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Where triathlon meets real talk. Hosted by two seasoned triathletes and one Sarah, this podcast takes a deep dive into the controversies, challenges, and triumphs of the triathlete world.
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Speaker 1
Oh.
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Speaker 1
And here we are. Special, edition. This week it is race way again. Rights week news, Right. So maybe. Yep. That's it. Noosa triathlon, we are going to deliver a special, preview of the race. Probably one of the biggest. I know we keep saying this quite a bit. You know, such a big event. Last week, Wollongong was obvious.
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Speaker 1
Oh, two weeks ago now, Wollongong was very big, but this one's, this one's got a bit of history. Yes. It probably. Well, it is the biggest triathlon festival in the world. Yeah. I think besides Kona, I think it is actually the biggest. Yeah, I still think it is. Yeah. It runs for five days. But yeah, Noosa is obviously legendary within the Australian community.
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Speaker 1
And worldwide. Yeah. So it's a big event cover. And we're going to be there. Yeah we are before we before you kick off the show once again, if you, haven't listened to us before, this is the unfunded podcast. I'm professional triathlete Lachlan Jones with my good friend Leighton Wall, also a professional triathlete. And, this is brought to you.
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Speaker 1
The show is brought to you by official beer. Yep. Go get them the JK lager. Well, I reckon we're going to try organize a couple slides down. Yeah, 100%. It's a, like we said, it's a huge festival. It's a it's a bit of a celebration, isn't it? We're coming towards the end of the racing calendar, especially for the elites.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. And it's going into summer. It's perfect. Starting to warm up. Yeah it is. And those beers are flowing better than ever. I mean, if you, speak for yourself, I haven't really, really had the chance. I have too many. But, I think especially, like we said, for any of our European listeners, sorry. It is done to get colder for you, but,
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Over here. It is starting to get warm. Summer's coming, and, yeah, we're starting to loosen up a little bit. Yeah. It's good, it's good. Loose lip sync BS. Okay. So onto Noosa. What makes it so special for, I guess, us what makes Noosa so legendary? And why is it such a big thing within the Australian triathlon community?
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Speaker 1
Yeah, I think it's, it's funny how it is such a big thing still within the Australian culture, I guess in the Australian triathlon, culture, it's I've every country probably has still that real iconic race that. Yeah, that's true. That's still sort of set in stone. Yeah. The Germans have Roth. Yeah. Yeah. Like we were we were looking at the, past winners before, and I think we went all the way down to like nine.
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Speaker 1
I don't know how long news has been around for 1984. Yeah. That was that was where the 83. Yeah 1993. And obviously we've we've been to quite a few newsies ourselves. And there's people that I know from, you know, European countries that even they've heard of the reputation that that news holds. Obviously it's just one the general vibe of it.
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Speaker 1
It is a carnival like it is a it is a festival is a festival of triathlon, which is the coolest thing about it. It's not just a one day, you know, we rock up on the Saturday morning, we do the race and we're all on the beers by Saturday afternoon. You know, like everyone goes home. There's events on Wednesday, you know, so there's some kids, there's some kids runs on the on the Wednesday and there's some, you know, Noosa breakfast additions, low anxiety kind of event.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Yeah. Fundraisers. It's more of a community event than like anything any other event in triathlon like you have the Iron Man's come to town and the towns get around it. Noosa hosts the event. Yeah, more than any other town, I think. Yeah, in Australia or the world. Yeah. They really do captivate what Noosa has to offer and they really make the most of putting on such a great event and exactly why Noosa sells out.
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Speaker 1
I mean, I only entered the race two weeks ago, so I was very, very like maybe even a week ago, fortunate enough to be able to do that as an athlete. But if you're an age group, all you have to book a year in advance. I, I think it's almost as soon as as soon as tickets get released.
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Speaker 1
I think it's within a day. Yeah, almost a couple days when tickets get tickets sold. So it's almost like one of the majors, like major marathons. It probably is. It's quite a unique event as well. It's an Olympic distance. The triathlon is an Olympic distance. Yeah, but it's a non draft legal Olympic distance. You know a lot of the I get a lot of those anymore.
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Speaker 1
No a lot of these events have gone like they aren't races anymore. There's a few quite iconic ones in America. Yeah. Challenge Alcott or Alcatraz triathlon used to be one. Yeah. But they used to be one of the biggest triathlons back in the day, in the 80s, 90s? Yeah. These were the triathlons where you guys made your money.
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Speaker 1
I remember the badges and the bikes. That looked ridiculous. I was, reading Chris McCormack's book, actually. And for those who don't know, Chris McCormack, he's a triathlon legend within Australia, and he spent a lot of time in the States back in his heyday, and these were the big event. These are the kind of races where he, when made his money, he would go to the escape of Alcatraz.
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Speaker 1
He would go to the I mean, there's light triathlon. Yeah. Yeah, I think it was in Long Beach. Oh yeah. So there was a heap of races like that where these kind of races, the Noosa Star races, where they were the non drafting sort of Olympic distance races where people would go and make a name for themselves.
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Speaker 1
So it's really cool that we've been able to hold on to and. Yeah. And kept it going for so long. Yeah. I don't think you'll ever go I know. So it's too iconic now and 4240. Yeah. 42 years. It's been gone for a while. Yeah, exactly. And like we said, we are both going to be on the ground in Noosa.
