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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
Welcome back to the unfunded podcast episode 35. And welcome to our season finale. It's our awards night slash day because we're recording during the day, special. And it is our last show, last one of the year. It's been a huge year. It has, first off, forget. Yeah. We just want to say a big thank you.
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Speaker 1
Really? To those 88 people. Yeah, exactly. We saw our Spotify raft, and we had, 88 people. As they were, we were their number one listen podcast, which is insane that 88 people care that much. But yeah, I think we had like, I think it was almost like 4000 hours. I can't remember exactly, but there was a lot of people and even in the last couple races in Noosa and Wollongong, we had a couple people sort of stopping us and reaching out and following and like, really, we thought our parents were going to be the only listeners.
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Speaker 1
So the fact that we've got a few more than that, it means a lot. So thank you very much and we can't wait to do it next year. Now, without further ado, because this is our last one, we thought we're going to obviously do a recap award special. And I think it's a very fitting final guest that we've brought on for the year, helping us recap the season of 2025.
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Speaker 1
He is your world champion. He's the king of the relay, and he is the third host of the podcast tonight. And that is Matty has it. Oh, welcome the champ. He's here.
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Speaker 2
Nice voice. Guys.
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Speaker 1
We can't get any better from now. Yeah, I mean, she's all downhill. Yeah, we kind of have set the bar. Sorry to whoever we get on next year. We've, We probably have said it too high. Matt, first off, thank you for coming on. Congrats on the year. Yeah. Huge, huge. Give us your give us your thoughts, your feelings.
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Speaker 1
How how is obviously it's a big year. How are you feeling now. You've had a bit of time to sort of reflect on it.
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Speaker 2
Well I'm feeling extremely underdressed. So yeah things off I mean you.
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Speaker 1
Boys have you the memo.
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Speaker 2
You've always addressed are really nice for for Brownlow. A red carpet. Yeah, kind of spot, but yeah, not.
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Speaker 1
Outside.
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Speaker 2
Rolling out the red carpet. So, nab it. Thanks. Having me on, lads. Appreciate it. And all the recognition and whatnot. And it's been it's been a rollercoaster like the last month or so, and they just had a little bit of time to reflect and unwind and spend time with the my loved ones and people in my closest to me supporting me.
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Speaker 2
And, yeah, it's been really special, sharing the chain, the journey with them and obviously going through highs and lows, but mostly highs this year. Thankfully, it's not always like that, but it was, it was a good idea to, you know, kick off a, you know, you know, an interesting Olympic campaign ahead of me. You know, Ella is very much, the focus of things.
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Speaker 2
And I see this year is, you know, a small step towards that journey.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Sick. And this year is obviously being, of obviously, you've been around and you've been in the World Series for quite a while, and you've been in the eyes of a lot of people. But to go out and win it and winning as dominantly as you did, like you just you made it look easy, really, really made it look easy.
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Speaker 1
What were some of the changes you made, whether it's a, you know, physically, tactically, you know, mentally, how have you sort of transformed into the athlete you sort of were in these previous years to, to how you were this year?
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Speaker 2
It's funny you mentioned like dominance, like it surely did. Matt. It may have looked like that in Wollongong, like I was, say, winning by 30 odd seconds and how the race panned out. But throughout the whole year, like, yes, I had 4 or 5 wins, but, you know, on my coattails were, you know, Vasco and Miguel Hidalgo and, you know, a whole host of other guys like Henry Graf really having a breakout season for himself.
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Speaker 2
And, a lot of other challenges come to the forefront post-Olympic year. So I think it definitely didn't feel, in my mind, like a dominant season. You know, I know they say it was the the first perfect season, four out of four races in the grand final and whatnot. But I think I beat Vasco by an average of like seven seven to 10s up until the grand final.
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Speaker 2
So it was like, yeah, I mean, it was just it was blue carpet between us and that was about it. So, I definitely felt like I wasn't going to Wollongong. You know, as a sure thing. So I definitely had to work hard at that. And there was a lot of toing and froing, a lot of, you know, intrusive thoughts coming into my head in those weeks leading up to the race.
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Speaker 2
But I just had to kind of stay true to myself and, you know, reflect on a really great year and what I've done to get to that stage. And, I think you, you spoke about like, what have I changed? And I think most of it's just mindset. I think, first and foremost, like, I think coming off Paris, you know, having that new North Star to, to chase in Wollongong and having that, be, you know, such, such an experienced and such, amazing thing to look forward to.
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Speaker 2
You know, I couldn't pass up on that opportunity to, to try and put my best foot forward. So, yeah, obviously you can you can, you can say what you want about like and and Alex obviously doing different things and, and experiencing different things this year like that. They went off and did their own thing. But I think I also proved that, that when they came back to the fold, that the sport is kind of evolved a little bit since I left.
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Speaker 2
And, you know, we're constantly pushing the sport forward. So, you know, that's the most important thing.
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Speaker 1
And I think we we make sure that a lot like these guys obviously are, you know, very great at what they do. But I think a lot of you guys did show how you can transform the sport. And we almost believe that it's coming back to change the god of the swim bike dominance. And maybe we saw it a bit more in the women with the breakaways.
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Speaker 1
But the men, it was kind of the same really. Yeah. It's like with like you said, the height and Alex sort of going out and doing their thing, that yes, they were very good in the sort of last couple of years, but you guys showed that you can't just dip in and out of the sport like there is that essence of like all in, you have to be all in.
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Speaker 1
You have to be willing. And if you're not, you know, you're not at the forefront for sure.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. And that's why I said to I had a funny moment with Vasco and Miguel, like obviously the two other main guys throughout the year. And I had a funny moment with them when, Hyde and Alex came back to racing and Frazier, I was like, man, if we if we let these buggers beat us now. Like what?
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Speaker 2
I've been pissed off doing all this shit for the for half of the year. Like, we might as well pack up and quit the sport like we need it. We need to make sure that we don't just lie to me with, like, an open arms. So, I, it was good to, to kind of have that, you know, for this year and yeah, you spoke about things that change as well, like, I went to altitude like a first block of altitude into an indoor and really challenged myself and that aspect.
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Speaker 2
And I think it was just a progression on, you know, in years gone by and just wanting to kind of tick off a little, you know, one, two, five percenters that, that I found that was lacking in my previous years. I might not have had the mental or, you know, maturity, to kind of get through those phases of training.
