John Howard is one of the greatest endurance athletes of all time. He went to three Olympic Games as a cyclist, won the 1981 Ironman World Championship, went over 152 miles per hour on his bike to set a land speed record, and his most recent book: ‘The Black Cyclone: A Hero the World Forgot’ on the great cyclist Major Taylor, is now available on Amazon.com.

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Enjoy this interview with Kat Matthews from our Breakfast with Bob: 2023 Edition. Recorded August 29th

Kat Matthews was training in Texas for her Kona debut after the PTO US Open last Fall when she was hit by a car and had life-threatening injuries including a fractured skull and multiple fractured vertebrae. Less than a year later, Kat just took 2nd place in Finland at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship. Her first race back after the crash was a 3rd place finish at Ironman 70.3 Oceanside and she followed that up with a win at Ironman Texas. We spent some time chatting about the learnings that have come her way over the past year, and on living your life with gratitude.

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Enjoy this interview with Jan Frodeno from our Breakfast with Bob from Nice at the Ironman World Championship. Recorded a few days before Jan’s last race.

Jan Frodeno joined us from his training base in Andorra before heading into town for the world championship in Nice. As Jan heads into his last world championship as a pro, he reflected on his career, the importance of family, and how he’s feeling coming into his last race.

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Enjoy this interview with Sam from our Breakfast with Bob: 2023 Edition. Recorded July 24th.

Sam Long is always one of our favorite people to chat with. Right now, Mr. Yo Yo Yo is about to become a dad, is coaching himself, and has won three 70.3s in a row – including his first-ever win at St. George. Plus, Sam is producing his own YouTube content, is training with the legendary Lionel Sanders, and he is absolutely living and loving life to the fullest. It was the absolute perfect time to chat with Sam about the upcoming PTO US Open in Milwaukee, and to go back through his journey from living downstairs in his parent’s basement to becoming one of the very best triathletes in the world!

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Enjoy this interview with Jason from our Breakfast with Bob: 2023 Edition. Recorded August 1st.

As we head into the PTO US Open in Milwaukee, Jason West from the U.S. has taken his running to a whole new level and has been out-splitting some of the very best runners on the triathlon circuit. With the U.S. Open, the Asian Open, and Ironman 70.3 Worlds all happening in August, this could be a huge month for Mr. West!

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Congratulations to the 2023 IRONMAN Lake Placid champion: Joe Skipper!

Enjoy this interview with Joe from our Breakfast with Bob: Challenge Roth 2023 Edition.

Joe Skipper ran 2:37 at Ironman Wales and went 6 hours and 47 minutes at the Sub-7 Challenge. He has two 2nds and a 4th place finish at Challenge Roth. Can Joe throw down some of that speed this year in Roth?

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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob: Challenge Roth 2023 Edition.

Sebastian Kienle is the 2018 Challenge Roth Champion, the 2014 Ironman World Champion, a two-time 70.3 World Champion….and one of our all-time favorite people on the planet!

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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob: Challenge Roth 2023 Edition.

Congratulations to Daniela on her incredible record-breaking victory at the 2023 Challenge Roth! Here is our conversation from a few days before the race.

Daniela Ryf won back to back Challenge Roth titles in 2016 and 2017. She’s also the 5-time Ironman World Champion and the 5-time Ironman 70.3 Champion. And she also just won her 8th Ironman 70.3 Switzerland. Daniela joined me to chat about everything that makes Challenge Roth so special.

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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob: Challenge Roth 2023 Edition.

Congratulations to Magus on his incredible victory at the 2023 Challenge Roth! Here is our conversation from a few days before the race.

Magnus Ditlev is the defending Challenge Roth champion. He finished 3rd at the PTO European Open in May, on the heals of an amazing 2022 season, which ended with a win at Ironman Cozumel. Always a pleasure to chat with this talented young athlete from Denmark.

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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob 2023 Edition.

Australia’s Max Neumann had a breakthrough race at the Ironman World Championship in Kona in October finishing 4th behind Gustav Iden, Sam Laidlow, and Kristian Blummenfelt. How great a day did he have? His time of 7:44:44 shattered Jan Frodeno’s existing course record of 7:51:13 from 2019! A great chat with Max, recorded in February from his home in Australia.

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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob 2023 Edition.

Matthew Marquardt swam at Princeton and when Covid 19 cancelled the 2020 season, he decided to train for the Ironman 70.3 Eagleman Triathlon – where he went 4:05 in his first-ever race. He is now a pro triathlete and is in his second year of medical school at Ohio State. He just raced for the first time as a pro at Ironman Texas and took third overall and was only 8 seconds out of second place and 21 seconds behind the winner, Rudy Von Berg. How about this for a pro debut? He swam 48:59, rode 4:08:12, ran 2:43:08 and finished with an epic time of 7:45:11. This young man is something very special!

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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob 2023 Edition.

It has been 40 years since Ironman legends Dave Scott and Scott Tinley put together a classic battle and had the closest finish in the history of the men’s race at the Ironman World Championship back in 1983. At the end of the day only 33 seconds separated them and even Dave Scott admits that if the race was another few hundred yards, Tinley would have caught him. In this epic interview Dave shares his opinions on the the Ironman World Championship moving to Nice for the men this year -not a big fan- plus his thoughts on the running times in Kona. Every time I get the opportunity to chat with ‘The Man’ I learn something new!!

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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob 70.3 Oceanside Edition.

The reigning Ironman World Champion, Chelsea Sodaro sat down with me for a pre-race chat before her first race since her amazing win in Kona here at 70.3 Oceanside. We talked about how she has embraced the platform that being world champion offers, and knowing that there is no more racing under the radar for her.

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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob 70.3 Oceanside Pre-Race Edition.

