Alistair Brownlee

So Henry Schumann has revealed that he has been for just over 10 years now.

I mean, he was the athlete that overtook Johnny Brownlee as Johnny was succumbing to the heat and Alistair Brownlee was scooping him up.

And so Henry Schuman was the athlete that, um, through uh the result of that of that incident he then inherited the race victory um perfectly normal within the sporting world to see a competitor suffering by the side of the road you know having a bit of heat stroke you're in a contained environment where you know and you can see the fucking finish line you know he's going to be getting medical assistance as soon as he needs it As soon as he's capable of receiving it, he's going to get mad.

So it's not like something terrible happened in the middle of nowhere and Henry just fucked off.

What would you

say? I think the perception is that particularly with your, like, really high-performing athletes that have quite – quite strong characteristics like Alistair Brownlee, probably like in terms of the triathlon world sticks out like a sore thumb to me and that he was this kind of elusive character with such strong characteristics that I think the perception can become like he's, he's another type of human being, like what the traits he displays are unattainable.

But actually, I do think in everybody, there's a level of trainability.

And that's what I'm hoping to get from Chris today.

Because there's a lot of people who are very willing to risk pretty serious injury for titles and things like that.

So it's a really tricky one to deal with, I think.

It answers one of the questions I had for you, because we were discussing mental toughness in these types of athletes, like Courtney and we mentioned Alistair Brownlee.

And we were wondering what your thoughts were on if you're born like that and that's just the way you are as a person or it can be coached.

You're, um, yeah, asking for a premium price.

Number three, no, yeah, number three, Alistair Brownlee.

Maybe a little bit controversial, but I just think double Olympic champion with the first Olympics being at your home.

So, what you would make off the back of that is huge and then to- And British.

I think a more sophisticated and civilized way to live a life, and certainly actually, you know, since I study the very highest achievers, you know, Olympic athletes and coaches and their analogs in music and art, et cetera, you know, the very highest performers figure this out.

As you know, because you are an informed reader, the triathlete Alistair Brownlee, who had prodigious grit and, you know...

I don't know how to measure his willpower on a like precise Richter scale, but he is arguably the greatest triathlete ever.

So if you think about what that requires, obviously this person has discipline and he uses his situation.

He was like, oh, I would like always make sure that my workout outfit, I guess he called it a kit.

I think he's Australian.

Like it was warm.

It was dry, right? Didn't occur to me that triathletes work out so much that like, you know.

Then I remember Jan Frodeno actually years ago when I watched Kona sat behind him.

Alistair Brownlee another and he was just sat there pretty and you could see his fingers were really relaxed he just waiting for the run like that's if you've given him a tyre that's going to give him three or four watts he's just going to do three or four watts less that's like an hour record so All the training I was doing was pointing at between 400 and 420 watts.

And I was ready for that.

And then with an hour record, you're not allowed a head unit, wahoo, Garmin, anything like that on your handlebars.

Hello, and welcome to the Aerobic Edge podcast.

I'm Joost, your coach over at BassBuddies.com. And today's guest is Alistair Brownlee, a two-time Olympic medalist.

And we're talking about aerobic bass training, heat training, and fueling.

So let's dig in.

well isn't it because you don't really know about like testosterone and people going for puberty basically at different levels and you're comparing yourself sometimes to like it's you're just not aware of people are moving at different rates

and stuff yeah you'd like you'd be on the start line and i mean i'm skinny and sort of puny away anyway but like you'd be starting against some lads i used to like they were like maybe a year above me um and like they'd be like alistair brownlee he was like a year above me and you're like and he was doing all this fantastic stuff and I'd just be like, God, I want to be like them lads.

But they'd all seem dead muscly and big and, you know, a bit more grown up.

But I just sort of kept on going and I can remember that, you know, I think Billy could see... potential that potential there and he sort of um just nurtured it really and sort of encouraged me on and my dad encouraged me with my mom you know a real sort of encouraging environment to just train and and to put the work in my dad did always say like you know if you put the work in you know, the results will