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Where triathlon meets real talk. Hosted by two seasoned triathletes Lockie Jones and Lleyton Wall, this podcast takes a deep dive into the controversies, challenges, and triumphs of the triathlete world.
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Speaker 1
She goes in front would help the younger.
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Speaker 2
Of courage.
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Speaker 1
Unbelievable. There's nothing but. Racer.,
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Speaker 2
Man.
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Speaker 1
World championship title.
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Speaker 3
Alrighty. Welcome back to another Freaky Friday. Very weird. Sorry. I tried to do something different. They aren't funded. Podcast? Yeah. Unfunded podcast episode. We just had this 55 episode 55, season two, episode 20. Thanks, Iggy. Leighton's the numbers, man. Anyway. Welcome back to the unfunded podcast. I'm your host, Lachlan Jones, professional triathlete here with my good friend Leighton Wall.
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Speaker 3
Also a professional triathlete. It makes me wonder all the time why we still introduce ourselves. Because surely by now, people know our names. I've never thought of that. Yeah. What if. What if somebody just started listening from now? Oh, true. So that one's for you? Yeah. If you've just started listening, that's who we are. Yeah, for the day.
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Speaker 3
One is. I also think you've just got to keep the same intro. Exactly. You can't change it. I mean, we say this, I say you've got to keep it the same intro, but whatever the intro that was just then, it's different. Every time. We just roll with it, we roll. That's how intro. We roll with it. Anyway, we are back.
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Speaker 3
We're in the studio, it's Freaky Friday. It's actually Tuesday for us right now on recording. However this comes out on the Friday. Just like you all know is I know most of you have it set in your calendars. You've got it set on your reminders. Unfunded podcast coming out 2 p.m. every Friday to guests. Don't know if it actually is 2 p.m. it's just it's in the morning.
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Speaker 3
It's just whenever Ziggy can get it up. But yeah, here we are. How are you doing? How's your week been? You're going to Europe soon? Yeah. You're up soon. Europe? Fever? Yeah. Oh, Euro. Summer. Euro. So, Yeah. My week's been good. Been busy. Obviously. Start back uni. No, it has been. I've actually. Have you seen me much at training?
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Speaker 3
I said because you don't train. Fuck off. Because it's been busy. I've been grinding myself solo. Grinding yourself? No. Yeah. I've been like, just doing uni placement. Like it's actually been a drag. I can't really complain and I shouldn't complain because they're allowing me to have six weeks off. What is uni placement like? What are you actually doing?
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Speaker 3
Because you're, you're you're not a doctor or a nurse, man. You're like you're a dietitian. Yeah. Dietitian. We have to go to the old people's homes, right? What are you gonna tell them? What? They don't have teeth, mate. What are you gonna do? What do you tell them? They do. They're lovely people. I spoke to John the other day.
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Speaker 3
I don't know whether this is Patrick confidentiality, but he was a great gentleman. He was very nice. Honestly, I'd rather fucking bang my head against the brick wall some days it's tough. Yeah, but pretty much you just go in there and you see if they're malnourished or not. And do, like, assessments. We're just practicing assessments on them about malnutrition essentially, and seeing like what they eat throughout the day, what they don't like, general kind of stuff.
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Speaker 3
Anyway. You're better man than me because that sounds like, yeah, I'm doing God's work. That horrible for free. Yeah, yeah. You're paying for it, actually, yeah, I am, no. Yeah. So getting smashed with uni because I have to do pretty much my uni either side of my little Europe block. So I can't really complain because they're allowing me to go for six weeks.
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Speaker 3
That's awesome. So yeah, just think of the holiday, mate. You got a holiday? Six week holiday. Oh, holiday. Don't know. Like you boys are gonna be training. We will be trying hard in those mountains. Oh, yeah? Where are you guys going? Font remote. We've had this conversation. We've had this conversation on the pod as well, have we? I don't know, we we basically figured out today that Leighton and I don't talk all week, and then we're coming to the podcast, and for 15 minutes, it's just a conversation between us, too.
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Speaker 3
But it's more like the 50 minutes before the pod. We talk. Yeah, we talk about what we're going to talk about. And then we just kind of. That's our discussion. Yeah. So anyway, where are you going? Tell me, flying to Switzerland? No. Flying to actually Paris. First half day there, I'd have. What? Yeah, whatever that is, I'd actually know if that's.
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Speaker 3
Bonjour. Bonjour, ayahuasca. And then we go to Switzerland. Race there for five days in Switzerland and then fly to Barcelona. Have a look around Barcelona for, like, a day. Barcelona? There's, like, a big anti-terrorism thing going on there. And pretty sure, like, all the locals are like, get out, Barcelona, fuck off. Like you're taking our houses like your Airbnb is my home.
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Speaker 3
Like I've seen like, yeah, a lot of a lot of disruptions. So I'm in the eye of Ibis budget there. So sure they won't mind. That'll be all right. And then go up to Font Remote. Yep. For three weeks. Yep. Training camp with the training camp with the boys. Who's going to stay there? Jordan, Yohan and Brad.
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Speaker 3
Oh, Jesus. I think Toby's also up there at that time. Jesus. That's. Yeah. That's deadly. That is, So it's important for boys in a apartment together for three weeks for feral boys as well. That'd be fine. Let's see if we don't kill each other and then drop down. Go race Derry pending gang on start list. You're not on the stylist yet?
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Speaker 3
Well, it hasn't come out. Oh, so we don't know. It is. We split and again, we spoke about that at the start of the year. How hard it is now to go into this. Like the depth of athletes wanting to race is so, so big. So I guess that depends. Hopefully. Well, I haven't had the best year, so I don't have that many points, mate.
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Speaker 3
Keep your chin up. But it's going to change. Yeah. Hopefully some big points early chest out. Derry and then most likely go race Tunisia. Oh yeah. Oh. Pending pending a buddy. I feel like, you want to travel buddy for that one. You know, it's not been the best year of racing if you're going to. Yeah, I'll just be honest, unfortunately.
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Speaker 3
But no. Yeah, it'll be an experience. Who's so none of the other boys going to turn is here at this point? Brad Jordan Jones, a 70.3 guy. But Jack Latham off the pod. He was listening to an old pod and he said, hey, I'm thinking of going to. Really? Yeah. So thanks to the pod, I call out for friends.
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Speaker 3
What exactly. Right. So I mean, talks with Jack. We'll just see if we really want to go to Tunisia. Yeah. Wow. That's cool. If not, I don't know. I've got another week and I'll then fly home. Yep. So that's six weeks. That makes up six weeks. Yep. Yeah. So three races. Six weeks. Just tell me when you want me there.
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Speaker 3
And I put my flights. Oh, well, you can come whenever. Three weeks in font. We'd love a nanny. You're right. Excuse me. I'm training hard at the moment. I'm 26 hours of training argued. Get up and mountain. It'd just be.
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Speaker 3
Sucking that unfit anymore. I was very unfit. I'm not that unfit, mate. I was rocking five minute for hundreds this morning. Five minute, 400. Actually, I was rocking for 57 with. With you little domi. Oh, wow. That's got to go. Yeah. We're going to do a trial on ins and outs. We've actually done a trial on ins and outs.
