Month: October 2023

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Family Gal: Fitspeek 185 with Angela Froese.

Angela Froese from Chilliwack is a talented juggler. Not only does she juggle training for swimming, biking, and running, just like a lot of tri-moms out there, she juggles that with the demands of a career, and family life.

And as we all know, doing that juggling act involves compromises. Angela however, manages to make it all work through superhuman organizational skills and gritty determination. 5:15 AM alarms are just business as usual for this mother, physiotherapist, and podium-topping triathlete.

Off the race course, Angela is an amiable person to be around, with a great sense of humour but on the race course, this Chilliwack athlete is all business. Laser focused and steel-willed racing is Angela’s modus operandi and it has served her well. In the podcast this week, we chat about Angela’s roots in triathlon and some of her big performances in the sport. We also get Angela’s take on the women’s only race in Kona and of course…the animal question. Spend 30 minutes with the social and multi-faceted Angela by pressing play below.

This week’s feature bike is the RP, which is the A2 aero road bike. Click on the bike below to learn more about it.

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Fitspeek 184: Luke Tasker

In hindsight, could the local triathlon scene for 2023 be called the Year of the Rookie?

From Victoria, Fitspeek guest and Triathlon Magazine Canada colleague Mel McQuaid has just done her first-ever Ironman World Championships (just like Fitspeek host, Kevin Heinze did).

In Victoria, Mitchell Kirby rocked + shocked his competition at the Ironman 70.3.

Just last month a triathlon newbie WON the Cultus Lake Half-Iron.

If you have never heard of Luker Tasker before, you can be forgiven. That’s because this guy, originally from England, had never done a triathlon before.

That’s changed and now Canada has a rising new star at the Half-Ironman distance. A 4:10 debut with a lot of mistakes hints at Tasker’s athletic potential. Before you hate on Luke because of, well, a 4:10, you gotta know that he paid his dues as a lad in the UK swimming 5-6 times a week and competing at a high level in modern pentathlon.

Hear Luke’s story from ski-bum to Vancouver firefighter + champion triathlete by pressing play below.

Tested in the tunnel, aero + affordable, and on-course at the world championships, the SP by A2 bikes is your ticket to a faster bike split. Check out their range of build options by clicking on the bike above.

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A Stranger in a Strange Land. Fitspeek 183 – Hydrosloth Goes to IM World Championships. Guest Interviewers Call BS!

This week on the show the tables are turned as Fitspeek alumni Leigh-Ann Parker, Kevin Watt, + Dr. E, interview host Kevin Heinze, about his experiences at the Ironman World Championships, in Nice, France.

A major part of the interview is finding out how he qualified for France because being a hydrosloth and giving up 10 minutes to his age group competition in the water, meant that time had to be made up…somewhere! Find out what sacrifices were made in the heat of the battle when he found out that he was in 3rd place in his age group.

Here’s the bike I used to get to Nice and tackle the course in France. It’s the SP by A Squared. Click on it to browse and configure your dream machine. Thanks to Mark Mattecheck at A2 for “Borris.”