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Speaker 1
We're both going to be taking on kind of different roles. So what are you going to be doing? Sort of. Well, we're both going to be obviously there, for the unfunded. Like, that's something we really, obviously we loved being able to bring the action, to you guys for World Champs two weeks ago. So we want to try to do a similar sort of, media outlet sort of thing.
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Speaker 1
So what are you going to be doing? Work on ground. So a bit of on ground coverage, I guess kind of soaking up that atmosphere a bit more and showing what the atmosphere is like, getting a couple of pro interviews with a couple of the guys that we know, and whoever else, we can access a few of the internationals.
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Speaker 1
And yeah, just kind of showing off what Noosa has in store from a more of a spectator point of view. I can't race what I'm actually doing the swim, but I feel as if that's part of news. You have to go and do something, have to do that thing. We've even got our boy, our media guru, Falco sitting in the corner again.
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Speaker 1
He's taking on the five K boat. Five K, what's your what's your predicted time? Just so we can find some some self maintain. All right, so we got we got, media got Falco taken on, a couple of Olympic, Olympic runners in, in there. So, so and again, that's what makes the weekend special. Like, all the eyes are going to be on Falco, I reckon.
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Speaker 1
Falco probably going to get more cheese on the sidelines than anyone. Olympians. Right on you. Yeah, probably. Probably so, yeah. And, you're going to be more of a, athlete actually racing. Yeah, yeah. So we want to try to cover, as much of the racing as we probably as we possibly can. So Layton will be obviously doing the media stuff, on the ground getting interviews, whatnot.
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Speaker 1
And then I'd like to be able to hopefully share something that, you know, yeah, every day audience might not be able to see the, yeah. What it's like in the elite, athlete lounge, what it's like, you know, in the, Elliott briefings and, who's actually their up close and personal shot showing what it's like to be an elite athlete within, a racing environment.
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Speaker 1
So I don't think there's too many podcasts out there that can really show you. But I saw both sides as an elite athlete. So, maybe the all in trough, podcast, but they're pretty. They're pretty washed. Their old Iron Royal is getting a bit slow. So, who knows? Yeah, let's do pretty quick. I'm in yellow. I mean, reigning world champion.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. He's out. He's doing out himself. But yeah, like we said, this is a weekend where you do have the elite guys and we'll go through the stateless, sort of in more depth later on. But you've we've literally got world champions and Olympians racing on the same course on the same day as my mum. So yeah, that's, that's the cool thing.
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Speaker 1
And that doesn't I mean Iron Man it happens. Yeah. But no not on main guys are also four hours in front so you're not going to see them. But a new saw. Everyone's racing over two hours, two and a bit hours. I still just feel everyone's there. Everyone's together. I just so taught. Everyone's so compact. Yeah. And,
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Speaker 1
Hastings strength. Yeah, yeah. Everyone's. You go. Nothing to knock on. There's Cassandra by Gran. You know, I don't know, peak in world champion. I don't know what it is, but I just feel like Noosa really is one where, like, the age group is they're interacting with the elites. And Vol and vice versa. So, now it's really cool.
00;08;47;00 - 00;09;03;19
Speaker 1
And again, like we just said, there's some of the best cyclists, some of the best we've had Lonnie Pallister swimming in the, in the one k swim. Yeah. And she just broke the world record for short course 800m. You got the best swimmers, best cyclist, best runners in Australia with the best triathletes and yeah every day age group.
00;09;03;19 - 00;09;23;14
Speaker 1
Well I want more. I was Scotty Pendlebury one of the best AFL players. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Last. Yeah. Glenn McGrath Australian cricket legend. You have all of these legends that converse to news off for the one weekend I'm getting socks on. It is pretty cool. Yeah. The crossover with triathlon in new saw. It's more than just triathlon.
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Speaker 1
I think that's the big thing about Noosa. Yeah, it's more than just a normal, ordinary run of the mill triathlon. Yeah, we've we've done our triathlon and we're happy. It's the people that come in, the events that are on the charity events, the people that speak. I think that's the cool part where it's more than just triathlon. It brings all different walks of life together and for a triathlon, yeah.
00;09;47;26 - 00;10;07;17
Speaker 1
Which is the cool thing. Yeah. Like our sport that we exactly right. We blend enough, smoke up, nurses us. The, I'm pretty sure most years with the sell out obviously that they'll have limited numbers on road closures and whatnot. There's almost 8000 people competing in the triathlon. And I think over the whole weekend there's around 10,000.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Which is impressive. Just a lot of people. No wonder the bloody accommodation sells out. And I've had to sleep in a tent. Yeah. You're in the UK. Here in the US I mean the swag mate. You're in the, in the gutter. But. Yeah. What, what would you say your favorite part of the new series? I mean, you've, you've been to New York a couple times, been to news of race news.
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Speaker 1
Once you pick one thing, one thing about new. So that's the favorite thing. Oh, outside is that atmosphere of just the masses of people that are there because where you go race here, there and everywhere. But we don't get an event that there's so many people out. So we'll go to Davenport and they'll just be the same kind of crew that runs around.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, we know everyone, but New Saw. There's that many people. There's 8000 people who participating in the in the triathlon, but they're bringing 2 or 3 people. Yeah, two, three spectators each. So the amount of people, they're, they're just watching you and you run out of that swim, which is pretty cool. It says fair run to transition. It's just pack.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Crowd land and all the age groups together. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool. It's cool. I think the, the amount of people that like, we don't get to race in that every day. So that's probably the coolest part. Yeah. Cool. I reckon I got to go with that Super Saturday. Yeah. Like for in the Boat like you got you got the swim and then you got the swims on the Friday.
