Gustav Iden

This is something that, like, part of my thinking's informed by a lot of Alexander Boo, the former...

You know, he's now coaching, you know, ex-mobility, uh, men and women actually, cycling team and, uh, and formerly coached Kristian Blummenfelt and, and Gustav Iden.

And he was just like, "Well, the physiology passes, so you either stop the watch or you don't." He's like, "If you're gonna stop and sit down at a cafe, you kill it, and then you start it again, or, you know, otherwise you keep it going." And I was like, "Actually, that makes so much more sense." So I've taken to doing that.

So on Sunday I did go to a cafe and had, you know, coffee and a, and a pastry for, you know, an hour or so, or half an hour.

Um, there's gonna be a lot of dynamics and, and things that are gonna factor in how this race is gonna go down, but that is the one piece of Casper's race for Kona and the world championship title defense that we didn't know.

And in more Norwegian news, we had a [laughs] video-- Gustav Iden, I don't know.

I think he's gonna get some hate for this.

He put it out there.

He's certainly going to light it up.

But when we are talking about the pro Ironman series, Martin Van Riel was sick before 70.3 Worlds, but you put him in there with Schomburg, you know, Blumenfeld, Gustav Iden, we're not going to really know who's taken home that big $200,000 bonus prize check until very, very late in the marathon.

And the way Blumenfeld's running at the moment, there's a chance that he may get off the bike with some guys up the road.

So, Guy, it's early to predict how this is going to unfold, but...

was like, are these age groupers they're passing? It was crazy.

The way Hele Heinz went past Gustav Iden and Kasper Sohn, I was like, these are world champions he's passing.

But just going back to Hayden quick, I wonder if not having a watch helped him because I thought he was so smart.

At some point, you could see he just went and sat slightly behind Lassie Priester and just waited and just ran within himself.

The Norwegian Method.

I'm Gustav Iden, three times world champion and Kona record holder.

I'm Christian Lundfeldt, Olympic and three-time world champion.

I'm Dr. David Lippmann, a health and human performance specialist.

All right.

That I've misremembered, but I have some other stuff here that we're going to get onto some of your predictions that we're going to touch on later.

But Gustav, I think everyone's waiting to hear.

How was the drive?

So anyway, I'll talk about this very quickly, but just, just we, we spoke about this, I think, this time last year, Ryan, 'cause we were, um, we were on the bike a bit.

And do you remember Kristian Blummenfelt, Gustav Iden, they do a great podcast if you ever wanna listen, listen to it.

It's called "The Norwegian Method," and it's really good because these guys are just fun dudes that are the best in their sport, and they're happy to-- They're fairly open books in terms of their approach to training, and they train hard, race often.

And anyway, they race the World 70.3 champs, which a few of our, um, training partners, particularly when we're on the bike, that we know, um, traveled over for this.

But we head to the cold events and we had Michelle Bortoletti, Rico Bogan, Josh Ferris, Lasse Agard-Priester and Jamie Riddle were all around the front.

Hinwald just kept moving up the field while we didn't see much of Gustav Iden until the descent.

We saw Blumenfeld was kind of going the other direction and he lost more than two minutes in the climb.

And like I said, the descent changed the game.

Hidden Wild used it to reach the front, but Gustav Iden, he pulled up a few people, but just blew everyone away, like flowing down that mountain in an crazy way, really making up a ton of time getting closer towards the front.

He definitely got the fastest bike split of the day with a record 2.16.43. Hidden Wild set the record a few minutes ahead of him, but then Gustav Iden chopped a few more seconds off of it.

And then at the end, we saw a few things here.

When we got into the run, we had, sorry.