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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob 2025 Nice World Championship Edition, recorded a few days before Kristian finished 3rd in Nice.
Let’s look at Kristian Blummenfelt’s season so far. At Oceanside 70.3, a flat tire found him in 34th place leaving T2, but his 1: 07: 19 run brought him up to 15th place and gave us a preview of what was to come. Kristian followed that up with a win at Ironman Texas, with another fastest of the day run (2: 34: 03), then another 1: 07 run at 70.3 Pays d’Aix got him the win. Next was the Ironman Frankfurt win, where he ran 2: 30: 59 and went 7: 25: 57. A pretty epic performance, but, as Kristian said in our chat, Frankfurt was great, but: “All anyone remembers about last year is that Patrick won the World Championship.” With the big race of the year still to come, what will everyone remember about Kristian’s year?
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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob 2025 Nice World Championship Edition, recorded a few days before Gustav finished 2nd in Nice.
Gustav Iden started his season with a 3rd place finish at Oceanside 70.3, and had a great day at Ironman Frankfurt, where he finished 4th after running 2: 38: 54. As soon as he crossed the line and congratulated Kristian Blummenfelt on his win and 2: 30: 59 run, Gustav’s first thought was: How can I make up 8 minutes before Nice? And that has been the mission of the 2022 Ironman World Champion as he heads into the September 14th race.
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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob 2025 Nice World Championship Edition, recorded a few days before Casper won in Nice.
Casper Stornes, along with Kristian Blummenfelt and Gustav Iden, started his season at Oceanside 70.3, but struggled on the day and finished 24th. After that, he settled into form and since then finished 5th at Ironman Texas, 2nd right behind Kristian at 70.3 Pays d’Aix, and 3rd at Ironman Frankfurt, with a 2: 35: 02 run – second fastest of the day behind Kristian. Casper would love to be a part of another Norwegian Podium, in Nice at the World Championship.
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How special is this young man? Alex Yee ran 2:11:08 in his first-ever marathon in London, the fastest marathon ever for a pro triathlete, and he has two Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver and one Olympic bronze. Add in two Commonwealth gold medals, a classic good old fashioned rivalry with 2024 Olympic silver medalist Hayden Wilde, and his comeback from a brutal 2017 bike crash in Cagliari, an event that he has now won three times. This was just a wonderful conversation with an amazing athlete and person who understands and embraces his role as a leader in our sport. Maybe in 2029 or so we’ll get to see Alex and Hayden go head-to -head on the Kona Coast of Hawaii!!
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John Howard is one of the greatest endurance athletes of all time. He went to three Olympic Games as a cyclist, won the 1981 Ironman World Championship, went over 152 miles per hour on his bike to set a land speed record, and his most recent book: ‘The Black Cyclone: A Hero the World Forgot’ on the great cyclist Major Taylor, is now available on Amazon.com.
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Enjoy this interview with Kat Matthews from our Breakfast with Bob: 2023 Edition. Recorded August 29th
Kat Matthews was training in Texas for her Kona debut after the PTO US Open last Fall when she was hit by a car and had life-threatening injuries including a fractured skull and multiple fractured vertebrae. Less than a year later, Kat just took 2nd place in Finland at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship. Her first race back after the crash was a 3rd place finish at Ironman 70.3 Oceanside and she followed that up with a win at Ironman Texas. We spent some time chatting about the learnings that have come her way over the past year, and on living your life with gratitude.
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Enjoy this interview with Jan Frodeno from our Breakfast with Bob from Nice at the Ironman World Championship. Recorded a few days before Jan’s last race.
Jan Frodeno joined us from his training base in Andorra before heading into town for the world championship in Nice. As Jan heads into his last world championship as a pro, he reflected on his career, the importance of family, and how he’s feeling coming into his last race.