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Speaker 2
And, you know, no one wants to spend, you know, four weeks isolated at the top of a mountain, doing not much, but just try and eat and sleep. So I think I'm at the stage, my career where I can handle periods like that, and I can I can really go all in. So that was that was probably the biggest change as well.
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Speaker 1
It's that, I guess the mindset going into LA, it's all in for LA or obviously, but like doing those really small things and just integrating what you did DC throughout the next two years, 2 or 3 years.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, for sure. And I think that's like not something you can you can teach someone you something that you have to experience and learn for yourself. Like you can tell all these young kids like, oh, you got to work hard. You got to have tenacity, work ethic, you know, maturity and all that things. But like I've been told that for my whole career and I've only just started to click and get it now.
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Speaker 2
So I think everyone has to go through their own journey. And to me now they're like, I'm 27. I recognize I'm at the peak years of my sporting career. You know, the late 20s, early 30s is like the typical trough in ages where you start to hit you stride. So I think for me, I'm looking now at my career as like a, as a real timeline.
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Speaker 2
And I'm kind of at the you know, mid to end of that timeline. So I really don't want to leave any stone unturned. And obviously with LA beckoning and then Brisbane, 2032, I might be an old bugger, but, we'll see if we can. We can hold the body up and, and get to that. But yeah, these are the these are the last few years I, I'm really going to make or break.
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Speaker 1
You know, and I remember obviously you've said this on I've listened to a few podcasts you've been on before and I think we've even spoken about it together on rides and whatnot. That Tokyo race was definitely almost the thing that made you sort of flip your mindset to, well, okay, I'm either going to sink or swim here. Like I either sort of change something and I really put myself on this professional pathway and do something like, do what you've done in these last couple years.
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Speaker 1
I feel like anybody that follows the sport is saying your, I guess, trajectory since Tokyo like is that is that still is that something you're just constantly building on like that flit from Tokyo and now we're just going gone from there?
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Speaker 2
Yeah, I guess it's a snowball effect. Like as soon as you start rolling, it just builds momentum and mass and strength and whatnot. So I think from Tokyo, I did make a lot of athlete decisions, but also life decisions. You know, my girlfriend probably has a lot to do that as well. Keep me in line. And, and all that stuff outside the sport.
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Speaker 2
But, yeah, I think for me, just fully committing and, you know, treating it like a lifestyle, but also like a job, a way of making amends and making a living and setting up, you know, my life and my future family's life, for years to come. Possible. Because, you know, we're at we're in the Golden era of of our, you know, time on this planet like we we won't.
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Speaker 2
I'll never be 27 again. Like, I'll never have the ability to to go as fast as I am now or, you know, reach my, my potential as an athlete, as I am now. So I really want to make the most of that. And I part of that change was I came from Tokyo in the, the, the blunt, I guess ending to it to a you know, a built up Olympic campaign, my first Olympic campaign.
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Speaker 2
But it was very, I guess, underwhelming. You think? Yeah. Sweet. Bittersweet. Yeah. Big build up for for not much. And I think a lot of people speak about that Olympic journey being, you know, a big, you know, a big build up and then like a major crash, like, like having a big cup of coffee in the morning and, you know, having to take a nap by the afternoon.
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Speaker 2
So. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah. Nice that you've big burning, like desire. Is it the desire to, let's say an Olympic gold or is it to not or was it the desire or the big burn was not to have that feeling again? Why would you go.
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Speaker 2
That's a that's actually a really good question. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Like what drives like that 2028 goal.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. I think obviously this scarring from, from negative experiences in Tokyo was definitely one of them. But I think to look forward you can't be focusing on the negatives. You need to be focusing on the positive side for me, not positive. You know, maybe an Olympic medal or gold or whatever that may been in LA, and even just having the experience in Paris and having it feel more like an Olympic, a proper Olympic Games, having my family and friends, being able to influence the race and somewhat, you know, being with the shot, towards the back end, I think it was really motivating me.
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Speaker 2
And to know that, like, you know, if I keep pushing, I can I can get to the, to the dos 1I1 day. So yeah, that's something that's motivating me. Yeah. Looking at the positives. And, you know, I think now that I want a world championship, you know, that is a realistic goal for me now. Like, but I still don't see myself as, like, one of the top dogs or one of the greats, like, in our sport, like, going to the all the triathlon awards the other weekend and seeing all the names like Miles Stewart and Greg Welsh and, and all the previous world champions and Olympic champions and whatnot going
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Speaker 2
by from our sport, like, it's hard for me to imagine myself amongst those names now, but I think the Olympics is, is that one thing that I really need to tick off the list to be able to, you know, even recognize myself, you know, amongst those names.
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Speaker 1
So not only for that rich history, but I guess that probably comes down to the like that Aussie tall poppy. That's probably how I grew up. Small town like, you don't want to be that tall, Poppy. That gets cut down even though you know it's good and bad at some times, isn't it? That tall poppy syndrome? I feel as if you need to be celebrated when you are on top, though.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Yeah, right. You know. Yeah. Thanks. For what?
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Speaker 2
Thanks, man.
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Speaker 1
We still on episode two. Oh, yeah. Cuz, like I did it. Yeah you did. Thank you very much. You win the world title. We'll get you on that. Yes, I did say that.
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Speaker 3
So what if I was like the driving factor. Like, what if.
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Speaker 2
I came second?
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Speaker 1
You wouldn't have been. You know what I mean? You know, we were like.
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Speaker 3
You.
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Speaker 1
Said, you boys, but you didn't pick me.
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Speaker 2
So that was his motivation.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah. Before we wrap up the season as a whole weekly, some quickfire questions wrap up your season. I think this one's an easy one. Best race of your season?
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Speaker 2
Yeah, it had to be Wollongong. Yeah. Yeah, I would say overall experience will have gone, I think, potentially Frazier. It's just because I had maybe something to prove against those other guys. So but yeah Wollongong as an overall experience. So I'm available.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. For sure. Who surprised you the most this season?
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Speaker 2
Good question. I think I'll say a couple of guys, I think Henry Graf, certainly turning that strength and young energy and vibes into into real on field performances, that was really impressive to see. And obviously he's now an ally in that front group I'm on. And the better he goes, a better I go, so to speak.
