In the beginning, Episode 71 Corning, what's happened to your
face? You, you, we.
We should. Come on, we should.
Settle down. It was a rough night.
We not that rough. We should stay up the top.
You're operating under a little bit of duress today.
I was. I was actually, I was just above
your studios. Oh, yeah, my dentist.
Yeah. By the way, everyone, Yeah, I'm
kind of like got a little bit of a Courtney droop over here.
I had a few few feelings I had to catch up on from pre
Christmas. If you're watching the video,
Courtney hasn't had a stroke. He's just, he's just look back.
Can you just, can you tell? Can you tell?
It can tell a little bit, yeah. Everybody out there I.
Just don't want to have a drink because this is gonna go
straight. Down everybody out there will
sympathise with. I didn't ask for an extra hour
and Liam's pushed me. Terrible.
We got things to talk about, things to get to.
Firstly, Australia Day event, where were you?
I thought I'd see you. No, barely runs where?
Did I do Australia Day? Where were you?
I was expecting.
You know what? Australia Day.
Mm Hmm. Yeah, one, I'm not happy that
Australia Day fell on my normal Monday morning swim social
group. Yes, because we missed out on it
that way. Great event though.
I was down at the Spit doing a run.
OK, so my son had rowing training at 5:00 AM and I
dropped, did the drop off and what if he went out to the
forest? I don't have to check my Strava.
I can't remember exactly. What I can remember at Australia
Day is we had a great day out here on the lake just.
Perfect condition. Perfect conditions.
It was a beautiful day last. Sunday the water was I was out
on the Broadwater when I jumping Penway the day before and it was
busy. But Australia Day was
ridiculous, so it should be. That's the that's the day when
it's conditions like it was on the Gold Coast, the barely swim
run event. Yeah, tell me all your.
Put on by put on by friend of the show Ty Dalker, it was it
did an amazing job. You're the.
You're the headline for this. Well, right, this is where we
need to. This is what I want to address.
Put on by Ty Dalker, headline by.
By by Liam. Flanagan by Hot Tomatoes.
Yeah, so there's a couple of stories here, firstly stitched
up by the Gold Coast Bulletin, the paper, the local rag up
here. I wasn't aware of this until you
sent me. Well, I would never have been,
but my dad, who still reads papers made me made me aware of
it. I you send me this message of a
photo of me from last year's event.
Yep. Now, this time last year I was
going all right, but I wasn't in great nick.
And in these runs from events, you get to my it's like you're
wearing a, a surf series, Rashi. So you're saying you weren't
happy with your parents? I was not.
Happy with the I did not clear that photo and they've gone with
the caption of Triple M Gold's Liam Flanagan will be taking to
the start line for the barely swim run.
I didn't compete either, so it's fake news.
But also not only that reading it Liam Flanagan headline act
and then by the way, Matt Hauser might show and but he will be up
against it against defending champion.
The bloke who won it again, Whose name?
Copeland. Brandon Copeland.
I was wrong. That's the ridiculous part about
this. Good mates go to the distance Is
the good mates to go distance is the headline of this article.
It opens with Matt Hauser is the reigning world triathlon
champion, but he won't be favourite going into the annual
Australia Day Billy Swim run if he opts to toe the line.
If you stop there and you see the photo of me, it makes it
seem like I'm about to knock Matt Hauser off in a run swim
event. Yeah, well it it wasn't me.
Brandon Copeland, six time champion, won it again was very
impressive. Matt did not compete.
Matt Hauser didn't take the line, nor did I Matt, I assume,
pulled out because he was nervous that I was going to
knock him off. He saw the picture and went,
jeez, he's looking fit. But I, I went down such a great
event, amazing event. Shout out to Ty and the whole
crew that put that event on. Do you know, just quickly while
we're talking about these sort of events, Josh Minogue, he's a
great commentator. I was here.
Josh was Josh was doing it, Josh was doing the the finish line
and start line with Ty and Ty's great as well.
Yeah, but I listen to Josh and Josh is a former calling out a
gold winner. He's, you know, fantastic
competitor. He runs the sub three marathon
as well. But listening to Josh, the way
he talks about the sport on the coverage of the Shoreham
partners on series, I think he's a fantastic sports commentator.
I think he does a really, really good job as.
Soon, as you said, then he runs the sub three and he's an Iron
Man upper body man or like a favourite.
Exactly gotta do it. I'm sick of this apex this way.
We are gonna talk about to the AP S the Jesus.
Great event. My daughter and my niece both
took part in the kids 400 metre wide, 400 metre run race.
They had a fantastic time. Ty did make one area when he I
got down there and he grabbed me for a quick chat on the
microphone and he introduced me as hot tomatoes.
Liam Flanagan. I said, Ty, you put on a great
event. You're terrible at remembering
things though 'cause I work for the other station.
Question for you. Oh quickly.
Yep. Aspen Addison Anderson.
Anderson. Yeah.
The young woman that took out the the the women's race.
Oh. She won, she won.
That's who I've been sparring with on a Tuesday morning.
Oh my goodness, what an athlete. Yeah, what that was.
I was blown away. She is 'cause she's what, 17 or
something or 1818 now? Maybe not.
That's the first time. And everyone was down there was
raving about what an athlete. And now that you mentioned
you're the one, she was the one. You've kind of been stalking
around the Not in that way, but you know what I mean from a
pacing perspective. So I I actually now let me
think, no, I went to the 1996 or 7, maybe 95 something around
there Junior World chance with her father.
Yeah, so we're getting into that area where the kids are the
your, your peers are starting hard.
Yeah, yeah, but Cam actually comes down and runs as well, so
right still goes alright. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like he's in the thick of it too, so.
No, it, it was an amazing event, great conditions, lots, just
really a a great way. It's a new tradition for my
family on Australia Day now like we I was in last year, we were
down there again this year. My daughter wants to do the 200
metre swim 2K race. Next year she'll be 10 and my
wife want it's just a great, it is our tradition now for
Australia Day. The other thing that came out of
Australia Day, I bumped into one Rick Atkinson.
Yeah, my brother. Your brother and I said to Rick,
how's his running going? He's got a little bit of a
hamstring tendinopathy going on at the moment.
So yeah, kniggles. Kniggles and what he said to me
though, which I love, which I said I'm definitely bringing up
with Courtney is that he said as I as I'm suffering an injury in
my runnings tailing Courtney's only going up and up.
And I was like, really, what makes you say that?
He's like, you can always tell Courtney's going well by the way
he chirps, Start session, starts heckling people.
Now, is this true? Would you say this is a fair
representation of are you? Is your mood and your level of
chat representative of how well you're going?
I think. Mood 100% right, 100% mood.
But it's I wouldn't call it heckling, but I definitely, I
love competition. So they're not.
So once I'm once I'm running and then I can start to actually
look at people and go, OK, you're you're my next start.
Yeah. What are you doing?
What? Yeah, I just loved it 'cause I.
'Cause when you're like jogging around, yeah, you're useless,
right? Yeah, I shouldn't say you're
useless. You're still running.