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Enjoy this interview with Sam from our Breakfast with Bob: 2023 Edition. Recorded July 24th. Sam Long is always one of our favorite people to chat with. Right now, Mr. Yo Yo Yo is about to become a dad, is coaching himself, and has won three 70.3s in a row – including his first-ever win…
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Enjoy this interview with Jason from our Breakfast with Bob: 2023 Edition. Recorded August 1st. As we head into the PTO US Open in Milwaukee, Jason West from the U.S. has taken his running to a whole new level and has been out-splitting some of the very best runners on the triathlon circuit. With the…
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Congratulations to the 2023 IRONMAN Lake Placid champion: Joe Skipper! Enjoy this interview with Joe from our Breakfast with Bob: Challenge Roth 2023 Edition. Joe Skipper ran 2:37 at Ironman Wales and went 6 hours and 47 minutes at the Sub-7 Challenge. He has two 2nds and a 4th place finish at Challenge Roth. Can…
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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob: Challenge Roth 2023 Edition. Sebastian Kienle is the 2018 Challenge Roth Champion, the 2014 Ironman World Champion, a two-time 70.3 World Champion….and one of our all-time favorite people on the planet! WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob: Challenge Roth 2023 Edition. Congratulations to Daniela on her incredible record-breaking victory at the 2023 Challenge Roth! Here is our conversation from a few days before the race. Daniela Ryf won back to back Challenge Roth titles in 2016 and 2017. She’s also the 5-time Ironman World…
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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob: Challenge Roth 2023 Edition. Congratulations to Magus on his incredible victory at the 2023 Challenge Roth! Here is our conversation from a few days before the race. Magnus Ditlev is the defending Challenge Roth champion. He finished 3rd at the PTO European Open in May, on the…
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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob 2023 Edition. Australia’s Max Neumann had a breakthrough race at the Ironman World Championship in Kona in October finishing 4th behind Gustav Iden, Sam Laidlow, and Kristian Blummenfelt. How great a day did he have? His time of 7:44:44 shattered Jan Frodeno’s existing course record of 7:51:13…
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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob 2023 Edition. Matthew Marquardt swam at Princeton and when Covid 19 cancelled the 2020 season, he decided to train for the Ironman 70.3 Eagleman Triathlon – where he went 4:05 in his first-ever race. He is now a pro triathlete and is in his second year of…
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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob 2023 Edition. It has been 40 years since Ironman legends Dave Scott and Scott Tinley put together a classic battle and had the closest finish in the history of the men’s race at the Ironman World Championship back in 1983. At the end of the day only…
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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob 70.3 Oceanside Edition. The reigning Ironman World Champion, Chelsea Sodaro sat down with me for a pre-race chat before her first race since her amazing win in Kona here at 70.3 Oceanside. We talked about how she has embraced the platform that being world champion offers, and…
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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob 70.3 Oceanside Pre-Race Edition. 2022 was lining up to be Kat Matthews’ year. She’d qualified for Kona, was successful at the Sub-8 Challenge, and finished 2nd at the Ironman World Championship in St George. But everything changed when she was hit by a car on a training…
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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob Edmonton Edition. Ashleigh Gentle joined me for a pre-race chat before the PTO Canadian Open, which she would go on to win a few days later. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob Edmonton Edition. Gustav Iden joined me for a pre-race chat before the PTO Canadian Open, which he would go on to win a few days later. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob Edmonton Edition. Sebastian Kienle joined me for a pre-race chat before the PTO Canadian Open. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob Edmonton Edition. Laura Philipp joined me for a pre-race chat before the PTO Canadian Open. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob Edmonton Edition. Holly Lawrence joined me for a pre-race chat before the PTO Canadian Open. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob St George Championship Edition, recorded the morning after the Ironman World Championship in St George. He’s “must watch TV” – Lionel Sanders gave us another dramatic performance yesterday at the Ironman World Championship, digging deep as only he can to make it into second place in the…
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Enjoy this Breakfast with Bob: St George Edition conversation with Daniela Ryf, recorded the morning after she won the Ironman World Championship. The champion is back! The last Ironman World Championship that Daniela Ryf won was back in 2018, when she overcame a rough start and lots of doubts to get her 4th title. Yesterday…