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Speaker 3
That's an out. Yeah, I know I get it. Jamie riddles Warner and Jamie Riddles. You know, the prettiest guy I mean he's he's socials is unreal. Yeah. He's really good at it. He's a great athlete too. It's not it though. So what we're talking about is the aero gains like hydro gain. Fucking. I don't know if it's a aero game because that's an actual company for.
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Speaker 3
No. Yeah it is. It's by aero gains not the one we we use. It's maybe it is. No it's like the TT mods for like back of bottles and different things. Yeah. But that's not what this is. Yeah. It is for a swim for the. Yeah. Yeah. Who made the. It's like it looks like a cassowaries like head butter.
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Speaker 3
Yeah. Yeah. Like noble on his head. Obviously Jamie Rudder wore on a 70.3 some long course race and it. Yeah. It's the the attachment that goes under your swim cap to your CDA in the in the war in the water make you more hydrodynamic hydrodynamic like. You look like an absolute dickhead. We had it fit this morning. Yeah.
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Speaker 3
We'll hopefully like, if this, we can attach some photos to a post, maybe of some, some, some of us trying it in the water. And, I mean, if Jamie Riddle can't look good in something, we're all fucked. Yeah. So Jamie Riddle, I think, looked like he looked like a bit of a loser in it. So we all look way worse.
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Speaker 3
Well, actually, I was in the gym yesterday Arvo, and I think you had it on. And I was walking out of the pool. Yeah, yeah, yesterday. And I was like, what is that like? I didn't know, I couldn't really make it out, but I saw that you had like something big under the cap. Yeah. I was like, is that one of those things?
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Speaker 3
And then saw it this morning and yeah, we were trying it out yesterday, but obviously we were just doing an aerobics from yesterday and I, we tried it for my last. I think we're like, and this probably wasn't the best time to try it because I'm three course into a threshold swim here and we had two for hundreds to go.
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Speaker 3
So I didn't wear it for the first 400, and I wore it for the second 400 to see if I swam any quicker with lower heart rate, whatever. I swam one second quicker. Yep. And I think my heart rate was like five beats higher. So so that correlates. I don't know whether the, I basically had these correlates.
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Speaker 3
I don't know, I had to swim harder to go one second faster, which I don't know if that's the head piece. I should be swimming harder, I don't think. Yeah. Anyway, that's an interesting piece of equipment, but that's been fun trying out a couple, a couple times. It's good to see that. I think of try is a try new thing that actually might have been a secret now that I've just said that.
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Speaker 3
Oh well, we've ruined it. So that's all right. That actually anyone can get like, have needed to be kept a secret that we're trying that.
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Speaker 3
Anyway. Don't hopefully none of the staff. Now that I've just said that whole thing, hopefully none of the odds try staff are listening. If Oz try doing it everywhere else is doing it. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. I mean, we're usually we're usually like behind on this sort of stuff. So when we were in slave suits in, in Brisbane.
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Speaker 3
Yep. Everybody else will have them in LA. We'll have them in Brisbane. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, what have you been up to? I've been trying your cassowary head. Oh, yeah. Man, honestly, just been training increasing slowly. Training, increasing beers, decreasing beers haven't decreased just yet, but they are as of the last weekend. Okay. You know, I was always told, you know, have your fun while you're injured because come back and lock in.
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Speaker 3
I've got about from the race that I'm planning on doing. It's about four months away, so I'm kind of like four months. Training's up to like 25 to 26 hours now. All we got to do is increase the running and it's back to just kind of normal now. So, I've had my fun scratch the edge. I've actually probably done more than scratched the edge.
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Speaker 3
I've probably like, scratched it quite heavily. It's scar now. But yeah, scratch did have my fun. Back to locking in training, working all that, so that's good. But yeah, I'm not I'm not swimming 119 per 100 for threshold anymore. That's good. That's a big win. Big win. So we're back down to probably like 114 doing some black sessions now, which is exciting.
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Speaker 3
And off the altar G running. We're just all on ground now. More importantly any pain no pain whatsoever. Oh that's a win. Eating like a fucking buffalo. But that's good. I don't know if buffaloes eat a lot, but they're big animals, so yeah, eating heaps. As Brad would say, waking up with in the morning. So, that's actually also way too much information for the pod, but, yeah, everything's good.
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Speaker 3
Everything's good. That's good. Yeah. You'd see the hormone health very hormonal. My big advocate on the hormone health. Yeah, well, Leighton is is a as a dietitian. Yeah, exactly. Right. But a day keeps the dietitian away. A day keeps the stress away. Yep, yep. Anything away? Yep. Get lucky away.
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Speaker 3
Alrighty. Big, big event on the weekend. Obviously. The soccer. The soccer. Yes. The soccer. The football. We were very bad in our predictions. I don't remember who I know. I had a sports bet. Free bet on Argentina. Oh, yeah. So close, so close. Yeah. One goal in it. One goal in it. Pretty exciting, but, not exciting at all.
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Speaker 3
I just don't get the soccer. I can't get around it. The better game was the third third place game between England and France was like six four. Yeah, yeah, it was nuts. Like, how do you have one game where they're going to a penalty shootout? Bit like just getting one. Yeah. And then wasn't there a big brawl in the Argentina.
00;12;51;18 - 00;13;06;20
Speaker 3
Yeah. At the end of the game I saw videos like I can get around that. Yeah that's cool. Bit of a fight. Yeah. Let's see that. That's it's a bit different for soccer because usually they're just diving on the floor, you know, they get the touched and the bench is empty. Yeah. You're sick. That's awesome. That's good.
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Speaker 3
More of that. Good for soccer. Yeah. Well, I don't know. Oh, yeah. That's just kind of standard. Yeah, that's kind of standard in most of the rugby games over here. If that doesn't happen, it's been like a weird game. But. Yeah. Yeah. Congratulations to Argentina. Oh, Spain shows how much we watched it, but it is.
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Speaker 3
It is quite. It's not until you see an event like that where you go. Yeah, we've got a long way to go. Yeah, well, I mean, I, I'd let's be realistic. Triathlon is never going to be at the caliber of. Yeah. Sorry, Antonio. I know you're in the A1 Division now. Yeah. We might we don't think we're quite on the level as we might be in the A1 classification with FIFA, but we ain't FIFA.
00;13;48;13 - 00;14;10;19
Speaker 3
No, we ain't FIFA. That's just that's just. Yeah, that probably in my opinion, the pinnacle of sport is, is football. Soccer. I think the most people in the world watch the FIFA World Cup. Like that's just historically the most. Yeah. And it's the most played sport throughout the world. Yeah for sure. 100% like you look at yeah.
00;14;10;20 - 00;14;33;15
Speaker 3
Density of I think. Yeah. Per capita I mean like, yeah, everywhere in Argentina, Spain, nearly nearly every country is playing. They go kick a soccer ball around. Do you play soccer when you were a kid? Yeah I did, yeah, yeah. Billy! Billy! Bulldogs! Billy! Bulldogs! Under sixes. Punky goannas. Fuck. We would have smoked you. We had some gunky forwards done enough.
