Talbot - thank you for the daily kona videos. You are making so much for the sport...true inspiration!!! You are legend. MUCHAS GRACIAS, UN ABRAZO AMIGO
Sometimes the apple, sometimes the core....you got this Lionel! Great analysis of your performance....your the professor of Triathlon! You make Canada proud!!!!🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
13:00 - I’m liking what I am hearing at this point of this video. It sounds like you are going to use the ‘disciplined and patient’ approach that put you on the podium at St George earlier this year. In my view - hopefully - a repeat of this approach will see you repeat what you achieved in 2017 at Kona and at St George earlier this year. Unlike 2017, you should even finish as strongly as you did in St George.
Lionel! I feel this on every level, I had two super hot races this summer where I’m pretty sure I was borderline heat exhaustion (shivering/chills) while running. Hearing your struggle and the realities of hot weather racing gives me so much motivation for next year. Thank you for this. Cheering for you in kona 🇨🇦
Lionel, I've lived in Texas the past 25 years, but when I saw that there was a heat advisory on race day, I didn't hesitate to withdraw. Never mess with Texas heat and humidity.
Thank you so much for sharing so openly your experiences. I love it when you crush it. I appreciate your perspective when it goes wrong. I grew up in Tempe cycling and have lived in Dallas the last 20 years doing triathlon. There are definitely different types of heat. Dew point/humidity/heat index are far more important than temperature in terms of impact to the body’s heat regulation systems. Please make sure to calculate those data points into your learning.
I was so expecting this video; I cheer for you on that race on the channels; saw you suffering but warrior face and tell to myself, this is how you never give up no matters how but you end what you started. Tank you for that lesson; giving up is no an option. A bad day many times makes you better!!!
Lionel your such an inspiration I would follow you no matter how well you performed just due to two things, your work ethic and your transparency I’m 67 raised 4 successful children watched my wife suffer for 12 years and pass from cancer so take it from me like you giving up is not an option. You will be a wonderful parent. You don’t need luck in Kona you have everyone’s admiration.
Great, by himself as always, told chapter about Lionels journey again! Best time to recalibrate for the heat. I guess the thing to ask for, is the right power output on the bike, maybe its a bit too huge in some moments, BUT you will know it better by yourself! In the end Kona is all about the run. GO FOR IT! And - like always - thanks for sharing! :-)
Fully understood the Dallas issue. Let's focus on the next one. Lionel, I'll watch Kona IM exactly until you cross the finish line, no matter if you are in front or last place. Even in the best case, this will be deep, deep in the night here in Germany. So I'm gonna "destroy" my weekend in a way. However you give so much inspiration for the upcoming 52 weeks, so I assume this is a good investment for me personally. Keep up your spirit. 💪
Loved watching you race in Dallas in person, regardless. Missed my flight waiting for you to finish, lol, actually, just my bad planning. I love geeking out on data and really appreciate how you do the same! All the best for Kona, wish I were there.
Lionel you have a real champion mindset!! We never doubted you and you should never doubt yourself, take the lesson and run with it! Good luck at Kona!
Lionel and Paula way under performed in Dallas. Shocking that Canadians would struggle in the heat? 😂 Would love to see how a cool spring race would tip the scales for some of these athletes.
Where you grew up has some effect to your body’s adaptation efficiency. Moreover, one of the theories that Lionel referenced but didn’t spell out is that there is a difference in be acclimated to dry heat vs humidity. It’s quite different and he was obviously pretty ignorant to it, maybe even arrogant about living in Tucson.
I raced at the same venue in April for the multisport nationals. Absolutely died on the course and underperformed. Keeping grinding LS, the education is in the lessons! 👍🏽
U the Best Man!! I want to see You win kona Even more than yourself haha.. such an inspiration how You are so clear to tell everything. Big fan from Argentina. Crush it
Fire keeps burning in you!!! Good luck in Kona, hope you will reach your threshold and at least feel you did your true best, no matter if you win or not.. It’s really important to translate performance from trainings to races, having this happening regularly will boost up your confidence in training and your team. I look forward for this milestone and seeing you on the top spot! 🎉😊
As a person that trains in Houston and Colorado. Dry latitude kills heat adaptation. Also track dewpoint rather than %humidity. Dewpoint should be your skin temp on the bike. hunt shade. Also about altitude I agree with all the data points you shared, but I have a different conclusion. For me altitude is a good shock to the cardio system. And a way to push lactic threshold. It is bad for power, and form. Personally 2 weeks and over is too long. But that's just me a guy without a lactate meter.
