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Trumix.com listings available of Competitor Radio Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Normann Stadler Also on Competitor Radio: Interviews with Taylor Phinney, Julie Romias and Jason Lezak ...We filmed an hour chat with two-time Ford Ironman World Champion Normann Stadler in front of a Tri Club of San Diego audience of 300 about three weeks before Kona 2008. Normann has become one of the best interviews in the sport. Check out the radio interview here and if you’d like to see the video, go to www.mybobtv.blogspot.com . The video of the Johan Bruyneel interview is up there as well Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Orlowski Also on Competitor Radio: Interviews with Brennan Lindner and Lesley Patterson...Dave Orlowski has completed only one Ironman World Championship in his life and he took third overall. This October he will be attempting his second ever Ironman World Championship. What’s the hook? Well, the first one Dave raced in was the first one ever back in 1978 and he cut off his blue jeans the night before so he had something to ride his Sears Easy Spirit 10 speed in. 30 years later he’s coming back ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Allen Also on Competitor Radio: Interviews with Bob Roll and Steven Spitz... Mark Allen came back after a year sabbatical to win his sixth and final Ironman World Championship title in 1995. The fact that he was 13:30 down at the end of the bike ride to Germany's Thomas Hellriegel and had to run 2:42:09 in the marathon to win made it all the more special. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yvonne Van Vlerken Yvonne Van Vlerken of Holland went 8:45:48 at Quelle Challenge Roth this summer, the fastest women's Ironman distance time ever. Along with her boyfriend, agent and top age group athlete Thomas Vonach, Yvonne came on to discuss her awesome season and to take a look at how she might do in Kona on October 11th. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ally Davidson Also posted on CompetitorRadio.com, interview with Bill Leach and Tara Kirk.... Ally Davidson from Dallas, Texas snuck out of the house on the morning of her wedding to audition for American Gladiators. She actually wore her veil and garter to the tryout. How did it turn out? Let's just say that she's $100,000 to the better and will be a Gladiator during the 2009 season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Young Guns Scotland's Fraser Cartmell, 26, has won the UK's 70.3 event for the past two years. 20-year-old AJ Acosta broke Steve Prefontaine's University of Oregon indoor mile record this year and had the opportunity to run in his first Olympic Trials at 1500 meters. Two young guns, both with bright futures. The conversation with two athletes from totally different worlds was really fun. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kevin Gillotti Also posted on CompetitorRadio.com, interview with AJ Acosta, Dean Karnasas and John Howard.... Kevin Gillotti is a long time endurance athlete who had just returned home from competing in the 2001 Duathlon World's in Italy. The next day, while out on a bike ride, he was hit by a truck and his life changed forever. How he recovered from his injuries and became faster -and happier- than ever before, makes his a great story and him a living miracle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Johan Bruyneel Also posted on CompetitorRadio.com, interview with Al Joyner, Mike Haugens and David Sylvester.... Johan Bruyneel was the mastermind behind Lance Armstrong's seven consecutive Tour de France titles. We had the rare opportunity over at The Trek Superstore in San Diego on Saturday July 12th to film and record a one-on-one interview with Johan in front of a crowd estimated at over 300. Johan's new book is entitled WE MIGHT AS WELL WIN. Johan is a great interview. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andy Potts Also posted on CompetitorRadio.com, interview with Lisa Lax.... Andy Potts didn't get into the sport of triathlon as a professional until 2003. A year later, he was on the Olympic Triathlon Team representing the US in Athens. This summer he'll be focusing on the Race For the Toyota Cup...and just maybe on the Ironman World Championship in Kona! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Sylvester Also posted on CompetitorRadio.com, interviews with Sarah Haskins and Dr. David Minkoff.... Bob Babbitt was out cycling east of San Diego on July 4th when ran into David Sylvester at the La Posta Cafe. "Where are you headed?" asked Sylvester. "I'm heading back to Pine Valley, " Babbitt said. "You?" When Sylvester, a 260 pound guy, said that he was heading to New York City, Babbitt knew that he and Huddle had to have him on the show. What a story! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Larson Also posted on CompetitorRadio.com, interviews with Hunter Kemper and Ryan Dawkins.... Steve Larsen has done it all as an athlete. A cyclist on Team Motorola with Lance, a NORBA national champion, an XTERRA champion and the winner of Ironman Lake Placid. So when, at the age of 38, the owner of his own business and the father of five decided to give Ironman another fling, the guy proved once again that he is simply an athletic freak. Now that he is training under the guidance of Brett Sutto ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nino Baglione Also posted on CompetitorRadio.com, interviews with Matt Reed and Pat Porter.... Nino Baglione goes immediately to the top of our Knucklehead list. Why? Because his concept of fun is the Artemis Arc to Arch Challenge where he's planning to run 89 miles, swim the English Channel and then ride his bike 180 miles to Paris. Amazing story. Check out www.artemisarchtoarc.