00;14;33;15 - 00;14;55;25
Speaker 3
That's a thing. I don't think that's a to footy reference. Just hoping it's a big midfielder playing left right out. Yeah, yeah. Left right. Bench warmer. I was king of the throw ins I know. Yeah yeah yeah that's pretty cool. That's not really. Anyway that's all those oranges buddy. Yeah yeah I want some red frogs. Back to trial.
00;14;55;25 - 00;15;06;16
Speaker 3
Full back to trial. Because that's what we know more about World Cup Edmonton. Yes. Did you watch this race? I did, I watched the oh, sorry, about to sneeze.
00;15;06;18 - 00;15;24;25
Speaker 3
You're disgusting. Bless me. Sorry for what? What did you watch? I watch from the bike. Obviously. It's a it was not a bad time for us, I think, a few of the boys were up early Sunday morning. Yeah, it was around 6 a.m.. Yeah, I'll be honest. You were sleeping, I was sleeping, I was sleeping into the bike.
00;15;24;26 - 00;15;46;00
Speaker 3
Okay, I watched the bike. I watched the men's. And then we were watching the women's while we were riding. I heard I don't know what happened here, but on the live stream, they had two commentators. Yeah. So they had the, on ground commentator. On ground commentator, but then you could hear the on ground commentator through the live stream commentary, which is awful.
00;15;46;00 - 00;16;06;10
Speaker 3
It was pretty poor. I've never been big on like, you know. Oh, my God, I'm so overstimulated. Like the overstimulating word. I think that's just a bit of a cop out sometimes. I was overstimulated, I was as well give me a headache because I had a Canadian on ground announcer going off go go go. And then I've got second, one second sent to the Americans.
00;16;06;10 - 00;16;27;13
Speaker 3
What's the, Commentator. Oh, my mate, who got sacked? Whom? My. The guy that I like. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, he's like something real, I don't know. Anyway. And then you had him. So. I mean, really. Jenkins Helen wasn't commentating. It was a Dutch, Dutch or South African shows how much I was paying attention. Same kind of, accent.
00;16;27;13 - 00;16;48;28
Speaker 3
Anyway. Yeah. The the commentary. It's it's kind of sad that we have. I don't want to rip on them too much again, but like we have so such good commentary in the World Series now and then the World Cups are just. Do you think it's disappointing? Like the enthusiasm? It is the enthusiasm. Like when you don't get excited about it.
00;16;48;29 - 00;17;13;20
Speaker 3
Like whenever you see like an epic sprint finish, you always need that. Like what makes that is the commentary. Yeah it is. It's like the historic little snippets of commentary that people remember every single like big footy scene, footy cut of the grand final. It's the commentary in the background just screaming their name or something that's good on ground at State of Origin, go.
00;17;13;22 - 00;17;38;23
Speaker 3
This is origin. See, not a lot of people understand that. No no, no, none of the every Aussie will understand that reference, but nobody else will understand that reference. Its iconic. None of the Europeans will know. But you know what I mean. Go mate. All the time. Yeah, I, I think we're setting such a high standard now. And I know we like, talk about them all the time, but Belinda and Will obviously are so overly enthusiastic about it.
00;17;38;24 - 00;18;04;12
Speaker 3
Yeah. That yeah, it's making it tough for. It is tough like like Dylan McCulloch went for a break and he's like, oh, and Dylan McCulloch's going for a breakaway here. Will. He stole you away. Fuck. Like that was the most boring breakaway because of the commentary that I've heard. Yeah. Like I also get I also get and this might be a little bit, I don't know, just like nitpicky.
00;18;04;12 - 00;18;21;25
Speaker 3
But when they get someone wrong, like when they, when they call this is this is such and such and do that Belinda will did it in Hamburg. They're like Maddie how's it is absolutely flying at the front. He's swimming off the. That's fucking mark today. Yeah it's marked available. Can see it's not a green suit. It's a it's a maroon set.
00;18;21;27 - 00;18;38;06
Speaker 3
Like I don't know I, I get a little bit nitpicky with that sometimes. However there in the moment they're in the heat of the moment I can be tough. They do only get the stream that we get. Oh yeah, but I got, I picked it. Yeah, I, I know, I know, I'm not getting paid however much money you're getting paid to commentate.
00;18;38;08 - 00;18;54;22
Speaker 3
I mean, I mean, you can hit us up. I mean, you can hit us up. We'll go. Commentator. We'll take we'll take a, contract next year. Thank you. I'll scream. I'll scream at it. Yeah. And then, anyway, it was still good racing. Yes, it was. And I think the biggest thing I shall not going to say sorry.
00;18;54;23 - 00;19;19;07
Speaker 3
It's made, the sprint finish in the men's race. Yeah. It was pretty good. Unreal. Sold for way. Sold to, the British to take it from almost like over a K out. Yeah. And for them to look like they were going to come around. But then he had just had a second wind and took it out. I mean, it was when they're all that fatigued from it being so far, it looks like slow motion.
00;19;19;07 - 00;19;38;27
Speaker 3
I was about to say that as well. I know that they aren't slow us talking like all, you know, all out kick me. Yeah, but yeah, did almost look like slow motion. Yeah. I was like, oh, they're like weird. The lactate must have just hit them. They were like seizing up. Yeah, yeah. Going acid in their veins.
00;19;38;27 - 00;20;03;19
Speaker 3
But yeah, it was good to watch. And, So Solomon I like Tyler. He's he's been around a while. Tyler. He's not got he's I think Tyler of 2020 21 that we've been 16 like when he was a bit of a younger, younger part. He's he's winning that any day. Yeah. He's just, you know, the the the the gained.
00;20;03;21 - 00;20;28;12
Speaker 3
Yeah. The fast twitch fibers aren't twitching as fast as what they used to, but I mean, hey, they're still come second, Chengdu come third. He's obviously he's always in some form sprint finish. He's always in the podium. Yeah. He's always in the podium area. Don't think we've seen him in many World Series. No. There as much. Well he raced one earlier this year or two and then he's gone back to that World Cup level.
00;20;28;14 - 00;20;49;08
Speaker 3
But I mean fair enough. Get your points up and then come back to the World Series. You also don't make some like bad cash just consistently podium at a World Cup. You go consistently podium in 4 to 5 World Cups a year. That's decent coin. Yeah exactly. Well he's done how many this year? Two. Three podiums maybe. Maybe three.
00;20;49;08 - 00;21;19;03
Speaker 3
Yeah, yeah. And then Reese venison Reese lightning. Yeah yeah I did I didn't know if Reese had the run legs in him for this race. He's coming back. He's definitely coming back. Yeah. And it showed that he's hopefully over his crash that he had earlier this year. Yeah. And yeah he ran well he did run well I mean that eagle that that bird's eye shot was not doing his hair justice.
00;21;19;05 - 00;21;37;14
Speaker 3
Hey, time in a helmet, mate. Yep. You're right. He's grinding. He is grinding. Yeah, kind of unfortunate, but I honestly thought the how fast he came around the corner. He did. He flew. He was off the back because there was only the three of them. And then he came flying around the corner and I thought, oh, my God, this guy is easy.
00;21;37;15 - 00;21;58;02
Speaker 3
Thought he was going to have it based off based off previous results, like how good he's been in the past. I thought he was going to run straight past and take the win. Yeah, obviously held on for third, which was great. It was controversy though at the finish him going around the no. Oh, I wasn't going to say that where he went around the cones instead of like in the tight line.