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Speaker 2
So it's good to see him up there and doing doing his thing. And I think also Vasco the last. So I think he's always had a lot of consistency and great results in his, in his repertoire. But to see him just like his tenacity and just never give up attitude, never say die attitude, you know, he's just he's clipped my heels until the last few hundred meters of the run.
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Speaker 2
It's quite, quite amazing to see. And quite inspiring to see, you know, the level that he can take his body, you know, in terms of hurt. Yeah. You know, to try and get the job done. So. Yeah. Those guys.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, he's he's definitely one that you very much looking at. Like he's just I don't know, there was a couple riser I thought has is good and clear but it's like yeah Pascal is still just sitting to be honest that. Yeah, it's still just won't go away.
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Speaker 3
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
It's just one who's going to be the big one. You need a knock off to winning. LA is the biggest threat. Do you think it's going to be Hyde and Alex coming back? I think the Norwegian's going bot is a new someone. New coming up like a Henry grass. Yeah, that's a.
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Speaker 2
That's a tough one.
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Speaker 1
He's still going to be the top dog.
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Speaker 2
Oh I don't know. It's hard to say. Obviously three is a long way away. But I think obviously Hayden and Alex that they'll come back, with a bit of vengeance in mind. Hopefully they both were to slow down a little bit after the, after their longer, longer races this season. Obviously. Alex, just coming off a ridiculous 206, which I'm sure we'll talk about that for months and years to come, but, yeah, those guys, just because they'll have a chip on their shoulder now and they'll want to come back and prove themselves themselves.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. Henry Graff, all the young guys, to be honest, that that will just be pushing the needle forward and forward and I think, yeah, the, the young, young Spaniard as well, he got second in.
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Speaker 1
Yeah.
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Speaker 2
In Wollongong. Like, he's such, he's such a good guy, Kintaro. And he's, he's so humble as well. But know I speak, you know, I mean, she's such a professional like he, he's been going out to camp since the age of 18, 19 and, and just always, like, pushing and wanted to be better and better and, you know, in that relentless pursuit.
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Speaker 2
So, yeah, I think those younger guys that are just chomping at the bit to, to make it for themselves are going to be dangerous.
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Speaker 1
I'll have one more question, which is just out of my own curiosity as someone that's at the top of the sport, you saying, Alex, you run into AI six, what do you think the quickest run in a triathlon off the bike ten will be. What did you do this year? It was something crazy.
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Speaker 2
For ten kilos, 29. 16. Okay. In Wollongong. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
That's maybe the its weakest is a 28 something. Yeah. Yeah, I think I like I would sit in the Paris test of it 29. Oh yeah. Yeah. He went 28 something. Did it? Yeah. 28.
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Speaker 2
And that was with like a 22nd or 32nd gap. Some like that. So he was probably cruising towards the end there. But yeah that's a good question. I think with the shoe technology as well, it's just going to keep on improving. And improving. I think that's just the way things are going these days. And obviously nutrition and everything that's just pushing the sport forward.
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Speaker 2
I think we could probably get, what we I mean, the sport, could probably get to maybe. Yeah. That's like mid to high 28 range. I think it'd have to be the right course. Depends on the bike. There's so many factors. But yes it's it's getting creative quicker and quicker.
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Speaker 1
I mean the fact that you did a low 29 on the Wollongong course, which anybody who saw it is a hilly course and you went up that what how many laps was that?
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Speaker 2
Eight laps of eight laps.
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Speaker 1
I like up that, up that hill every time like that. It's just so quick. And the five k that you guys ran in that French World Series, like, it's just getting ridiculously quick and scary as someone who writes the sport as well, very.
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Speaker 3
Scary for me.
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Speaker 1
Well, that's the. Yeah, one does. Exactly. All righty. Well, we'll get into, a bit of a, more more of a recap. We'll call it the awards ceremony. This is the unfunded, awards. Like I said, we've got you by official week yet. Brought to you by the official vehicle. I wish we had some prizes to send out to people, but,
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Speaker 1
Yeah, we weren't. We weren't really that, episode two, like we spoke about before episode two, we did a long time, but it was. And you think about it 35 now, episode two, we gave our predictions of the year. I'm just going to put it out there. You did? Yeah. So I shall I picked Alex. Yeah. To win.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. Forgot those running marathons for me. And then Gwen Jorgensen. Yeah. I don't even know where she went I don't know. Well, because they go through our predictions, she might have retired. Yeah. I think so far that.
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Speaker 2
She definitely didn't go back to 2016.
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Speaker 1
That's for no no no no. So Layton you had Alex's song element Matty has up on the podium.
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Speaker 2
It's pretty good. Thanks, mate I.
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Speaker 1
I had Matty has a Hayden Wild song. 11. You did well I think I did. Yeah, yeah. I think if you pick Matt yourself.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. Never never back against yourself.
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Speaker 1
Yeah I remember I actually had the women who did.
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Speaker 2
I definitely didn't think it would turn out that way.
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Speaker 1
At least at.
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Speaker 2
Her in, in Wollongong obviously. Lisa, I think I would have put her on the podium. But the way that just the other two races, like capitulated, I was watching on my phone before the race, like obviously warming up and obviously those, those two girls, Beth and and Cassandra were were the two favorites for the race. And I was going like, why?
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Speaker 2
They're the favorites. I've just had a shocker on the favorite. I'm about to race like, what's going to happen here?
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Speaker 1
So five you had.
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Speaker 3
To be a little bit, but I, I.
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Speaker 2
Very quickly I do remember that. So yeah. Yeah but I well credit to Lisa she got it done. Yeah. When it counted.
00;18;19;22 - 00;18;38;08
Speaker 1
Yeah. And lighten your pick like you said Gwen Jorgensen Emma Lombardi John le here. Yeah. No any none of that. I had a shocker. I feel as if my picks throughout the year got better. You did with actually picking the races. Yeah, I think I picked a couple in the back end of the. I'm pretty sure your new saw and this was bang on and I think so.
00;18;38;10 - 00;18;55;09
Speaker 1
Yeah. You did really well there. Yeah. That's where I'm at. Oh anyway, maybe longer stuff. Yeah. And the breakouts, the way you picked this year, you picked Matilda manton. I picked the live. Mathias. You had a cracker there. Live it live did really well. Got a first podium, and she just got stronger and stronger. Yeah. Every time.