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Enjoy this Breakfast with Bob: St George Edition conversation with Daniela Ryf, recorded a few days before she won the Ironman World Championship. Daniela Ryf is the four-time Ironman World Champion and the five-time Ironman 70.3 World Champion. How amazing has her career been? Between 2014 and 2021, Daniela had 39 wins in 45 races.…
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Enjoy this Breakfast with Bob: St George Edition conversation with Kristian Blummenfelt, recorded the morning after he won the Ironman World Championship. A few hours after welcoming the final finishers across the line, Ironman World Champion Kristian Blummenfelt joined us on Championship Edition to take us through his day, and talk a little bit about…
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Enjoy this Breakfast with Bob: St George Edition conversation with Kristian Blummenfelt, recorded a few days before he won the Ironman World Championship. An awesome chat with the Olympic gold medalist, Kristian Blummenfelt. Kristian made his full distance Ironman debut with a super speedy 7 : 21 : 11 at Ironman Cozumel. How fast can…
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Did you know that long-time cyclist and cycling commentator Bob Roll ran high school cross country against legendary triathlete Scott Molina and that the two discovered cycling and rode hundreds of miles together? What a classic conversation! This interview originally aired as the General Session at USA Triathlon‘s Endurance Exchange Virtual Conference, March 2022 WATCH…
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The one and only Sam the Man, Sam Long, aka Mr Yo Yo Yo, joined me for a pre-race chat before CLASH Endurance Miami – which he would go on to win a few days later. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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Vincent Luis, from France, is a three-time Olympian, two-time World Champion, and a bronze medalist in the triathlon Mixed Team Relay from the Olympic Games in Tokyo. We chat about how a running camp in Kenya after a disappointing 2016 Olympic performance changed his entire approach to life and to his sport, his love of…
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Babbittville Classic Rewind: Chrissie Wellington 2008 This interview with Chrissie Wellington is from June of 2008, about eight months after she won her first Ironman World Championship title in Kona, Hawaii. Paul Huddle and I had a blast chatting with this amazing young woman. By the time she retired in 2011, she had won four…
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Babbittville Classic Rewind: Greg LeMond, Scott Tinley, and Scott Molina How special is this? Three-time Tour de France Champion Greg LeMond joined us on the phone with two-time Ironman World Champion Scott Tinley and 1988 Ironman World Champion Scott Molina with me in studio. This was a classic conversation! The opening sound bite features New…
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In August, Cam Wurf went to Ironman Copenhagen and won his first Ironman since Ironman Italy in 2019. What a treat to get to chat with a guy who is a professional cyclist with the INEOS Grenadiers, and in his spare time kicks ass and takes names as a professional triathlete. There is no one…
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When you look at the triathlon uber-cyclists of today, you think of Cam Wurf, Andrew Starykowicz, Sebastian Kienle, Magnus Ditlev, and Lionel Sanders, among others. But back in the 1980s, when the Big Four – Dave Scott, Mark Allen, Scott Tinley, and Scott Molina – dominated the sport, an uber-cyclist named Mike Pigg from Arcata,…
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What a treat! This is a can’t miss conversation with three-time Ironman World Champion Jan Frodeno as he got ready to race Gustav Iden and Lionel Sanders at Ironman California. Enjoy! WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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Sam Long was kind enough to join us in San Diego for our 28th Annual Challenged Athletes Foundation Best Weekend in Triathlon. His relay partners were Paralympic Paratriathlete Jamie Brown swimming the mile, Sam cycling 41 miles, and the first double-amputee to finish the Ironman World Championship, Roderick Sewell, doing the ten mile run. After…
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A true legend of endurance sports, Phil Liggett joined me for a chat before he does the commentary for the Collins Cup. Lots of great stories in this one! WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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A few days before the inaugural Collins Cup, the 2014 Ironman World Champion, Sebastian Kienle joined me for a chat. Sebastian represented Team Europe at the Collins Cup and raced against Lionel Sanders and Andrew Starykowicz. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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Lucy Charles-Barclay had a race for the ages at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in St. George. She joined us to chat about her spectacular race, her epic season, her plans for the Sub-8 Challenge, and her goal to make the 2024 Olympic team! WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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Kristian Blummenfelt joined me for a chat a few days before the 70.3 World Championship in St George. Kristian Blummenfelt won the Olympic Gold Medal in Tokyo and is looking to add to that with a 70.3 World Title here in St. George. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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Joe Skipper joined me for a chat a few days before the Collins Cup. Joe Skipper represents Team Europe at the Collins Cup. Joe is currently ranked 5th on the Professional Triathletes Organisation World Rankings. Joe raced in Match 12 against Jackson Laundry and Justin Metzler, finishing 2nd. Filmed on location in Samorin, Slovakia at…