00;21;58;03 - 00;22;22;21
Speaker 3
Yeah. Do you think that makes a difference? I don't see the argument that I think I know. One of the boys picked it out and we were like, well, he's actually run further. Yeah. However, the others who took a tight line would slow, slow down. So, I mean, I don't think I don't think it matters. And I didn't think I didn't think it was anything that you should, you know, report on or like give him a penalty or something of that serious.
00;22;22;23 - 00;22;45;08
Speaker 3
Was his timing chip, even though he was ended up third in the result over the line on like the live timing. It went Reese, first Solomon and then Tyler. Right. Yeah. You must have like, got his leg out pretty quick. Yeah. But I mean, I feel like everyone knows that. Like, everyone knows that it's it's just first it's based off the charts.
00;22;45;08 - 00;22;59;27
Speaker 3
Anybody who's been running track long enough, anyone who's been doing even trial for long enough, you know, that it is chess first. But no, I thought he was. He was a clear. He was a clear third. Yeah. When you really looked at the video, it was actually quite obvious. It was quite obvious. Yeah, it was just the timing that looked a bit funny.
00;22;59;28 - 00;23;19;07
Speaker 3
You just needed to slow it down for half a second. And it was. It was quite obvious. But, do you think Solomon gets a shot at a World Series now? I mean, man, honestly, it literally just is insane. How what now? This is just annoying. There's another Brit I know that's like winning races. He's very young. I think he's only 20.
00;23;19;08 - 00;23;37;07
Speaker 3
Like, we're looking at this when he was a kid and he came to Australia about a couple of years ago. Yeah. Like we're looking ahead at this weekend and there's one, two, three, four, five, six, there's seven Brits already on the start line. And arguably these are all the Brits that I'm trying to think of who's not there.
00;23;37;10 - 00;24;04;09
Speaker 3
Milner. Milner. That's the only one. So eight, eight, eight Brits and then all of a sudden that aren't racing and then all of a sudden you've got him going and winning World Cups like just impressive. Just chill out. The women's Edmonton it was a masterclass by Taylor Knibb and Marta Crocco. Yeah far out. They just they they've done this two weekends ago in Tizi or a month ago wasn't there.
00;24;04;09 - 00;24;20;03
Speaker 3
No. Who was it. Fanny. Fanny which I was surprised because Fanny was in this race. Yeah. So surprised if Fanny wasn't able to, And so was Tara. So it was Tara. Yeah. So, I mean, Taylor was just picking her people, and they were only about 10s behind the lead out of the water, which I think was Taylor.
00;24;20;08 - 00;24;39;21
Speaker 3
No, not not even though I saw there was people that were like a second stream. They just didn't. But I mean it on the wheel. And Taylor nibs off. She's off man. Yeah, yeah. If you're if you're coming out of the water around the likes of Taylor Knibb. Yeah. Get on the wheel. Yeah. Do whatever you can to get on that wheel because it's gone.
00;24;39;22 - 00;25;01;14
Speaker 3
Yeah. It will go like she's a, she's a, she's a specialist. She's known at that. She's, she put a minute 30 into the pack. That's just insane. You don't you don't go to an Olympic Games representing America for the time trial and not be and not be a gun cyclist. Like, if you're if you've got a bit of race tactics or smarts about you, you're doing everything you can in that first kilometer to get on Taylor lives.
00;25;01;14 - 00;25;21;12
Speaker 3
We'll. Yeah. You want to beat her out of transition. Yeah. Be in your shoes to then pounce on her wheel. Okay. Here's one for you. Yeah. Do you think you'd be able to get on a wheeled. Oh come on, I back myself. You reckon you can get on her wheel? Yes. That's confident. Yeah. That's confident. Yeah, I can get on the tail in it too.
00;25;21;13 - 00;25;43;00
Speaker 3
Oh, I love if we don't have the credibility. We don't have the credit. We don't have the credibility and the power numbers with the power numbers. Oh, man. That's a big call. No, it's a big call. All right, I just I don't know, I don't know. In a straight up TT, I think you'd beat her on the swim and run.
00;25;43;03 - 00;26;05;20
Speaker 3
Yeah. Yeah I would hope. Yeah. That bike man. Yeah. She's good. Nah I'm not taking the piss. I'm teasing. I'd love to see it though. I'd love to see it. Yeah, well, hopefully we get bigger. Probably rip your legs off. Hopefully. As of right now, you're probably. Yeah. I've done absolutely no training. The next time she's on the Gold Coast, I threw a tail and.
00;26;05;22 - 00;26;26;04
Speaker 3
Yeah. Oh, yeah. For two, 100, 200. Hopefully we get big enough by then that we can test that we'll have Cassandra Grant ratio in a run race, and we'll have Taylor. Yeah, she's got me already. But you could get really fun. You and you and you and Cassandra in a one time trial. And then one k run. Yeah.
00;26;26;05 - 00;26;47;29
Speaker 3
You're going to go to an a k. She's probably. Yeah. She's not. I reckon simmer over a k. I should probably like a 240. Yeah. Yeah I'm going to drop 240 shortly. I think my 1500 is like from when you were 16. Yeah, yeah. Have you got any slower? Trust me that you get slower. We're not young. We're not 16 anymore.
00;26;48;04 - 00;27;11;27
Speaker 3
But I'm not. I'm not touching my 17 year old track records anymore. I 100%. Anyway, we're well off track again anyway. Taylor Layton wants to race you. What's like the tennis? Where it's like the, the men versus the woman. What was that called? Oh, that was fun. Yeah. And they might they curiosity that the other day as well versus Sharapova or something like is it.
00;27;12;01 - 00;27;34;04
Speaker 3
And they mic up. Yeah. Like a charity or not a charity match but like a bit of a fun like maybe we could link that up. World triathlon, I mean unfunded it'd be, it'd be. I'd love to see it. I'll commentate that. That'll be the start of my comment. I'll be commentating on it. I'll rip ya. We'll get into T1 and I'll just start asking you questions so you have a slight swim advantage.
00;27;34;04 - 00;27;39;05
Speaker 3
What are you going to do now? She's gonna make she's coming.
00;27;39;07 - 00;27;56;28
Speaker 3
All righty. Taylor absolutely dominated. Just killing it. I love I love to see her be able to translate that form, into the words series. Into the World Series? We'll see. But she's still again, the World Series is a different beast. World cups are a different base to Conti's World Series or a different base. It's obviously just another level.
00;27;56;29 - 00;28;20;16
Speaker 3
There's levels to this. The mixed team relay. I didn't watch it. Oh, really? I, I watched the first two legs, but then, again, that was Monday morning and I was coaching, so I didn't get to watch the whole thing, but we started off really well. Team Australia started off really well. Okay. It's when it's when it's also a World Cup level mixed team relay.
00;28;20;17 - 00;28;42;07
Speaker 3
You've just got completely different athletes in there. It's kind of hard to tell people it's a it's a training session. Realistically, I think like you're trying to just get experience into some of the younger athletes you're never going to have like, I mean, countries like France, Italy, Great Britain, America, they've just got so much depth that all their teams are going to be good.