As soon as I heard on the vid "heat wont be a factor" I was like nooo Lionel dont jinx it lol. Gotta respect Lionel's dedication to these videos, its must be insanely hard to come in to races with this huge reputation, huge expectations and then have a bad day and then have to go and sit there and explain it to 1000s of people.
Lionel - I live and train in Dallas - I dont compete professionally because I chose to focus on my career. However, what I can tell you from years and years of training here through summer months is that whatever the air temp is, adjust your goals as if it were 10-15 degrees hotter than the air temp readings.. The reason for this, and especially here in texas is that you have to factor in the heat absorption rate from direct sunlight.. In the direct sunlight, the sunlight radiation itself will make the conditions even hotter than what the air temp is registering.. So adjust all goals for it to be 10-15 degreease hotter than air temp.. Now if it were an overcast day, with tons of shade, sure base the goals on a direct air temp/humidity reading.. but if its direct sunlight for the entirety of the race, even in the swim, you will be absorbing sunlight radiation which will translate to more heat on top of the air temp heat..
Bruh, I live in the DFW metroplex, have been tri training through all this heat, including doing some longer runs in the triple digit heat and 60%+ humidity and it still kicks my @$$. When the temps dropped below 90* my run times legit dropped 1.5min/mile and my bike endurance skyrocketed. Good luck with Kona brotha!
So good to hear your experience been training with core temperature meter for last month to get data on what happens when overheating and what my nutrition and salt and fluids can do to regulate or not and you just need to reduce output to get lower heart rate. For me the differences nearly 15 beats more when working in heat and core above 38.3 vs below that. See you in Kona racing on Thursday so able to come and watch on Saturday best of luck on preparations you got this No limits ok yes there are but deal with them wisely and get the core data during the bike as when it climbs it keeps climbing so adjust early to stay in control joris
The heat can be a challenge, but as you say you only know what you know. It was good that you did Dallas and found out that you need to know more there, then you have a bit of time to learn some more before Kona. Good luck!
I love it how you stopped yourself before talking about walking on the run. Especially given what you said at the start of the video and not tempting fate. Did make me laugh 😂
So many negative comments! Bad races happen . . . end of story. You are on the road with a new coach and training approach with (the best team going - Erin, Mikal, Justin [swim coach], and all of your sponsors)! You don’t almost win Kona and finish 2nd for no reason . . . you train hard, have loads of talent and everyone knows you go to the deep end whilst competing pushing yourself to places all the haters have no clue about! 99% of people will not experience what you experience. Anyone who is a real supporter of you Lionel understands that you will prepare yourself over these days prior to Kona (clearly gathering data to use this year and beyond) and toe the line doing the best you can! You’ll get the result, go home to Tucson, keep training and enjoying the life you and Erin have created in triathlon and at home and then welcome a baby into the world in the coming months! Then we’ll see an even better Lionel next year in 2023! Eliud Kipchoge just ran 2:01:09 at 37 yrs of age . . . you got time! Support in Victoria, BC CANADA!
The thing is, Lionel has raced well in Kona with a 2nd; I wonder if it was low humidity that day! Maybe opting for a more ventilated helmet might help, like Crowie has done before; just a thought.
I know nothing so take this for what it’s worth. I’m not great with heat either but I find using my trainer in my gym with no fan is the hottest/most humid thing I can do to adapt. I do this for my tail end of my last overtraining block before hot races. (Ie for 2 weeks prior to taper for indoor trainer bike rides only). I find running outside in heat isn’t as good as this. I just accept that to make the power numbers in my workout under these harder conditions I have to take some breaks, but I push through. This is what helps me adapt to heat / humidity.