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Speaker 1
Okay. But but even then you got the legends race. Yeah. You got the legends race and then you got the crate and then you got the boat like that afternoon. Like I always we have to, pre organize when we're going to check in and when we're going to rack up box. And I always make sure that mine's in on that Saturday.
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Speaker 1
So I've got a reason to be there. So I've always go down like check in and get my number. I want to be I do want to be amongst like the crowd. Yeah. Like I love walking through. And you got to go through the expo. Yeah. That you can't, you can't not go and look at the expo, buy a couple goodies.
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Speaker 1
So, going to the expo, checking in, racking my bike, and then boom, the gun goes and there's the legends race. You've seen some of the best icons in Australia. And, like, they will have one. You know, the new secret, the swim, the boat multiple times who are world class in their own field. Yeah. All coming back for that legends.
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Speaker 1
Right. And now they're 50 and 50. Yeah. It's different racing legends. Yeah. Exactly. Now that's definitely my favorite. That's that's, that's the Super Saturday. Exactly, exactly. Any like, particular memory, like personal memories that you've got? Personal memory? I think the funniest one was I just moved up to the Gold Coast, and you would. You would have been in Europe and maybe just came back.
00;12;38;16 - 00;12;57;22
Speaker 1
I didn't really know you. I think I remember seeing the videos. Yeah. And I was still in you. I hit up, one of the guys that it was with, and now one of our good mates, Yohan and I go, are you going up to Noosa? And he's like, yeah, I'm going up. I can't find any accommodation because it's sold out the year before.
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Speaker 1
And, I've done what you've done two weeks before. Let's go race Noosa or whatever. Yeah. And I've had to pay an arm and a like yeah, yeah, but it's got to be comfy. Yeah. And we go and we try and find. I can't find anything. It's about a thousand bucks a night because news is expensive anyway. And we find new Sea Scouts and it's $50 a night and we can't.
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Speaker 1
We decide to camp. I remember seeing the videos, and it looked like the roughest thing where both in the two men tent, but just like it was the most like unprofessional thing to be racing. But it's so fun. It was funny eyes and I think that's the core memory of it was just two guys in a tent, you know, everyone else is in these, you know, five star accommodations and we're just slumming it in a tent.
00;13;43;28 - 00;14;07;14
Speaker 1
And then next day we're racing out in the lake. Yeah, in the category. I think y'all actually did pretty well. I think he came seventh. Yeah, well, I think I came out of the swim. That was my. Yeah, that was the end of the day. Just everyone stopped watching. Yeah. Now I remember I think it was back in is definitely a cool I mean not for me personally, but we had like the big group of boys sort of around Covid time.
00;14;07;14 - 00;14;28;15
Speaker 1
This is 2021. So we're kind of coming out of the end of Covid. And we had a big group of the Gold Coast boys. This is back when you walk in Redmond. You, Matt Roberts, you know, Jack Luzinski. All those boys are still getting around. Joe Bagby was there. We were all getting around and we were staying in like, I think we had like, 5 or 6 boys staying in this really nice house at the top of Noosa.
00;14;28;15 - 00;14;50;19
Speaker 1
Like it was. It was really cool. It was really cool set up and, Logan Redmond, funnily enough, he had this blond river race runs like one of the quickest times that Noosa Triathlons ever seen. Like, he ran a sub 30 minute ten k off the bike, ran himself from the chase back into third. I came along maybe 15 minutes later, so as well out the back.
00;14;50;19 - 00;15;06;24
Speaker 1
So back on the day. Yeah, it's all back blown out. Everything. But I cross a line and Luke. Susie no, no. Good good bye. He was no good. He was coming out to me. He's like, man, I need sugar, I need this. This is basically Lane in on me. And I'm going, man, this guy's about to pass away, but he's dead anyway.
00;15;06;24 - 00;15;25;05
Speaker 1
Medics, medics, take him away. I think he gets on a drip or he gets on something. And the presentations, they quickly rush them off straight away. Yes, right away. So they rush him off, and then all of a sudden we're looking on the screen and there's no Loki. So Loki's mistake, because he's in the medical tent because he just ran his ass off and, they do the champagne celebrations and we're thinking, oh, that's pretty guttering for.
00;15;25;05 - 00;15;42;00
Speaker 1
Looks like he's missed that. Anyway. True Noosa tradition. Where on the booze by like nine nine at morning because they've just finished at 8 a.m., so we're all gone through Dan Murphy's. And we made sure that we bought a bottle of, bottle of champagne for him. So we're all down to the beach with like, our cases of beer.
00;15;42;00 - 00;16;06;09
Speaker 1
And celebrating is like like it was our last race of the season. So you got, 15 boys just all celebrating on the beach, B's in hand, cruises, whatnot, white boards, and, all of a sudden launches. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And, Yeah. Look, is there spray any champagne bottle? Like, we all sort of gathered around him, sang a song, and, you know, he got his moment after missing it on the, on the stage.
00;16;06;09 - 00;16;21;10
Speaker 1
You got to celebrate with, you know, all us boys. And, like, again, some of us had really good races. Some of us had shocking races. But as, like a group of friends that all come together and you celebrating, you mate doing well. Yeah. Yeah. So, hey, you got that? I still got the video to this day of him spraying the champagne.
