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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk ZEDB and.

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Speaker 2: The world's leading triathletes. Tomorrow with the hosting of the

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Speaker 2: second annual Napier Triathlon Festival, including men's and women's elite

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Speaker 2: races over the sprint distance, the seven hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: meter swim, twenty k bike and the five k run.

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Speaker 2: Fifteen nations represented across the elite men's and women's fields,

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Speaker 2: with twenty New Zealanders taking up the challenge looking to

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Speaker 2: earn vital World Triathlon ranking points at the start of

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five season. Leading the way twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: four Paris Olympians Ainsley Thorpe and Nicole Vander Kay and

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Speaker 2: twenty eighteen Commonwealth Games medallist Taylor Reed, who joins us. Now, Taylor,

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Speaker 2: thanks for taking the time. How are you feeling a

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Speaker 2: day out from the event tomorrow?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Really good. Just got to Napier last night and

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Speaker 3: cheaped out the course and yeah, really looking forward to racing. Hair.

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Speaker 2: Now, before we get into this, you've got a new coach.

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Speaker 2: Tell us how that came about.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so now coach by Ben riisl coaches a

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Speaker 3: number of good care athletes, including Hannahburium, Brandon Curry, but

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Speaker 3: also you know the current Iman world champion, seventy point

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Speaker 3: three world champion. So yeah, real lucky to have be

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Speaker 3: on his team and have him on my team. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: we haven't been working together together very long, but looking

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Speaker 3: forward to seeing how this first race goes under him.

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Speaker 2: Basically, what led to the change in coach.

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Speaker 3: My old coach, Stephen, Yeah, had a great twelve years

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Speaker 3: with him, but he had moved into a role with

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Speaker 3: Tryan's here that he you know, had to dedicate his

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Speaker 3: time to that and you know, didn't have the you

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Speaker 3: know time to you know, put all the work into

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Speaker 3: that takes to coaching me. And so yeah, yeah, made

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Speaker 3: the move to Ben, which I'm really enjoying.

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Speaker 2: That's a long time though with with one coach and

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Speaker 2: then I moved to somebody new do So what are

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Speaker 2: the challenges around that? Is should try to forge your

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Speaker 2: relationship which will be just.

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Speaker 3: As effective, yeah, yeah, as different as just a different

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Speaker 3: training style. Yeah, it was definitely a scary change to mate.

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Speaker 3: You know, like you said, I've been with Stephen for

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Speaker 3: twelve years, so it was definitely scary to move. But

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Speaker 3: the change hasn't actually been too tough, and I really

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Speaker 3: enjoyed the training style, so it's been great to change

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Speaker 3: things up after a long time of doing something very

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Speaker 3: very similar.

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Speaker 2: As far as training is concerned, you know, if you're

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Speaker 2: a runner, you're just trained to run. If you're a cyclist,

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Speaker 2: you just trained to cycle, same with swimming. As a trithlete,

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Speaker 2: how do you divide your time?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, changes week on week and through different phases

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Speaker 3: of the year. But for me, on average, i'd say

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Speaker 3: I do around eighty to one hundred k running. Riding

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Speaker 3: I do mainly an hours probably somewhere between nine and

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Speaker 3: fifteen hours of riding week, and then about twenty to

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Speaker 3: thirty k a swimming in the poor week, with two

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Speaker 3: gyms throwing them there as well, so you can get

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Speaker 3: up to well over thirty hours of training for the week.

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Speaker 2: And when you're looking for improvements, let's just talk about

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Speaker 2: the sprint distance, because I know you've got seventy point

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Speaker 2: three coming up as well. But when you're looking for

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Speaker 2: improvements in the sprint distance, you know, how do you

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Speaker 2: go about targeting those improvements and then achieving them?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think improvement just mainly comes down

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Speaker 3: to consistency in our sport and just you know, been

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Speaker 3: able to put in the work day after day and

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Speaker 3: focus on the things in your physiology that are you know,

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Speaker 3: holding you back and just improve on them. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I would say consistency is keeping able to show up

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Speaker 3: day after day and put in the work, which you

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Speaker 3: know sounds straightforward, but it's often not. You know, like

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Speaker 3: you've got to battle with injury and illness and other

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Speaker 3: other time constraints. You know, other other things can get

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Speaker 2: And as far as shaving, you know, shaving seconds off

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Speaker 2: each of the three, are there any one of the

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Speaker 2: three or which of the three do you feel like

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Speaker 2: cutting your times down.