What I don't get is that sure Lionel may have needed to learn this about the heat and which power to push and so on, but why didn't his coach tell him about it beforehand? The conditions didn't appear all of a sudden as the gun went off. Good luck for Kona though, all the best!
I live and train everyday in it, south Louisiana, heat and humidity zap the life out you. I even forget sometimes as I find myself struggling with disappointment regarding my training sessions. Hope you can find works for you, best of luck!!
There's a formula that fire fighters use. It's in Celcius. For every degree over 21, your heart rate will rise 1.5% for the same activity. So if you could perform a task at 100bpm at room temperature, once you're crawling around a floor in a burning house, which is around 60c. You're heart rate should be around 159bpm. You also can't hyper ventilate. You can have a vo2 max, but what's your lungs abilities to shed CO2 and lactase emissions? You've discovered the realm of fire fitness. I hope this helped guide you to the rabbit hole. The Swedes have a Uni degree in it..
No one works harder, is more dedicated and loves the sport, than LS. This is your year, go get that shit. A lot of people forget you were runner up at world champs this year. Go get it! No limits!
Rebecca Rush says about racing in the altitude of Leadville..."if you train with power and HR at sea level, you need to start paying attention to perceived exertion during training because the power and HR numbers at altitude won't work". Maybe the focus on all the metrics, independent of the environmental conditions, is problematic. Maybe starting to pay attention to PE at the expected metrics and recording that would help you modulate the effort in more challenging environmental conditions.
Sounds like you have a plan - looking forward to seeing how that pans out. 🤞Either way, you might have to accept high LOE in the heat isn’t your thing - hopefully there’s a fix. I’ve felt / shared your pain after some races - definitely think you should invest in some scientific lab testing under heat conditions. You might find a solution but you might not. Best of luck for Kona!💪👍🏻
I was in Dallas for the age group race on Sunday and was cheering for you. I was also in Kona in 2016. My strategy then and now is to mitigate the heat with ice on the chest. A pair of toddler panty hose works great. Tie the legs together, fill with ice in T2, wrap around neck, tuck in the suit. Hope this helps. Be safe.
I think that's the thing with hot conditions. You need to know how to lower your threshold. But I'm not sure how to do that dynamically since if you push regular power you're already in the red and it's too late. Maybe in a hot race ride a pace 2k at the start at an easy power to get a benchmark. Do the math and ramp to race pace after having done that. Same for the run.
I was gutted to see how tough Dallas was for you. But seeing this, in a very selfish way, I’m glad I’m not the only athlete that this happens to. I had a breakout race, best bike leg of my damn life, at a small local race in early July-only to get my ass absolutely handed to me at Age-Group Nationals in Milwaukee. Missed my goal of sub-2 hours by less than a minute, and I’m 120% sure it was because of a lack of adequate heat acclimation. It’s…not *encouraging,* per se, but at least *reassuring* to know that the pros, the best of the best, sometimes have the same struggles, and it really IS encouraging to know that there’s something we can do about it-that we can learn to beat the conditions more than they beat us.
Do your best forget the rest! Time to get out of your head and grind this race with everything you got and when you're breaking, think about your kid and grind some more.
For me, "racing" is only against myself and to finish.. but heat (especially with humidity) zaps me physically and mentally.. and wonder if I could even drink/absorb enough to keep up. I also agree with the comment about Collin.. I mean how does someone finish that race in that heat and barely look like he worked up a sweat???
Holistically, you are the best male Tri athlete in the world. Hands down. Thank you for sharing ALL you share and I hope you keep doing it for a long time and maybe one day get you to coach us. Go crush Kona.
No Limits! Maybe the PTO and Ironman could introduce the Core sensor as a requirement across the field in night temp races. You’ll hopefully not see anyone lying down for a delirium induced sleep mid race.
Yes you live in Tuscan but a lot of your training seems to be indoors so you wouldn’t be getting heat acclimated as well as if you were training all outside right?
Hey Lionel - if Kona is the main goal from here on out in your career, would you consider moving to Kona (or somewhere equally hot and humid) to dial in that nutrition etc???