00;18;55;09 - 00;19;06;01
Speaker 1
Like, I still believe that she's going to be a huge strength in years to come. We kind of dropped the ball here. Dylan McCulloch, Hugo Milner. Yeah. You picked you again because that was injured and didn't do anything, so.
00;19;06;04 - 00;19;09;07
Speaker 2
Not much you can do. That's not your fault. Yeah, yeah, it's not bad.
00;19;09;09 - 00;19;24;22
Speaker 1
I could have done more. Yeah, you could have done your research. I think if it's been like this the whole year. Kind of came on prepared all the time. Throw caution to the wind. Right. Exactly. I was there for, for a gutsy Raffi, you know? Yeah, that was my style. Okay, well, I think you should throw that style.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, for next year. It's gone. Might pick the favorite. All right, well, now it's maybe all my bad juju. I'll pick the people that go bad or like, oh, they get injured. What do they have? Yeah. Bad juju. Yeah. That is what it is. All right, now time. Let's, let's go through our favorites and picks for the unfunded awards.
00;19;46;14 - 00;20;07;19
Speaker 1
Yeah. First one huge. This is going to be interesting. You're going to have to do the nominees. I've got nothing up here. Athlete of the year for the men. We've got our man Maddie has a world champion mixed team relay champion. Got yellow against Ironman 70.3. Well, yeah. World champion. And he's currently sitting second in the table 100.
00;20;07;22 - 00;20;29;15
Speaker 1
And Caspar Stone is making an absolute insane in, course. Yeah, he's made a base at the Ironman World Champs. And then 70.3 bronze. Just almost running the Norwegian hot train. This is just for the men's. This is just for the men. So that's the three for the men's. I know who I picked. Yeah. I feel as if it's hard to go past, you know, sit next to us.
00;20;29;17 - 00;20;32;05
Speaker 3
You can't just do it because I'm saying no no no no no no.
00;20;32;11 - 00;20;37;03
Speaker 1
Because we'll justify. Who do you pick then. Yeah. Because you got to be humble and whatever. Yeah.
00;20;37;10 - 00;20;38;08
Speaker 2
No I myself.
00;20;38;10 - 00;21;00;02
Speaker 1
Yeah. Good night. There's because there's other there's other rewards down the line where you're in that I haven't picked. You know I but I think again we are very much a short course, especially when it was kind of who's dominant. Sorry to like, keep glazing you, but, I think it just made the season so exciting for us to, like, have have a fellow Aussie do something that like again, hasn't been done yet.
00;21;00;02 - 00;21;17;02
Speaker 1
You got the perfect season. I know, like you say, it was it was tough and it was hard, but still on paper the perfect season. Yeah. So so congrats. Yeah. But the win for the unfunded award. Well done. Athlete of the year for the men. We'll give you un official. We go hot. Yeah. Yes. Walking away. Well light wants to get some merch out.
00;21;17;02 - 00;21;31;12
Speaker 1
So maybe we send out some tape here. It's it's coming. It's not happening. Athlete of the year for the women. Laser touch again. World champion Lucy Charles Barkley. Barkley, Ironman 70.3, world champion house. You know how to say her name?
00;21;31;15 - 00;21;32;07
Speaker 2
No.
00;21;32;09 - 00;21;32;28
Speaker 1
Awesome.
00;21;33;01 - 00;21;34;27
Speaker 3
I say you go for,
00;21;34;29 - 00;21;54;10
Speaker 1
Solveig. Love is. Love it. Love, love self love. Self love says Ironman. World champion. Don't Norwegian. Sorry. Without we wouldn't just never going to get that one. Yeah. Who's your pick? My pick? Yeah. Out of those three I'm going. Lucy Charles Barkley. She was pretty dominant over the two 100. Wow. Yeah. I'm not going short course here.
00;21;54;13 - 00;22;09;06
Speaker 1
Okay. So she won 70.3 worlds after having an absolute shocker of a day at, Ironman World Champs. I think she's been so consistent all year. And I think she could potentially win the series in the two 100. Yeah, she's out there. So how's who's your pick out of those three?
00;22;09;06 - 00;22;13;25
Speaker 2
Yeah I agree just so I she's been like yeah killing two 100 and an Ironman 70.3 the sand.
00;22;13;25 - 00;22;33;13
Speaker 1
Tom yeah okay well I'm out now but I was going to go to the Norwegian because I thought that break out Ironman world chances just really cool. But lose Charles Barkley. Well done. Athlete of the year for the women on two. I really like this one. This is, the breakthrough performer of the year, and we had so many.
00;22;33;13 - 00;22;51;05
Speaker 1
Like, there were some, like, real young guns giving it a crack this year. Rochelle Hill, under 23 world champion. Ollie Conway on on the 23 world champion. He got a fourth place in his debut out. Sorry. You got a win in his debut World Cup and a fourth place in his debut World Series inside Henry Graff.
00;22;51;05 - 00;23;03;29
Speaker 1
He won a World Series this year. And, Alessio Giani, he got a third place in, Hamburg. Who are you going to, Matt?
00;23;04;02 - 00;23;17;02
Speaker 2
I'm going to give it to Ollie Conway. I want to say he he's a gun. He's. Yeah. Freakish performances by him. Just like a young lad doing what young lad shouldn't be doing at that age. But he's doing it anyway. So respect to.
00;23;17;02 - 00;23;41;11
Speaker 1
Him. Yeah. I'm going to go on the same. Oh you I for me you can't go wrong like I'm going go for break through performance I'm going to cyber show because that as a singular performance was a breakthrough. Think winning out at home. That was everything that got me up and out of watching worlds. At home I was screaming, yeah, we spoke about that did almost set the standard for the Aussies for that rest of that way.
00;23;41;11 - 00;23;44;04
Speaker 1
So I think that was like a big, massive breakout for her.
00;23;44;04 - 00;23;55;03
Speaker 2
It definitely did. Like that was in a lot of internal conversations within the Aussie team. Now across power on the 23 juniors and a late. So I think that really did set the tone in the vibe for for the weekend for all of us.
00;23;55;03 - 00;24;14;01
Speaker 1
So yeah, that's so cool. But yeah, two votes there. Ollie Conway, you're our breakthrough performer of the year. But yes, that performance from Russia was insane. I'm almost like, scared of Ollie Conway, though. Like, he's just so young doing things at the front, and he just runs off. Yeah.
