Tim Reed

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2016 70.3 World Champs winner Tim Reed talks to IronmanHacks about a wide range of topics.

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They include:

  • 1:34​ Most memorable race
  • 2:44​ About Cebu, Philippines
  • 3:05​ Tripping at the finish
  • 3:30​ Tim Reed and Tim Van Berkel training together
  • 4:00​ Stuck in a hotel room with Tim Van Berkel for 2 weeks
  • 4:55​ How Coronavirus messed up his season
  • 6:00​ Training camp on the back burner & his coaching business
  • 7:20​ Dealing with asthma
  • 8:52​ Cramping and his cystic fibrosis gene and electrolyte losses
  • 9:38​ Sweat losses and huge sodium losses
  • 10:17​ Prepd
  • 10:36​ How sports science could be flawed at times
  • 12:30​ Precision Hydration is good for races
  • 12:50​ How with nacl you can use taste to get the salt feedback unlike with sodium citrate (Precision Hydration)
  • 13:25​ Highest concentration of sodium is UCAN
  • 14:05​ Is his run or bike his strength?
  • 14:58​ How the two (run + bike) combined is his strength
  • 15:57​ How the bike matters more to him in the heat
  • 17:07​ How he’s comfortable in the heat and what Craig Alexander said
  • 18:55​ His hack #1: Do heat adaptation even for cold races
  • 19:22​ His hack #2: Learn how to swim on feet (behind a guy)
  • 21:07​ Imitate better swimmers by training with them
  • 21:37​ His hack #3: Adjust your bike position to be really comfortable
  • 23:05​ Get someone to film you while you’re on the trainer
  • 23:57​ On his Trek sponsorship and the bike and what he thinks
  • 25:25​ Who is Bam?
  • 25:36​ Alaska as a sponsor
  • 26:36​ Cebu is in his top 3 races
  • 26:42​ Who coaches him and that Chris Lieto coached him before Covid
  • 27:08​ On working with Matt Dixon
  • 28:14​ Which athletes should we be watching?
  • 30:21​ What is his next race? 31:20​ How he did the half marathon in Singapore (StandardChartered)

Other interviews:

Pro triathlete Craig “Crowie” Alexander

Pro triathlete Callum Millward

Pro triathlete Angela Naeth

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