Summary: Live from Spain! Ryan Bailie takes a moment to sit and talk with Sam instead of sleeping. They discuss training and what Ryan does in his down time. Ryan breaks down his young career and the adversity he’s needed to overcome. Traveling around the world, setting his sights on Rio, and what Ryan is doing to take his game to the next level are all a part of today’s episode of Triathlon Research Radio. Visit us on our website and leave a review on iTunes. Email your review and receive a free copy of ‘The Art of Competition’ written by 4-time Ironman Mark Allen. Subscribe on iTunes Review on iTunes Download PDF Transcript (https://triathlonresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/TRI036_Ryan_Bailie_transcript.pdf) Download MP3 (http://traffic.libsyn.com/triathlonresearch/TRI_036.mp3) Summary Table of contents (#toc) 00:00 Prologue 00:29 Intro 01:47 Training Days 06:48 Balancing Work and Play 10:57 Getting Started 14:04 A Change in Environment 15:45 Squad Dynamic 19:26 Handling Races 23:39 Overcoming Adversity 24:44 Taking Care of Business 27:16 What Do You Enjoy the Most? 28:30 Looking to Rio 31:37 Benefits of Coaching 33:26 Mental Training 37:16 The Outlook 39:15 Where is Triathlon Going? 42:58 Racing Your Best Mate 44:15 Life on the Road 46:42 Wrap-Up 48:44 Epilogue Transcript Samuel Cook Welcome back Triathlon Research listener, my name is Sam Cook, the founder of Triathlon Research and the host for today’s edition of Triathlon Research Radio. And I’m continuing in our series of taking you behind the curtain of what it’s like to be a professional triathlete on the ITU World Triathlon Series cup circuit. This has been recorded like the last few episode in Vitoria, Spain in Basque Country Spain with today’s guest which is Ryan Bailey and Ryan is one of the top Australian triathletes was just selected for the Rio test event start which is a big honor in a country like Australia where they have probably one of the best triathlon traditions in the world in terms of consistently putting out great triathletes. So Ryan sitting here with me today and what we’re gonna do is go back through his background, his time with the Wizards and what’s next for him and just give me a little bit more insight on what is like to live and train fulltime as triathlete in case any of you are considering that or even if you’re not, I think the insights you’ll get from this will help you in all areas of your life. So without further ado, Ryan, how are you doing today or sorry, in Australia, it’s how you going? Ryan Bailie Yeah, I’m looking on to that mate, that’s how it’s said in Australia. Yeah, we’ve just finished a pretty tough day. I started the day with a 50 minute run with 6 by 1 minute 5k paces, that 5k pace and then hopped in to pool and couple of hours later and did one of the biggest workouts we’ve done for the year which was a 3.2k main set which was pretty chunky. Everything above race pace so it’s exceeding the demands of competition and then we’re lucky here in Victoria that we went out to one of our favorite hills and we added a bit fair Rio specs sort of stuff today. It was a nice chunky hill which, again, exceeded demands of competition and that was 10 by 4 minutes with some of it below race pace and some sort of effort and some exceeding that which is really good way to end the day and legs are pretty fried now. Samuel Yeah, I’m pulling Ryan in just for those of you who haven’t heard the last few podcasts, we’re in a middle of a training week where the Wollongong Wizards have invited 4 Triathlon Research athletes in to their training camp and just letting them live and work and train alongside them and see what it’s like to live and train in Spain. And yet today’s workout was pretty brutal and Ryan I think was the only one who had a bit of energy left over to do the interview. So Ryan, the workouts you just described, what was the total training time today? Ryan