But like, for me, it's, oh, I can't, you know, we just talked
about Cam Anderson. Yeah, You know, I'm running
around the track. I can't even like put in the
extra effort to try and keep up and be competitive and now it's
kidding there. Yeah, no, Rick was quick to say,
yeah, Courtney is. He's going well.
And there's nothing worse when someone else you're talking to
is also in the dumps. Because I've been in the, you
know, I've been the one in the dumps for the last year with my
running, you know, with the stress fractures and some other
things going on. Hey.
But Touchwood, Edgewood, don't get too cocky.
Yep, Never, never, never, never get too cocky.
Never, because the running gods are fickle, yes, and they will
strike you down. But Australia Day, that Billy
Swim run if you ever get the chance to be on the Goldie and
you're not a local on Austria to be up here on Australia Day,
could not recommend that event enough.
It's. Fantastic.
It's wonderful. I mean, to even just get get to
race in that little, you know, gem part of the world.
Yeah. Brilliant.
Yeah. Yeah.
Well done Ty. Well done, Ty.
Well done to everybody that was involved with putting that one
on. I will let's let's segue into
the event, the next event I guess, which is the T100 fast
approaching the 10K race. I bumped into Trent from Gold
Coast Physio and he he's target on my back.
Yeah, he's. For this 10K, Yep, well and
truly 10K. You've got a few there who are
racing you. Yeah.
So do you feel? Some pressure.
No, I'm, I'm gonna make this balloon thing happen, though.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna make this balloon.
We don't. We don't want excuses about you
had to carry a balloon. Aerodynamics.
There will be no excuse about balloon.
In fact, maybe that's the novelty of.
It so on the balloon and we're just gonna have can you beat me?
Hey, tell me what I should put on the balloon?
You're not gonna really run like a balloon.
I'm not. Why not?
I'm not gonna allow you to run. With a, why not?
I'm happy you can run with a shirt if you want to.
If you want to print a shirt like Can you beat me?
I'd like to can we can we game a fight somehow so that if I do
wear a shirt, it's like a pin in the tail on the donkey shirt
where as you run past you have to put your name like a.
Sticker Yeah, I'm going to put my foot down.
No, No balloons. No balloons, No balloons.
Such a. Small sport?
No, no. The the Peter 100.
Run problem. Fast approaching.
I thought it was interesting at the moment because with all the
despite the when we'll get to a bit to the trail, I've got some
trail updates for everybody because I've had a lot of people
hitting me up asking about how the mile is going.
I've got some updates that's coming up.
I'm still trying to incorporate a tempo interval session into my
week. Yep, my Monday runs at the
moment are I'm I'm running. Fast.
So give us the example. Well, just do what was what was
the last? One you did did two weeks ago,
it was a Mona. I just said I put a Mona session
in. Most recently I went with AI,
did 12 KS, I did 4 KS sort of a cruising warm up pace.
Got a 5 minutes 515 then I did the next 6 at sub 430 pace.
I just put in some like for me which I probably averaged around
420 / 6 KS and then did a 2K warm like just cool down.
So for the Mona you average. Sorry so that that was the Mona
I I was trying to keep my 92nd minute long intervals around sub
4 minute case. But this is most recently on my
Monday session. I did A12K run, 4K warm up, six
Ki guess tempo you'd call it around 420 pace and then a 2K
cooldown. So I'm still trying to keep some
speed runs in my week because basically my week is focused on
kilometres and elevation. So that's interesting.
So you choose in that type of session to pick a distance to
run. So you go off your watch to go
I'm going to run 6K, Yeah. And you run to a instead of
going I'm going to run for a duration 20 minutes.
Yeah. I mean, there's no right or
wrong. Yeah, I just, it's interesting
because like. Well, it's, I guess it hasn't
been those speed sessions haven't been so much a a
planned. They haven't been a a planned
training session. It's not a training session as
such. It's me mentally breaking up the
case they're on. Yeah, because most like, you
know, yesterday I did 11 KS at 5:15 pace.
This weekend I'll do back to back kind of 20 K plus days with
elevation. So they'll be walking in there
and they'll be and it's, it's a grind.
Yep. I'm choosing to incorporate that
Monday session for fun. So you do that Monday though off
say like this weekend you said you're going to do two 20s.
Yep. You then try and run the Monday
off. Yeah, that's risky.
Why is that? You want to give yourself like
treating the long run. So even if you're running a
longer run easier, yeah, it's still should be a fair bit
longer than what you'd normally do.
And so you still want to allow the lakes to have a recovery
after that if you can jump into too much speed, so.
You'd say take the Monday off. Yeah, you.
And then run back to Tuesday. OK, Yeah.
Oh, I'll just try that. Just just risk avoidance when
we're talking about. Good point going down here.
Good point, especially if you do a like 2 longer days.
Well, this is be the first weekend I try for two longer
days. That's the.
Plan. You definitely want to give
yourself bit of space and. I I think regardless of days the
point is at the moment I'm trying to just include keep that
tempo E session for fun. Yep, because running slow is
what I need to be doing now. It's time on feet and it's.
Just breaks it up. But keeping that tempo run
earlier in my week is fun. I'm enjoying keeping up that
that speed run in my week. I hear you.
I'm not. We'll get back.
I'll keep keep going on yours, but I'll just jump in because I,
I hear you 100%. And a very similar thing.
I mean, I've been in Perth for this week and I was like, I'd
done my, I'd push my speed session to Monday because I knew
I'd have to travel on the Tuesday.
So Wednesday morning I got off and I'm like, what am I going to
do? I'm on my own.
I'm, you know, I haven't really got anything too planned, But
also I don't want to just run an hour.
No. So what I ended up doing was
running 8K around Swan Lake or what's the, what's the main lake
in Perth there in the city. I ran around the path around
there for 8K. So I did pick a distance and
then tempoed back and just, you know, I've, I've actually ran
into a heart rate, but just purely, and that was just mental
to get, you know, I didn't really have a plan to do a
session, but it was like at least broke it up for me.
It's still it. We sort of, I love, I love the
way you and I talk about running.
I really enjoy talking about running like this because I
think we go off into specific niches, we talk shoes and all
that sort of stuff. But I think we still come back
to the underpinning thing about running, which is that it's good
for you, It's good for your head, it's good for your body.
And, and, and it doesn't, not every session needs to be
targeted to achieving a physical training goal.
Sometimes just good for your head.
Yeah, go and run fast or run long or do something.
Mix it up a little bit. Going back to the T100 though,
because we're fast approaching it's, I actually had a meeting
with, there's a, for those that aren't on the Gold Coast or
aren't familiar with the Goldie, there's a big supermarket, big
shopping centre area called Paradise Centre, right on the
front basically where the Surfers Paradise sign is.
It's on Cavil Mall, right? And we actually had a meeting
there for for some work stuff. And I was talking with someone
who's involved with the Paradise Centre and they are pumped.
Are they pumped? They're so excited about this
event. It's been.
It's been busy down there. Oh, when did I run?
Probably a couple of weekends ago.
