Jonny Brownlee

Now for something a bit special.

Jonny Brownlee came on RunPod the other day, and obviously you can't let an Olympian like that go without picking his brains.

This man's got three Olympic medals, a career at the very top of endurance sport, and a Blenheim record where he finished 10 triathlons [laughs] in one weekend.

So here we go.

All right.

Amazing.

Jonny Brownlee, thank you.

Thank you to everyone in the RunPod Run Club.

...

since I think I went up like a climb with Ed Clancy and Johnny Brownlee, and I was, like, keeping up with them.

I was thinking, "What is happening here?" [laughs]

I can't do that next week.

Finally, we've got him on RunPod.

Jonny Brownlee.

Hello.

Hello.

Maybe I pushed that a bit too far in Mexico in Cozumel, but, uh, it can definitely go, uh, it can definitely hurt a lot more than you think.

Oh my goodness.

Jonny Brownlee, I have loved, finally got you on RunPod.

So thank you so, so much.

Um, not a lot, mate.

I think it's gonna be an interesting chat here with, with Johnny, Jonny Brownlee.

Um, you know, I think we're gonna dig into quite a few different topics.

The...

I think dosing is, um, obviously correct dosing is, um, important with everything that you do, and sometimes you can go over the top.

I remember speaking to, uh, Johnny Brownlee, triathlete, incredible, but he...

The, the famous, uh, part where his brother, like, carries him over the line.

Legends, yeah.

Yeah, I was actually representing New Zealand in hockey, so turf hockey for, like, under-23s and 19s, and had, like, a big engine, so I was doing relatively a lot of running and doing a little bit of cross-country, but mostly mountain biking, actually.

I was doing the New Zealand Mountain Bike World Cup, so racing against some of the top New Zealand athletes, like Anton Cooper and Samuel Gaze, who have won Commonwealth Games gold and silver medals, and... all of that's in bento olympics so like racing against those guys back in the day and then my mate just said oh do you want to do a triathlon you know you're strong on the bike and you're strong on the run and then i couldn't i haven't i've never swum when i was a kid all i did was jump off the wharf with my brothers and do bombs and that was really a bit about it and then just started just started swimming and i was shocking hey like i was i don't know i think i was i think i did like my 1500 meters in 29 minutes or 28 minutes or something and uh and then to the next tier and that's when i kind of started triathlon was actually the off-road stuff so next tier is mountain biking trail running and and swimming um and then went to the world champs there and kind of got to the top of that um that sport at my my my i guess age and realised there wasn't a path to the Olympics so that's when I made the switch in 2016 when I actually watched the Rio Olympics and yeah watched obviously the Brownlee brothers dominate and yeah that was kind of my first I guess insight to you know triathlon in a sense I actually didn't know who did it or what it was all about and kind of got into it from there to be honest

And then that was a quick, quick path up through those two Olympic medals, as you talked about, running that 27 minutes.

So let's then go to this latest world.

It was like he almost like seized up near the line.

It was like the old kind of Johnny Brownlee thing at that triathlon years ago where he sort of was winning and then like 50 meters from the line sort of completely like blacked out and clapped.

Yeah, and his brother had to carry

him.

Yeah.

And I remember looking at the Brownlee brothers after they'd finished first and third or first and second or whatever.

Anyway, probably the fittest men on the planet at that particular time.

And they looked as if they should be in the ICU.