00;28;42;08 - 00;29;01;19
Speaker 3
Yeah. And we saw it again. It was those four teams in the top four. But they're just always there. Yeah. Canada obviously did really well. They would would have wanted to put a good team together, be in the home. Yeah. Home nation. But yeah. Good. Really great result from Tara. Tara showed that good form in the starting leg of the relay.
00;29;01;23 - 00;29;20;09
Speaker 3
Unfortunately, she wasn't able to show, that she was going third, I believe in Hamburg. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to show that. But she got to show her case and she tagged in third. Fortunately, we dropped a little bit from there, but, Yeah. That's right. Yeah, something.
00;29;20;09 - 00;29;21;12
Speaker 4
A bit controversial.
00;29;21;13 - 00;29;22;22
Speaker 3
Here we go. Love this.
00;29;22;27 - 00;29;28;26
Speaker 4
I don't know if mixed team realize that. Great to watch if there's not much on the line.
00;29;29;03 - 00;29;31;26
Speaker 3
Your pardon.
00;29;31;28 - 00;29;32;17
Speaker 4
You don't reckon.
00;29;32;17 - 00;29;54;14
Speaker 3
What do you mean like if like a wicked chance. Same relay has a lot of hype around it. Yeah, but a World Cup mixed relay. I mean, it's cool, but I'm. I'm not going to stay up and watch it again. Like I said, it's a training exercise. It almost feels like a training exercise. Who is that? May. Come on, Lauren, don't call me.
00;29;54;17 - 00;30;16;13
Speaker 3
Sorry. We've had this rule it off. It was off. That's off, isn't it? That's off. Well, I heard it anyway. Yeah, yeah, I just wanted to get on the pod. Yeah, I know he made, though. I know what you mean. It's it's it's not as exciting. No, it's not much on the line. You've you've got people racing that aren't the big names.
00;30;16;13 - 00;30;30;17
Speaker 3
I think people just want to see the big names. You want to see the as a fan. You want to see the Maddie. How's the sprint finish? You want to see the Dorian Konex, Henry Graf, you know, you kiss Sandberg and Perry like you want to see those big, big names. And we obviously know majority of the athletes racing World Cups because.
00;30;30;18 - 00;30;49;06
Speaker 3
So it's interesting for us. Yeah. But you're not going to gain much traction from it. It's an extra day. It's an extra out 90 minute race that's sometimes a bit hard to watch. Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. All right. Okay. Anyway, this week, another big, big week on the World Series. We're back. We're in London. We're back in London.
00;30;49;06 - 00;31;11;01
Speaker 3
And it gets us guessing. Before we get into London, preview what would be the best world city to have an event. So my only problem with London and I would honestly say the first, the first triathlon I ever watched ever got me into triathlon. London 2012 London 2012 wasn't even in. I wasn't doing triathlon when I was 12.
00;31;11;02 - 00;31;32;22
Speaker 3
Didn't know it, didn't know what it was. Watched the Brownlee brothers and I remember seeing the crowds and thinking that is fucking insane. And to this day, I still think London 2012 was the best triathlon that has ever been put on in the sport. Yeah. Arguably I know people are going to say, oh, what about Conor? What about yeah, yeah, yeah, short course I'm a short course guy.
00;31;32;23 - 00;31;52;25
Speaker 3
I still think it's more exciting than Conor. Sorry. I'm gonna say that. I'm sure we don't have crowds aligned ten deep. No. Conor, how many times do you get a crowd? Maybe at the finish line. Finish line? Yeah, but like when you're five cars around, like it was insane. It was incredible. I'm a little bit upset. I know this weekend it's not in Hyde Park.
00;31;53;01 - 00;32;14;24
Speaker 3
And I get it. It's expensive and it's central London and it's. And it's the middle of summer and it's tough. But you've got a city like that, one of the biggest cities in the world. You've just had the London Marathon be this amazing, put it in Hyde Park. Exactly. Especially with the Olympic champion. You've got your home, kid.
00;32;14;27 - 00;32;36;22
Speaker 3
You know, he's from London. The depth that they've got at the moment just put it in the yeah, big center. The depth you guys got at the moment. You you've got a Beth Potter George Taylor Brown all the actually. Yeah Beth Potter is racing again Alex J Conway like massive names massive names. Put it in central London and the history of it's in central London did a bit more.
00;32;36;23 - 00;32;59;11
Speaker 3
Yeah it's near the something a is it apex center or something like that. Yeah it's it's it's it's not in a it's like going to Sydney Olympic Park like it's not near the Sydney Harbor. It's just a bit disappointing. Yeah. I just love Hyde Park. I love Hyde Park every time I'm in London, if I'm there for like 1 or 2 nights, I try to get an apartment, like in central London.
00;32;59;15 - 00;33;16;15
Speaker 3
It cost me a lot, but yeah, it's worth it. Yeah. Just survive the atmosphere of the city. That's what you need. It's so cool. Gone are a Buckingham Palace. Yeah. Don't have to go down there. That'd be expensive to close that road, but, you know, close to it. Exactly. Anyway, that's my own little dispute with. That's our little gripe with London.
00;33;16;16 - 00;33;39;00
Speaker 3
But what we want to see, what are some other cities that could have really iconic events? We've seen it before. Paris. An iconic event, obviously the Olympics. So it's slightly different. Maybe there's it's a bit easier, but how could cool would it be? Every year they can shut the Chancellor's A for the tour de France. Why can't they shut it for a day for a triathlon race?
00;33;39;00 - 00;33;57;18
Speaker 3
Like we can just do Paris over and over again? We're not as big. I know that, probably don't have the money, but it's the World Series. It's the World Series, and the French have got the athletes. The French love it. Right? Is that your one? So. Well, I've got a few. Okay. These are old Olympic venues that could come back.
00;33;57;19 - 00;34;23;22
Speaker 3
Yeah, I like one of them in here a lot. Sydney. Yeah, that is iconic. That's where it all began. Yeah. How many times have there been a World Series in Sydney? Don't think many. Not a lot. I went back a while ago, and when I was looking at a few races in the history, I, I mean, we've had a lot on the Gold Coast and we had a lot in, I'm going to say way over the actually was like early 2000.
00;34;23;24 - 00;34;48;24
Speaker 3
And even in the 90s, there was actually a lot over in WA. There was more about that was a World Cup. Yeah. But Noosa actually used to be a World Cup. World Series. Yeah, there was a few in the Sunny Coast, but I, I'm from what I remember there was quite a few in Perth. But yeah, honestly we had Sydney Olympics and then just not nothing since then and it was so cool.
00;34;48;25 - 00;35;06;02
Speaker 3
Sydney, you'd be unreal. Opera House, Harbor Bridge. All right there. Yeah. Like perfect and people would. Australia is one of those nations that gets around any sport. Yeah. If there sport on someone will go and watch it. And if there's an Aussie there they'll love it. You've got a houser swimming off the front. We're gonna have to turn soon.
00;35;06;02 - 00;35;25;17
Speaker 3
Swimming off the front. Perfect. We're gonna have, you know, people up the front. Just get get one there. Sydney's unreal. Get I mean like gold. I love the gold. Gold coast is great, but even the Gold Coast is in a shit area. I feel like having it. Where having it on the Gold Coast, where they do have it, where they've had it previously, is like having it where London's having it this year.
