his goal marathon, Ricky Runlong did everything right, or so he thought. He cut his mileage in half, started taking more days off to rest, and ran workouts so much faster than his target race pace, he was positive a huge PR was waiting in the wings. (continue reading…)

We’re finally BACK! After some work, a few emails with apple, and more than a few pots of coffee, we are finally back in the iTunes podcast directory. We have a new link as well, so if you’ve subscribed before, you can delete any old subscriptions, and just use the new one. You’ll find the new link in the right sidebar, or you can CLICK HERE to add us to itunes.

Thanks again for your patience! Hopefully this will be the last of the iTunes saga!

It has been 30 years since Tom Warren won the second ever Ironman Triathlon back in 1979. Tommy came on with us to talk about the early days of the sport and what he remembers from the race that did so much to put Ironman on the map.

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