As you know the Ironman World Championships are being held this Saturday in Hawaii. One of Canada’s top females at the distance is Penticton’s Jen Annett. We had a chance to talk to Jen about her superbottles, preparation for the race and her lioness within! Check it out now!
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With the Valley Vertikiller on the way we thought we’d turn our thoughts upward and into the sky. Fortunately, we have elite mountain runner Benoit Gignac to keep us from getting oxygen-deprived. Benoit is originally from La Belle Province, but like his friend Martin Caron, moved Westward in search of adventure and good times .
In Fitspeek 80 we speak with Benoit about his transition from being a goalie in hockey to being one of Canada’s finest mountain runners. He’s been to the world championships a couple of times and has some great race stories and training advice for those of us brave enough to take on the wildness of that sport.
Which one hasn’t been on Fitspeek yet? Hmmm just maybe!
Also on this week’s show, we have a new segment called Mikey’s Top Five. Mikey Ross is a local triathlon coach and a provincial triathlon legend, dominating age group podiums around the province for over a decade. We’ve harnessed a portion of this indefatigable dude and are happy to be sharing him with you. Listen for his segment near the 30 minute mark of the podcast.
To round out the podcast, Zack Neufeld is back with Between the Ears. Zack has a lesson for us, courtesy of world time trial champion Rohan Dennis. When you put away the unimportant stuff & focus on what is truly important, a good result can follow. Follow your hand to push that play button to get in on 45 minutes of Fraser Valley sunshine…..
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In Fitspeek 79 we hear the second part of our interview with Winston Guo. He tells us about his progression as an athlete through stages he likes to call Winston 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. We also get to find out about his favourite post-workout foods!
Also in the podcast we have another edition of Fit Flops. We tell you about a piece of exercise equipment that would likely get thrown out of your local coffee shop! What could it be?
To be used (ineffectively) in the privacy of your own home)
To end off Fitspeek 79 we have the top 3 female & male finishers from the races that went off in the heavy rain at Cultus Lake earlier this month. As always, Robert Johnson was the king of the standard. Hear the podcast by pressing play right here.
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Results may vary. A lot. Listen next week to get the scoop!
This weekend the scribes at Fitspeek are hard at work preparing program 79! We have a great balance of information & entertainment to help you make that transition from summer to fall.
On the show we will have part two of our free-flowing interview with tri guy (and now marathon dude) Winston Guo. We will also expose another fitness fraud on our feature Fitflops. We round out the show with race results from the rain-plagued Cultus Lake triathlons.
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Triathlon Magazine Canada voted this guy “most likely to be seen smiling during a triathlon.”
Ok, ok, maybe that part is a bit of an exaggeration but if you have ever been to a race of any distance out here in Western Canada, you are likely to have seen this guy. And of course he was probably smiling.
Like many of us, Vancouver’s Winston Guo wasn’t too sure how to approach his first triathlon. He did however, as he puts it earn “major style points” for his baggy shorts and crosstrainers.
Since that day at UBC, many many years ago, he’s been steadily improving. Unlike many athletes though, Winston, after having great success at longer distance events, had decided to concentrate on the sprint in order to continue his evolution as an athlete.
In Fitspeek 78, you will hear part one of our interview with Winston. You’ll hear him recount his early days as a runner and his development into Winston 2.0.
Also in the program, Zack Neufeld will help you push through the pain and achieve new levels of physical awesomeness in his latest edition of Between the Ears.
And after being away from each other for the summer Kevin Watt, Zack, & myself catch up with each other and the events happening in the Fraser Valley with the roundtable.
45 minutes of grinning goodness all begins by pressing play on the little button below.
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Not to worry, neither has anyone else before! It’s a brand new running event sponsored by the Greater Vancouver Zoo to raise money for our hard-shelled friends. If you are looking for a fun event to do with your family, this is it! Hear all about it in our Fitspeek Express Interview.
There’s few people in Canadian Triathlon that are as well known as Penticton’s Steve King. He’s right up there with Lori Bowden, Simon Whitfield, Lisa Bentley, and Peter Reid.
Of course most people will recognize Steve King’s voice from the finish line of the Granfondo Axel Merckx, Vancouver Marathon, and Ironman Canada from the 1980s to the 2000s but there is a whole lot more to this man than just the voice!
At age 70, Steve King keeps a schedule that would tax most folks half his age. In addition to keeping up his ambitious announcing duties, he holds a day job as an addictions counselor and a night job as an aspiring rock star. In Fitspeek’s feature interview, we speak with Steve King about how he fell into the role as a race announcer, his views on Canada’s “Golden Age of Triathlon” and of course what the return of the Ironman to Penticton means to him. Hear that interview, plus our Fit Tip of the Week on how to improve your short-term memory by pressing play below:
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Fitspeek 76 introduces you to Penticton’s Elise Reeh. Although active as a youngster, she was more of a nerd than a jock when it came to team sports in junior & senior high school.
Elise did a lot of running in her years after high school and eventually caught the endurance sports bug and has completed over a dozen marathons, half-ironmans, and completed the Penticton Ironman in 2005. After being a paddler for an athlete at the Skaha Lake Ultra Swim in 2018, she was inspired to try it herself.
In our interview with Elise we hear about her preparation for the Ultra Swim as well as her adventures in the lake on race day. You can hear it now by pressing play below.
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What’s a farm boy from Torrington, Alberta doing in the middle of Skaha Lake on a Sunday morning in August? Writing a new chapter in his life, of course! In Fitspeek 75, we introduce you to the Pat Landymore. Back in the 1990’s Pat re-invented himself from a 2 pack a day smoker to a Kona Qualifying Ironperson.
Life of course, has its way of throwing wrenches into the best laid plans of men and engineers and Pat was no exception, having to overcome challenges in many aspects of his life, including suffering a serious stroke a few years ago. Rising to the challenge of the stroke, Pat decided the best path to rehabilitation was found in the swimming pool, not the couch, and Pat Landymore version 3.0 was born. Hear Pat’s inspiring journey of his Ultra Swim preparation and his race day adventures by pressing play below.
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