Challenge Roth

Are you seeing that in a numbers way? Like, are your numbers improving or are you just like managing the whole day better, you think?

Yeah, I think that, you know, my first race over the full was Challenge Roth last year, and that was a pretty conservative race.

um, number that we had in mind for power.

And so this year certainly has been a bump up from that.

Um, I would say it's been relatively consistent this year, um, over the three, I think I overbiked a lot in Lake Placid, uh, the first lap of the bike, I was hitting 70.3 power and I really paid for that in the back half.

And so I think my power has maybe, you know, It's all been, I think, within kind of five watts this year.

And then I think a bump up from five to ten watts from Challenge Roth last year.

I would say that I still push pretty baby watts compared to other people.

It's going to stay on the trainer right here pretty much until...

I don't know March April until we bring it out again so yeah it's it's it's going to be unscheduled for the next month or so and then we'll start back up slowly and gradually with a bunch of aerobic stuff with the goal the next primary race next year will be Challenge Roth so I'm entered into Challenge Roth that'll be the goal race for next year I think it's July 4th or 5th and so we'll be starting to build build up for that starting in the middle of middle of November

That's exciting.

And that's notoriously known to be one of the fastest races out there.

Yes.

So, yeah, just this week found out I've got a Challenge Roth spot.

So I'm excited for that.

That's one of the races I haven't done yet.

I'm qualified for the Duathlon World Champs.

The goal is going to be try to go short and fast and skip the pool for another year.

But when you get a Challenge Roth spot, it's too hard to turn it down.

Yeah.

They actually used it the year before.

Challenge Roth.

Yeah, all the big ones.

So it's exciting.

Which, I mean, that seems fine, but then I'm just, I don't know.

Do you pour over the data reports and judge? Well, the first

time it came out, I think the first one that came out was a Challenge Roth one.

I was quite interested and then I was quite underwhelmed with what it was showing me.

One, you know, bike course record, I think, at Ironman Lanzarote.

Pretty solid bike, you know, performance at Challenge Roth.

Skipped 70.3 worlds.

But, like, you know, when everyone saw her go wire to wire at Kona, like, she was on a different level.

I can attest to this.

I spent a week with her after Challenge Roth last year and I was like, man, you guys live a good life.

This is like what I want to do.

Just lay around all day, watch Netflix, not do a whole lot, just walk down the hill to the bar.

Everyone knows he's probably, not probably, but he is the strongest cyclist, IRONMAN cyclist out on the planet right now.

I mean, after watching what he did in Roth and I...

From what I heard in his interview he did it on 30 watts less than the year before.

That's just how slippery he's become with his aero position.

[clears throat] So then you gotta think, well, I'm not gonna- Tow you the whole way to [laughs] to T2 just so you can drop me on the run, you know? But I also don't want the pace to slow enough to where our gap is only three minutes, not eight.

Like, that, that was...

It was interesting hearing that in, like, Challenge Roth.

Like, Magnus Ditlev was, like, the first 30, 40K of the bike ride was, was basically pulling Kristian up towards that front glute, front... excuse me, front group of Laidlow and Schomburg.