Lucy Charles is racing the Ironman World Championship for the first time as a pro, after winning her age group here last year, as well as the 70.3 World Championship. Lucy comes in to Kona on the heels of a 2nd place at Ironman Frankfurt and a win at Ironman Lanzarote. The former elite swimmer,…
The two-time defending Ironman World Champion Jan Frodeno talked with us about what he learned from last year’s race, and what it’s like to balance life as a professional athlete and a dad. Watch the interview with Jan here. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on iTunes Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri UCAN Endurance Zone …
We kicked off our 2017 edition of Breakfast with Bob from Kona with Sebastian Kienle. The 2014 Ironman World Champion shared insight into how he approaches racing here in Kona. Sebastian also talked about his charity initiative this year with More Than Sport, giving back to the island. Info can be found here: https://www.morethansport.org/pages/sebi Watch…
Thiago Vinhal from Brazil is getting ready for his first Ironman World Championship after taking fifth at the 2017 Ironman Brazil and second at the 2016 Ironman Malaysia. As you might imagine, he’s pretty excited to go head to head with the best in the world on October 14th. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on…
Matt Dixon is a top triathlon coach and the founder of Purple Patch Fitness. His new book, Fast-Track Triathlete, comes out on October 14th. He came on the show with one of his age-group athletes, amputee Alan Shanken, to talk about how to successfully compete at all distances while keeping training hours to a minimum.…
Regas Woods is a double above-knee amputee track star who took home a gold medal in the long jump and a silver medal at 100 meters at the 2015 Pan Am Games and ran the 200 and long jumped in Rio at the 2016 Paralympic Games. He is also disappointed that single above-knee amputees have…
From our Classics Interview Series: Enjoy this interview with Steve Larsen from the summer of 2008 Steve Larsen did it all as an athlete. He grew up in Davis, California where local boy Dave Scott was his hero. Greg LeMond set him up on his bike, and he began bike racing at the age of…
Chrissie Wellington retired from the sport of triathlon after going undefeated at the Ironman distance while recording the fastest time ever for 140.6 miles for women at Challenge Roth -8:18 with a 2:44 marathon- while also winning four Ironman World Championship titles. It was just announced that Chrissie will be in Kona in October to…
Dr. Cory Foulk lives on the Big Island, and a number of years ago he thought that the Ironman was getting a tad too expensive and people were losing site of the fact that it’s not about the cost of the bike you ride, it’s about the toughness of the person riding that bike. So…
2017 has been a breakout year for 24 year old Ironman 70.3 World Championship Silver Medalist Ben Kanute. Coach Jim Vance joined me for a chat about working with Ben Kanute, and helping him make the jump up to the 70.3 distance from ITU racing. We also chatted about Jim’s run data observations at Chattanooga…