After suffering a bike crash during a 70.3 triathlon in France last year, Vancouver’s Rach McBride needed to heal their body & fix their bike for a follow up race in Lanzarote. Some things don’t go according to plan. It was not a comedy of errors.
We’re not sure what’s in that cool, clear, British Columbia water but it seems to have mystical qualities, nourishing & hydrating some of the fastest cyclists in triathlon.
There’s Rach McBride from Vancouver who has been stomping cyclists of all genders, most recently at the Canadian Championships in Ontario. From Penticton, there is Jen Annet, the Ventum-riding phenom, who is the current female world record-holder for the Ironman distance. And then, from Prince George, there is the mighty Angela Naeth. At about 5′ 5″ and 115 pounds you’d expect her to be a great runner but it’s her speed on the bike that has made her a multiple Ironman and 70.3 winner.
On this week’s Fitspeek, we chat with Angela Naeth about the big race in Florida that she’ll be doing in December, her most embarrassing moments in the sport, and of course…. what’s in that water. We end off the program with some ninja mind tricks for racing & training courtesy of Dr. E. Reeh in Between the Ears. Get it going by pressing that play button below.
Calgary’s Ben Rudson is a fast learner. Only 1 year into his engineering degree at Queen’s Ben realized there were better ways to spend his Saturday and Sunday mornings than cleaning up spilled beer while being hung over. To kick start his new lifestyle he signed up for his first triathlon and he never looked back. Now Rudson is both a professional engineer and a pro triathlete. In part two of our interview with Ben we find out what it’s like to race overseas and we also ask Ben about training advice, both good and bad.
Also on program 115, ATC coach Mikey Ross talks about mantras of moderation in his Top Five List . We round out the show with a cycling recap of the Giro, Vuelta, the one hour record, and the WTRL. Wattie Ink’s Maple Ridge machine Roy McBeth drops by for that. Hear it all now by pressing play below.
Ben Rudson’s an engineer, a pro-triathlete, and a pretty wise dude. He was a latecomer to triathlon but once he found the sport he excelled at it quickly. Although he’s originally from Nanaimo, he moved to Kingston for university, and then to Calgary for employment. And although Ben is a super-quick guy who specializes in the 70.3 distance, he knew the challenges of being a full-time pro would be daunting. Then along came Covid, and the chances of earning a living in the sport with a name that isn’t Gomez, Ryf, or Sanders, were pretty slim. No problem for Ben as that degree in engineering has him at a demanding job that both pays the bills and also allows him to train at the elite level. Hear part one of Ben’s story from his days as a hockey player in Nanaimo to his surprisingly fast Ironman debut that qualified him for Kona.
Speaking of debuts, be listening after Ben’s interview for Between the Ears with Dr. E. With the start of the “dark season” in the Fraser Valley a lot of folks can get seasonal affect disorder. In Dr. E’s debut, she speaks about the causes of SAD and ways you can go about overcoming it. Hear it all now by pressing play below.
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Fitspeek is getting experimental! Fitspeek guy Kevin Heinze is teaming up with local multisport phenom Roy McBeth to produce a new mini-podcast. What’s it about? Whatever Roy wants!
This time around we chat about the wouldda coudda shouldda Kona that never happened this month. Roy & Kevin also talk pro cycling, Lionel Sanders, ZWIFT racing league, and caffeine abuse. The ideal podcast for that 15 minute commute to Abbotsford or Maple Ridge. Hit that play button now.
Program 113 is fresh from the audio oven and a day early to spend with you as you toil on the trainer or travel to Thanksgiving dinner, wherever that may be. One of the folks who has a lot to be thankful for is our guest, Roy McBeth. After suffering kidney disease, he was given a healthy kidney and a new lease on his very successful athletic life.
In part two of our interview with Roy we examine how he has been dealing with Covid, we take a look at his strengths & weaknesses as an athlete, and we get in touch with his inner pachyderm. Also on the show, just in time for that big orgy of calories called Thanksgiving dinner, we serve up a heaping helping of our Fit Tip of the Week. Our topic? How NOT to blimp out this long weekend! Hear it now by pressing play below.
Fitspeek celebrates the start of season four with a blockbuster of an interview with an athlete who defines multisport, Maple Ridge’s Roy McBeth.
Little did the young Roy know, while he was playing pond hockey in Prince George that he’d become one of the most competitive aquabikers and off-road triathletes in the provinces. Nor would he know about the challenging path he’d have to travel to get there.
Being diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease early in life meant it was only a matter of time before Roy would either need to have dialysis or a kidney transplant. Rather than live life on the sidelines Roy grabbed life by the horns and excelled both in his professional & his athletic life. In Fitspeek 112 you’ll hear the first part of Roy’s engaging story about his transformation from bodybuilder to cyclist to triathlete.
Also on program 112, our regular contributor, Coach Mikey Ross from the Abbotsford Triathlon club stops by for another Top Five List. You can hear it all now by pressing play below.
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The unstoppable Matt Hill
Fitspeek 111 is a podcast of three firsts! It’s the first time we have ever had a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle on the podcast. It’s the first time a guest has ever said, “My agent.” And it’s also the first time we have had a guest on the show who has run around the perimeter of the USA (and then some).
Vancouver’s Matt Hill is as much of a lead actor as a supporting cast member. He is as much of a voice as a face. He has legs of iron and a heart of platinum. In addition to being known globally as Raphael on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and many other television and radio roles, he is an accomplished ultra distance athlete and co-founder of the Run For One Planet initiative.
On Fitspeek 111, we spend 45 minutes with Matt, a man who moves at the speed of life, encouraging and inspiring others wherever he goes.
Also on the show, Mikey Ross, the head coach from the Abbotsford Triathlon Club is back for a top five list. Mikey goes deep as he offers us the first of his two part series on fostering and maintaining personal relationships. Here it all now by pressing play right here.
We are excited about introducing all our Canadian listeners to a world-class athlete and business person. Originally from Maine, Sarah Piampiano was an athletic phenom in her school years and bound for greatness.
As life would make it, her greatness came but in the world of corporate finance, travelling the world, making big bucks and burning all ends of the candle. And burning through a couple of packs a day as well.
As life would make it, she returned to high-performance athletics as a result of a bar bet and has clawed her way to the upper echelons of long-course triathlon. How does that story go? What do her folks think of her life of tri? What sucks about being a pro-triathlete? Find out by pressing play below!