00;35;25;17 - 00;35;47;04
Speaker 3
It's just kind of out of the way. It's not as it's kind of tucked away. T100 was better have it in service Paradise surfers or get one. Let's get one in Berlin. It's only elite anywhere from Berlin to Berlin. Tally. Or we can get swim in tally. You could rip up and down the Gold Coast Highway and then run long, burly beachfront straight finish line at the front of the path.
00;35;47;06 - 00;36;08;08
Speaker 3
Perfect after party, straight in the path. Come on. Straight in there, guys. Right, guys, funneling this way. Finally. This way. Drinks are on us. Yeah. Like, just let's just start picking more iconic venues. I think this is my favorite one. Yeah, I'd love to see one here. I, I mean, America is kind of similar to Australia, like, probably one of the originators of the sport of triathlon.
00;36;08;09 - 00;36;26;26
Speaker 3
Yeah. Like iconic for it obviously more long course, but New York, New York, why not? I mean Central Park, it's got another central park. Is that not. That's like a Hyde Park. Yeah. Let's keep just keep putting them in like that is in the big parks. That's what I don't know. I'm sure there's a big, big enough lake in Central Park.
00;36;26;29 - 00;36;41;08
Speaker 3
Yeah. We can find some kind of water in New York. We know nothing about it, but, I mean, it is the, concrete jungle. It's the king of the concrete jungle, so I don't actually know. We might be pushing it there, but put a big inflatable in there. I don't really care. Just get one in Central Park. Yeah, that would be our clinic.
00;36;41;09 - 00;37;11;01
Speaker 3
That would be one. Awesome. And I think you, like the Americans have such big, major commercial sponsors that you could make that happen. You could make that happen. It would be. It would be like. And I guess it's a bit like, Yokohama is outside of Tokyo. Still kind of has Tokyo vibes, though. Yeah. Where these other races like the London and the Gold Coast, they're not within just actual.
00;37;11;02 - 00;37;28;00
Speaker 3
Yeah, the actual vibe of the city. Edmonton kind of felt like that this weekend. Yeah. It was like an outskirt race. It's like, oh, it's we're in Edmonton, but we're just on the, the out here. Yeah. Like outside. Get it. Show off your best assets. Show off. That's why I want to see I want to see a couple of, you know bike riders going past.
00;37;28;00 - 00;37;51;29
Speaker 3
And that's I don't know what's in the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Let's say. You know, that's why I want to see Burley. Burley Path. That's what I want to see. Fascinated on I'm stuck on it. The last one. But again like, oh, sorry. Like when we had the awful tale, like just just cities showing off their best assets. Next, I think a good one.
00;37;52;01 - 00;38;14;10
Speaker 3
Barcelona. Barcelona would be cool. I think. Beach start. You can go through there. I mean, then you can ride through the whole, you know, wherever in Barcelona. That's just iconic. If you're thinking like sort of if someone says to you, European summer, you know, beach holiday Barcelona. Yeah. I don't know why I got that in my head. So that's often movie kind of what maybe.
00;38;14;13 - 00;38;38;00
Speaker 3
But yeah. Or you can go to I beat the mate, I beat the let's go. Before they had the T 100 there didn't they. Oh yeah. Beta. Yeah. Did I beta or I better depends where you're from or before if you if you're a big Pompey what's the what's the other one. They go to Magaluf. Yeah. Yeah yeah.
00;38;38;02 - 00;38;53;19
Speaker 3
But yeah heaps. There's heaps. Let's just, let's just get them in better spots. Even if we choose these major cities, get them in better spots. In this stage of cities, we just want to show off the city. I think they'll just grow the sport. You know how iconic star athletes will love it more athletes will be wanting to rock up more.
00;38;53;21 - 00;39;13;03
Speaker 3
Because again, you've got T100 doing it in like the best locations. They're not going to these cities and having them on the outskirts. They're going to these cities and having them in central, wherever I should. To be fair, London, they had it in that spot. But, Singapore, middle of the city, you know, Gold Coast, Surfers Paradise, middle of the city like unreal.
00;39;13;06 - 00;39;28;25
Speaker 3
Let's do a bit more of that. Any other suggestions? Let us know where you might like. You know, it is an unreal one. Actually, now that I've just thinking off to tell my head, Auckland was awesome. Kind of like Sydney Harbor mate. They wouldn't know how to throw a piss up in a brewery over there in New Zealand.
00;39;28;25 - 00;39;52;18
Speaker 3
To be honest, they couldn't even organize a cup so often. I got about that. You are so often. Yeah. Shouldn't have said that. Sorry. No. Yeah, apparently it's happening again. Are you booking tickets? No, no, I'm coming back from Europe. And then, to be fair, I did say that I don't know how how they've gone from hosting like, one of the more iconic World Series venues for the last however long.
00;39;52;19 - 00;40;10;26
Speaker 3
And now they can't even get a country. I heard it's because this might be like undisclosed, but, they couldn't get enough age group. Yeah, that's what they said. Yeah, they couldn't get enough age group is to enter. So they had to cancel the event because it wasn't being able to pay for itself. I mean, fair enough. It makes sense from a business point of view.
00;40;10;26 - 00;40;34;05
Speaker 3
But then as an athlete, it's like, then why guarantee that you can hold it as a federation? Yeah. You need to have the you need to have those assets kind of banked to just in case that happens. Anyway. Anyway WTC s London WTC preview it. Let's go stacked list. We've got a stacked list which is I mean again like I said these big locations bring all the draw the fields.
00;40;34;05 - 00;40;54;02
Speaker 3
People want to go there. People want to be there. We've got I mean key players. Vasco, he's just kind of running the show at the moment. Matty houses hot on his heels. He is hot, hot, hot on his heels. But Vasco is kind of just running the show. This is all to gain for Matt Hauser at this race over Vasco.
00;40;54;02 - 00;41;14;02
Speaker 3
Vasco can't really gain too much within the series now. He could win a medal. He could. I mean, get first place or it doesn't matter, to be honest for Vasco, if he gets first place, he's got, nearly Max. No, I think he'll have Max in Willy. I think if he's won three. Okay, well, there you are. Vasco would be on Max.
00;41;14;03 - 00;41;38;11
Speaker 3
I gotta stop saying that stuff with that actually fully knowing. Yeah. Or is he won two? I won't sure. Anyway, Vasco is very close to being maxed out. Matt Hauser, he's going for his third win of the year. No. If that Vasco has to have won three because he's got 3850 points and he's race for events. Okay, so he would have to have he's won three.
00;41;38;11 - 00;41;55;05
Speaker 3
And what a second in one to get the 850 points. So if he was to win this he'd be on. He'd replace his worst score which would be the 850, another thousand points that are given to 4000. So Vasco wins. He'll be on max points. There you are. I mean, Maddie houses quickly climbed the ranks. He. I think he was like 20th or 21st.
00;41;55;07 - 00;42;00;04
Speaker 3
No, he came second in on. Remember.