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Skye Moench joined me for a chat a few days before the Collins Cup. Skye Moench represents Team USA at the Collins Cup. Skye is currently ranked 10th on the Professional Triathletes Organisation World Rankings. Skye raced in Match 4 against Holly Lawrence and Ellie Salthouse, finishing 2nd. Filmed on location in Samorin, Slovakia at…
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Katie Zaferes joined me for a chat a few days before the Collins Cup. Katie Zaferes represented Team USA at the Collins Cup as a Captain’s Pick. Katie won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics in triathlon for Team USA and a silver medal for Triathlon Mixed Relay. Katie raced in Match 2 against…
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Jan Frodeno joined me for a chat a few days before the Collins Cup. Jan Frodeno represents Team Europe at the Collins Cup. Jan is currently ranked Number 1 on the Professional Triathletes Organisation World Rankings. Jan ended up winning his race, Match 7, against Sam Appleton, who finished second, and Sam Long, who finished…
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Lionel Sanders joined me for a chat a few days before the Collins Cup. Lionel Sanders, from Canada, represents Team Internationals at the Collins Cup. Lionel is currently ranked 2nd on the Professional Triathletes Organisation World Rankings. Filmed on location in Samorin, Slovakia at the X-Bionic Sphere. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel…
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At Ironman Florida, Chris Nikic became the first person with Down syndrome to finish an Ironman. His next goal? To finish the Ironman World Championship this October. Dan Grieb has been Chris’ partner in his mission to change perceptions and reach his dreams, and he joined us to chat about their journey. WATCH the…
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Siri Lindley is a force of nature and if you listen to just one of our interviews this week, this is the one. She used her unbelievable energy to win the ITU World Championship and become the number one ranked triathlete in the world. When she moved to coaching, she helped Susan Williams win the…
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We chatted with Sam Long on Breakfast with Bob a few days before Ironman Coeur d’Alene. We talked about his epic battle with Lionel Sanders at Ironman 70.3 St. George and the renewal of that rivalry coming up at Ironman Coeur d’Alene. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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Taylor Knibb, 23, became the youngest American triathlete to make an Olympic team when she won the final U.S. Olympic qualifier in Yokohama, Japan. Taylor did her first triathlon when she was 11 and never looked back. What a treat to get to chat with Taylor! WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel…
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Helle Frederiksen of Denmark had a remarkable career where she raced in the 2012 Olympics, won the 2018 ITU Long Distance World Championship in her hometown, won ten 70.3 races, and took home two $100,000 checks in the same year when she won both the Hy-Vee Triathlon and Challenge Bahrain in 2014. Her new book…
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In this very special interview with four-time Ironman World Champion and five-time 70.3 World Champion Daniela Ryf, she was as honest and raw with us as she has ever been. Daniela revealed that she has been dealing with a serious foot injury that could have ended her career, that she is now coaching herself after…
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Dean Karnazes has always been one of my favorite guests because he is never afraid to push the boundaries. Could he run 50 marathons in 50 days in 50 states and create a film showcasing the journey? Of course he could. Could an ultrarunner become a New York Times best-selling author? Dean made that happen…
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From our Breakfast with Bob at Challenge Miami series, enjoy this interview with Lucy and Reece Charles-Barclay. Lucy and Reece, aka Team Charles-Barclay, joined us on Breakfast with Bob at Challenge Miami for a pre-race conversation. Lucy raced at Challenge Daytona in 2019, and that ended up being the last time she raced before Challenge…
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Australia’s Emma Carney was the most dominant female triathlete in the world in the late 1990s and her new book “Hard Wired: Life, Death, and Triathlon” gives the reader an inside look into the highest highs and lowest lows of her life. Emma joined me for a wide-ranging conversation about her career and the Australian…