00;24;14;04 - 00;24;17;21
Speaker 2
And he's a nice guy as well. Like you can't. Yeah. You can't buy that. So. Yeah, it's.
00;24;17;22 - 00;24;43;13
Speaker 1
Exactly, number four race of the year. So we got the Ironman World Championships in Kona. So the women's that was just like watching a lot the on war back in the day. They were just folding. Yeah, every second step. Like you just never would have picked the winner based off what you're watching. Ironman 70.3 world champs in my bio, the, yellow Gaines and Christian Blumenfeld sprint finish.
00;24;43;13 - 00;25;08;18
Speaker 1
Yeah. Or the Wollongong World Triathlon Championship Series final, where Tash and Howser won the title. Oh, for me personally, I feel as if, like in the men's. I felt as if the title was wrapped up. Yeah, but I do like a single day championships. And that's the 70.3 worlds. Even though I just saw a hotel for half of the bloody live stream.
00;25;08;20 - 00;25;24;26
Speaker 1
Go down that rabbit yellow versus Christian in that last sprint finish, and little yellow just nudges him out. Yeah. Bang. Yeah. And he's off. I agree that for me that is that was the right that was we were literally up on our feet screaming. I feel like I was up on my feet when you won. But I was up.
00;25;24;29 - 00;25;30;07
Speaker 1
Well done. Applauding like yeah, great year where I was screaming for yellow. Yeah. Like just hoping he got the job done.
00;25;30;14 - 00;25;39;20
Speaker 2
No, I agree it was it was one of the best finishes we've ever seen in 70.3 year history. So and for him to go back to back under enormous amount of pressure was, Yeah. Great to see. Yeah.
00;25;39;25 - 00;26;00;03
Speaker 1
I think again, the only one that black for me again, not that yours wasn't exciting because we were up on for you, but the, the women's in the, in Wollongong almost trying to figure out. Yeah, the the right. Yeah. How does this, how does this point school play out? Like Turkey obviously won, but it was like, did the girls fall in line enough for her to win the series?
00;26;00;03 - 00;26;17;01
Speaker 1
Like it was a bit confusing, but, yeah, that that mob definitely, definitely was, Okay. Top dog, the clutch performance of the year. Love a clutch performance again. Man, I feel as if you're in everything. You're in LA. Yeah, we should have picked some other people here, right? This bloody rally must be mad.
00;26;17;04 - 00;26;18;23
Speaker 2
It's like the third host.
00;26;18;23 - 00;26;20;16
Speaker 3
Hey,
00;26;20;18 - 00;26;46;23
Speaker 1
So your World Triathlon finals? That was pretty clutch. Obviously winning at yellow 70.3. Would you call it clutch? Rochelle? 70.30. Under 23 worlds or Laser Turkish winning the whole series I know mine I I'm going to go laser to same place. That's that's the definition of a clutch. She's like clutch in it. Up she went. She went in I think ranked fourth to go ranked fourth in the series.
00;26;46;23 - 00;26;59;25
Speaker 1
And then to come out and just do what she did and and try to take the title. Like to win, to win a World Series in a one day race. Like for me, that was that was clutch. You like you said, that's the definition of clutch. Yeah I think how do you disagree for sure.
00;26;59;25 - 00;27;01;06
Speaker 2
00;27;01;09 - 00;27;03;07
Speaker 1
It's going to be you can't disagree. No no no.
00;27;03;07 - 00;27;06;29
Speaker 3
No I wouldn't, I think so
00;27;07;01 - 00;27;10;18
Speaker 1
I think that that has ignited pretty much. Yeah. I think what I'm.
00;27;10;18 - 00;27;12;01
Speaker 2
Going to say, I'm going to say Rochelle.
00;27;12;01 - 00;27;15;12
Speaker 1
Hill. Yeah, that was the no one knows Tulsa. Yeah. Coming from the depths.
00;27;15;12 - 00;27;28;11
Speaker 2
Just because I think obviously Lisa's result relied on other people's demises. So whereas her show dislike took her by the balls in that last five and I mean, it is and just said this, this shit's mine, so I'll give it to her.
00;27;28;13 - 00;27;49;23
Speaker 1
Yeah. Okay. Nice. Yeah. Most improved athlete. We got Casper's donuts. I'm in world champion. Like we said, the only Perry out. She was just consistently on the rise this year live Mathias who spoke about the full on your graph, who we also spoke about before. That's a tricky one. Yeah, because they're all still very good athletes. Like they were good before this year.
00;27;49;23 - 00;27;55;03
Speaker 1
Yeah. They just a lot of them just really, really shone. Yeah.
00;27;55;05 - 00;28;28;25
Speaker 2
Oh, crazy. I think honorable mention I mean honorable mention to all of them. But I must say Lynch's run has just going like, astronomically like out of this world this year. Like, she's running better than, compatriot Cassandra, who probably no one looked close to doing that on the last couple of years. So, yeah, for her to be doing that and and sticking to it has been good to watch, I think Caspar Stones, for me, I think obviously, his rise from 2018, you know, in between those years around Covid and whatnot, he was probably like the understated Norwegian, and then for him to come out and with all the eyes on,
00;28;28;25 - 00;28;39;22
Speaker 2
on, you know, Christian and Gustav and come out and win the thing and, you know, obviously back it up in 70.3. I bet it was was really impressive. So I think that's probably most, most improved.
00;28;39;28 - 00;28;53;02
Speaker 1
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. He's the same. I was going to go Henry I mean it's a bit of a breakout but it is. Yeah very much improved. Did he have a top ten the year before in the World Series? I'm not too sure.
00;28;53;03 - 00;28;54;21
Speaker 2
Potentially I'm not too sure. Yeah.
00;28;54;22 - 00;29;22;17
Speaker 1
Definitely didn't have a podium. But I feel as if like most improved you saw just a dramatic improving performance. Yeah. Yeah I mean he was just consistently there like to to go from no podiums and I know he had at least got two. I just think that, yeah, I agree with you there. Henry Graf is just set the tone and like you said before, he's just not even like obviously overall performance, but he is just really playing to his strengths.