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Erica Davis 24-year-old Erica Davis is one of the best up-and-coming wheelchair triathletes around and Ironman is definitely on her mind. Her story and determination put her on the top of the list when it comes to female wheelers who could one day complete the toughest day in sport in Kona. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tyler Ferrar Dean Karnazes is at it again. He is running from Sonoma to San Diego-700 miles total- by going from Mission to Mission. During our 30 minute chat, the guy ran over three miles! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Whitehead In his career Mark Whitehead won 137 criteriums, 200 track events and made the 1984 Olympic Team. In this wide ranging discussion he fills us in on racing with the legends of cycling, Greg LeMond and Davis Phinney, being married to another cycling legend, Rebecca Twigg, and what led to his decision to blood dope for the 1984 Olympics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ryan Hall Ryan Hall has had an amazing 12 months. Last April he broke the American record in his marathon debut, in November he won the US Olympic Marathon Trials and then a few weeks ago he ran an awesome 2:06:17 in his second attempt in London. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Davis Phinney Davis Phinney, one of America's cycling legends and one of our all-time favorite guests, came on with us while recuperating from brain surgery. The wide ranging conversation covered everything from his surgery, dealing with Parkinson's Disease and the excitement around his son, Taylor Phinney, making the US Olympic team at the age of 17. this podcast brought to you by: www.audiblepodcast.com/competitors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Lieto Chris Lieto has won three Ironman titles and has worked hard to move up the ranks of the Ironman elite. Last year in Kona he finished sixth, his best attempt yet, and ran a 3:00 hour marathon. Besides giving back to the environment by becoming the Green Athlete, Lieto is a family man who balances his time racing triathlon with time spent racing his bike. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Torbjorn Sindballe Torbjorn Sindballe from Denmark is one of the most likeable guys in the sport. A great cyclist, he had been frustrated about his inability to figure out how to deal with the heat of the Big Island. He spent the year leading up to the 2007 Ford Ironman World championship studying how his body reacts to heat and put it all into action in October. His third place finish shows that he has finally figured it out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Micha Burden Micha Burden (pronounced Meeka) is one of the favorites to make it to Beijing as part of America's first ever 10K open water swim team. How tough is that event? Imagine a solid two hours of swimming averaging about 12 minutes per thousand meters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tyler Hamilton Tyler Hamilton won a Gold Medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in the time trial. He rode with Lance on three Tour de France championship teams. He won a stage of the 2002 Giro and took second overall despite a fractured shoulder and took fourth overall at the 2003 Tour de France and won stage 16 despite a broken collarbone. But in 2004, his life changed forever when he was suspended from cycling for two years after two blood tests at the Vuelta showed evidence of a homologous blood transfusion. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Howard Jacobs Howard Jacobs has become the go-to attorney for professional athletes who fail a drug test. Floyd Landis and Tyler Hamilton are two of Howard's more high profile clients. But it was the $600,000 settlement that he helped swimmer Kicker Vencil get for a tainted supplement that set him up to handle the current case featuring triathlete Rebekah Keat, off-road triathlete Mike Vine and cyclist Amber Neben against Hammer Nutrition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Browne Dan Browne, a 2004 Olympian with PRs of 27:42 for 10K and 2:11:35 for the marathon, came in studio to go through his career as we head towards the Olympic trials this summer Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lt. Andy Baldwin A few months back, Lt. Andy Baldwin was working as a Navy doctor in Hawaii and competing in triathlons. Then he was contacted by the folks from "The Bachelor" television show and became the star of their 2007 version, Officer and a Gentleman. He was honored as Competitor Magazine's 2006 Humanitarian of the Year on February 3, 2007 for the work he did on a medical mission to Laos, and two days later he went into seclusion as the shooting started for the ABC show. Andy came on The Competitors ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Zeigler Mark Zeigler from the San Diego Union Tribune was up at Pepperdine when Greg LeMond dropped the bomb on the Floyd Landis proceedings. He fills us in on all the dirt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blast from the Past - 1995 Interview with Lance Armstrong Part 2 Searching through old reel-to-reel tapes, we just discovered an interview with 24 year old Lance Armstrong from 1995. Ironically, Lance had been on hold that night waiting to come to the show while Steve Scott, America's premiere miler, was on with Bob promoting his Steve Scott Festival on Miles. Steve had recently been diagnosed with testicular cancer. When Lance came on, he spoke about how much he respected Steve Scott and hoped that Steve would be able to beat testicular cancer. Little d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of Lance Armstrong: 1996 Lance Armstrong has been a frequent guest. In this one from 1996, the discussion ranged from how he was dealing with cancer to how he would evaluate his career if he never raced again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Lampley Jim Lampley is one the true legends of broadcasting. Whether it's the Olympics or the most important prize fight on the planet, Lampley is the guy on the microphone. Did you know that he was the announcer back in 1980 when ABC Wide World of Sports covered the Ironman Triathlon for the very first time? Or that he was the guy calling Julie Moss' infamous crawl, Joan Benoit's Olympic Marathon win in 1984 or the first ever Race Across America? His stories from those events are classic! