Episode 565 - I Pump My Own Gas!

Episode 564 - Find a Way

This show starts with an interview with Tina and Anne about their quest for Kona.  It's a great story!  Tina is blind and Anne is her guide, tethered to her the entire race.  They've successfully raced Challenge Atlantic City together, so Kona is next!

In the training log, We start our trip to Tennessee.  We are headed to the lakehouse, where I like to swim to and fro to this island.  

We made the trip, suprised Kai, and then hit the water.  Emily took a nice shot from our ski boat.

There's lots more inside the show, so tune in!

Episode 563 - Father's Day

(Kai kicking ass on the bike, making his dad proud.)

In this episode, Tawnee Prazak and I cover the news, I interview the CEO of Compete Hub, and then I give tons of training tips and take you with me on my Father's Day weekend escapades.  It's a great time!

To go along with the show, here are some recent pics of the ZenTri life.

I took Kai out on a bike ride and showed him how to take artsy pics of bikes.  Before we left, I showed him some examples from FixedGearGallery.com.  Kai's results are below.

We laid the bikes against a bridge and angled the camera so they were headed towards the vanishing point in the upper right corner.  Nice!  

We then rode to the high school and I showed him how people will hang their bikes in weird positions for a photo.  Putting a bike where a bike shouldn't be is just disrupting enough to make the viewer take pause and think.  Nicely Zen.

Kai is also now fast enough that he can go on our shorter workouts.  Instead of sitting around and stuffing our faces while watching reality TV, this was our Friday evening fun together.  It was so cool!

One of the reasons I'm happy and healthy at forty is my parents used to take me biking and running with them when I was a kid.  That's how you shape "normal".  Get them started early and they'll do it for life.

See you next episode! 

Podcast - Interview with Brandon Marsh

(Image lifted from Brandon's Movember site. Check it out here.)

I am very excited to bring you an interview with Brandon Marsh, the guy who brought you the fastest swim times at both Ironman Texas and the 2013 Kona World Championships.

We talk about how he swam Ironman Texas's 2.4 miles in only 46 minutes.  You read that right. 46 minutes!  Brandon also tells us how he trains in the pool and also how he executes the rest of his race day. 

The rest of the show is great as well - The always incredible Tawnee Prazak brings us the news, Kai swam 1.2 miles across Lake Bryan, and I detail tons of training info in the Training Log.

Enjoy!

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