ZenTri 593 - Hillary Biscay, Thorsten Radde, Tawnee Prazak, Galveston 70.3 Preview

Hillary Biscay and Thorsten Radde talk about TriEqual.com and the depth of women's field, Tawnee Prazak calls in, I do a Galveston 70.3 course preview, and wrap it up with some great music from Decasia.

Comments

[Andrew]

Loved the podcast but found it hard not to get angry at the WTC approach to equality even thou I will never be an elite Triathlete let alone a professional. I do them to test myself and because I love the training. In the podcast you were talking about ideas to try to think of ways to move WTC when they don't even respond. I thought you might be interested in how last weekend a sports organisation was pushed into giving women equality in a sport. For over 150 years there has been a rowing race on the River Thame between Oxford University and Cambridge University and for many years the men's race has been given prime time tv coverage and it is just call The Boat Race. Up to this year the women's race has always been carried out as part of a regatta and held on as pepper ate day so they did not get the publicity and therefore the sponsorship that goes with prime time Saturday afternoon tv sport. The big change this year is that the company that has sponsored the teams and the named sponsor for the TV event told the organisers and the TV companies (the BBC and about 10 other companies) that unless the sponsorship and the TV coverage was shared equally between the men's and the women's events they would withdraw from the event because they did not want to be associated with an event where men and women were treated differently. This year for the first time the women's event was on the Thames in the same afternoon in the same TV event as the men's and the men's and women's team had equal sponsorship funding. Maybe this getting the sponsors or the TV company to pressurise the WTC is a way to give women equality.

[BillCarlinOFR]

Several years ago (2010-11?) I had a Suunto HRM unit that recorded the heart rate in the chest-strap unit while also transmitting to the watch. The transmitter had a cradle that was used to download the data. I was able to trend HR reliably with the major problem being the electrical connection which I addressed with electrode gel.

ZenTri is part of my comeback from chronic crap-storms that destroyed 3 seasons. It's still great stuff and I look forward to catching up.