Road To Ironman 70.3 Oceanside - Episode 10

·1 hr 27 min·5 clips

Justin Reale says a Mount Lemmon ride left him completely shot for days, with a low-energy, all-out "overreaching" week.

1. The Triathlon Hour episode focuses on the road to 70.3 Oceanside, with Justin Reale, Ari Clow, and Jackson Laundrie all in race-week training mode. 2. Justin Reale leads the show, Ari Clow joins as the Dallas starter, and Jackson Laundrie appears as the former Oceanside winner and course-record holder. 3. The episode asks how Dallas and Oceanside fit together for three triathletes managing peak training, taper timing, and pacing under 20-meter draft rules. 4. Ari Clow says Dallas is his first race in three months and that he is racing with the 20-meter draft rule for the first time. 5. He says his goal is top five, and he calls sixth or worse disappointing given the early-season start list. 6. The start list names Lionel Sanders, Rudy Von Berg, and Ben Kanute, which pushes the Dallas field into the conversation. 7. Ari says he is playing with house money this weekend because Oceanside is the bigger target and Dallas is part of the build. 8. Justin Reale says a LinkedIn DM from Mark Allen included the line, “see you in Oceanside,” after Justin announced his retirement. 9. Jackson Laundrie says he is a former Oceanside winner and current course-record holder, which frames his comments on race prep. 10. Justin raises Sebastian Kienle’s idea that the hardest training should fall 10 to 16 days before a race. 11. The group compares that idea with different taper shapes, including a deload week followed by sharpening close to race day. 12. Ari says Dallas sits inside a month of unusual training because he has never raced two weeks apart before. 13. Justin describes a Mount Lemmon ride with Lionel Sanders as the trigger for a week of extreme muscular fatigue. 14. He says bloodwork from Rhythm Health looked normal, including inflammation and testosterone, which made the muscle fatigue stand out. 15. Justin’s Friday workout was two times 30 minutes at 270 watts plus five minutes at 330 watts, and he calls it brutally difficult. 16. His Saturday session used 140 grams of carbohydrate per hour, three one-hour Ironman-effort blocks, and a final seven-mile run at 3:55 per kilometer. 17. Jackson’s bike session mixed 10-by-40-second hard efforts, 3-by-12-minute tempo, and another 10-by-40-second set in a three-hour-40 ride. 18. Jackson says his run workout hit 3:17, 3:17, and 3:19 per kilometer on a windy 2.9-kilometer loop with 50 kph gusts. 19. The tone is conversational and technical, with athletes comparing numbers, pacing choices, and race-day tactics. 20. Listeners who follow triathlon training loads and pacing will get the most from it, while casual sports listeners may skip the session details.

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Race-week triathlon talk with practical training detail and enough banter to keep it moving.

Justin Reale opens with retirement news, a LinkedIn note from Mark Allen, and 19 days left before 70.3 Oceanside. After that, the episode settles into the kind of race-week details triathlon listeners usually care about: a weekly workout update, a plainspoken…

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