00;16;21;10 - 00;16;42;04
Speaker 1
So that was definitely a cool memory. And, yeah, it kind of got a bit, got a bit blurry after that, cuz. Yeah. When you start drinking at 9 a.m.. Yeah, it's slightly downhill all of a sudden 12 hours later and God knows what happened to, in the gutter. Yeah, probably wasn't the gutter. Like we said, Noosa brings a lot of legends.
00;16;42;07 - 00;17;05;15
Speaker 1
Yeah, a lot of legends. You almost look at, I guess, some of the legends that have won Noosa and going on to, you know, outside of Noosa, they've done remarkable. Yeah. Some of. Yeah. World champions, Olympic medalist you name it. They've all done new some Noosa. So it's a gathering. It's a gathering of the goats. The Australian goats like goat gathering.
00;17;05;15 - 00;17;27;25
Speaker 1
Yeah. We literally look we like I said, we were looking at the, previous winners before and it's stocked. Nearly every single one of them has won. And, world championship all that one. They've been to an Olympics. So, you know, they've got some sort of title. Yeah. To that outside of Noosa. Yeah. On both sides. Men and women, they've all done everything, all the way down to the 80s.
00;17;27;25 - 00;17;42;26
Speaker 1
Yeah. And we weren't born in the 80s. But we know, we know that. Yeah, we know the honor roll of you know what they've done. Just and again, just as fans of the sport, like we if you're a true fan of the sport, you know these people. Yeah. You know the guys in the 1980s and you know who was making the Olympic teams.
00;17;42;26 - 00;18;05;07
Speaker 1
You know ball 2000. But you know you know world titles. Marshall Stuart was winning. Yeah in the 90s sort of things like that funnily enough didn't say Mal Stuart on there. I think he is I believe he is awesome. Oh shit. He did 1990. Yeah yeah, yeah. 1994. 1990. Yeah. You know, he's one of two of my boys big time there.
00;18;05;09 - 00;18;28;11
Speaker 1
He's one is only one three though. Well, I don't need three nurses. Only three noses. It's a fair few people. That one train is is actually. Oh, not heaps, but quite a few more. What we're going to do legends really pick your Noosa legends. Really? So we're going to go, do this like a traditional nurse. We're going to scrap the MTL and we're going to go to the traditional Noosa Relay.
00;18;28;11 - 00;18;40;01
Speaker 1
So you're going to pick a swimmer, you're going to pick a bike rider and you're going to pick a runner. Yep. And you've got to pick a female. Yep. And then have to be all the past winner. All the past. Yeah. So they're all going to be these are all athletes that have won it in the past okay.
00;18;40;01 - 00;19;00;15
Speaker 1
Mass swimmer and royal pool because he's still swimming pretty quick. He's still a fish. He's still efficient. Iron Royal has won this three straight times. So he's a three time champion in the mid-teens. Yep. And I'm going Craig Walton because he was an absolute based on the bike. You could have picked him for a swim and. Yeah.
00;19;00;23 - 00;19;18;13
Speaker 1
Yeah. Because that's the way he won everything. He was just off the front and he's, you know, picking him for the run. He's the king of Noosa six time. He's won the most many titles. And then you can't go past the Queen ash gentle on the run. She's. Yeah. She's run away from everyone at Noosa. It was that was.
00;19;18;15 - 00;19;32;10
Speaker 1
And that was very tough where I feel I had to put them. It was going to be ash. Yeah. Let's be real. You're always, If you got to pick a girl, you're going to pick ash the queen of. No. So, like you said, yeah. Won the most titles. I've picked the same swimmer, so I've gone Iron Royal.
00;19;32;11 - 00;19;50;24
Speaker 1
Yep. Again, I was tossing out between him and mercy. Yeah, because Mercies of Mercy is a phenomenal fish. But I think Aaron has shown the pedigree. Yeah, 100%. He's done it three times. I feel as if a three time champ. Yeah. Can't go past you. You got to put him in there somewhere. I've actually gone ash gentle on the block.
00;19;50;26 - 00;20;12;19
Speaker 1
Oh, yeah. I've gone ash on the block. He's pretty dominant. Yeah, he's been dominant. I've got female field on the block as well. And then. So if I should probably lose a bit of time to Waldo. Yeah. On that block. But I'm picking one of the greats Chris McCormack to round ash gentle down okay. That's pretty solid. So arguments about even that is very close.
00;20;12;19 - 00;20;33;01
Speaker 1
So you've got arrows coming out of the swim. Exactly the same target. Yeah exactly. So both guys. So basically it's coming down to the block run. So both picks we both picked Iron Royal to swim. Is Waldo going to right away enough for ash to stay away from me. Yeah that's pretty cool time. That's pretty cool time I mean again, they're just some absolute goats.
00;20;33;07 - 00;20;58;08
Speaker 1
Yes they are. And we've kind of talked about the King. Queen of Noosa. There's no other two. You really can't go past that used to. Yeah Craig Walton ash gentle. Yeah I mean I think Craig Walton he, he was known as the king of Noosa for, such a long time, a bit of background. I actually used to be coached by Waldo back in like 2017, 2018, and he was the one that convinced me to do my very first one.