2022 was lining up to be Kat Matthews’ year. She’d qualified for Kona, was successful at the Sub-8 Challenge, and finished 2nd at the Ironman World Championship in St George. But everything changed when she was hit by a car on a training ride in Texas. The last time we chatted, in Kona, Kat was in a neck brace at banged up from the crash, so it is awesome to see her back and even better to talk with Kat about her first race back in a few days in Oceanside.

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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob Edmonton Edition.

Ashleigh Gentle joined me for a pre-race chat before the PTO Canadian Open, which she would go on to win a few days later.

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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob Edmonton Edition.

Gustav Iden joined me for a pre-race chat before the PTO Canadian Open, which he would go on to win a few days later.

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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob Edmonton Edition.

Sebastian Kienle joined me for a pre-race chat before the PTO Canadian Open.

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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob Edmonton Edition.

Laura Philipp joined me for a pre-race chat before the PTO Canadian Open.

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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob Edmonton Edition.

Holly Lawrence joined me for a pre-race chat before the PTO Canadian Open.

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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob St George Championship Edition, recorded the morning after the Ironman World Championship in St George.

He’s “must watch TV” – Lionel Sanders gave us another dramatic performance yesterday at the Ironman World Championship, digging deep as only he can to make it into second place in the closing meters of the run. The Lion joined us the morning after to give us his reflections on the race and his preparation for it.

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Enjoy this Breakfast with Bob: St George Edition conversation with Daniela Ryf, recorded the morning after she won the Ironman World Championship. 

The champion is back! The last Ironman World Championship that Daniela Ryf won was back in 2018, when she overcame a rough start and lots of doubts to get her 4th title. Yesterday in St George, we all had the pleasure of watching the Daniela that can dominate a race and blow away almost everyone else – her bike split of 4 : 37 : 47 was 23rd fastest overall. Daniela now has 5 Ironman World Championships and 5 Ironman 70.3 World Championships. She joined us the morning after her race for a post-race chat.

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Enjoy this Breakfast with Bob: St George Edition conversation with Daniela Ryf, recorded a few days before she won the Ironman World Championship. 

Daniela Ryf is the four-time Ironman World Champion and the five-time Ironman 70.3 World Champion. How amazing has her career been? Between 2014 and 2021, Daniela had 39 wins in 45 races. But in 2019, Daniela finished 13th in Kona, and at the 2021 Ironman 70.3 World Championship she was 11th. In this awesome conversation she shared that even her godson was doubting her. “He introduced me to someone,” she laughs, “and said that I used to be good at triathlon.” As we head into St. George, it sounds like one of the most dominant athletes in history would like to show everyone – including her godson – that she is still pretty damn good at triathlon!

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Enjoy this Breakfast with Bob: St George Edition conversation with Kristian Blummenfelt, recorded the morning after he won the Ironman World Championship. 

A few hours after welcoming the final finishers across the line, Ironman World Champion Kristian Blummenfelt joined us on Championship Edition to take us through his day, and talk a little bit about what’s next. For someone who wasn’t feeling 100% and wasn’t sure how the day would go, things turned out pretty golden for the gold medalist.

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Enjoy this Breakfast with Bob: St George Edition conversation with Kristian Blummenfelt, recorded a few days before he won the Ironman World Championship. 

An awesome chat with the Olympic gold medalist, Kristian Blummenfelt. Kristian made his full distance Ironman debut with a super speedy 7 : 21 : 11 at Ironman Cozumel. How fast can Kristian go here in St George?

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Did you know that long-time cyclist and cycling commentator Bob Roll ran high school cross country against legendary triathlete Scott Molina and that the two discovered cycling and rode hundreds of miles together? What a classic conversation! This interview originally aired as the General Session at USA Triathlon‘s Endurance Exchange Virtual Conference, March 2022

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The one and only Sam the Man, Sam Long, aka Mr Yo Yo Yo, joined me for a pre-race chat before CLASH Endurance Miami – which he would go on to win a few days later.

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Vincent Luis, from France, is a three-time Olympian, two-time World Champion, and a bronze medalist in the triathlon Mixed Team Relay from the Olympic Games in Tokyo. We chat about how a running camp in Kenya after a disappointing 2016 Olympic performance changed his entire approach to life and to his sport, his love of Super League racing, his goal to hopefully race in the 2024 Olympics in his home country, the legacy of Laurent Vidal, and the impact the Brownlee brothers and Javier Gomez have had on the way ITU athletes now attack the bike. We also chat about Vincent’s second place finish at Ironman 70.3 La Quinta despite being led off course and getting hit by a car. Vincent is always such a treat to chat with!

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Babbittville Classic Rewind: Chrissie Wellington 2008

This interview with Chrissie Wellington is from June of 2008, about eight months after she won her first Ironman World Championship title in Kona, Hawaii. Paul Huddle and I had a blast chatting with this amazing young woman. By the time she retired in 2011, she had won four Ironman World Championship titles and had gone undefeated in Iron distance racing.

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Babbittville Classic Rewind: Greg LeMond, Scott Tinley, and Scott Molina

How special is this? Three-time Tour de France Champion Greg LeMond joined us on the phone with two-time Ironman World Champion Scott Tinley and 1988 Ironman World Champion Scott Molina with me in studio. This was a classic conversation! The opening sound bite features New Zealand running legend Rod Dixon talking about the 1968 Olympic 1500 final. Originally aired on the radio in 2001

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In August, Cam Wurf went to Ironman Copenhagen and won his first Ironman since Ironman Italy in 2019. What a treat to get to chat with a guy who is a professional cyclist with the INEOS Grenadiers, and in his spare time kicks ass and takes names as a professional triathlete. There is no one better to chat with than Cam Wurf. I learn something new every single time!

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