Good luck Lionel, I hope you can race Kona at 100% of your ability! For me it's strange that you should suffer that much from the heat, as you seem to be sweating profusely, so as long as you're replacing the fluids & electrolytes, I would have thought you'd be OK... Maybe it was just a bad day at the office? Good luck anyway!
Lionel Sanders if you ever read this comment please answer me, where do you get that drive from to keep pushing forward and neglecting all the shit and all the losses? is it your past still haunting you or what?
Talbot - thank you for the daily kona videos. You are making so much for the sport...true inspiration!!! You are legend. MUCHAS GRACIAS, UN ABRAZO AMIGO
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This video hits differently considering the recent news with Collin.
Sometimes the apple, sometimes the core....you got this Lionel! Great analysis of your performance....your the professor of Triathlon! You make Canada proud!!!!🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
"Sometimes the apple, sometimes the core" I have never heard this before, what does that mean?
13:00 - I’m liking what I am hearing at this point of this video. It sounds like you are going to use the ‘disciplined and patient’ approach that put you on the podium at St George earlier this year. In my view - hopefully - a repeat of this approach will see you repeat what you achieved in 2017 at Kona and at St George earlier this year. Unlike 2017, you should even finish as strongly as you did in St George.
Love what you’re doing, LS. You’re an inspiration. Your candor, vulnerability and your pursuit of knowledge is remarkable. Thank you for sharing.
Lionel! I feel this on every level, I had two super hot races this summer where I’m pretty sure I was borderline heat exhaustion (shivering/chills) while running. Hearing your struggle and the realities of hot weather racing gives me so much motivation for next year. Thank you for this. Cheering for you in kona 🇨🇦
Why would you be even remotely similar to an elite athlete?
Lionel, I've lived in Texas the past 25 years, but when I saw that there was a heat advisory on race day, I didn't hesitate to withdraw. Never mess with Texas heat and humidity.
Rooting for u Lionel! such humility and total dedication! truly an inspiration!
It is amazing how some people can perform great in extreme heat / cold weather. Best wishes for your next race.
Thank you so much for sharing so openly your experiences. I love it when you crush it. I appreciate your perspective when it goes wrong. I grew up in Tempe cycling and have lived in Dallas the last 20 years doing triathlon. There are definitely different types of heat. Dew point/humidity/heat index are far more important than temperature in terms of impact to the body’s heat regulation systems. Please make sure to calculate those data points into your learning.
Weird to watch this, and the praise of Collin, with the knowledge of how he decided to achieve his goals.
Awesome video. I appreciate your candor and hunger for knowledge about your physiology and performance. Have an enlightening camp and an awesome race!
WE LOVE YOU LIONEL KEEP LEARNING AND GROWING EVERY DAY AND EVERY RACE!!
I was so expecting this video; I cheer for you on that race on the channels; saw you suffering but warrior face and tell to myself, this is how you never give up no matters how but you end what you started.
Tank you for that lesson; giving up is no an option.
A bad day many times makes you better!!!
You’ve been on an amazing run the past year. Glad to hear that you aren’t taking one bad race too hard. Now you know what to do for Kona!
nicest open thoughts post race, that's what we are waiting for every race, GO LS!
Lionel your such an inspiration I would follow you no matter how well you performed just due to two things, your work ethic and your transparency I’m 67 raised 4 successful children watched my wife suffer for 12 years and pass from cancer so take it from me like you giving up is not an option. You will be a wonderful parent. You don’t need luck in Kona you have everyone’s admiration.
How lucky we are to have Mr no Limits sharing his journey and experience. KONA Baby you got this!!
Wow that closing shot was so good!! Go Lionel!!!
Great, by himself as always, told chapter about Lionels journey again! Best time to recalibrate for the heat. I guess the thing to ask for, is the right power output on the bike, maybe its a bit too huge in some moments, BUT you will know it better by yourself! In the end Kona is all about the run. GO FOR IT! And - like always - thanks for sharing! :-)
Fully understood the Dallas issue. Let's focus on the next one.