00;20;58;08 - 00;21;12;26
Speaker 1
And I think it was very much he convinced me to do my first one so that we could go down. Yeah, he could go see how good he was. I think it was definitely a bit of a you got to walk past that on the roll. And honestly, like, we could barely walk down the expo without him being stopped.
00;21;12;28 - 00;21;37;22
Speaker 1
Nice. So like, everybody knew who Waldo was. And again, rightly so. He's the king of Noosa. Yeah. So yeah, I mean, what what Waldo did, I think it was impressive as well because he wasn't known. He definitely wasn't known as a runner know, like he was, he was a swim barker. He was a swim blocker. And to be able to do so much damage in a swim block that no one could even run to run, it didn't matter how quick you were on the run.
00;21;37;22 - 00;21;53;16
Speaker 1
He was so far up the run. I've looked at some of his runs and they weren't fast at all. 098 35 yeah, he's running like slow. Then the girls were they like these days. So but his swimming blocks are just like when you've got five minutes on the rest of the field, it's like you could jog. What can you do?
00;21;53;16 - 00;22;18;19
Speaker 1
It didn't matter. Yeah, yeah. So I think that's pretty impressive. And like you said, accidental historic in the row 11 wins. Yeah. Yeah. Like that's historic. That that old that might never get back. I used to, get coached by the only person that is beaten. Ash at Noosa, and it was Caroline. Stefan. Wow. Yeah. And that's when I went up because she said, yeah, just go to Noosa.
00;22;18;21 - 00;22;40;05
Speaker 1
It was off the back of her. She came second encounter I think in 2011, 2010 she won it. Oh wow. I think she's one of the only people to beat ash. Oh no, says Emma moffitt here. But, well she she might. She managed out of that. Yeah, she was one of the few that beat ash. Oh, that's cool.
00;22;40;07 - 00;23;06;13
Speaker 1
Yeah, it's pretty much same thing. She was like, oh yeah, it got to me. So I just want you to see how good I am. Quite funny. I wonder like, why? Why? This means it's funny that. Yeah. Because the the coaches, it must mean a fair bit to them. It's still. And we saw it with Brighton Mercer last year like again Mercer has he's done like he's done some pretty incredible things like in his career.
00;23;06;13 - 00;23;29;19
Speaker 1
He's still very young. He's still very young. But he definitely hasn't got the pedigree or. No, not the pedigree. He definitely hasn't got sort of the, he hasn't got the achievement titles. You know, some of that, some of these other guys certainly has the potential to get them to get them later on. But we've been saying how much attention it brought him winning at such a young age.
00;23;29;19 - 00;23;50;10
Speaker 1
I think he Falco, correct me if this is wrong. He's the youngest person to have won. Loser. Don't know. Okay, me, I think he might be. I think he might have been, what, 20? He was 20 when he won it. I think he might have been. It might be the youngest male because apparently I don't see it pretty young, but, I think I think Mercer might have been the youngest male to have ever won, a lose a title.
00;23;50;10 - 00;24;16;22
Speaker 1
Exactly. And it kind of goes back to what we said. It's more than just triathlon, like the whole Australian public know about Noosa. What's going on? Yeah. And if you win it, I mean it's a good payday. But the exposure from that is probably more than anything. Yeah. Your career. Yeah. And you're exactly right. Like the exposure from it just from a viewership within within Australia as well.
00;24;16;22 - 00;24;34;14
Speaker 1
So like, I remember last year when Mercer did win it, Luke Wilson was coming off. I think he was at like a top 15 or top ten in the World Series. Like he he just came off. He said, yeah, he just come off representing Australia at the Olympics had like a top ten year in the World Series.
00;24;34;16 - 00;24;50;16
Speaker 1
Right. And Mercer comes and beat him in Noosa and then right. Most is better than Luke Williams. He might not be like he he might not have been. But like in that race he was. And now in everybody's mind, he's better than Luke Wilson after Luke Wilson just had the season that we all know Luke Wilson had last year.
00;24;50;18 - 00;25;08;22
Speaker 1
So yeah, crazy. Sometimes it just takes the right day at the right time. Yeah. And then you're the best in Australia. Well yeah. On that day you are. Okay. Should we get into it. Yeah. Well going to the race preview and predictions. There's only so much we can talk about how good news stories will be out there this weekend.
00;25;08;22 - 00;25;29;18
Speaker 1
So we can give it a proper review then. Yeah. Who how do you think the races can go? We'll start with the mouse. You're racing it? Yep. How do you think the race will play out? I think as an athlete I'll have my opinion as someone that's not racing, I think, and we've seen it in the past couple years, there's always a break off the front.
00;25;29;22 - 00;25;57;17
Speaker 1
Yeah. I think you're going to have a break somewhere between that 5 to 7, possibly eight, just briefly looking at sort of who's who's there. I think going to have a break between 5 to 8. You're going to have some really, really guns is wanting to get wanting to get away. And because it is such a long hour, you basically swimming 700m out, maybe a couple hundred meters across, and then nothing comes back in with the chop as well.
00;25;57;20 - 00;26;14;07
Speaker 1
Beach start. Like we saw how much Hazzard was able to split it up and Wollongong with the beach start. So hopefully, you know, some of us Aussies can apply a bit of pressure with that. The entry, splitting it up, really getting like a Brighton, Mercer and Iron Road. So just get to the front and just, you know, hammer it.
