Sergio Marques is our guest this week. The Portuguese triathlete has finished 49 Ironman races in his career and recently he just qualified for Kona, again at the only full Ironman organized this year post Covid-19 lockdown! After he won the Age Groups race in 2019 in Kona, Sergio was disqualified for a mistake done in the 70.3 Cascais, here we can listen to what happened and how he was able to maintain his motivation to keep training to get the slot again. In this odd year we’re living in, Sergio shares with us how he has been able to keep training despite all the circumstances and how he keeps the balance between work, training, and his family that recently just got bigger.
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In this episode, we talk with Helder Milheiras, a Portuguese coach that went to Tallinn to follow one of his athletes, Sergio Marques. We all question ourselves how is an Ironman race during this period, what concerns we need to have and what measures we need to take to prevent any contamination, Helder shares with us what they needed to do to be able to travel to Estonia. We also discussed how Helder made a training plan for Sergio with the goal to qualify for Kona but without knowing when he would be able to race.
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On this episode, we will recap the “Coaches on the Couch” about nutrition. Here you can hear Philip, Jon, Alan and Diogo discussing their thoughts about this subject that quite often is asked by the athletes.
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In this episode, Paul Hayward shares with us his experiences in Triathlon and the journey of his life partner. The ups and downs of his journey led him to finish some of the hardest triathlons on the Ironman calendar and convinced his wife to share the same steps.
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Alistair is one of our high performing coached athletes. In this episode he shares with us how a High Performance Rower ended up doing triathlon: what motivated him to change for this sport and what he learned when he started being coached by Tri Training Harder. Alistair is a phenomenal cyclist but he enjoys learning the process of going faster and sometimes that process doesn’t mean you need to do things harder.
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Heather is one of our coached athletes who after doing a wide variety of different sports when she was young, ended up falling in love with triathlon. In this episode, Heather shares with us how she managed her expectations for her first full IRONMAN race and how her mindset helped her recover from a stress fracture. Now, focusing more on cycling, she tells us her story.
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Harriet is the longest-standing coached athlete in Tri Training Harder. In this episode, she tells us how she conquered her terror of swimming and her journey from a Black Belt athlete in Kickboxing to race the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships. A fascinating, relatable insight into overcoming fears and organising a daily routine of training around work and general life.
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In our first ever episode, the Founder of Tri Training Harder and one of our master coaches, Philip Hatzis talks to us about the previous 10 years of Tri Training Harder, what he hopes to see in the next 10 years and how we can all aim to be agile in our adaption to new races. His optimism is infectious, his advice is practical, his humour questionable and he kicks off the first-ever Believe. Strive. Achieve. Endurance Podcast.
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