00;29;22;17 - 00;29;41;03
Speaker 1
Like on that. He's got a phenomenal sleeper block and now he's just turned into an incredible runner who can run to a podium as well, like some freaky, freaky performances. So yeah, odds are the same. Most improved Henry Graff. Good on you, mate. Okay, on to the next. Underrated. Underrated. Oh, hang on, what are we going to need?
00;29;41;04 - 00;29;54;29
Speaker 1
Because, we spoke about this before. We actually don't know. We've kind of had, like, three men's podiums, like the three boys on the podium. So, like, you has, that's going because I feel like people thought, like.
00;29;55;01 - 00;29;57;25
Speaker 2
Who would you say is on the right for the underrated?
00;29;57;28 - 00;30;19;07
Speaker 1
Because it gave me like I was going to say, what's his name? He was he would always go off the front, in like the World Series. They went on. Yonas is my on the right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who would we go with? You could just add him. Yeah. Just anyone else underrated because, like, actually Sarah Goni, I.
00;30;19;07 - 00;30;40;14
Speaker 1
Sarah, I don't think she's really. I mean, is there any, Yeah. I was also thinking imperial because I was right. Imperial. But, I really did that much. Yeah, we could do there. And then same tickets all. What do I do on there? Just to give, like a just to give maybe a 100 athlete a shot. Yeah.
00;30;40;16 - 00;30;41;02
Speaker 2
Give him a go.
00;30;41;09 - 00;31;05;24
Speaker 1
Yeah okay. Yeah. But that so. Yeah. Got that. Next up underrated athlete of the year. This is this is a tricky one I think we got the the for us. We got the three men that were on the World Triathlon Series podium. So we got yourself. How's, Vasco and Miguel Hidalgo? Because I feel like you three boys were kind of like, oh, yeah, they're really good.
00;31;05;24 - 00;31;23;01
Speaker 1
But wait until Alex and Hayden come back. They did? Yeah. Maybe underrated in 2024. Yeah. Well, at the start of the year. Yeah. Yeah I think like you guys very much silenced the the critics who thought I you good because I had an Alex on here because when they came back they still weren't really anyway to be saying.
00;31;23;07 - 00;31;49;23
Speaker 1
So we got you three boys. The only Perry out Sam Dickinson in the. Now that he's moved to the Long Coast. Hey, 100 yards, Schomberg. I'm going. Jonas. I feel as if he transitioned from that short course. He still raced a couple this year at the study, but to go from that, world world champs, the on man into this, T 100 like the week after and come third.
00;31;49;25 - 00;32;09;13
Speaker 1
I thought that was crazy. That's underrated performing. Yeah. And I don't think anyone had him anywhere near his, like Iron Man result. And at least 70.3 result was also fourth. So I think that's underrated. Yeah. Good as transition I mean we talked a lot about Hayden going long and whoever else like the bloomin felts of the world.
00;32;09;15 - 00;32;23;08
Speaker 1
But he was underrated moving to long course. Yeah. I never would have picked him to get the results he did in a long course. Like you look at him and you look at how he race you like, that's a short course guy. Like, that's a real life specialist. You can do an MT and like for him to go and do what he did.
00;32;23;08 - 00;32;47;15
Speaker 1
Long course. Yeah. Really impressive. I, I, I wouldn't pick him. I actually picked the three boys on the world champs just purely because I love I love saying people just shut up. Just silence some haters. But I love that stuff. And like it was we spoke about on the pod, but like everyone's talking about it. Are these two guys going to come and just take away, did you shoot anyone this year?
00;32;47;18 - 00;32;50;01
Speaker 1
You sure do. You? Did you shoot a camera at one point? Yeah.
00;32;50;01 - 00;32;51;03
Speaker 2
It did. Yeah. And that.
00;32;51;03 - 00;32;55;24
Speaker 1
Race? Yeah. What race? Oh, this one, I like that. That's so.
00;32;55;24 - 00;32;58;23
Speaker 2
Good. It wasn't directed at anyone specifically. It's just a general.
00;32;58;26 - 00;33;03;13
Speaker 1
Just a general on the media. So hop and then upload the general show.
00;33;03;13 - 00;33;10;21
Speaker 2
So I'm not going to call out any names okay. Shout out to to to Peza who did it and the Power Troy race and Davenport as well. He did. Yeah.
00;33;10;22 - 00;33;13;08
Speaker 1
Oh yeah it is. Thank you little. Sure. So I, I was it.
00;33;13;08 - 00;33;14;09
Speaker 2
My I've been coming.
00;33;14;09 - 00;33;24;13
Speaker 1
This year. I'll have another question. I was going to ask you after Noosa. But what's with like the the celebration. That's what I want I the gun guns on.
00;33;24;14 - 00;33;37;13
Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah. Just, just a wait and wacky one big fan of LeBron James. And he did it one time playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers. And I thought it was pretty swag. So I don't think I can pull it off as well as him, but it's just something I've done for a few times.
00;33;37;15 - 00;33;38;28
Speaker 1
And then your
00;33;39;01 - 00;33;39;20
Speaker 2
Yeah, the belt.
00;33;39;23 - 00;33;41;15
Speaker 1
That's always high, you know. Well, the.
00;33;41;15 - 00;33;56;03
Speaker 2
World champ belt, silly. Yeah. I can actually do that now that I'm a world champion, so that's good. Will Ashcroft for the Brisbane Lions and he does it after a goal every every once in a while. Obviously the double champs two time chance which is something I, I try to I'm trying to do next year.
00;33;56;03 - 00;34;01;25
Speaker 1
So yeah two time champ. So what are we going to say next year. Like when you win I.
00;34;01;27 - 00;34;02;28
Speaker 2
Guess we'll have to wait and see.
00;34;02;28 - 00;34;07;17
Speaker 1
Yeah they come on you know like ten talk how they do a lot tense up.
00;34;07;19 - 00;34;08;08
Speaker 3
Yeah.
00;34;08;10 - 00;34;12;10
Speaker 1
We made it. We didn't have an unfunded run. We're not doing that.
00;34;12;13 - 00;34;13;19
Speaker 3
It might be this. Yeah.
00;34;13;27 - 00;34;22;16
Speaker 1
So just pointing is I want to, All right. Sure. She's good. Yeah. How's who's your who's your, underrated?