00;26;14;10 - 00;26;33;10
Speaker 1
So yeah I think it'll break up the block. It's just there's no once you're out of sight, out of mind. Yeah. Like with the body on that course, you kind of, a bit of the course preview. You zigzag in and out of town, you get onto the main road. Pretty much what you ride on. Yeah. Garmin Hill.
00;26;33;12 - 00;26;49;03
Speaker 1
Yeah. Garmin hill. Garmin here that everyone talks about that one. And then you go down pretty much another five or so okay. Yeah. Turn around and come back. It really is 20 K at 20 K back. It's is straight is straight forward. Is that with the old Garmin hill which is about five kilometers. Yeah. You know the wrong.
00;26;49;06 - 00;27;09;00
Speaker 1
No. That's right four minutes I think. So was it. Yeah. It's not big. Yeah. So it's not. No big at all. But yeah. So it really is going to be if that breakaway establishes and every time I've race it and every time I've watched it, there's been like, you know, that anywhere from 5 to 10 people off the front that sort of hold breaks out to maybe 30s to a minute anywhere from there.
00;27;09;02 - 00;27;26;03
Speaker 1
And then from my experience, it's whoever's in that breakaway. The winner comes from that. Yeah, I've seen people run up and, you know, run into second and third, but I've never seen somebody from the Chase pack, not to my knowledge that has gone on and gone on to win it. I think that's going to be the same.
00;27;26;03 - 00;27;43;23
Speaker 1
I think that's going to be same. I agree, that's how the men's race will go. The quality of swimming in the field this year is a lot higher than what it has been. A lot of a few years back, when I raced it, there was a lot of the longer course guys. Yeah. And the swim just wasn't as quick as what it's going to be this year.
00;27;43;25 - 00;28;04;29
Speaker 1
One of those one year where, bred course courses. And I'm pretty sure you broke the course record for the. Yeah, that's the year. All right. And if the course is a phenomenal athlete again, but he's not a course record swim. Although I actually go to Robbo today in the pool. I said Robbo, he's rising Noosa. I said you going back to Noosa to go get you some.
00;28;04;29 - 00;28;24;04
Speaker 1
Course he's going to, he's going to hit the swim and then call it a day. You need to get that record back. Anyway, yeah, I agree, that's how the men's is going to go. It's going to be a break. Maybe 1 or 2 fall off the back of that front pack on the bike. It that also plays a factor at the today bike.
00;28;24;04 - 00;28;42;20
Speaker 1
A lot of these guys, short course guys haven't raced on target, haven't touched it all year, do two weeks. Okay. I've done two weeks of it. Yeah. Exactly. Right. Two weeks ago. Oh, this is this will be the first time I. I don't really know any long course guys that have other than Jackson's Nijinsky. Yeah. To have sort of stepped up and, you know, chosen to race this.
00;28;42;21 - 00;29;02;10
Speaker 1
So bit of a poor showing and then someone's going to run and win whoever's the strongest runner on the day. Exactly. He's your prediction then for the men without you in there. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not going to beat myself because last time that just hasn't really done me too well in the past. So, look, really, you can't go past Matt Houser.
00;29;02;12 - 00;29;19;12
Speaker 1
Yeah. He's just two weeks ago. Won the world championships. Matt has her first, Lukey William in second. And then I got John Reed in third, I think. I don't think John's going to be. I don't think John Rea is going to be in that breakaway. But he's a phenomenal runner. And I think over ten K.
00;29;19;13 - 00;29;35;20
Speaker 1
You're going to have some tight legs in that in that sort of breakaway. And John of is very strong run on. So he could do some damage in ten K I reckon. Okay. I think it's hard to go past hell yeah. Come on. So Matt Houser and then actually lucky off your half marathon I've put you in second or you're kidding.
00;29;35;20 - 00;29;54;00
Speaker 1
Yeah I have I know of back to you because that would be great for the podcast. Yeah. And I've got Luke willing. Also is he box set off? And it looks pretty fast. No, I'm going to draw, so I might not know. That's who I've got, but I think, yeah, there's going to be five six of you guys in that front pack.
00;29;54;02 - 00;30;20;25
Speaker 1
Looking at it it looks very you've definitely it's dense between I think second to sixth. I mean if we're being real there's nobody we're off on for. Well I'll, I'll go out and do my absolute best. But yeah you know five second you got to respect the world, champ. Yeah. You got to respect it. If there's some way where we can get over the top of him of 100%, take advantage of any weakness that he might be showing, but you're going to have to hope that he cramps so flat, so, yeah, like, if I.
00;30;20;25 - 00;30;38;25
Speaker 1
If I see him cramp and I'm fucking running, it's 251 K and it would be his first win. He's race it before but came second to Hayden Walsh. Yeah it's pretty dense here. Yeah that is pretty. You and Henry Schumann Rio Olympian like yeah. Third place world champion that year. Yeah. Henry Screaming was meant to be racing but he's pulled off.
00;30;38;29 - 00;30;52;08
Speaker 1
Yeah I think he's been injured. Yeah. Okay. I mean, that's a bit too. I mean, I'd like to think I would have been able to outrun him, but I, I do think that he would have been very valuable in that soon. Black though. Yeah. And he's quite dogged on the team now. Yeah, I think that's a big difference.
00;30;52;08 - 00;31;08;14
Speaker 1
But not many guys have been on the team, so I don't think it's going to change. I think I, I think we're going to roll around and there'll be a, there'll be a yeah like we said that 5 to 7 sort of break away and then there'll be just a huge chase pack. Yeah. Coming from behind okay. And the women, how do you think he's going to go.