I ran through there. I think it might have been like
a Saturday arvo or a Sunday arvo and how they've they've, you
can't drive through there. Anymore pedestrian mall now.
Yeah, and they've put like nearly like a beach chairs in
and sand across the road and a whole range of things.
It was pumping. It was pumping like I ran
through there kind of, you know, when you're running in a, we've
talked about this running in a spot you probably shouldn't be.
Yep, I kind of ran through there going you, you're a bit of a way
to run through here right at the moment.
Like I should shouldn't have ducked down the side Rd.
I'm pretty sure it remains A pedestrian mall through to the
end of March. OK.
Because there's a trial, right? It is a trial that they've
extended. So I think for the T100 it is
likely it'll still be a pedestrian.
So there'll be cars or anything on that, which is great news.
But I was also speaking to the big boss of the T100 here on the
Gold Coast who also runs the Gold Coast Marathon and the
excitement continues to build. Like this is going to be such a,
an, I don't think people realise what is coming like in a, in a
good way. Like it's one of those things
where some people will know what it's about, some people know
what it looks like overseas and at different events, but I think
they'll be really surprised in a good way at what this event is
for the Gold Coast. Yeah.
Do you know what I like about it?
Is that obviously the face of it, it's this triathlon series
which has got global appeal. It has global appeal mainly for
long distance. So like the 100 KS.
Yep, more long distance athletes.
Then they've obviously got the Olympic distance triathlon,
which attracts the more localised triathletes who may
not want to go up to that long distance but then completely
separate. You don't have to, you don't
have to have a care about triathlon and you can come and
join in and just treat it like we like to a degree as a run and
it's a 10K run to us. And that's what we're turning up
for. And I'm loving at the moment
because what I'm, what I'm realising is 10K is a great
distance. You can kind of make a last
minute call on. I can jump in, you know, I can
still do it now. You can still end up and jump in
and race your mates and it's over a distance where you know
you don't have. It's not like the marathon where
you've had to put in the 16 weeks or 20 weeks of prep.
You can just get in there and have a shot.
And I'm hearing a lot of guys at the like when I say last minute,
we're getting into the last months kind of starting now to
go, oh, am I coming? Actually, I'll race Liam.
Well, I won't be wearing a balloon, Courtney said.
No 20, just remind everybody who's jumping in.
The 22nd of March is the date of this 10K race.
It's getting close. I need more time.
It's 80 bucks, which from a race entry perspective is so
affordable in on the running landscape these days.
We're seeing prices for events get up there for 80 bucks.
That is, I mean, that's a night out.
It's it's less than a night out for most people.
So you save one night out. You sign up for this 10K run on
Sunday the 22nd of March. If you are going to register,
make sure you register as as part of in the beginning when
you do register, and we will, we'll see you there on the day.
And that 80 bucks gets your T-shirt, the finish's medal,
results, all that sort of stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all that.
All entries include a raised T shirt and a finish's medal as
well. So for 80 bucks, let's say 40
bucks for the price of the T shirt.
And then you get to show off to all your mates at work on the
Monday morning 'cause you're wearing it.
You should be like, OK, so T100, are you prepared to clear, to
declare your time yet? No.
When will you declare your time 0?
You've got to declare OK, no I. Don't need to declare it, you
have to. I told you I'm in a race.
OK. I throw my glove down.
Well, you throw it at Tim. Yes, exactly.
I throw my glove down and and the jewel's been accepted.
Have you heard from Tim? Yes, this week.
What's the chat like been like? Yeah, yeah, I've got some info
about because he's chimed in about our Apex stuff as well.
But let's get to the end of it. The the the chit chat around the
run. Like I'm not going into this as
a favourite. You're kidding.
No, no, no. You're the, You're the outside
I. Believe I'm the underdog here?
Oh. Hold on, hold on.
But is this one of those things, like, is this one of those
things where, like, you know, the Brisbane Lions put them to
try to position Wayne Bennett always positions his team as the
underdog? Maybe, yeah.
But. No, no, no.
In this case, I if we went on times as of today.
I'm you're the outside. I'm the outside OK alright, I
reckon I'm I'm a decent out C1. 100 go sign up, challenge your
mate, make it a race. This is.
Challenge your mate, challenge your mate.
That's that's what, that's what we had the fun bit of it.
Like, you know, times, times mean times don't matter, right?
Like for people who are interested in actually
competing, times matter. But racing's way more.
But on the scoreboard there's no pictures on scorecards and if
your scorecard over your mate reads one, nil.
Yep. And then there's there's no
debating over this Strava time, finish time.
I have to run too far around the water station or none of this.
It's just like, did you win or not?
Yeah, yeah, I love that. That's great.
All right, I'm gonna let you take the lead on Apex athletes
because I feel like you've had enough of it already.
We've only been talking about this thing for about a week and
1/2 this. Is this is quickly falling into
the the hybrid? Oh no, yeah, I mean the the the
chat around it for sure. Catch So for those playing catch
up, maybe this is your first time at it in the beginning and
if we if it is welcome, subscribe, you'll love it.
Apex Athlete was a concept introduced by English fellow by
the name of Spencer Matthews. The proposition was an athlete
that can run a sub 255 marathon. 250.
Is it sub 250? Yep.
Jeez. Sub 250 marathon and bench
press. 110 kilos, 10 reps Yeah, one set.
Yeah, So everyone who's interested is more hybrid.
This is this is an interesting runners, runners aren't
interested. We're probably we're probably
losing people at the moment talking about this.
But there is a certain group who are very, very committed and
interested in this. And it's that same group that we
talk about with the the higher up there.
Yeah, I mean it's higher. Well, because, and this is the
way I looked at it is you kind of you're trying to do 2 things,
you're trying to average out two things, right.
Yeah. So.
So you're mastering none? Yeah, you're right, now that I
think about it like that. So 'cause the, the, the, the
purpose of it is to do it at the same time, right?
So what I'm here getting, I mean, I've got messages all
week. I've got a few here that we'll,
we'll go through. But I'm getting people writing
go, I can do this for bench press.
I can run this, but no one's actually kind of computing.
But I've got to do it at the same time because no one really,
no one attempts that. They're all talking about my
PBS. Right.
OK, I do believe after chatting to some people, and this is my
personal thought of just taking in the information because like
I said last week, I've got no idea about bench pressing.
Actually Tim did give me a, a guide on this.
Do you want to know what I, he reckons I could do?
Yes, please bench press. Hang on, hang on, where are we?
He reckons I'd be benching 45 to 50 for 10, no, for 10.
Don't laugh, don't laugh Liam, because you've also got caught.
I've also had people, I'm not going to mention names, but I've
also had people calling you out. Sorry.
Saying there's There's no way. We need proof that you can do 1.
10 in one Rep for one Rep we. Need we need a video proof on
that? I've had a few people call you
out on that. But yeah, Tim reckons I could go
probably 45 to 50 for 10. OK 1.5 body weight bench for one
Rep is elite in standard high performance.
Sport say that again. So 1.5 of your body weight.
So one 1.5 times your body weight.