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From our Breakfast with Bob at Challenge Miami series, enjoy this interview with Jodie Stimpson. It’s so great chatting with Jodie Stimpson. A few days after this interview, Jodie went on to win Challenge Miami. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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From our Breakfast with Bob at Challenge Miami series, enjoy this interview with Jan Frodeno. Lots of pre-race excitement with world champion Jan Frodeno in Miami for his first race in over a year. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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From our Breakfast with Bob at Challenge Miami series, enjoy this interview with Lionel Sanders. It was great to catch up with Lionel Sanders at Challenge Miami. Enjoy this pre-race conversation with the one and only Lionel Sanders! WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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How special is Sara Hall? She won the Foot Locker National Cross Country Championship in 2000 and, 20 years later at the age of 37, she is still going strong. On December 20th she set out to break Deena Kastor’s American Record for the marathon (2: 19: 36) in the Marathon Project marathon and missed…
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From our Breakfast with Bob at Challenge Daytona series, enjoy this interview with Lionel Sanders. A few days prior to the PTO 2020 Championship at Challenge Daytona, Lionel Sanders joined me for a chat. Always awesome getting to chat with the great Lionel Sanders! WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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From our Breakfast with Bob at Challenge Daytona series, enjoy this interview with Sebastian Kienle. Every interview with Sebastian is a classic. Here, we chat a few days before the PTO 2020 Championship at Challenge Daytona. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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From our Breakfast with Bob at Challenge Daytona series, enjoy this interview with Alistair Brownlee. The two-time Olympic gold medalist, Alistair Brownlee, joined me a few days prior to the PTO 2020 Championship at Challenge Daytona for a chat. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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From our Breakfast with Bob at Challenge Daytona series, enjoy this interview with Nicola Spirig. It was great to catch up with multiple Olympic medalist Nicola Spirig at Challenge Daytona a few days before the PTO 2020 Championship. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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From our Breakfast with Bob at Challenge Daytona series, enjoy this interview with Vincent Luis. A few days prior to the PTO 2020 Championship at Challenge Daytona, Vincent Luis joined me for a chat. I loved getting to know this talented triathlete a little better. His story about going to Kenya to train after a…
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From our Breakfast with Bob – not quite – Kona Edition 2020 series, enjoy this interview with Lionel Sanders Is there anyone who is more fun to chat with than the always amazing Lionel Sanders? Fresh off of breaking Canada’s one-hour cycling record by going 51.304 KM which came one week after running a 5K…
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From our Breakfast with Bob – not quite – Kona Edition 2020 series, enjoy this interview with Sebastian Kienle. When they talk about the world’s most interesting man, in my humble opinion Sebastian Kienle is right at the top of the list. The two-time Ironman 70.3 World Champion, 2014 Ironman World Champion, and 2018 Challenge…
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From our Breakfast with Bob at Challenge Daytona series, enjoy this interview with Chris and Nik Nikic. A conversation with groundbreaker Chris Nikic, the first Down syndrome athlete to finish an Ironman, and his dad, Nik. Chris and Nik chatted with us about race day in Florida, and their training pathway to an Ironman. “What’s…
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From our Breakfast with Bob – not quite – Kona Edition 2020 series, enjoy this interview with Natascha Badmann. Natascha Badmann is a six-time Ironman World Champion and a true legend in our sport. Who else ends up with a sore arm after every race from cheering on all of the other athletes? Only Natascha…
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Rocky Harris is the CEO of USA Triathlon and our conversations always go in a lot of different directions and are always a ton of fun. With the Endurance Exchange going virtual in 2021 (January 21-23) the time was right to re-connect! WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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From our Breakfast with Bob (not quite) Kona Edition 2020, enjoy this interview with Anne Haug I love Anne Haug’s personality. The 2019 Ironman World Champion has overcome a lot to be the best in the world and it is obvious she enjoys every aspect of her life. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville…
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From our Classics Interview Series: Greg LeMond Greg LeMond, the three-time Tour de France champion, came on The Competitors Radio Show with Paul Huddle and me back in 2006 for an extensive interview about his career and his views on the state of the sport of cycling. In honor of Greg just receiving the Congressional…
