My Week in Triathlon

What I’ve read and found interesting over the last week:

• Lionel Sanders: By changing training regimes and dropping the Norwegian script, has Lionel become a bit of an enigma this year? Less predictable, more confident, having fun, faster…could be dangerous? He says he spent the last year getting slow but proved he can still shift by placing 6th at the Montreal Arena Games.

• Gwen Jorgenson had a solid start to her Olympics 2024 team relay ambitions. She came 3rd at a Continental Cup race in NZ.

• Lionel Sanders: He alluded to being coached by Joe Skipper in a YouTube video. Joe has been vocal about the Norwegian Hype Train being beatable, and I suspect he and Lionel are making plans. Link to video.

• PTO: Laura Siddall (PTO athletes board) mentioned that 2023 is more of a “holding year” for the PTO and they have BIG plans in 2024 to come out guns blazing. Listen on ep13 of the podcast: Link to Triathlonish.

• Sam Long: Being coached by Dan Plews who holds the Kona age group course record and is currently coaching Chelsea Sodaro and Javier Gomez. Dan’s main “methodology” is fat-adaptation, so Sam is going through the whole low-carb regime. Rolling the dice?

• Cam Brown: He announced that Ironman NZ on 4 March will be his last professional race. Very fitting seeing as he made the race his own and won it 12 times. I cannot believe he is 50 years old!

• PTO: Announced Ibiza as the venue for their European Open and the consolidation of the Pro fields for 2023 to only the top 30 (top 20 for Singapore). This will ensure more competitive racing and make it more exciting to a larger audience. They will have wildcards for some star athletes are currently outside the top 30.

• IMSA: The race had terrible weather last year. Currently the prediction is for cold and rainy conditions but let’s hope this clears up as the week goes on.

• CEO vs CEO: Lots has been said about the Andrew Messick interview with Jack Kelly. What I will say is Sam Renouf came off significantly better. Listen to them on the How They Train Podcast as well as the Pro Tri News podcast.

• Jonny Brownlee: Pure unprofessional speculation but in a recent Ruth Astle video I saw Jonny cooling down on the grass while everyone was running on the track. Cautious, managing a niggle or was he just running on the grass? Link to Ruths video

• Quote: Your effort better match your goal.

• Ellie Salthouse: Continued her winning ways by winning the Husky Ultimate by 93 seconds. Her strong bike laid the foundation.

• Gina Sereno: Firmly on my radar after winning Arena Games Montreal. Strong swim/biker with a lethal run.

That's it for today, now finish your oats and get back to training!

Yours in low CdA,

Aero MaccaFrodownlee

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