Yep. For one Rep is elite standard in
high performance sport. OK, So what are you?
Oh. I'm about 78 kilos right now.
What's the mass on that? 35 + 4 is 39, so I said 117.
I can't do that. Well, I can't do one.
You're close. I can't do 1.5 but.
You're close. You're you're, you're elite.
You're I'm calling that elite Liam.
I'm saying though, the 250's too easy in this comp.
You don't think the the running benchmark's high enough?
I think the run you think we need to pivot the running
benchmark and adjust the weightlifting benchmark.
All right. I like this.
Yeah. OK.
What would you pivot the rundown time because?
I called. I called out a few bigger fellas
and like to see what they thought on this.
Yeah, and I was actually surprised at how quickly they'd
all run marathons. OK, so you think the running
benchmark? I think they've like as like
really, I mean when I say larger guys like just.
Solid big frames. Like strong dudes, like they're
doing the marathon element of it a lot easier than the the 10
reps. Gotcha.
So I believe it should be more lots if you're talking about
like the elite of the lead 50 in the world and maybe it needs to
be skewed down towards 2 under 24240.
Yeah, yeah. With, with the equivalent of
what is seems to be correct on the benchmark for the the world.
And and then we will have no one achieving it.
I love it. No, no, no, no, I I truly
believe people will still achieve it.
But we're talking about those finite numbers.
I actually the running's too. Easy.
Too easy. For what they are, same.
That's good luck that we mentioned last week.
Some questions. Yeah, he ended up, we messaged
him last week in the chat. He got back to me and he was
like, yeah, he didn't believe he he was probably in that like
he'd have to train to do that. But he reckons he's closer to
the weights than he would be ever to the 250.
OK. But he did call out and he said
Ethan Reed. Yeah, Big East.
Might be the one guy he thinks they.
Could run the time and lift the weights.
Might with the right training and the right.
Fit This is Ethan Reid, the Unicorn who that won the 2K time
trial at the Suns preseason. He's a 200 centimetre unit who
runs a 555 in the 2K time trial. Yep just quickly I have messaged
my gym, I have messaged momentum and said please remind me to
attempt A1 by 110K Rep next week on the bench press with video.
I will bring the video proof next week.
To all you haters out there, all you doubters.
And if I don't bring it, it's 'cause I couldn't get it done.
Talking about talking about haters is a good segue to around
the haters. And keeping on this topic, did
you see Justin Truitt? Yeah, yeah.
And he's. This feels like the apex athlete
has turned into the Justin Truitt like concept because
everybody's referencing him. Yeah.
Are they? Yeah.
Well, they. So Jacobs wrote in and said, you
know, he's the one guy that he reckons he could, you know, on
the planet that could do it, obviously now.
This is the son of Cam. Cam Hanes.
Yep. True Joey roles.
Yep. Brian Yep.
So I actually listened on the way home.
I got into the airport late last night and listened to the
podcast with Cam about this on the way home last night.
And look, I he he's just putting it out there and going for a
goal. Like he hasn't gone anywhere
near that at this stage, but he's saying like I've got two
years. I'm gonna he was it when he
broke the 24 hour pull up record?
Was that Caines at that time, Caine Eckstein's or someone else
Broken it, I think. Truitt took it off Goggins.
There's different. I know Kane Eckstein had a pull
up world record. I can't quite keep track of
which one he had, but I know that Goggins had one, I know
that Truett had one, and. He went after Goggins OK.
But did Kane? Kane had a pull up world record.
He did it at PAC Fair I. Thought it was the 20.
Four. It might be.
Yeah, it might be. I'll look it up anyway.
They're. Calling him out as like one that
you know, possibly is in this other area and then the other
one was Jared Shaw wrote in. He loved episodes every week.
But he's an ex footy player right?
Local footy player and the footy players all love this one as he
plays in the area. Like even the elite players as
well he was saying. He reckons that in the mid 90s,
even into the early 2000s you'd would have found more players
being able to bench that. He reckons they were, like
always, stronger. At that point, yeah.
But you know, with the running game over the last 15 years,
they obviously carried, yeah, carried a lot less.
Yeah, spot on. Kane did have it.
True, it took it back. So he broke Kane's.
He broke Kane's record. Kane had in 2016.
Kane had the in 2014. He broke the world record for
pull ups. He lost it in 2016.
He got it back doing 7620. Truitt now holds the Truitt
Haynes now holds holds that world record 10,000.
He did in 24 hours 10,000 and one pull ups.
Sorry, I was saying Justin Truitt.
True, just Truitt is his
Instagram handle. True Kane is is is his name.
But yeah, so Kane that's hey speaks to the athlete Kane Kane
XL and he is an animal. Just also shows the power of
America like you know, the way and we we talk about them all.
It's not like campaigns now, Truitt and you know, Jelly roll
all these guys in America, just the like the audience and how
you know, big it is and Kane was in that you know, we're talking
Goggins Kane and then. Kane next time is that guy he.
Is that guy, but he hasn't got what I'm saying is being down
here in ounces you just don't get necessarily the access or
the platform to be able to go out and we.
This is something which I think we the nature of social media
with fitness. Fitness has never been more of
an industry than it is now, right?
Fitness is an industry now. It's not Nike and these brands
have always been big. But now just being fit in itself
can be a business. And I think Kane's probably
like, if you were to look around Australia in terms of people
that have made being fit a business, Kane's probably a good
example of someone who was an elite athlete, won the calling.
Like he's, you know, there's no questioning his calibre.
But now he's gone away and he's involved with Doctor Hydra and
he's taken the idea of being a fit person and made it into a
business for himself. So, but you're right, we just, I
mean, if it, if it comes down to sheer numbers, Australians are
never going to be able to compete against the American
machine because it's just more of them.
And they just, and they also do it differently.
It's they don't have that tall poppy syndrome that, that we
have here in Australia, which I think is, is not as bad as it
once was, But we still have that notion of stay humble.
Don't you know? Never, you know, never get too
happy with who you are and where you're at?
Yeah, I mean, if Truitt was an Aussie and did that, what would
have been the reaction? Oh, if true, he would be
absolutely crucified. Yeah, different, different
mentalities, right? That country, different culture,
and I'm not saying one's better than the other, but it's just
different. Well, it's different.
I mean, it's a lot more positive over there, but they were
talking this of this podcast. I was listening to you last
night. They were talking about a lot
of, I suppose there's runners who they call it a gatekeeping.
I don't know what. That's a new word to me, which
has only happened in the last year or two.
And it's like a social media phenomenon word, isn't it?
Gatekeeping, gatekeeping, gatekeeping running like.
Yeah. Whatever.
But yeah, yeah, he's obviously got a few runners out of got
their nose. Out now speaking about running,
going back to taking him back to the, to the running side of
things quickly. I do want to, I mean, last week
we mentioned I proposed the idea of Bunnings getting behind a
marathon here in Australia because in Kyoto Nintendo had
embraced that. Kathleen has messaged us,
commented the Cadbury Marathon in Hobart has been around since
the 80s. Yep, a complete oversight on on
my behalf. Yeah.