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Reed Matt Reed was born in New Zealand, grew up in Australia and now races triathlons for the US. At 6'5" and 180 pounds he is definitely always the biggest guy in any race he shows up at. But the 2006 Accenture Escape from Alcatraz Champion can positively fly, which is why he is on the short list of guys who could be on the starting line at the 2008 Olympic Triathlon in Beijing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blast from the Past :: Will Ferrell We found this classic interview from, we think, 2003 and just had to get it posted. Before he became a megastar, Will Ferrell was training for the Boston Marathon, where he ran a few minutes under four hours, and spending a few Sunday nights a year chatting with Bob and Paul. Will and his trainer Gary Kobat came on with us numerous times to chat about racing, training and movies. At the time of this interview Will was working on two films that were soon to become classics, Old School and An ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonathan Vaughters Jonathan Vaughters was a professional cyclist who basically quit his sport young, at the age of 30, partly because he was frustrated by the rampant drug use. Now Vaughters is running the Slipstream Cycling Team and accountability is the name of the game. His team will administer 1200 drug tests to their athletes this year alone and the media will be invited to training camps so that they can see that Team Slipstream is clean. He is out to change the culture of the sport of cycling by hopefu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Ashendon Dr. Michael Ashendon is a researcher from Australia whose main goal is to help eliminate blood doping from athletics. Obviously, he has been one busy guy. Bob and Paul spent nearly an hour with Dr. Ashendon to get his opinions on the evidence in the Floyd Landis and Tyler Hamilton cases. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michellie Jones It's not out of line to say that Michellie Jones is the greatest triathlete of all time. No one else has won two ITU World Championships, an Olympic Silver Medal as well as the Ford Ironman World Championship. We spoke with Michellie a few days after her huge win in Kona. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Bell Bill Bell is an 85 year old legend. The guy didn't get into the sport of triathlon until he was 59 and he has still finished 32 Ironman events. Remember, this is the guy who went on Conan O'Brian and said his motivating factor for being in the sport was chicks and beer. We LOVE Bill Bell! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg LeMond Floyd Landis is in court this week, fighting to prove his innocence from the 2006 Tour de France. Amongst those on the star-studded witness role is the one and only Greg LeMond. We had an opportunity to speak with the legend of cycling in August of last year, just after the charges again Floyd initially broke. Listen to his stance on doping, the tour and the champion in this exclusive interview. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Bailey David Bailey is a legend from the world of Motocross and Supercross. He was one of the first Motocross athletes to incorporate swimming, cycling and running into he training. When he was paralyzed during a practice session, Bailey was at the top of his game. From there his life took him a myriad of directions including three trips to the Ironman Triathlon where he went head-to-head with Navy Seal Carlos Moleda in the handcycle division in 1998, 1999 and 2000. All three races were classics. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ryan Hall Ryan Hall has had an amazing year, setting the half marathon American record in Houston (59:43) and running the fastest US debut marathon in London (2:08:24). But the guy was just warming up. On November 2nd he dropped the field at the US Olympic Marathon Trials in New York City, went 2:09:02 on a really tough course to win going away, and is now on his way to Beijing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Seacrest Michael Secrest has had an amazing career in endurance sports. His goal in his mid 20's was to qualify for the Boston Marathon, his first ever triathlon was the Ironman in Kona and then he stumbled on the sport of long distance cycling. He won the Race Across America in 1987 and set the record for the fastest solo crossing of the country in 1990 when he cycled from coast to coast in 7 days, 23 hours and 16 minutes. At the age of 54 he's still turning back the hands of time. On Saturday June ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chrissie Wellington So when we showed up in Kona for the 2007 Ford Ironman World Championship in October, the talk centered around Michellie Jones defending her title or Natascha Badmann coming back and winning number seven. Chrissie Wellington shocked the world in one of the biggest upsets in history when she won the title after completing-and winning- her first ever Ironman just seven weeks earlier in Korea. So who is Chrissie Wellington, the first British athlete to win the Ford Ironman World Championship? ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Allen He is the six time winner of the Ford Ironman and, if you have listened to our interviews with Peter Reid, Chris McCormack or Faris Al-Sultan, Mark Allen is also the guy the other top pros listen to the most. What does 'The Grip' think will happen in Kona on October 21st? Who does he feel has what it takes to win the greatest race on earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Bennett Aussie Greg Bennett, at the age of 35, is having the very best year of his life. How good? This summer he won The Lifetime Fitness Triathlon in Minneapolis, the Nautica New York City Triathlon, the Accenture Chicago Triathlon, The Kaiser Permanente LA Triathlon and the Toyota Triathlon in Dallas to take home, with bonuses, a cool $430,000. Bennett's insights into controversial coach Brett Sutton are pretty eye opening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris McCormack Chris McCormack has dreamed of winning the Ironman for twenty years. He dropped out in Kona twice, walked the marathon once and then finished sixth and second before FINALLY winning the Super Bowl of Triathlon on Saturday October 13, 2007. Listen in as Macca goes through the biggest day of his life!Congratulations Chris! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ryan Hall Ryan Hall from Big Bear, California didn't just break the US record at the Chevron Houston Half Marathon on Sunday January 14th, he shattered it. His first mile was 4:36 and the 24 year old picked up the pace from there going 59:43. He broke the existing US record by 1:12 and the Chevron Half Marathon record by 2:24. When you look for guys who could make our Olympic Marathon Team in November, Hall has to be right at the top of the list. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Allen Mark Allen is not only the six time Ironman champion with the best nickname in the sport-The Grip of Death- he is also the guy who understands the mental side of winning the Ironman better than anyone. He has consulted with Ironman champions Tim DeBoom and Peter Reid and helped Chris McCormack understand what he needs to do to win in Kona. The Grip is always an awesome interview and the discussion with Mark on his ten Nice championships is epic! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Brenneck Steve Brenneck is going to be 67 years old in November. So what the heck is the guy doing running on the San Diego City College Cross Country team? Steve, two of his teammates and their coach came in studio to share the amazing story of an old guy who is still kicking butt and leaving the young guns in the dust. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Sullivan Tom Sullivan was born blind, but that didn't stop him from becoming an actor, singer, composer... and athlete. He is an 18 handicap golfer, a skier, he was inducted into the Wrestling Hall of Fame and is Bob Babbitt's long time running and triathlon partner. His newest book, Adventures in Darkness, has been purchased by Paramount. Tom makes his living as a motivational speaker and his philosophy of life is that any negative can be turned into a positive. "I've never seen a water hazard," he ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Normann Stadler Normann Stadler is the two time Ironman World Champion in both 2004 & 2006, the Ironman bike course record holder and the guy who will be defending his title on October 13th in Kona, Hawaii. Normann was kind enough to came in studio to spend a full hour with Bob and Paul to go through his career from the early days to the war of words with second place finisher Chris McCormack after last year's Ironman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ned Overend The call Ned Overend 'The Lung.' At the age of 50, he has accomplished anything and everything in the world of endurance sports including completing the Ironman Triathlon in 1980, making the US team for road cycling, finishing second twice at the Pike's Peak Marathon, winning 6 NORBA National titles and two World Championships as a mountain biker, two XTERRA mountain bike triathlon world titles and now the 50-54 year old division at the Cyclocross Nationals. Ned took some time on Sunday nig ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andy Hampsten Andy Hampsten is one of the true legends of American cycling. We were jazzed to be able to spend some quality time chatting with the only American to win the Giro d'Italia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faris Al-Sultan Faris Al-Sultan is as old school as it gets. He races in a Speedo, goes off the front on the bike so that he can chase the lead helicopter, admits that he is not very bright when he's on the race course and that there is absolutely no love lost between himself and Aussie Chris McCormack. Faris certainly has been fast, though. For the past three years he has been third, first and third in Kona and he's the third German and first Muslim to win the Ford Ironman World Championship. Huddle and I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saul Raisin Saul Raisin's book is called Tour de Life and it is an amazing story of a young up and coming cyclist who, just like his hero Lance Armstrong, came back from a death sentence to once again get back on the bike. He won the Best Young Rider jersey at the Tour de Georgia, was ninth at the Tour of Germany and was getting ready for the Giro d'Italia when, on the afternoon of April 4, 2006, a bike crash changed Saul's life forever. If you have a 40 minute workout planned, listening to Saul