00;34;22;19 - 00;34;52;23
Speaker 2
I mean, I'm going to say, I mean, Jonas, I've always highly rated him, like, probably rated him. I think he just hasn't been out to pull it off. Like, he hasn't been out a sustained effort. He's one of the hardest workers, on the court, so I wouldn't necessarily say him. I would say the three men's podium, but, like, directed obviously more towards, like, Vasco and Miguel, like, I think obviously I spoke about a lot of the, the pressure and media like focusing on me and my wins and stuff like that.
00;34;52;23 - 00;35;00;21
Speaker 2
But I feel like there their results and the way they've equally stepped it up, from 24 to 25. Yeah, you know, has been a standout.
00;35;00;21 - 00;35;20;07
Speaker 1
And I feel potentially if you weren't there being like, winning have me you won. And they had their performance maybe a year or two before it would have been well, like that's a pretty good season though. Pretty much on every other podium. Yeah. It was almost insane. Like just kind of on them. Yeah, yeah. You take away your performance and it's like, well, you guys had a killer year.
00;35;20;07 - 00;35;41;00
Speaker 1
It's like this guy just had a like a really? Yeah, a better one. Like. Yeah. Messed up, messed up of the year where it's going to go like, this is a race mess up of the year. We just recently had the TI 100 Dubai chaos. Yeah, that was shambles. That was shambolic. Yeah. Again, another, one for you.
00;35;41;00 - 00;35;46;25
Speaker 1
How's your ceremony? Your medal ceremony in Wollongong? Yeah. It's pretty awkward watching from home. It was awkward.
00;35;46;28 - 00;35;47;29
Speaker 3
It looked really.
00;35;47;29 - 00;36;01;03
Speaker 2
Awkward. Thank goodness the bees are flying in the in the beer garden just off to the side of the stage. Because I think a few of the guys are singing Waltzing Matilda. And that was combined with the Australian national anthem. So we kind of like kept the vibe going a little bit. But it was a yeah, it was a tough one for.
00;36;01;07 - 00;36;07;07
Speaker 1
The wall paint Mario on the bike. Yeah. There and sing it. Even even trying to watch you go like I is good.
00;36;07;08 - 00;36;07;20
Speaker 3
Yeah.
00;36;07;21 - 00;36;28;22
Speaker 1
Dance is like his glasses. I'm like yeah, it's true. Making stuff here. Yeah. And thirdly, the big meltdown in Corona, we had Lucy and Taylor, the just two dominant, two dominant females all day to end in a DNF. Like, it just looked like shambles. So, all great ones, to be fair. That's top.
00;36;28;22 - 00;36;34;11
Speaker 2
Very good. Honorable mention the, the media stuff up for the 70.3 mob.
00;36;34;13 - 00;36;39;19
Speaker 1
That's the honorable mention in watching hotel. We we mentioned that.
00;36;39;21 - 00;36;41;21
Speaker 2
When you screaming at the TV or anything, then you kind of like.
00;36;41;21 - 00;36;44;16
Speaker 3
Go back to. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
00;36;44;19 - 00;36;47;01
Speaker 1
You screaming the two different races. Holiday package.
00;36;47;01 - 00;36;50;09
Speaker 3
Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
00;36;50;11 - 00;37;09;08
Speaker 1
Well for me I'm going to go the, I'm actually going to go the, the ceremony in Wollongong, just purely because I was more disappointed with that one. Yeah. I was such a big Coffs then. Nothing. Imagine, like if the German national anthem for laser touch was. Yeah. Crickets. No one does it. You have Daniel. I'm guessing you.
00;37;09;11 - 00;37;25;17
Speaker 1
Yeah. You got a brown. No one. No, no, no, it's the German national anthem. Yeah. I think like, the Dubai one was like. It was like it was funny to watch because it's like that's, that's that's just chaos. Like that's really shit. But I was more disappointed, like, yeah, I'm like, I want to watch. I want to watch him get a medal.
00;37;25;17 - 00;37;35;23
Speaker 1
And he's just done history making stuff. It's like, that's so disappointing. I think from the race organizers, the Dubai that's just a shame was that's the biggest first half of the year for sure.
00;37;35;24 - 00;37;39;08
Speaker 2
Yeah. That was probably the most entertaining race I've watched this year.
00;37;39;11 - 00;37;39;25
Speaker 3
Yeah.
00;37;39;28 - 00;37;42;25
Speaker 2
Yeah, it was crazy I like it I don't know. Yeah. I'm always.
00;37;42;26 - 00;37;43;19
Speaker 1
Blown up.
00;37;43;22 - 00;37;58;05
Speaker 2
I think. I think without the run lap fiasco, like Hayden would have looked a lot worse. Like doing doing the thing you did on the bike. So I think lucky for him, that kind of the, the blame kind of got passed on to the 200 organizers. Otherwise it would have been a very, glaringly mistake by him.
00;37;58;05 - 00;38;10;04
Speaker 1
Well, we said that we were like, even we did like the little recap on it. It it was clearly like Hayden made the mistake in the bike, but when they did that one, they did the wrong one. I was like, okay. Yeah, definitely didn't help.
00;38;10;06 - 00;38;10;24
Speaker 2
It did not help.
00;38;10;27 - 00;38;17;11
Speaker 1
And Morgan pace and run it down winning going this fight already finish what was going on. And then they give it to him. Yeah I was.
00;38;17;11 - 00;38;18;27
Speaker 2
On the midnight celebration as well when.
00;38;18;27 - 00;38;20;04
Speaker 3
I didn't run it back for.
00;38;20;07 - 00;38;21;28
Speaker 2
Yeah yeah I like 12.
00;38;21;28 - 00;38;29;10
Speaker 1
So say he's like celebrating not doing the big ones. Yeah she does. What is it for you. Has what you're.
00;38;29;14 - 00;38;37;12
Speaker 2
I would say the Dubai the Dubai shout out. Shout out Morgan. You deserve them. Yeah. Yeah. Well done. You're the only one that raised it properly. So yeah. Congrats.
00;38;37;14 - 00;38;54;18
Speaker 1
Best social media presence. This is a this is a bit of a cross board one here. So we got Jamie Riddle. Obviously I feel like he's kind of changed. He's actually changed the game a little bit in sort of how athletes, go about social media and how they can, you know, make a living off that, bro.
00;38;54;18 - 00;39;09;16
Speaker 1
Try and use the Norwegian hype train. Obviously, Charles Barkley I'm going to add another one in here. Lockie Jones haha yeah. We didn't do we did. What do you reckon? House I've got mine.