00;31;08;16 - 00;31;29;29
Speaker 1
I'll give my prediction. I think a couple of girls with some off the front. You've got Sandra by Grant racing. Yeah. Tara's. Isn't she just Phogat? Who else is, Rachelle Hill? So who? Yep. Danny de Francesco. Yes. That's going to be. He's going to be the big player. Yeah. I've seen her screaming with, rails at Miami.
00;31;30;02 - 00;31;48;11
Speaker 1
She's swimming quite well coming off for a swim off the back of being a professional cyclist for the last couple of years. Yeah, racing in Europe. I think she's probably kept swimming because she's swimming quite well. I think she would be just off the back of those girls. Well, I think she'll she'll ride up to them and I think pass them.
00;31;48;11 - 00;32;06;06
Speaker 1
Oh she should change how this race goes. A professional cyclist sort of jumping in the field like with a swimming background like hers. Yeah. She's going to struggle in the run. Yeah, that's the only downfall. She's got two strikes. Oh, around. Not too great. Yeah. And she hasn't been a guy. Well she hasn't been a great runner in the past either.
00;32;06;07 - 00;32;24;29
Speaker 1
So, but like we said, she'll I do believe they should probably swim with these girls. And I think she should run away to catch up to them, I think, and then ride away from you right away. She'll do an Aston who ride away from the field. What happens next will be another story. I don't think she really cares about that.
00;32;24;29 - 00;32;41;14
Speaker 1
I don't think she as long as she she might get a bit of limelight on the TV and that's that's cool for her. Yeah. Yeah, it's the women's. It's gonna be interesting because you can have many on the start list. There's not. Which is. Which is why it'll break up more. Yeah, it will be broken up more.
00;32;41;15 - 00;33;05;00
Speaker 1
You're going to have smaller pack. So like, I, I mean we'll go into the picks in a second. But I don't have Cassandra bro. Grant doing like I don't. I don't see her blowing it out of the water. Yeah. No no no I her cycling in my mind. She hasn't done enough in the, in the short course world to prove that she's going to be that strong on this bike.
00;33;05;02 - 00;33;26;07
Speaker 1
And when you've got to Rochelle Hill with Danny de Francesco with Jess full of great cars, is in ski who were just going to be so dialed on those bikes like they're strong riders, really strong cyclists. So yeah, I don't know. It's going to be interesting. Yeah. So we might as well go into our predictions. Yeah. I think though in the women's race a little break in the swim about for potentially.
00;33;26;07 - 00;33;47;25
Speaker 1
Yeah. And then I think the bike will break it out. Yeah. That's well change I think you have the strong riders get away from the weaker riders and the runners. So I'm going and then run whoever whoever wins. Yeah. I'm going for my win. Just fully got. Yeah. I think just the British know how to ride a bike.
00;33;47;25 - 00;34;12;07
Speaker 1
They do. And they're very strong. She was swim at the front and she would ride. I think she could probably keep up with Danny. Yeah I just see it. Yeah. And then, I'm actually going to go change this now. I'm going over Michelle Hill in second. Yeah. She's come second before. Yep. And then I'm going to go Cassandra, I think she'll fall off the back of the bike, but then run up okay.
00;34;12;09 - 00;34;34;20
Speaker 1
Yeah. And potentially beat someone like a Tara. Yeah. Who might just might just push Tara out to that fourth. I've got a pretty similar I've got a pretty similar analogy on how I think it's going to. I think Rochelle is going to win. Yeah, I think she's back after the her under 23 performance. And in fact we can say this can't be Rochelle's little comment that she made.
00;34;34;22 - 00;35;01;07
Speaker 1
Yeah. So a little little I think Falco had a little little rumor on Rochelle Hill when she was coming back into triathlon. You know, not too long ago, obviously. People who don't know Rochelle's mum. Rain Hill. Yeah. Olympian, two time Noosa winner. Like a champion in her own right Rochelle Hill. Kind of made the comment I'm actually not too concerned about, you know, world champions or like being a world champion or being an Olympian.
00;35;01;07 - 00;35;24;02
Speaker 1
That doesn't bother me. All Rochelle wanted to do was win Noosa before her mum won Noosa. I was so like she wanted to win it, like at a younger age than what her mum won. That's pretty cool. That is. Which is crazy, that shows how big news is to people. Yeah like that. That statement right there shows how much of an impact Noosa has on an athlete like it really is.
00;35;24;02 - 00;35;40;23
Speaker 1
And like you said, Rochelle has been second in this before this, this style of racing. So totally, I think it was, was it 2 or 3 years ago where she kind of came back onto the scene that was, oh, everyone was like gone for a bit. Rochelle she's back. Yeah. Well, yeah, that's kind of what And this, this suits her.
00;35;40;24 - 00;35;58;15
Speaker 1
This style of writing really suits a strong athlete. Yeah. So I've got her show winning it. Yeah. Sandra Bergeron second. Second. Oh, I really almost want to swap it again, like you just said. But I'm going to stick with my guns. I'm going to go Rochelle Hill first. Cassandra Bergeron, she'll run into second just for like a third.
00;35;58;17 - 00;36;17;11
Speaker 1
Okay. There we have it. That's a tough one though. Very tough one. And then after the race is all said and done mate. Let's be real. The real racing then kicks off doesn't it. Yeah it does. Like like we said this is this is a time where age group is a let's come together. Yeah.