You can't find a more left field sponsor for a marathon than a
chocolate manufacturer. Thank you Kathleen for giving us
a heads up on that one. Now is Cadbury.
They definitely got a factory down there.
Cadbury what? What is it?
Is it like? Is it founded down it?
Was well sorry, it was founded in England.
Oh. But it's first sight in
Australia was in Tasmania. OK, so that was what we were
talking about, Yeah, if you've got the right localised, you
know, if you want to support your community, yeah, support
where it comes from. That's it's.
It's exactly it's. I'm all in.
I'd eat chocolate on a marathon, I reckon nearly.
I will if I had, if I had a few little Fredos as you ran
through. I'm already, you know, pre pre,
pre opened, pre opened. London Marathon 2000 and 11.
I ran the London Marathon in 2011 off about two months
training. I was I had had for anybody
who's spent any time over in London, they will understand
this term. I had had the Heathrow
injection. I was as heavy as I've ever been
and I was just kind of embracing the idea of running.
Explain the Heathrow injection. Heathrow injection is an is an
idea that Aussies might go over there and get fat.
Drink would drink way too much. Because they drink way too much.
It's cold outside, it's dark. OK.
We go from living our outdoorsy lifestyle here in Australia.
You go overseas, you get the Heathrow injection and you're 5
kilos heavier like that. I'd had the Heathrow injection.
I signed up for the marathon late two months training.
I've told this story before here, but I was running without
a watch. I was doing the maths in my head
as I went through checkpoints and suddenly like 15 KS and I
thought I was on pace to run a 240 marathon.
I realised I was just doing the maths all wrong.
And the most humbling moment of that marathon was when I in the
last five KS, someone dressed as a carrot went running past me
and was like keep going mate and I'm like get stuffed carrot.
But I will never forget the taste.
I'm about 30 KS in. I've been eating nothing but
like snakes or red frogs and I had that real sugary taste in my
mouth with all the hydrolite drinks that were being.
Served on the way real. Sugary somebody gave me and this
is one of the great things about and this is what Sydney's aiming
for and I think it's what Gold Coast probably wants to try and
become as well. But the atmosphere along the
sidelines, somebody about 30 KS in just handed me a fun size
Mars bar. I will never forget the taste of
that because that chocolate taste breaking up 30 kilometres
worth of like lollies. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was, it was a dream. It was the best Mars bar.
It's I don't Remember Me, every chocolate bar I've ever eaten,
but I will never forget that fun sized Mars bar that someone
handed me on the side of the road 30 KS into.
The I I wasn't joking about, I'd take the chocolate out.
I raced, I was racing and P and anyone in triathlon who followed
a like like followed me a little bit through triathlon will
actually probably remember some. I've got photos.
I used to strap some Mars bars to the front of my aero bars
when I was doing Halfway Man's. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like I went through a good phase of winning half Iman's and I was
taking in a Mars bar or two just because it's the same thing I
used to. I mean, I used to have a lot of
sports drink as well, but I just used to like to mix it up in the
Mars bar at the time, you know, if I looked at it now, nutrition
wise, probably not the best thing, but it just, it kind of
worked. It filled me up.
I enjoyed the taste. The problem was I did it in
Cannes though. I'm one of the original Cannes
half Iman's, and by the time I got to the, the electrical tape
was around it. It just slowly disintegrated.
By the time I got to it, it was just like a slush.
I mean, I still got through half of it, but.
Did Mars ever come to you with any?
Cash. No, no, see.
You that's where you should have gone the Liam Adams route and
just blacked out the the the the wrapper so they didn't know what
you were drinking or eating. I was happy to.
I was happy to give them a bit. That's great.
I love that. But yeah, so thank you to
Kathleen for shouting out the the Cadbury Marathon.
Yes, it happens. Stand in Hobart because it's a
good one. Yeah, let's move on.
You got some audio here. Yeah, I've actually we've, we've
got. It's about you, Liam, our
friend. Hello boys, long time listener,
third time caller. Just checking in, seeing how
Liam's training's going. We're all very excited to see
how he's coming along for 160 kilometres in, what, like four
months? Yeah.
Come on, Flanner, fill us in. Tell us what your longest runs
been. Tell us what your programme
looks like. Keep us updated.
We're excited. Oh, I think I'm even going to
make the trip out to the Blue Mountains at the finish line,
help you crawl across it. Bloody exciting, mate.
I love that you picked the hardest thing in the world to do
and you're taking it on. You're taking it on.
That is, that is friend of the pod ready people might know
ready from Bondo Rescue. He's now one of the he's one of
the big dogs involved with AG1. Thank you, Ready.
And that Ready's also copped a bit of flak because some people
thought he wasn't supporting me when I first signed up for this
model thing 'cause he was. Being you've definitely got 2
camps here Liam, you've got people who are just full
support, loving, everyone's supporting you, don't get us
wrong. No, no.
But there's the there's some of us who are probably sitting on
the, the, the, the threshold, the line side of realism.
Yep. And then there's others who are
sitting on the side of yeah, great.
Just go for it. Yeah.
And I feel like you're, you're on that side of realism that's
sort of like you're, you're questioning me.
I'm probably not on the fence. I'm probably on the right hand
side, yes. So let me give you a trail
update. Let me talk trail with you for
everyone for a bit. A bit of trail.
Training is going well, my body feels good, legs feel great, the
the build is on and the build is going really it's that lovely
line you want to see as you build up.
There's no sharp in increases. As you always say to me, give me
details Liam, Pete, that this is what Reed is calling out.
We want OK what? Give us some weekly.
Let me, let me walk you through it, let me walk you through it.
So we'll go back to we'll work on a, we'll go on a four week
block, right. This is this is week four of a
four week block anyway. So week 1 of this four week
block was 56 KS with 1200 metres elevation.
Week 2 was 53 KS with 1000 metres elevation.
Last week was 60 KS with 1100 metres elevation.
This week will be 70 KS with around 1300 metres elevation.
It's that slow build of consistency.
That's the data. And so time on legs, I'm now
averaging 6 hours plus running a week at the moment of time on
feet. My longest run.
Look, I haven't had a really long run yet.
At the moment my longest run today is about 23 KS.
Yep. So there's not a huge long day
out on feet yet. Those are coming.
I'm not rushing into those. There's no need for me to go out
and spend 8 hours out on a trail.
How long is it to a UTA? 4 months, OK, I've got 16 weeks.
Yeah. So I'm building along slowly
what I'm, what I'll, I'll share with you today and what I'll and
what I'm going to start doing more and more.
And I mentioned people at Holly Ransom and, and some other
experts out there in the trail space.
I am reaching out to these people and I'm getting with
those people. I'm asking for a bit more
information and some advice, but I've also got a few.
I'm asking people that have run these things before, hey, if I,
if you're only allowed to give me one piece of advice for the
Mila, Yep, training race day, whatever it is, what would it
be? So I've got 2 to share with you
today. OK, not intentionally.
They're both from people called Ben.
