Billy Lister had a stroke when he was 17 years old in July of 1999. In 2011 he attended a Challenged Athletes Foundation Paratriathlon camp and got back on a bike for the first time since his stroke. That led to Billy becoming a part of the U.S. Paralympic Team and racing three events in…
Rob Gray won the Ultraman World Championship in November after taking second in 2016. In this wide-ranging conversation we went from his three weeks of cake nutrition plan, to racing Ironman Texas on minimal training, to taking over 40 minutes off his double marathon time this year at Ultraman. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on…
Paul Newsome is a long time swimmer, triathlete, and long distance swimmer who trained back in the day with UK triathlon legends Simon Lessing and Julie Dibens. Leading into the first-ever Olympic Triathlon in 2000 in Sydney, Australia, his role was to be Lessing’s ‘swim bitch.’ Newsome created a swim program that is based in…
Glenn Hartrick was a long-time triathlete who was paralyzed in June of 2014 during a bike ride. His goal became to get back to the starting line of an Ironman and finish. In November of 2017 he made magic at Ironman Florida and his 13:11 was faster than his first-ever Ironman that he did as…
After Daniela Ryf won her third Ironman Triathlon World Championship title in a row, her TriSutto coaches, Brett Sutton and Robbie Haywood, joined me for a conversation. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on iTunes Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri UCAN Endurance Zone TV Velofix Links Babbittville Radio on Apple Podcasts Babbitt Media Group Babbittville…
Dave Jewell understands running like few other people on the planet. So when he tells me that Footbeat is something that all runners can benefit from, I knew I needed to have him on the show to walk us through the reasons why. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on iTunes Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO…
Kathrine Switzer is the woman who helped create the women’s running boom. And, believe it or not, it all started when officials tried to throw her off the Boston Marathon course way back in 1967. It was wonderful to get to chat with a true pioneer in endurance sports. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on…
With the 40th anniversary of Ironman coming up in 2018, who better to have on than the first-ever Ironman Champion Gordon Haller. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on iTunes Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri UCAN Endurance Zone TV Velofix Links Babbittville Radio on Apple Podcasts Babbitt Media Group Babbittville Radio on Stitcher Challenged Athletes Foundation…
Tara Davis has a personality that can take track and field to a whole new level. The University of Georgia freshman is one of America’s best at both the long jump and the 100 meter hurdles. One fun story from our conversation. At the California high school state meet,Tara earned 30 points as an individual,…
At the age of 16, high school baseball star Ruben Marin was the victim of a drive by shooting and lost his left leg below the knee. He is now a college pitcher with a prosthetic and says that losing his leg was the best thing that ever happened to him, that it has actually…