00;36;17;11 - 00;36;38;20
Speaker 1
And boy, do we come together at the afterparty. Oh, yeah. No, it's known for its afterparty. Yeah, and Noosa Surf Club. Oh, I actually remember seeing a comment that the great Craig Walton made on Brighton Mercer's. Oh. Maybe it was on the news, a triathlon, or it was when Mercer crossed a line last year. He took the tape and news of your phone.
00;36;38;20 - 00;36;57;01
Speaker 1
Put up the post right away. Yeah. Congratulations, Brian. Mercy Mercyone. Craig Walton, go enjoy the afterparty. And I was like that right there. Yeah, that's that's it. Oh that's an oh yeah. That's that's an icon that knows where the real racing is. Hey he's had plenty of good news or afterparties. I'm sure I'm sure he's had plenty. Yeah.
00;36;57;01 - 00;37;13;26
Speaker 1
And again, like we said, you're going to have the age group is with the lads, with the crit race, with the runners. The runners stick around for the summer, stick around for it, everyone sticks around for it. And it's just one big piss up at Noosa Surf Club. It's great. Call it, it's fine. So who is out? Boat race, mixed team relay.
00;37;13;26 - 00;37;32;23
Speaker 1
Yeah. For anybody that doesn't know what a boat race is, it is, you're drinking partners, basically. It's like, it's. You can be the best. It's a drinking game. It's a drinking game that is down to the pub. So, so basically swim, bike run essentially. So just three locking traditional Noosa relay. Yeah. So, I'll go first.
00;37;32;23 - 00;37;50;10
Speaker 1
So again we've made sure we've, put a female in that. Yeah, yeah. Brighton Mercer. Yeah. He's got experience from last year. He's got experience in last year. We both party with them enough. We know the Brighton Mercer loves a party. Yeah. And he's the. He's the current king of Noosa. Yeah. Whether that stays the same.
00;37;50;10 - 00;38;07;04
Speaker 1
He's the current king. Know the Fresh Prince of Hastings Street. He's the Fresh Prince of Hastings. Great. And then I'm going to go with the young Tara's. Stinky. Yep. Okay. Another one, that of, another one that happened before I go coast one to. I've taken a Gold Coast one, so you know what that says. But God, who knows what he's done.
00;38;07;06 - 00;38;25;25
Speaker 1
Anyway, I know this is back from, when we bonded together in Kitzbuhel. Oh, yeah, we had a little. This is where I, I think through shadows under the bus at the start of the year with the with the Mykonos party. And then I'm going to, finish it off with Benny Dykstra. Okay, nice. Yeah. I've got Benny Dykstra.
00;38;26;02 - 00;38;43;10
Speaker 1
The smallest man in triathlon is the happiest. Yeah. He's so happy all the time. I feel as if he would just be happy to be in Australia. Yeah. And I've got Cassandra by Grant. Yeah. And we said. We said it before in our Mykonos team. We feel as if the French know how to party. You know how to party.
00;38;43;12 - 00;39;01;06
Speaker 1
And then I've got the old dog. We've heard his war stories, Aaron Royle. And he will not shy away from telling you his war stories. Yeah, exactly. Right. So I think the old dog can teach the new pups some tricks. And our royal, he's my man. To finish it off, he's a bit of a goat of news here as well.
00;39;01;12 - 00;39;19;06
Speaker 1
He is a three time winner. Yeah, a three time winner I so he actually said it the other day at training. He's never done newser and not been on the podium. Yeah. So I think he's raised it five times and he's got three wins a silver and bronze. Wow. So he's coming back. He's coming back in. Maybe he might do it.
00;39;19;09 - 00;39;43;17
Speaker 1
Yeah. Let's see. Let's see. Either way if he doesn't do it in the race to do it at the afterparty, he'll he'll make up for lost time there. That's kind of it. All righty. That's it. Yeah. That's how, that's how a little preview of what's to come with blowing smoke up news is also a lot. But if you're an Aussie and your true triathlon fan in Australia, and if you've heard anything or if you've been there, if you experienced it, you know we blowing smoke up there.
00;39;43;17 - 00;40;02;03
Speaker 1
Awesome. Rightly so. Yep. Exactly. Right now this is going to be it's going to be a scene. Yeah. This weekend it will be up there. We'll be up there like we said. And if you want to if you want to yeah. Reach out to us. Can come say hi. If you want to jump in an interview, if you want to do anything, if you want us to, you know, present.
00;40;02;10 - 00;40;18;23
Speaker 1
Honestly. We'll do. I will do anything. Wait, wait, wait, I some official because, yeah, I bring stuff up, but, Yeah, we just want to we just want to promote the event. We want to get amongst it. We want to show what it's like to be an elite athlete inside the event. We want to show, you know, showcase the highs and lows of it.
00;40;18;23 - 00;40;36;14
Speaker 1
That's what lying there who's going to be in people's faces just interviewing everything. Yeah. Being a pest. So, Yeah, well, we're honestly just looking forward to it. Like we said, it's we're coming towards the end of the season. The season's wrapping up. When news comes around, it's, you know, it's getting warm. It's getting summery. Yeah. Exactly.
00;40;36;14 - 00;40;56;07
Speaker 1
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00;40;56;09 - 00;41;02;15
Speaker 1
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