The MX Endurance Podcast

This week James had the opportunity to speak with multiple 70.3 Champion and 2016 World Champion, Holly Lawrence. Holly is one of the absolute favourites to win the 2019 70.3 World Championship in Nice. Holly talks about her rough 2018 after breaking her foot, her approach to racing this weekend as well as an exciting announcement about her first Iron Man race planned for 2020!

The bike is the most time consuming of the three disciplines but it can often be the easiest place to start as a triathlete. This week Macca talks all about the bike. How to train for the bike, how to use the bike to improve your run and all the things he learned that helped him to use the bike to secure his 2nd Kona Title. You will learn all about improving your triathlon performance and bike splits and which training sessions are the best bang for your buck!

The perfect follow up to Macca's guide to swimming is to hear from MX Endurance swim expert and the man behind Effortless Swimming, Brenton Ford. Brenton works with swimmers around the world to improve their stroke and swim faster. Listen to what Brenton thinks are the common mistakes triathletes make, how triathlon swimming differs from pool swimming and some simple drills and things to think about when you're in the pool to improve.

This week we are lucky to be joined by New Zealand pro athlete, Hayden Wilde as a guest co-host. We talk about Hayden's introduction to triathlon, racing Superleague and the pressure of trying to qualify for the New Zealand Olympic team. We discuss the recent Norseman Extreme Triathlon and James chats with the women's winner Lucy Gossaage about what is arguably the world's hardest triathlon.

This week Macca talks all about swimming and passes on his knowledge so that all triathletes, regardless of their level can benefit. Chris talks about the differences in technique between swimmers and triathletes and what triathletes should focus on as well as what you should spend your time in the water doing to improve. Chris cuts through the white noise to simply state what you need to focus on to improve your swim split.

So we thought we uploaded this last week but it seems like there was a technical glitch. We discussed the recent IM Frankfurt performances, Challenge Roth results and IM Austria. We look at what has been happening in the Tour de France and some short course results too!

This week we are extremely lucky to be joined by Kristian as he talks us through how that race unfolded, the preparation for the event and most importantly, how much faster he thinks he can go. We discuss his plans for the future including Olympic success, Iron Man domination and not only breaking the 70.3 World Record but the Iron Man World Record as well. Kristian also talks about the lessons that age group athletes can take from him to improve their performance as well.

This week we look at recently announced changes to the Kona swim start with a move away from mass starts to age group waves. We discuss the recent IPO of Wanda Sports including Iron Man and the newly announced Tulsa IM.  We discuss a whole list of WTS results and the impact that 2019 being a pre-Olympic year has on performance as well as the Iron Man Asia-Pacific Championship and other 70.3 results.

The world of endurance sports has been in hysterics with the news that 2-time Olympic gold medalist, Alistair Brownlee will make his Iron Man debut! We look at all the recent race results including 'The Championship' in Slovakia with Charles and Kienle winning there. We discuss the future of championship races and what sort of impact Brownlee would make on the Kona race. We are then joined by Rick Boethling from Race Across America to discuss the upcoming race that, you guessed it, is across America!

It's time for recent news and results and this week we look at Iron Man acquiring the World's largest fun run, overturned disqualifications and new Challenge Family events. We then turn our attention to Iron Man Lanzarote and Brasil and have an interview with Lanzarote winner, Nikki Bartlett.

One of the biggest benefits of being part of MX is access to our experts. Sarah Alexander is a professional triathlete and shares her experiences to help our members maximise their performance. Sarah does not have a background in triathlon competing as both a figure-skater and rower before making the shift to triathlon. Sarah talks about the challenges she has faced coming to triathlon later in life, what racing ITU and Super League was like and the differences now she focuses on 70.3.

This week we go through recent endurance sports news including the first Otillo race in the US, the new seaweed water packaging used at the London Marathon and Kipchoge's new attempt at a sub-2 hour marathon. We discuss the weekend's results from Gulf Coast 70.3, Asia-Pacific 70.3 Championships and Pays d'Aix as well as recent events in the Giro d'Italia. These episodes will aim to fill the gaps between episodes with Macca and will focus on news and endurance sports results.

Recent recaps of all the most recent triathlon results including Iron Man Australia, ITU World Long Course Championships, Bussleton 70.3, St George 70.3 and the new world one hour record that was recently set.  We discuss some new changes to get these episodes out more consistently including news episodes twice a month, a monthly episode with Macca and a special guest interview once a month. For more information about MaccaX: http://www.mxendurance.com/win-a-bike

Macca is back on the newly named MX Endurance Podcast.  With so much having happened since we last recorded we discuss the new 70.3 World Record and the most expensive cramp in the history of our sport! We look at the show down between Frodo and Lange this year in Kona. We discuss Gomez aiming for Tokyo 2020 & Holly Lawrence's return to racing and if she will step up to long course. We talk about the Super League 2018/2019 season and make our predictions for the final in Singapore.

this week we discuss how Super League Jersey unfolded and how this different format of racing impacted on the athletes. We then talk about Kona. So much to say but 2 course records absolutely destroyed. We talk about how both the mens and womens races unfolded and what these results will mean for next year's event. Macca gives his thoughts on which was a more impressive performance. His answer may surprise you. We also discuss some of the gutsy efforts and results off the podium.