First one is from Ben Ferreff. Now Ben and I ran together for a
little bit in the Trails Border Trail last weekend.
I bumped into Benny. He was out there with his young
fella. Great to see his young fella.
I think his name was Hunter. Apologies if I haven't got that
right. Ben.
Ben and I ran along for a while. He's a big fan of the podcast,
listens all the time and he's done mile as before he ran his
Costa Cosi, the yeah, the flat 240 Ki think, well, not flat,
but flatter than the mile is what he said.
And I said, mate, give me one piece of advice.
And the one thing Ben said was you can never do enough
elevation in your training. You cannot do enough elevation.
Ben said get to a gym, turn on the Stairmaster and forget about
everything. He's like, you just want to lock
into the Stairmaster. Yeah, right.
Just he he said. Go inside.
He, well, he said, start adding it into your, your block.
You just wanted ours. He's like, if you can just go in
and he's like, set the treadmill to the highest incline and walk.
So that was Ben's Stairmaster. Or treadmill.
Oh yeah, yeah, whatever. He's like you just said you will
not be able to do enough elevation in this training
block. OK And I was like and I was like
fantastic. OK.
That's been ferrous that. Doesn't excite you to go on.
On no no makes me sick, makes me like, makes me feel ill.
Going inside. To do.
I don't want to do that at all. No, I have intentions to.
I have a set of stairs near me down at Grumman there and I'm
going to live on those for a. Bit it is, Yeah, it isn't the
same. As a stem, As continuous
climbing. I understand why he's saying
going to the into inside the door continuous.
Yeah, because you can just do it non stop, just grind up.
Yeah and even like when you find, you know, if you're out
the back of Telly Valley or somewhere and we got like, you
know, you can go up pretty much 7K ish six to seven K It's still
after that six to seven K, you still would have come back down.
He's still got the rest. Which isn't a bad thing as well
because there's there's dissent in this UTA mylar as well.
Isn't a bad thing, but if you're wanting to get like strength
over time from, you know, if you're just going to do it for
an hour or something. Speaking of Speaking of roots,
he also has sent me a root. Do you know Polly's loop?
Yep. He sent me Polly's loop and he
said, mate, go out there and plan for three loops of that.
Yeah, be a great training. So good, yeah, Steep, steep
sections. Yeah, that's come from Benny
Ferris. So thank you Ben.
I will be I'll report back as soon as I've incorporated
Polly's Loop. And then this one comes from Ben
Fits. Ben Fits, who's a member of the
Runners in the Dark crew down in Sydney.
He was my friend last year that did the Mylar and and broke like
his knee broke. He finished, but I, I, I shared
it. I shared his reaction and
response and review of the Milo last year for those that don't
remember it. And I hit Ben up again and
Ben's, Ben said he's going to come out and, and crew and help
and support for me in the race. And I said, mate, give me your
top training trip, your top training tip.
Ben's tip. I wish I trained heavier legs,
big gears on the stationary bike or more stair stepper.
So as you know, my legs were my biggest weakness.
There are so many stairs in the race.
So same thing as other Ben? Yes, stairs, stair training,
stairs training, stair training. So this is good for me.
I'm four weeks, I'm four months out.
And then interestingly, Ben also threw me a golden rule for race
day. Start slow, keep the pace easy
all day. Don't get swept up in all the
excitement of the start. You'll be feeling super fit but
rein it in. Don't run a sub 4-5 minute case
straight from the get go. It's a long day.
No, I mean that it seems common sense it.
Seems common sense, but I everyone knows that start line
vibe. Everyone knows that start line.
Feeling if you think of how slow and this isn't just for a mile
like this can be for, you know, 50, it can be for any race
really. But if you think about how slow
or how much you slowed down in majority of races at the end and
you thought well, if I didn't go out that hard for that first bit
of the start, but it is just that's racing it's.
It's a it's a brain exercise. It's so hard to pull it in, reel
it in. I was just looking at Pollys.
So Pollys is act is out. Is it the base of Springbrook
climb? Yeah, if if you go in there,
there's a trail and you shoot around.
But the reason I was looking at it, I was trying to see if
there's the backside of it. I've got a feeling the backside
climb, so not the the first one you have is quite steep, but
around the backside which is going up next to, I don't know
the alternative route up to Springbrook that is a real leg.
Finder. Yeah, Good.
OK, like if you that one will make you find out whether.
Your legs are going, Yeah, good or not, Yeah.
So look, the, the takeaway here, I'm, you know, as I said, I'm
four months out from this. The mileage is building, the
kilometres, the time on feet, it's all building.
I'm being very sensible about it.
And I've literally, I've come here today from a gym session.
So I'm, I'm building like the leg strength is still a focus,
but it's stairs. Stairs is going to be a big
addition into the running programme they have.
Thought about like do you have aspirational goal around what
mileage you might be wanting to look to get up to?
Again, picking up from Ben Feriff, Ben one point O in the
tips, I asked him, I'm like during as you went into the
Mylar, what were you, What was your average weekly kilometres?
And he said it's not. He said it wasn't that big.
He said he was working around 120 KS.
OK, which again, if you don't run that will be bigger than
I've ever. Run that.
Will be bigger than I've ever run, but for a race that's 160
KS, it seems unders. I don't know what I expected to
be running, but that's just what he ran.
He's like I didn't get carried away, but it was 120 KS a week.
Was as big as he was running, but he was the stairs.
And it was this train, I mean, and this is just me personally
thinking about it. Like, I think you'd get such a
wide range because you're going to have elites and, and those
who are trying to like, optimise how best they can run 160 and
they're going to have some crazy mileage and crazy distances.
So, and that's where like you're, you're talking about
you've gone to get, you want some information from those who
have conquered it like that. And then you're getting, but
this is the key information I believe for you is to come back
to someone who the the crew or people who athletes who have
gone out there, runners who have gone out there and actually done
it around your pace. Yeah.
And understand like what's what's I suppose the threshold
amount which you go actually this is too little.
Yeah, but I also don't need to be professional 2 times a day
runner, right? Because I could go and speak to
Lucy Bartholomew, but she's a professional runner.
I mean, she's got all day to run exactly, so it's not.
There's there's no but like. It doesn't equate 0.
There's no, you know, she's I've got a I've got a job, I've got
kids, I've got all this sort of stuff.
So I'm gonna continue to speak to different people, try and get
some of those golden rules, try and find out, learn a bit more
along the way. You.
Keep bringing them because that's they'll be interesting.
But yeah, that was the, that was my, they're my, they're my,
that's my trail talk for this week.
The build continues. The body feels good.
I'm going to now be incorporating more stairs into
my training as per the two Benny's who've given me that
piece of advice. But yeah, I feel good.
I'm excited. I'm really the other thing I
will say quickly to move before I move on from the trail stuff
could not feel more comfortable out in the border trail because
that's why I'm doing a lot of my work at the moment.