00;39;09;18 - 00;39;27;03
Speaker 2
I mean I mean Jamie Riddle, he's he's why he's got like 100 K followers now. He like, I feel like he's better known for his social media than his triathlon. And I feel like that really bugs him, though. I feel like he's like, is each season how's the social media going? All the try guys. So but obviously he's been killing it at the same time.
00;39;27;03 - 00;39;35;19
Speaker 1
To the right market. Yeah, it's like the the Christian market. I feel as if that's huge. Yeah. I mean to that for sure. That's what I gotta do. You gotta go. Yeah yeah.
00;39;35;23 - 00;39;36;18
Speaker 2
Yeah.
00;39;36;20 - 00;39;37;16
Speaker 1
But you have to repent.
00;39;37;17 - 00;39;42;27
Speaker 2
Reached enlightenment. I'd say Jamie Riddle, but with his shirt off, the best social media presence.
00;39;42;29 - 00;39;46;01
Speaker 1
Yeah, I love that.
00;39;46;03 - 00;39;48;01
Speaker 3
00;39;48;03 - 00;40;06;28
Speaker 1
I'm all I'm going to say, and I think, I think I've found a newfound respect for, starting this approach for news like how hard it must be to keep get on day. That's the big bro. Yeah, yeah, the big brother. It is the big brother of the podcast. I feel as if we've been, very much schooled in this whole social medi.
00;40;07;00 - 00;40;26;04
Speaker 1
Oh my word. Piggybacking. Yeah. What do you value massively in like it's different. Like, you know, photographers like, even just asking for photo credit, you don't think about when you're just like, oh, like, I'll use this, you know, try and grow something. We've had, we've had. Yeah. Photographers getting angry at us. We've had we've had organizations getting angry because we've like not going about it the right way.
00;40;26;04 - 00;40;43;19
Speaker 1
And it's like, oh shit, we're still learning. Yeah, it's like, yeah. So it's like, we obviously want to do it the right way. We just don't know what that is. So yeah, I for me, it's pro trainers. They've just the what they're running is very impressive. I feel as if. Yeah. Before doing this I didn't appreciate what they actually pump out for the sport.
00;40;43;19 - 00;41;00;03
Speaker 1
Yeah. That feels if without something like that, you know, it's a bit dead and they get their information off so quick. Yeah. Like as soon as they hear bang it's all the quality posts to be a full time like actual job for them. Yeah I mean they must have some, some spare time to keep diving into this trough of business.
00;41;00;03 - 00;41;03;07
Speaker 2
And like you guys, I start spot fires in comment sections as well.
00;41;03;07 - 00;41;04;15
Speaker 1
So but I do love it.
00;41;04;19 - 00;41;09;05
Speaker 3
I think that's what some of you guys have learned. Yeah I of them good or bad.
00;41;09;05 - 00;41;10;26
Speaker 1
But Lucky's land.
00;41;10;28 - 00;41;11;07
Speaker 3
Yeah.
00;41;11;08 - 00;41;28;29
Speaker 1
Yeah I have been myself from. Yeah commenting on my comments. Yeah, yeah I think what was after what was the last one we did. Yeah. Off the tongue young we had a couple beers and one of the boys thought it was funny that. Oh look, you should call it that. Yeah, that will be funny. I commented it and the next morning I was like, oh, that I look like a dickhead.
00;41;28;29 - 00;41;32;12
Speaker 1
Yeah, the boys try and roll this up for it as well. Yeah, I.
00;41;32;19 - 00;41;35;16
Speaker 2
Said, with great power comes great responsibility.
00;41;35;16 - 00;41;42;02
Speaker 1
So. Well, we're trying that. Exactly. Well, yeah, we'll be better next. It was. You are even allowed to. Come on, big fella.
00;41;42;03 - 00;41;44;25
Speaker 2
Oh, come on now. All above 40.
00;41;44;27 - 00;41;49;22
Speaker 1
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Real professional. Yeah, exactly. Right where it suits.
00;41;49;24 - 00;41;50;12
Speaker 2
Some of us.
00;41;50;12 - 00;42;08;20
Speaker 1
Yeah. All righty. Well, we're going to wrap it up there. That was a fun way to sort of wrap up the season, I guess. Like we said at the start, we just want to say one last thank you to everybody that listens. Everybody that has us, you know, on their weekly schedule. It really is special to us.
00;42;08;20 - 00;42;25;12
Speaker 1
Like, we've kind of mucked around a bit to the fact we've got 35 episodes out like we did. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we we didn't think we were going to be able to keep that consistent. There was a couple you know, talking weeks. Yeah. We were literally planning a run sheet an hour before the episode. But that was probably most weeks.
00;42;25;12 - 00;42;37;12
Speaker 1
It was probably most weeks. But look, we had so much fun doing this. And we really do want to bring it back next year, you know, bigger and better and, you know, hopefully, maybe a little bit less unfunded. But.
00;42;37;15 - 00;42;38;11
Speaker 2
You know, we, you know.
00;42;38;14 - 00;42;51;24
Speaker 1
Yeah, we might have to, but, funded podcast. Yeah. We, we we've gotten pretty cool people on and that's, that's, I guess what we want to do. We want to spread the word of trough on. We want to, you know, be a bit of a media outlet. We want to put the spotlight on some athletes doing some pretty cool things, like like Maddie.
00;42;51;24 - 00;42;59;19
Speaker 1
How's everybody? So, thank you all and thank you so much. Matty has often been the co-host of our last episode for the year.
00;42;59;22 - 00;43;04;28
Speaker 2
Thanks, guys. And I love what you guys have done for the sport. And yeah, keep it up. Look for the bigger and better things in 2026.
00;43;05;02 - 00;43;07;14
Speaker 1
If you win next year, you can come on.
00;43;07;14 - 00;43;09;01
Speaker 3
Oh, again? Yes.
00;43;09;04 - 00;43;11;09
Speaker 2
Pyro. Oh, jeez. Pyro.
00;43;11;12 - 00;43;15;03
Speaker 1
We got to put ourselves.
00;43;15;05 - 00;43;23;16
Speaker 1
All righty. Thank you very much, guys. Merry Christmas. Happy New year, all the rest. Happy Hanukkah and, we will see you next year. Thanks bye. To us.