Lionel, I'll watch Kona IM exactly until you cross the finish line, no matter if you are in front or last place. Even in the best case, this will be deep, deep in the night here in Germany. So I'm gonna "destroy" my weekend in a way. However you give so much inspiration for the upcoming 52 weeks, so I assume this is a good investment for me personally. Keep up your spirit. 💪
Loved watching you race in Dallas in person, regardless. Missed my flight waiting for you to finish, lol, actually, just my bad planning. I love geeking out on data and really appreciate how you do the same! All the best for Kona, wish I were there.
super excited for the VLOGs !!! 🤩
To me that's what effort looks like..... Go Lionel, your the man!
Lionel you have a real champion mindset!! We never doubted you and you should never doubt yourself, take the lesson and run with it! Good luck at Kona!
Lionel and Paula way under performed in Dallas. Shocking that Canadians would struggle in the heat? 😂 Would love to see how a cool spring race would tip the scales for some of these athletes.
Neither of them lives in Canada though
Where you grew up has some effect to your body’s adaptation efficiency. Moreover, one of the theories that Lionel referenced but didn’t spell out is that there is a difference in be acclimated to dry heat vs humidity. It’s quite different and he was obviously pretty ignorant to it, maybe even arrogant about living in Tucson.
@@drym3943 humans are no longer exposed to evolutionary pressure. Unless his "Canadian" ancestors are native Inuit, this plays no role.
Uberbiker staying at home of uberbiker, how appropriate!
he lives in the desert in Tucson. doesn't quite have close to the humidity of texas but it is still very hot where he lives
I raced at the same venue in April for the multisport nationals. Absolutely died on the course and underperformed.
Keeping grinding LS, the education is in the lessons! 👍🏽
Lionel, you are the Rocky Balboa of triathlon. No matter how often you fail you will stand up once more! Keep that spirit. That's why we love you.
You’ve got this Lionel. Amazing information and self analysis. We love you x
Legendary as always and great insight. Thanks Lionel.
great video and love the attitude. Can't wait for race day.
Lionel back in Kona! Let’s go champ!
U the Best Man!! I want to see You win kona Even more than yourself haha.. such an inspiration how You are so clear to tell everything. Big fan from Argentina. Crush it
Well done Lionel very interesting stuff mate.. will be good to see you back on top 👍
Always learning and inspiring! LFG 🔥. (Btw, daily kona vlogs?? Heck yeah! 😁)
Lionel you will rock at Kona 💪
Fire keeps burning in you!!! Good luck in Kona, hope you will reach your threshold and at least feel you did your true best, no matter if you win or not.. It’s really important to translate performance from trainings to races, having this happening regularly will boost up your confidence in training and your team. I look forward for this milestone and seeing you on the top spot! 🎉😊
Looking forward to the vlogs 🎉
As a person that trains in Houston and Colorado. Dry latitude kills heat adaptation. Also track dewpoint rather than %humidity. Dewpoint should be your skin temp on the bike. hunt shade. Also about altitude I agree with all the data points you shared, but I have a different conclusion. For me altitude is a good shock to the cardio system. And a way to push lactic threshold. It is bad for power, and form. Personally 2 weeks and over is too long. But that's just me a guy without a lactate meter.
You’re going to figure it out and take over the heat 🔥🔥
As soon as I heard on the vid "heat wont be a factor" I was like nooo Lionel dont jinx it lol. Gotta respect Lionel's dedication to these videos, its must be insanely hard to come in to races with this huge reputation, huge expectations and then have a bad day and then have to go and sit there and explain it to 1000s of people.
I totally understand the frustration… but I have a long way to go for 3’57” on a good day. Just shows what kind of beast you are! 😳
Love the passion and there it was!!!! Yes, glad ur there, kick ass!!!
Talbot... Superb job as always. Lionel.. you are a very interesting guy! I am a fan forever
Lionel - I live and train in Dallas - I dont compete professionally because I chose to focus on my career. However, what I can tell you from years and years of training here through summer months is that whatever the air temp is, adjust your goals as if it were 10-15 degrees hotter than the air temp readings..