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Speaker 3: For me, definitely the run that they will definitely depend

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Speaker 3: on the course as well, but yeah, the run this

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Speaker 3: weekend is where I'd say the race. The race is

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Speaker 3: definitely going to be run on one on the run

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Speaker 3: this weekend. It's a flat, really fast course, so yeah,

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Speaker 3: if you put down a really fast run time, that's

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Speaker 3: going to lead you to a real good race this weekend.

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Speaker 2: How guarded were you to miss out on the Olympic

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I was definitely really devastated. You know, it's

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Speaker 3: something that you put all your time and energy into achieving,

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Speaker 3: and not just yourself, your family or your support teams.

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Speaker 3: So you're to miss out on a massive a massive

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Speaker 3: goal like that was pretty pretty tough. But I think

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Speaker 3: I'm the stronger for it, you know, like, yeah, I

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Speaker 3: think I've you been over overcoming and I finished with

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Speaker 3: a strong end of the season last year, and I'm

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Speaker 3: looking to have a strong start to the season this year.

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Speaker 2: You want to talk about what lies ahead, But what

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Speaker 2: strategies did you use to overcome that disappointment? I could

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Speaker 2: even hear it in your voice then, you know, it's

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Speaker 2: probably quite triggering even talking about it. But what strategies

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Speaker 2: try and focus ahead?

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Speaker 3: Again, I don't really know if I implement a strategy.

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Speaker 3: I have a really great, great support network around me

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Speaker 3: at the time, which that time was my coach and

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Speaker 3: but particularly my family and my partner Nicole, who was

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Speaker 3: going to the games, and so I think that really

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Speaker 3: just helped me help me through it. And then you know,

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Speaker 3: focusing focusing ahead onto other goals I had and that

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Speaker 3: was kind of what what got me through that tough,

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Speaker 2: Has it made you even more determined to get to

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Speaker 2: LA in twenty twenty eight? Yeah, one percent.

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Speaker 3: I think it's definitely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Just added added fuel to the fire and just made

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Speaker 3: me really hungry to you know, look for look for

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Speaker 3: more ways to you know, improve, And yeah, I hope,

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Speaker 3: I hope it will lead to some more success.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure will. And as I was saying before your targeting,

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Speaker 2: I think the seventy point three is that the season

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Speaker 2: opener in Geelong coming up? Is that? Is that the

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Speaker 2: next thing on your agenda?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there'll be the next one the agenda. That

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Speaker 3: will be my first seventy point three, which yeah, I'm

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Speaker 3: help out in my short distance stuff as well. So

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Speaker 3: nexting up a few long course races with the short

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Speaker 3: course races is going to be like a real, real

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Speaker 3: fun change to make to my schedule.

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Speaker 2: Fun it's a good word for it. So can you

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Speaker 2: can you train simultaneously for sprint distance and seventy point three?

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Speaker 3: I think so? You know, you got guys now dipping

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Speaker 3: sprint races. I don't know if I will do that,

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Speaker 3: but yeah, I believe so. I don't think my training

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Speaker 3: changes really too much with the seventy point three race

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Speaker 3: farm try bike all right.

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Speaker 2: Well, the immediate point of business is Napier this weekend. Taylor,

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Speaker 2: really appreciate you having a chat to us so close

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Speaker 2: to the race. All the best for this and for

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Speaker 2: what lies ahead as well. Can't wait to chat again

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Speaker 2: as you chart your path to LA twenty twenty eight. Awesome,

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Speaker 2: thank you, No, thank you, Taylor. Taylor read that one

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Speaker 2: of the leading hopes and the men's race certainly the

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Speaker 2: leading ki WE hope and the men's race. No Hayden Wi,

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Speaker 2: No Dylan McCullough in this race tomorrow, so Taylor Reed

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Speaker 2: will be the leading KIWI contender. Nicole vander Kay, who

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Speaker 2: is Taylor Ridge partner, is in the women's race along

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Speaker 2: with fellow Paris Olympian Ainsley Thorpe. Looking forward to this tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: There's all sorts planned. The elite races are just part

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Speaker 2: of it. In Napier. The Napier Triathlon Festival. I'm pretty

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Speaker 2: sure that there are events for the average trith lead

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Speaker 2: to have a go at, but the elite stuff for

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Speaker 2: men and women over the sprint distance seven hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifteen meta swim, twenty k bike, fifteen sorry five k run,

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Speaker 2: fifteen nations represented and twenty New Zealanders taking up the challenge.

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Speaker 2: So we'll certainly keep an eye on that for you

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Speaker 2: tomorrow afternoon and let you know how our kiwi's in

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Speaker 2: particular go in the elite races.

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