Raisin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Walsh - Part 2 David Walsh's latest book 'From Lance to Landis' has sure caused just a little bit of controversy. Lance immediately slammed the book's content as old news and Walsh himself as a guy with his own agenda who was simply out to make money off of Lance's name. Lance also insisted that anyone who was interviewed for the book had a personal axe to grind with him and should not be believed. Bob and Paul spent over two hours interviewing David Walsh about his love of cycling, his history covering t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Everything you wanted to know about Paddleboarding For a little change of pace, the evening's topic was the a hot new sport called paddle boarding. In studio with Paul were Roch Frey, triathlete and born again paddle boarder, Brian Scymanski and Matt Friedman from North County Paddleboards. They interviewed 6-time Molokai to Oahu champion Jamie Mitchell, who went 4:48 for the 32 mile crossing this year, an amazing accomplishment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kenny Johnson Kenny Johnson played Detective Curtis "Lemondhead" Lemansky on THE SHIELD for five seasons. He came on with Bob to chat about acting, fitness and how the heck the producers break the news to you when they are going to blow up your character with a grenade during the last episode of the season. Fortunately, there is definitely life after THE SHIELD. Johnson has hooked up with another great show, SAVING GRACE, with Academy Award winner Holly Hunter playing Detective Ham Dewey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Betsy Andreu Betsy Andreu has been a lightening rod of controversy for the past few years. A primary source for David Walsh and his book entitled ‘From Lance to Landis’, the wife of former Lance Armstrong teammate Frankie Andreu has a lot of opinions on drugs and the sport of cycling. She watched on television as her husband lead the peloton up a beyond category climb during the 1999 Tour de France but instead of being excited, she was upset because she knew immediately that Frankie had gone to the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Antarctic Mike Bob took a few minutes to chat with Antarctic Mike Pierce, who was 51 hours into a 110 consecutive hour World Record attempt on the Spin Bike. There is a reason he is in the Knucklehead Hall of Fame! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Walsh David Walsh's latest book 'From Lance to Landis' has sure caused just a little bit of controversy. Lance immediately slammed the book's content as old news and Walsh himself as a guy with his own agenda who was simply out to make money off of Lance's name. Lance also insisted that anyone who was interviewed for the book had a personal axe to grind with him and should not be believed. Bob and Paul spent over two hours interviewing David Walsh about his love of cycling, his history covering t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jason Lester 12 year old Jason Lester was riding his bike when he was hit by a car traveling 80 miles per hour and thrown over 130 feet in the air. He lived, but his right arm was paralyzed. While he was going through rehabilitation, his 39 year old father suffered a heart attack and died and Jason ended up living with his grandmother. His salvation was sport. A 140 pound center on the football team, a .300 hitting outfielder and, eventually, a runner, duathlete and Ironman. His live story is being turn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Larsen Steve Larsen is an amazing athlete. He grew up in Davis, California where local boy Dave Scott was his hero. Greg LeMond set him up on his bike and began bike racing at the age of 13. Lance Armstrong, Bobby Julich and George Hincapie were guys he raced with and against. He competed in the Giro d'Italia twice, moved to mountain biking and won two NORBA National titles, won XTERRA events and blew everyone away in his first ever Ironman Triathlon in Lake Placid. If you've got a long workout pl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dave Scott Six time Ironman champion Dave Scott takes some time to look back at his first ever Ironman win, way back in 1980 on Oahu. Why the look back in time? Because Dave will be joining us in Oahu on August 9th and 10th for a Dave Scott Clinic and as well as for the fifth anniversary of Ironman Revisited on Sunday August 12th. The weekend benefits the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF). The event is limited to about 25 participants, we go back to the original Ironman course, bring our own suppor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Jame Elliot David James Elliot starred in the TV show 'JAG' and can now be seen on 'Close to Home.' His main love, though, is endurance sports. He has completed the Ironman in Hawaii and numerous marathons. A huge supporter of The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF), he soon will be attempting his first Accenture Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ryan Hall Ryan Hall has become America's hottest distance runner. He followed up his American Record at the half marathon (59:43) with a 2:08:24 in his first ever marathon in London. He came on with Bob to share his thoughts on running London with one of the greatest marathon fields ever assembled and actually leading the race. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Valerie Silk Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dean Karnazes Dean Karnazes, who completed 50 marathons in 50 days in 50 states, came on to update us on his newest challenge. Here's a hint. It has to do with running over 300 miles in Australia. Then on November 17th he'll be joining us at the first ever Catalina Eco-Marathon with his good buddy David Goggins, but they wanted to make the marathon a bit of a challenge, so they'll be KAYAKING about 26 miles from Long Beach to the start of the marathon and then running. Care to join him? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website George Stultz George Stultz is a trail runner, mountain biker and all around fitness fanatic. He also plays Kevin Kinkirk on the long running hit 7th Heaven. He also is lucky enough to star on the same show with his real life brother Geoff-the two play brothers on the show- and the two still share the same apartment in LA that they first moved into nine years ago. His stories on getting discovered and his first on screen kiss are hilarious. Definitely a guy who will be hearing more from in the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cameron Brown Cameron Brown of New Zealand is one of the most consistent performers in the sport of triathlon, but going into this year's Bonita Ironman New Zealand in Taupo, he was sick as a dog. He really didn't know if he would be able to get to the starting line until the day before the race. It's a good thing he did, because the race turned into one of the greatest one-on-one battles in Ironman history as Brown and Aussie Luke Bell raced side by side through a good portion of the marathon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Desiree Ficker Desiree Ficker is a woman on the rise. In October she surprised everyone when she took second place to Michellie Jones at the Ford Ironman World Championship in Kona. Then Desiree followed that up this winter with a 2:40:28 marathon in her adopted home town of Austin, which qualified her for the 2008 US Olympic Marathon Trials in Boston next April. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blast from the Past :: Michael Phelps Michael Phelps has been cleaning up at the World Swimming Championships. With his 5th gold, and 4th world record to date Phelps is untouchable it seems. We had a chance to interview this phenom in 2003, just before the Summer Olympics in Athens, and talked to Michael about his training, and what he's hoping for in the 2004 Olympics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blast from the Past :: Pat Tillman Pat Tillman gave up a lucrative career in the NFL to fight and die for his country in Afghanistan. During every off-season of his pro football career, Tillman would set a goal outside of football and go for it. One year he trained for and ran a marathon. The next year he set his sights on the Blackwater Eagleman Triathlon and came on air with Bob and Paul to chat about his plans for race day. You can hear his zest for life in his voice during this interview. Pat Tillman was a very special m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Josh Cox Josh Cox wasn't feeling well on LA Marathon day. He had been sick for most of the past two weeks. He led early, but the plan was to pull the pin between 18 and 20 miles if he could feel his body heading south. By mile 20 he was out of the race. What was he thinking about when the winner ended up walking away with $100,000 after running a 2:17? Let's just say he wasn't the happiest guy in town! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Davis Phinney Davis is one of our favorite guests on The Competitors. We were lucky enough to sit down with him to discuss his career, cycling, his family and of course the Tour of California, as we taped live on the final day of the Tour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris McCormack Chris McCormack. Love him or hate him, he is never afraid to say what's on his mind. On Sunday night January 28th he came in studio with Paul and Bob to chat about his life, his family, his career and his love for the sport of triathlon. Macca is always a can't miss interview. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Goggins David Goggins is an amazing athlete. At a chiseled 6'1" 195 pounds, this Navy Seal does not look like your typical endurance athlete. His first triathlon? The three day UltraMan in Kona which he did on a borrowed bike. To get ready for the race he took that borrowed bike and rode 300 miles per week for three weeks with absolutely no cycling background. He finished second. Earlier in the summer he decided to try the Badwater Ultramarathon. Next year his goals are Western States 100, Badwater ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lemond, Tinley, Molina :: Part 2 Scott Tinley has won the Ironman twice. Scott Molina was 'The Terminator' and dominated the sport throughout the 1980's Greg LeMond won the Tour de France three times. So what happens when you get all three endurance sports legends on air at the same time which is what happened back in the 1990's? Listen in and find out! Listen to part 1 of the interview on our website in our archive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lemond, Tinley, Molina :: Part 1 Scott Tinley has won the Ironman twice. Scott Molina was 'The Terminator' and dominated the sport throughout the 1980's Greg LeMond won the Tour de France three times. So what happens when you get all three endurance sports legends on air at the same time which is what happened back in the 1990's? Listen in and find out! Listen to part 2 of the interview on our website in our archive. We'll be podcasting part 2 next week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris McCormack Chris McCormack just had the race of his life in Kona, but he came up a little over a minute short to German super-star Normann Stadler. There is obviously no loved lost between the two. Listen in as Macca outlines his plan for redemption next year in Kona. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Danelle Ballengee Danelle Ballengee is without a doubt one of the greatest endurance athletes on the planet having won everything from Eco Challenge to Primal Quest to the Duathlete of the Year title. She also climbed all 55 14,000 peaks in Colorado in a little over 14 days, completed seven Ironman races, won the Catalina Marathon and won the Mt. Taylor Quadrathlon 10 times. So when she took a 60 foot fall in Moab a few weeks ago, shattered her pelvis, lost one third of her blood volume and was exposed to th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Howard Jacobs :: Attorney for Floyd Landis Howard Jacobs has become the go-to guy when athletes fail their drug tests. Marion Jones, Floyd Landis and Tyler Hamilton are a few of his higher profile clients. We have all heard how air-tight the drug testing is right now. Howard Jacobs gives us all the other side of the story. After listening to Jacobs, you really start to question the validity of the testing, especially in the case of Tour de France champion Floyd Landis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Blais Part 1 Jon "Blazeman" Blais is the only person with ALS-Lou Gehrig's Disease- to complete the Ironman Triathlon World Championship. The ALS Warrior Poet started out in the sport of triathlon as a teenager and never lost his love for it. He became a special education teacher in San Diego and created a special bond with the kids he worked with. He showed them through his example that you can accomplish anything you set your mind to. Blazeman was diagnosed with ALS on May 2, 2005 which, ironically, w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Blais Part 2 Jon "Blazeman" Blais is the only person with ALS-Lou Gehrig's Disease- to complete the Ironman Triathlon World Championship. The ALS Warrior Poet started out in the sport of triathlon as a teenager and never lost his love for it. He became a special education teacher in San Diego and created a special bond with the kids he worked with. He showed them through his example that you can accomplish anything you set your mind to. Blazeman was diagnosed with ALS on May 2, 2005 which, ironically, w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faris Al-Sultan Faris Al-Sultan is the 28 year old Iraqi-German who won the Ford Ironman World Championship in 2005 with the fourth fastest time in Ironman history (8:14:16). More importantly, he is a throwback to days gone by with his go-hard-from-the-gun style plus the fact that he's always sporting the scraggly beard, bandana and Speedo on race day. Al-Sultan has been training in Southern California to get ready to defend his title in Kona on October 21st and his thoughts on how the pros and age grouper ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Mac Larsen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dean Karnazes Is there a more amazing accomplishment than running 50 marathons in 50 days in 50 states? For Dean Karnazes, the Northface 50/50/50 was only a mere cocktail weenie compared to what he is doing right now. After finishing up the 50/50/50 gig in New York on November 5th-he was about one minute behind Lance Armstrong that day- the guy decided to RUN home to San Francisco and is averaging 50 miles a day. Bob and Paul caught up to Dean on Sunday night December 10th while he was in Indiana. Beside ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Samantha McGlone Samantha McGlone of Canada has had an awesome year. Not only did she win the Disney 70.3 race and Wildflower in the spring, she also won the first ever Ford Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Clearwater, Florida on November 11th. Her presence on the starting line will definitely change the dynamics of the 2007 Ford Ironman World Championship in Kona next October. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Reid Among his ten Ironman wins, Peter Reid won the Ford Ironman World Championship three times. Among his nine finishes in Kona, he had three wins, three seconds, one third and two fourths. As he approached his 37th birthday, he could feel that it was time to hang up his racing bike and retire from the sport. In this interview from Sunday night September 17th, Peter talks candidly about his battles with Tim DeBoom and Luc Van Lierde in Kona, his respect from Thomas Hellriegel, what he learned f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blast from the Past :: Paula Newby Frasier Paula Newby-Fraser has won the Ironman eight times and knows what it takes to win that race. During this candid interview, Paula talks about working with Olympic Silver Medalist Michellie Jones as Jones made the transition from short course star to Ironman wanna-be. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Products we like :: The Inka Pen The Inka Pen, the first show in our new series, is a pen separate from the pack... With it's o-ring sealed ends, titamium casing, and ability to write upside - down, the Inka pen is a must-have tool! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blast from the Past :: Dave Scott Part 2 Dave Scott will always be known as Mr. October and 'The Man.' When it came time to head to Kona, it didn't matter what Dave Scott had done during the season. He would up the ante when it came Ironman time. In this interview from 2001, Dave talks about trying to get ready to the do the Ironman one more time at the age of 47. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blast from the Past :: Dave Scott Part 1 Dave Scott won his first Ironman title way back in 1980 and, 14 years later, took second to Greg Welch when he was 40 years old. In early 2006 Dave took time out to talk about the trends he has seen in training over the years, the changes he has seen in Kona as well as the attributes of one of the athletes he was coaching, Simon Lessing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blast from the Past :: Greg Welch Greg Welch is a member of the Ironman Hall of Fame, the 1994 Ironman Champion and a multiple world champion in duathlon and triathlon. If he had been on the starting line at the first ever Olympic triathlon in 2000 in his hometown of Sydney, Australia, there is little doubt he would have medaled. But, because of a serious heart issue that has led to over 70 hours of surgery, Welch was forced to retire prematurely from the port that he loved so much. This interview takes us from his breakthr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blast from the Past - 1995 Interview with Lance Armstrong Part 1 Searching through old reel-to-reel tapes, we just discovered an interview with 24 year old Lance Armstrong from 1995. Ironically, Lance had been on hold that night waiting to come to the show while Steve Scott, America's premiere miler, was on with Bob promoting his Steve Scott Festival on Miles. Steve had recently been diagnosed with testicular cancer. When Lance came on, he spoke about how much he respected Steve Scott and hoped that Steve would be able to beat testicular cancer. Little d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blast from the Past - Michellie Jones and Chris McCormack Back in 2002, we had a chance to chat with the Silver Medalist from the first ever Olympic Triathlon, Michellie Jones, and fellow Australian Chris McCormack after their 7th and 4th respective wins at Escape from Alcatraz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Roll Bob Roll is 'the man' when it comes to the Tour de France. What are his opinions on Floyd Landis' situation? Was Floyd's ride during stage 17 really that amazing? How does Floyd's positive drug test impact the sport of cycling and the Tour de France? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Zeigler Mark Zeigler was a young reporter in 1988 for the San Diego Union Tribune experiencing his first ever Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea. All of the other reporters were out in the field when it was announced that Canadian Ben Johnson had tested positive after beating Carl Lewis at 100 meters and his medal would be stripped from him. Mark Zeigler was immediately thrown into the fire and handled his first drugs- in -sports case. He is now considered one the very best when it comes to this topic, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hunter Kemper He started his triathlon career with the IronKids Series and has never looked back. Hunter Kemper is the number one ranked triathlete in the world right now and has represented the U.S. on both the 2000 and 2004 Olympic teams. On July 15th he had the biggest win of his life when he took home a prize package worth $200,000-$170,000 in cash plus a new Toyota- at the Life Time Fitness Triathlon. Is a third Olympic team on the horizon? How will $200,000 change his life? Check the site out on Mo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Dugard Martin Dugard has been covering the Tour de France for Competitor Magazine going back to Lance's first win in 1999. This year his twice a day blogs from France were a must-read for all cycling fans. Sunday night July 23rd Marty came on live with the boys from Paris to go through Floyd Landis' awesome Tour de France victory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Legends of Cycling: Alexi Grewall Alexi Grewal came to the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles as a complete wild card. Yes, he was on the U.S. cycling team for the road race in Mission Viejo, but since he had had no contact with Coach Eddie B. or any of the other members of the team in the months leading up to the games, he was really racing for himself. In this candid interview he admits that Davis Phinney was the strongest guy out there that day, but Alexi had a few tricks up his sleeve to put himself in the very best position ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Legends of Cycling: Davis Phinney part 3 Right after Lance won his seventh Tour de France, legendary cyclist Davis Phinney came on air to chat about Lance, about just making the stage cut-off time, about Team 7- Eleven's half day in yellow and Bob Roll the cyclist and about his fight with Parkinson's Disease. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Legends of Cycling: Davis Phinney part 2 February 2003 Davis Phinney came in studio after being at the Competitor Magazine Endurance Sports Awards Gala the night before to accept the Cycling Legend Award for his lovely wife Connie Carpenter Phinney. The entire 1984 Olympic cycling team had been in da house to honor their coach Eddie B. Davis had some great stories to share from his career and from the 1984 Olympic Road Race, which he was favored to win. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Legends of Cycling: Ron Kiefel When it came time to win the race, Davis Phinney knew Ron Kiefel's wheel was the one he needed to hook on to. Phinney was the best closer because Ron Kiefel was the very best at getting him in position to dominate. During this interview Kiefel talks about the 7-Eleven years at the Tour de France and why he and Phinney worked so well together for so long. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blast from the Past: Rod Dixon Rod Dixon is one of our all time favorite interviews. The Kiwi Legend won a bronze medal at 1500 meters in 1972 and 11 years later won the New York City Marathon by running down long time rival Geoff Smith in the last quarter mile. His stories on Pre, Henry Rono and John Walker are classic! 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