But this week just gone. I was spending more time in the
S lab Genesis. No, what's the the flatter, more
racy Fuel ones? Genesis, the Genesis and it's
such a fun race shoe. It's such a fun shoe to run in
as as opposed to the Ultra Glide hail damage golf ball Dimple.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like that one chalk and cheese
preserving my feet. But I just feel, yeah, it's the
running in those two. Juices.
So like as you move through these four months, will you?
You're gonna obviously need more shoes.
Yeah, I'm going to explore some different shoes.
Yep, I'm going to explore some different shoes.
I've got some I'm I'm looking into trying a couple of
different other brands just to find out what I really like
running in. I'm looking at some of the Nike,
the Terex as well. But yeah, I'm I'm enjoying
learning more about the trail thing quickly.
Has anyone tried, you know, besides myself, has anyone else
skewed you on brand Like talking about shoes on trails going oh
they try this, this is 1. Not really, no.
Interestingly though, I'll just say I I where I met Ben the
other weekend had in the trails was as part of people might be
aware of Keegan Hipgrave and what he's all doing in the
running space. He had a little trail event
partnered with LSKD and a coffee mob Sun Devil from down the
Tweed. It was interesting because there
are a lot of what probably people that fall under the run
boom have got caught up in the run hysteria over the last year
or so. And I was asking, I was just
curious, playing curious. I kept very low profile out
there playing curious. I was asking people, have you
been trail running much before? A lot of first time trail
runners out there, a lot of first time trail runners who had
never been out on the trails before for for whatever reason,
blokes, women who just. And I was like, OK, so it's
taking something like this to bring you out to a trail and get
amongst it. And sadly, I have an injury
report for the Gold Coast Titans.
Their cheerleaders went down. Oh OK.
She was out there for the first time on a trail less than AK in
bang and bad ankle like immediate I.
Thought cheerleaders would have some.
Strong angles at all. She went down and stuff.
She went down. So no injury report for the Gold
Coast Titans. Sit down and cheerleader for
round one, I think. I hope she gets better soon.
It's the poor thing. She was upset.
But anyway, there's my trail talk.
That's your trail talk. There's my trail update.
Do you want to talk a bit about oh, Olympics?
I got an Olympic question for you.
You seen what the US Olympians are getting now I did.
I did for those that. We, because I mean we talked
about it for the Australian Olympians, they put on a
retirement. Fund Yes.
What was a reward? Do you remember what your
paycheck would have been if you'd won gold at either of the?
Olympics, I think 30. But 30,000 on the condition that
you went to the next Olympic Games as well.
No, not the same for triathlete, because that's what it was for
swimmers. Do you know that for swimmers,
Liesel Jones, who I do in my radio show with has told me
this, that that gold medal bonus was conditional on you
committing to the following Olympic Games.
I. Wonder if that was a private
gold medal bonus out of the right, the Gene and Reinhart
farm. I don't know.
I don't know, but I don't think so.
I mean, I think there was there was an athlete that yeah, the
Australian athlete, Australian Olympic Commission.
Yep. Or maybe the Australian Sports
Commission, one of the two. You have a metal fund.
OK. And that metal fund is a pool.
Yep. And I think these days are, I
don't know exactly. So I don't want to say, I don't
want to say what isn't the correct information.
But yeah, like effectively if gold, silver or bronze, you got
a certainty or the thing was if you were a, you know, a swimmer
and you got 6 gold medals, you got six times the the amount
first. You know, some sports only have
one opportunity as well. So see as always.
Interesting if the swimmers got that.
I think the swimmers it was. It was not a per medal bonus.
Ask Lisel. Yeah, I'll follow.
That for us, because I'm I'm not 100% sure.
Do you know why? Because your memory's terrible
and you didn't win a medal. I didn't win a medal, but the
USI wouldn't. I'd remember that you'd Remember
Remember that the. US Olympians Starting next month
at the Winter Olympics, US Olympic and Paralympic athletes
will receive $200,000. Yes, but paid 20 years after the
athletes first Olympic appearance or at age 45.
So this comes about because billionaire Ross Stevens, Yep,
donated $100 million to create the Stevens Financial Security
Award, the largest gift in the history of the United States
Olympic and Paralympic Committee.
So it's amazing. So they're saying yeah.
We breakdown how it works. Yeah, well, I mean 100 thousands
paid out over 4 years. So that's what, 25 grand a year
over 4 years when you turn 45 effectively Or 20 years after
your your first Olympic if you're a young younger Olympian?
At every games, they compete in two.
Yes, so if you went to three Olympics, you're gonna cope
$600,000 if and another 100,000 is guaranteed to their family
after death. So there's also like a wow
bursary fund there for that. This is really intro it's I'd
love to you as an Olympian. What are your thoughts on this?
What do you think of this as a whole it?
I mean, personally, I'd go this is amazing.
Like in this area, like we've talked about before, it probably
comes back down to the sport, like different sports have
different professions and and monetary pay when it comes to
the Olympics. But I'm of the notion and this
that everyone should be treated. If you do it for one, you got to
do it for all. That's irrelevant.
Which? Which is this?
What? Which is this case, Yeah.
So I don't care if you're, you know, who's about one of the
current US basketballers that will be on the team.
Oh. Yeah, good point.
Well, I don't know, Kevin Durant probably not getting there, but
he's probably a bit old now. But Anthony Edwards, say
Edwards, Yeah, there's like. I'm not a believer that you can
just say to him, well, you might.
You're not. I'm not giving it to you because
you're loaded. You know the fencer well, you
know, you're a pure amateur. So that.
We have had this conversation before, yeah.
So in this case, I believe everyone one in all, one in all
in, there is a notion of like you could separate things like,
and I'm just going out on a tangent now, you could separate
things like this from like pure amateur sports to pure
professional sports. But then I'd argue there's still
such a variance in like what you know, Triathlon's probably a
good example. Like it's a professional sport,
but you majority are probably earning money to get by and not
retire. Yeah, it's, yeah.
I mean, do the look you could means test it as this is
essentially what you're talking about there, but what they've
just. Done.
But I'm not in for the means testing around because then that
brings into like what you do after sport and a whole range of
things. But the reality is what's great
here is there are so many Olympic sports that do not get
paid. Yes, like there was I was
reading in the paper this morning.
It was a German bobsled athlete Female bobsled athlete has
funded her way to the Olympics through only.
Fans, I saw this story. Yeah, yeah.
Because it. She's got a dream.
Well, but to run a bobsled campaign is about 50,000, I
think it was EUR, it was in Germany, yeah.
So €50,000 a year to run the campaign and it's privately
funded. So how do you do it?
But but what I'll regardless of, you know, sport V sport and all
the rest of that, and yes, there are, there will be multi, multi
multi millionaires going to compete at this Winter Olympics
and at the summer, next Summer Games in America.
They will go multi, multi millionaires will be there to
compete because they have earned that much in their sport.
But to go back to this bloke has put this much money in and he
said if you make it as an Olympian, you get this.
And I, you know, talking about those athletes that participate
in the lesser paid sports, Yep. But they've also made a choice
to do that. And they've made a choice that
it's not like no one, no one took up fencing thinking, oh, I
thought I was going to make $50 million as a professional fence.