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From our Breakfast with Bob (not quite) Kona Edition 2020, enjoy this interview with Jan Frodeno If the Ironman World Championship was happening on October 10th as planned, Jan Frodeno’s most recent bike crash would have kept him off of the start line. This was a great conversation with the three-time champion and Ironman World…
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From our Breakfast with Bob: Stay Home Edition show, enjoy this interview with Simon Whitfield Twenty years ago Canada’s Simon Whitfield won the first-ever Olympic Gold Medal in the sport of triathlon. He took some time to chat about his Hall of Fame career and to chat about his life twenty years after making history.…
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From our Breakfast with Bob: Stay Home Edition show, enjoy this interview with Mirinda Carfrae Three-time Ironman World Champion Mirinda Carfrae is pregnant with her second child and is looking forward to racing Kona in October 2021 when she is 40 years old. We chatted about some of her epic races with Samantha McGlone, Chrissie…
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From our Breakfast with Bob: Stay Home Edition show, enjoy this interview with Daniela Ryf Daniela Ryf is the four-time Ironman World Champion, the five-time Ironman 70.3 World Champion, and a two-time Olympian. After winning in Kona four years in a row, this past October she finished 13th. She joined us from her training camp…
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From our Breakfast with Bob: Stay Home Edition show, enjoy this interview with Spencer Smith Spencer Smith from the UK had a great career and his personality left an indelible mark on the sport. His long-time rivalry with Simon Lessing was epic! It was awesome to catch up with Spencer and take a walk down…
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From our Breakfast with Bob: Stay Home Edition show, enjoy this interview with Mark Allen and Karen Smyers. Mark Allen and Karen Smyers both won the 1995 Ironman World Championship. What an awesome treat to get to chat with both of these world champions. WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.
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From Breakfast with Bob 2020: Holly Lawrence chats with us about being a triplet, finding triathlon, winning the 2016 Ironman 70.3 World Championship, suffering what could have been a career ending injury, and coming back last fall to take an emotional second place at the 2019 70.3 World Championship in Nice. WATCH the interview on…
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From our Breakfast with Bob: Stay Home Edition show, enjoy this interview with Sam Long.
Sam Long is only 24 years old but he has already finished 13 Ironman races and in 2019 he won Ironman Chattanooga. Sam had some great stories about being a triplet, about 70.3 Worlds in Nice, and what he learned in Kona last October from watching the Ironman World Championship.
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From our Breakfast with Bob: Stay Home Edition show, enjoy this interview with Jesse Thomas.
In his last triathlon before he retired, Jesse Thomas went sub-eight hours at the 2018 Challenge Roth while also running sub-2 : 45 and finishing third. Who else’s last race before they retired was a bucket list sub-eight? Not a bad way for the former Stanford steeplechase star, six-time Wildflower champion, and two-time Ironman champion to go out after an awesome ten year career!
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From our Breakfast with Bob: Stay Home Edition show, enjoy this interview with Gwen Jorgensen.
Gwen Jorgensen didn’t connect with the sport of triathlon until 2010. By 2012 she raced in her first Olympic Games in London and then she became the most dominant triathlete on the planet, winning 13 WTS races in a row before winning the Gold in Rio in 2016. She moved from triathlon to running after becoming a mom and now is hoping to make the 2021 US Olympic team at either the 5,000 or 10,000 meters. Gwen and I also talked about our drive to increase diversity in the sport of triathlon and how we both love Bernard Lyles’ Tri-Masters Program, which has helped Black kids in Chicago learn to swim and participate in triathlons.
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From our Breakfast with Bob: Stay Home Edition show, enjoy this interview with Max Fennell.
An injury ended Max Fennell‘s promising soccer career. Next up was the sport of triathlon where he became the first African American professional triathlete. After that was a stint on Lebron James’ ‘Million Dollar Mile’ TV show where he was a defender known as ‘The Machine.’ Max also shared some of his eye-opening experiences living as a Black man in America.
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From our Breakfast with Bob: Stay Home Edition show, enjoy this interview with Lucy Charles-Barclay.
It’s not often that someone jumps into the sport of triathlon and has immediate success. But UK’s Lucy Charles-Barclay, in three short years as a pro, has taken second in Kona three years in a row, won the Challenge Championship three times, and in 2019 won Challenge Roth.
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