00;42;00;06 - 00;42;28;09
Speaker 3
So I'm no mass. I'm no mass whizz. But that to me seems like he's one two second at two this year. So houses going for three from three this year. He's the big mover. He is the big in this currently sitting currently sitting seventh on the rankings. So you got Vasco Villazon, Miguel Hidalgo, Ricardo Batista, Henry Graf, Charles Piquet, Dorian Konex, Matt Hauser, Luke Wilson, Tom Richard and Vettel.
00;42;28;09 - 00;42;56;03
Speaker 3
Thorne. That's a top ten. Okay, so we've got eight of top ten racing. Yeah, which is pretty cool. Yeah. Who else is in there to note Ollie Conway's 11th? Like yeah. Basically all the Brits we saw, all the Brits there. Alex Yee's back. Alex is back. He is back off his Diamond League. He said himself he's been disappointed all year with his result, so hopefully he can bring something out for this one at home.
00;42;56;03 - 00;43;19;22
Speaker 3
One big mover and shaker. At the moment I think we've really got to keep an eye out for him. He's a he's a homegrown kamikaze. Yes. Having some absolutely monster runs on him like freaky, freaky runs. Give Karl McCluskey a sniff. He was I think he I ballpark third fastest run coming out of Hamburg behind Hauser and Vasco 1422.
00;43;19;24 - 00;43;38;15
Speaker 3
And he wasn't in a sprint finish. He wasn't pushed all the way to the line. He was just on his own merit, running from the third or second or third pack trying to bridge. Yeah. I don't think he was that far off that front pack either. Yeah. Honestly, all he needs is to get because he's a he's a slimy cat in that, in that bike, respectfully.
00;43;38;15 - 00;43;56;19
Speaker 3
He's just knows how to like he's annoying to race with, if you're like. And I can say this because I'm the literal complete opposite racer to cow. I want to get people like Cal as far away from me as possible. So. So would like a Vasco or a Hauser because he's dangerous and like, these guys can swim and ride.
00;43;56;19 - 00;44;13;24
Speaker 3
So it's like we need someone like cows far away from us as possible because he's a threat. Yeah, he's he's not far off that podium. If he's in that front part, it's like letting an Alex. Yeah. Or a Hugo Milner. Yeah. Or a Hayden Wild. He's probably one of the least talked about best runners in the field at the moment.
00;44;13;25 - 00;44;34;15
Speaker 3
Yeah. I purely think it's just because he hasn't had these like big wins like they have like he, he could he has the potential but he just hasn't had it yet. So I think Cal McCluskey is one that people really need to watch out for. Because if he's in with a sniff, if these guys let up on the like, you know, let up on the gas a little bit and he's 10s down coming off the bike.
00;44;34;16 - 00;44;48;27
Speaker 3
Yeah. He can run you down. Watch out. You run you down. He's got he's got that mongrel to be like yeah. Oh and he's in this. He's just a dog as well. Like anybody that knows calendar knows that he's just a dog and he doesn't care about you. Yeah. He just wants to win races. So 100%. He's in for a sniff.
00;44;48;28 - 00;45;09;27
Speaker 3
He's he's he could be a big name. One to watch. Yeah. Yeah. Especially over like. Yeah. We talk about the likes of a, who's here like a Oliver Conway, who's obviously great runner and then probably in the same position as him. Yeah, I think so. These guys are probably in the same position. And he's now proven that if he is in with it.
00;45;09;28 - 00;45;30;02
Speaker 3
Like I said, if he is in with a chance he he could do something quite damaging. Just people aren't talking about him. No, people aren't talking about him. Elite women. We'll go through that start list as well. Another good one. We've pretty much got the top ten as well. Yeah. Best Paula Johnson hair list two and Manson, all the usual suspects.
00;45;30;04 - 00;45;51;05
Speaker 3
Sandra Grant's back as well. Yeah. Sanders back. George Taylor Brown's back. Obviously stacked full of Brits as well. We'll go through the women's rankings as well. Just quickly the top ten and Cassandra is down. I mean, she's got two from two. But you've got Beth Potter, Jean Le hair, Lisa, two of the Manson Leona Perry out.
00;45;51;07 - 00;46;15;24
Speaker 3
I never know how to say her name. The Belgium. Jolene. Oh, Jolene. Verme. Yeah. Taylor Spivey, Emmeline Barty, George Taylor brown, Cassandra grant. Honestly, like, probably just the standard top ten that we've had for the last, like, for the last five years. Honestly, these guys are just killing it. Dominant. Tilde Manson, obviously like one of the big movers and shakers.
00;46;15;27 - 00;46;40;10
Speaker 3
Beth Potter just is looking like a little bit unstoppable at the moment. Just always at the front. Sandra bro. Grant, though two from two two wins just run an incredible an incredible three K yeah. Like like so much faster. And Leighton so again I don't know how you actually stop her from parks. Hima can ride in the front pack and we'll just run away from you.
00;46;40;14 - 00;47;02;00
Speaker 3
I don't actually know who's stopping her. I don't see many people stopping her, to be honest. Although we said that last year. And unless you can get like the likes of Attila Anima back, so I bet she is at the front of the race anyway, so you're going to really need a Sophie Evans, a Georgia Taylor Brown. Taylor Knibb is racing as well.
00;47;02;02 - 00;47;18;11
Speaker 3
Just look up. But then like some bike power to just really split it up. But then she happens. They're coming from behind her. Yeah. They're all coming from behind Cassandra because she is probably going to come out of the water in top four. Yeah, she'll just sit on the work. She doesn't have to do any work. I know, I know people, obviously there's that.
00;47;18;14 - 00;47;33;25
Speaker 3
Oh come on, like, you know they want to drive the race. They want to, you know, push the bike. Let's all roll and work together. But for Cassandra, it's like, why? Why would I do that? Doesn't have to. It's like Alex being a front pack swimmer. Like a consistent top four out of the water. It's like, why do you need to work?
00;47;33;25 - 00;47;57;02
Speaker 3
He doesn't need to work. Who've run away from you? Yeah, but anyway, that's that's the list at the moment. I don't know. I don't know who is real. It's still kind of hard to pick at this point. I mean, we're probably, what, halfway through the season now? Yeah. I, I can't really be like, this is set on who's going to win the who's going to win the series.
00;47;57;04 - 00;48;15;09
Speaker 3
Yeah it's still up for grabs. There's a lot of names. There's a lot of names hanging. I mean, the fact that we've got Vasco and Miguel, you know they're still one and two houses quickly coming up. But then when you've got the likes of a Conway just sitting there in 11th with, you know, he could do anything, you know, Ricardo Batista Henry Graf, like they can do anything.
00;48;15;10 - 00;48;44;08
Speaker 3
It's a bit different this year that they're now accounting for impaired to three last year. Yeah. And on note of that, Abu Dhabi's back. It is this year. It. Do you remember what date? October. Yeah. So it's actually after the grand final. So I don't know how that's going to work. I how they've played that previously is that will contribute to points next season in the 2027 season.
00;48;44;11 - 00;49;01;19
Speaker 3
So I don't know if that then because obviously now that we're in the Olympic period as well, I it would have fallen in the window at the start of next year anyway. Are we going to have two Abu Dhabi's is Abu Darby going to be on next year again at the start of the year? Like I don't really know how that moves the calendar around next year.