They knew, they knew what the paycheck was, but they still
chose to pursue it. And what I like about this is
it's going nut you become an Olympian, you get this.
And, and look, I'm not saying I think Australia should find a
way to do it. But they have.
But they have to some extent. But they do mean, but they mean.
Test it. Yeah, so different, different
style of programme. I mean, reports are that Ray Gun
wants to go and break dance for America the next Olympic Games
because he's like. Reset Radio reports.
Rumours, rumours, rumours are. But look, hey, if Ross, we just
need to find another Ross Stevens for Australia and we
need to find an Australian Ross Stevens.
We've got some great private donation, like, you know,
there's some good private donations in Australian sport.
I don't need to go into them, but they're there.
This one's just been specifically aimed at, not a
sport it's been aimed at. The Olympic programme, all
Olympians. I like it quickly.
My running. Yes, please.
I well, we know it's going well because you're chirping
everybody your sessions, according to your brother.
Yep. This week, So I had to.
I went over to Perth this week. I've been in Perth for three
days. Mornings Crisp, nice 1516.
Try to yeah my low humidity. Like it.
It takes a few mornings in that to realise what a slog running
in Queensland is in summer and the further north you go, the
worse it gets. But I had a couple of runs and
it was just, it was just the best thing to get into some cool
conditions. It wasn't cold, no, but it was
just nice running easy, you know, get through an hour.
I was getting back to the hotel like my wasn't just saturated as
if I come out of the water. So many positives out of it.
And then flat. Don't worry about the flat, just
just just a quick reminder of what's to come when autumn
starts rolling around. OK, it was very, very nice.
I did also because I was away. It was the first time I've been
away since I've been really structured in my gym programme.
OK. So I had a bit of a like, I mean
the city. Yep.
How do you I haven't done gym in so long outside of going down to
the local gym. Gym at your hotel?
So there was OK now, but what would you like 'cause I'm doing
some very specific exercises that need like, and I'm not
worried if I missed one or two, but I generally wanted, you
know, I wanted at least a squat rack that had proper weights
ordered and things like that too typical.
For a hotel gym. Well, that's what I was gonna
ask you the question. Do you think and anyone who else
is in their hotels this is a new thing but would you consider to
walk into a hotel and get some free like a squat rack with free
weights number? One, I'd be surprised by that.
Yeah, I I would, I would consider that to be over
delivering from a hotel gym. Yeah, I I was of the same
opinion. So I'd already started to look
at, you know, can I get to a 24 hour gym close to the hotel?
Took a trip underneath to have a look at the gym.
Wow, really? Not a squat rack, but 20 KG bar
with plates. So I was able to manage, you
know, calf raise machine like I would use in in the gym I'd go
to. However, there was some, I don't
even know what you'd call them, but there were some machines
that still allowed you to do a style of calf raise.
Yeah. It was like a sitting swat
machine that also had a bit of a like a, an outcut in it that
allowed you to do that. Pretty much.
I got through your programme, my programme.
Good enough, I'll say. So my Bulgarian squats, I
couldn't, I couldn't lift the weight onto my back so I just
used dumbbells. But like I got through it well
enough and I'm like OK, done and tick box.
But that was the main thing I was worried about travelling at
the moment. It's like I'm gonna miss.
Bloody gym. Just pivoting on that.
I can't remember if we've talked about this on the podcast
before, the concept of airport gyms.
Yeah. What do you think?
Well, so. And quick shout out to a friend
of the pod, Rihanna Crane, who she posted something about this
the other week. I've heard this thrown around
before. She got, I think she got a big
old delay at an airport. Yeah, right.
And she said there should be more gyms, hairdressers, better
shops, great food at airports. Would you use a gym at an
airport if you got if you got hit with a delay?
At the moment, Yep, Yeah. Right.
Yep, Yep, Yep. Especially if I, yeah,
especially if I'd finished up my day a bit earlier than I thought
I had to. And you know, I'm not on a flexi
flight and have to hang it out. Yeah, for sure.
There's an opportunity for the Gold Coast Airport here.
I think it'd be very, very busy though.
Go. Go what?
Don't do. It, but I'd never use the Gold
Coast 1. Well, no, you wouldn't, because
you'd be coming home. But Gold Coast is such a, a,
it's a growing airport, all right.
It's an you know, it's getting busier and busier, but step
forward going on. Singapore's got the pool and I'm
I'm sure on the gym. I'm sure Singapore will have a
gym in their airport. They've got everything else,
some of those. There's not one in an Australian
gym, sorry. An Australian airport though,
that I can think of. Yeah, great.
It's a it's a good idea. I reckon it'd be pretty dirty
airport. Doesn't it have?
To be airports in general, it's just dirty.
Places. I've just come out of Japan over
the break and it doesn't. All these places that we accept
as being dirty here in Australia, they don't have to
be. They don't have to be, but the
reality is that. We as a community just lift our
overall standard and I'm going to use public toilets as an
example here and we don't piss on the scenes, we don't.
We flush and we do all these things.
Places don't have to be dirty people.
Airport gyms, for example. Airport gyms, it's a it's a
reasonable. Idea, but your body's feeling
good. Touch with yeah, yeah, tomorrow
get out going into the forest tomorrow might slowly increase a
little bit of the pressure off some of the hills and go out on
that 17 K loop. Yeah, get it done.
Taken away, mate, taken away. What time are you going out
there? Might come for a run with you.
Well, let me rephrase that. We might run the same track.
I am assuming. What are you knocking out that
70K loop in right now roughly? I've been over an hour and a
half the first few weeks, but I've just been kind of rolling
around there. So I think at the fastest we get
around there in about 70 minutes.
So I'm about 2025 minutes off. I was, you know, talking about,
we were joking at the beginning around team 100 and times and
racing and everything else. That tempo I did do back in
Perth and I was talking about that 8K back.
I, I actually, I wore a heart rate monitor and I kept my heart
rate under 150, right? And I think I'd have to have a
look back. I think the average was around
just under, I think it was like 348 or something.
I'm not happy with that. Of course you're not, no.
Now you I'm not running as quick And so like this is where it'll
get interesting for me is that I'm still benchmarking against
old, old boardings. And at the moment, I kind of go,
I know the heart rate's right. So just run and that will
improve next week like 100%. I know that just improves week
to week, but knowing we've got what we say, four or five weeks
only. Yeah, till till till 100, March
20. I've forgotten that I've lost
the. Yeah.
So the notion instead of instead of slowly, you know. 22nd of
March. Yeah, instead of slowly just
tapping up the threshold. You want to make I?
Kind of, I kind of want to get the sledgehammer and go like
that, but. And that's where injuries
happen. Injuries happen exactly so.
Little taps, not big jumps. I've.
Gone to the heart rate monitor at the moment to make sure
things are controlled and that's where we'll stay all.
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You can roll up Kavalav. You can race Liam.
You can race me, Courtney says I'm not allowed to balloon.
I have something I'll find. I'll.
We'll find ways to have fun even
if old band courtneys up the front.
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