00;49;01;21 - 00;49;21;10
Speaker 3
Yeah, it's a tricky one because then you also, again, like I said, the window closes at the start of next year as well. Will it fall in or out like true because this technically this one technically wasn't meant to be in the window. No. Now it is. No. It is. So, I guess it would have been in the window anyway if we had it the start of next year.
00;49;21;12 - 00;49;39;09
Speaker 3
Yeah. So I guess it's a bit confusing. Yeah. I don't I don't know if they've released exactly how it's gonna contribute to points or whatnot, but, it's back and it's good because I think they're going to keep the same prize money. What was it like 25 K for the win? Yeah, 25,000 for the win, which is pretty good.
00;49;39;10 - 00;49;59;20
Speaker 3
It's obviously six six grand more than usual and, money's money. So I think people won't complain. That would probably want it to be the year after when they gain 50 K. You have literally, literally. But yeah. Okay. Pigs. I don't know where my picks have gone. Start off with the man. I'll give you mine. Oh, hang on, start off with the men.
00;49;59;20 - 00;50;24;23
Speaker 3
I'll give you mine. I keep doing this and I really hope I really have them right this time. Yep. Going. And it's going to sound like I'm. I'm glazing. Oh. Who is it? Tell me. Alex. Alex. Ye. Yeah. Oh, I he just needs to get one. He just needs to it just needs to be there. And I just think.
00;50;24;25 - 00;50;45;21
Speaker 3
He I don't know, I think if there's, if there's a place for Alex to come out and come back with a bang, it's London. Okay? It's London homegrown. This is storybook stuff. Yeah. Alex. Yay! Okay. Matty. How's the second? Yep. Matty has a second. Vasco. Third. Okay. Oh, you know who I've gone? Oh, let me guess. Matt. Yeah.
00;50;45;22 - 00;51;06;09
Speaker 3
Of course. Who else would I go? I get it, I mean, how can you not two guys, two from two, two from two. And he's he's a different breed over the 5KI think. And then I've gone Vasco. He's just like, you know, the second. Always second. Yeah. He always is. He always is second. He's like the. No.
00;51;06;10 - 00;51;28;15
Speaker 3
I don't know, the ugly duckling. You know, he's like, oh, what do you mean he's he's looking. But you know what I mean? I know you meant the metaphor of he's always just second the poor guy, always saying it's like, Taylor spike. She's always for his fourth. She's always fourth. And then I'm going, Ricardo Batista. I feel like that's rogue.
00;51;28;15 - 00;51;44;25
Speaker 3
No, he's third on the World Series all overall. How is that rogue? Yeah, I know, but like, I just think he's podium twice this year. I mean, it is a bit rogue with kind of like maybe the. Yeah I'd say with the names that are on there, but I wouldn't say that's I wouldn't say it's over. The rogue he's third for a reason.
00;51;44;26 - 00;52;02;23
Speaker 3
Yeah. So Ricardo but he start in third onto the women. Who have you got lucky. I've gone Cassandra Grant. Yeah. Hard to go past. How can you knock? Sandra, bro. Grant, I've got, Jean Le here in second.
00;52;02;25 - 00;52;23;24
Speaker 3
I'm going to go back. Potter. I just changed that. I had a George Brown. Oh, you had GTB on the podium, I had you. Do you know what? I'm actually going to stick with it. I'm going to send a grant to Pompey's on the podium. Yeah, I'm taking out the hair. Sandra Grant, Beth Potter, Georgia Telegram I like that.
00;52;23;24 - 00;52;41;04
Speaker 3
I want to see Georgia Taylor Brown. I just think like she's she's one of the good guys. One for the good guys. She's finding a groove. And then I've got Taylor in fourth. She's just fine. She's finding her feet back in the short course. Then I think she's gonna, you know, be a Brit. She's a passionate Brit.
00;52;41;05 - 00;53;02;24
Speaker 3
Like, she she loves that home crowd. I just think this will this will be her time where she she finds something a bit special. Okay. There you are. Let me guess. You got Matilda manson. I've got her in there. Yeah, of course I've got Sandra. By granting first, I've gone Lenny Perio in second and then tour de Manson in third.
00;53;02;25 - 00;53;11;00
Speaker 3
I. I like the Lenny pic. Yeah, I think, I think, and Taylor's five in fourth in.
00;53;11;03 - 00;53;32;05
Speaker 3
That's going to be ongoing. Joke will tell us, but I will tell us why the podium this year we actually got to find I'm going to do a tally on and what was it the the one that I did last week leading to Hamburg was like 20 last 20 races or something. I'm going to go to this by this last 20 race, the amount of times tell us why he's got fourth in a race before.
00;53;32;08 - 00;53;49;23
Speaker 3
I mean, we joke about it, but I feel for the year. Yeah. It's got like number of wins, number of podiums it should have for a number of fourth places. Like just loves being just for for Hamburg. Oh, feel for the girl. Like fifth at summer. Can give her a win. Give her a podium. Just give her a medal.
00;53;49;27 - 00;54;14;12
Speaker 3
Now for the she have. No it's not, that's not, that's not. Dive into that to date two 100 podium, four foot way high. Jesus. Oh, no. She came second at Calvary very last year. Calvary for Calvary. You just said the last time I saw it. Yeah. So maybe that's her race this year. Oh, she's back on the podium.
00;54;14;12 - 00;54;29;10
Speaker 3
I mean, she's a gun cyclist. Yeah, but we we know how good she is on on the bike. She's on one of the China rollers. She isn't. We got corrected on that. No, no, no, we got corrected. No, she is on a China bike. It's just a different China. Isn't that what they said? Yeah, I think so.
00;54;29;12 - 00;54;46;03
Speaker 3
Oh, I don't know. Someone someone slid out to a into our DM saying you got the wrong bike. Taylor's five. He's not on a quick pro. You know these people. Listen, why have you mocked them now. No no no, I'm just like, that was. Thanks. Thanks for the clarification of what bike she's on. Yeah, but I a mock you, mate.
00;54;46;04 - 00;55;07;23
Speaker 3
Like a mock everyone. It's not coming from a place of, like, She is on a seeker. That. Come on. Don't tell me that's not Chinese. She signed a deal with seeker. So I think, you were the one that said Quick Pro. So I think they were coming at you. They're. And we also got told that, decathlon is the mother company of on.
00;55;07;27 - 00;55;29;07
Speaker 3
Yeah. Some people just like, I think we're nerds for the sport sometimes they were really only these people know their stuff. So because we struggle to spit it out, sometimes it's just because we rather like, talk about the to the, the shit stuff. Anyway, that's our picks. That's London can't wait. Love a World Series. Not sure what time it is for us.
00;55;29;07 - 00;55;49;03
Speaker 3
It could be, bro. It's not really. It's never good. It's never good. But we'll try. Be up for it. We'll do our best. Late likes his sleep. At the moment he's not training much, so he's trying to. He's trying to just get his beauty sleeping while he can. But anyway. Rubbish. That is London. We will come back reporting on that next week.
00;55;49;03 - 00;56;02;12
Speaker 3
That's our picks. That's what's going on in our lives. That's just the unfunded podcast there for you. So thank you very much for tuning in. Happy Freaky Friday. We will see you next week. Good. Thank you very much. By.