The reason for this, and especially here in texas is that you have to factor in the heat absorption rate from direct sunlight.. In the direct sunlight, the sunlight radiation itself will make the conditions even hotter than what the air temp is registering.. So adjust all goals for it to be 10-15 degreease hotter than air temp..
Now if it were an overcast day, with tons of shade, sure base the goals on a direct air temp/humidity reading.. but if its direct sunlight for the entirety of the race, even in the swim, you will be absorbing sunlight radiation which will translate to more heat on top of the air temp heat..
You guys will figure it out, can’t wait for the nerdy videos. Give me all the daily vlogs!
You got this Lionel!
Bruh, I live in the DFW metroplex, have been tri training through all this heat, including doing some longer runs in the triple digit heat and 60%+ humidity and it still kicks my @$$. When the temps dropped below 90* my run times legit dropped 1.5min/mile and my bike endurance skyrocketed. Good luck with Kona brotha!
Your mind is definitely strong, Lionel. Good luck!
You got this Lionel! Can’t wait to watch you dominate
So good to hear your experience been training with core temperature meter for last month to get data on what happens when overheating and what my nutrition and salt and fluids can do to regulate or not and you just need to reduce output to get lower heart rate. For me the differences nearly 15 beats more when working in heat and core above 38.3 vs below that. See you in Kona racing on Thursday so able to come and watch on Saturday best of luck on preparations you got this No limits ok yes there are but deal with them wisely and get the core data during the bike as when it climbs it keeps climbing so adjust early to stay in control joris
The heat can be a challenge, but as you say you only know what you know.
It was good that you did Dallas and found out that you need to know more there, then you have a bit of time to learn some more before Kona.
Good luck!
I love it how you stopped yourself before talking about walking on the run. Especially given what you said at the start of the video and not tempting fate. Did make me laugh 😂
Best of luck champ !!! Keep going man
No limits! Keep grinding
Hooray for daily vlogs...let the kona countdown begin! 😄🎉
You never really know how the body will respond. Dew point got me one year. It’s good you went to Kona early. This will help your body adjust
So many negative comments! Bad races happen . . . end of story. You are on the road with a new coach and training approach with (the best team going - Erin, Mikal, Justin [swim coach], and all of your sponsors)! You don’t almost win Kona and finish 2nd for no reason . . . you train hard, have loads of talent and everyone knows you go to the deep end whilst competing pushing yourself to places all the haters have no clue about! 99% of people will not experience what you experience.
Anyone who is a real supporter of you Lionel understands that you will prepare yourself over these days prior to Kona (clearly gathering data to use this year and beyond) and toe the line doing the best you can! You’ll get the result, go home to Tucson, keep training and enjoying the life you and Erin have created in triathlon and at home and then welcome a baby into the world in the coming months! Then we’ll see an even better Lionel next year in 2023! Eliud Kipchoge just ran 2:01:09 at 37 yrs of age . . . you got time! Support in Victoria, BC CANADA!
Sounds like a solid plan ahead, you’ll do great!
The thing is, Lionel has raced well in Kona with a 2nd; I wonder if it was low humidity that day! Maybe opting for a more ventilated helmet might help, like Crowie has done before; just a thought.
Can’t wait for the daily’s, rooting for you big guy
I love listening to this dude self-destruct
You are amazing & such a talented & stellar athlete......thank you for all you do & best of luck in Kona.....you will beat the heat!!! Cheers!
I know nothing so take this for what it’s worth. I’m not great with heat either but I find using my trainer in my gym with no fan is the hottest/most humid thing I can do to adapt. I do this for my tail end of my last overtraining block before hot races. (Ie for 2 weeks prior to taper for indoor trainer bike rides only). I find running outside in heat isn’t as good as this. I just accept that to make the power numbers in my workout under these harder conditions I have to take some breaks, but I push through. This is what helps me adapt to heat / humidity.
What I don't get is that sure Lionel may have needed to learn this about the heat and which power to push and so on, but why didn't his coach tell him about it beforehand? The conditions didn't appear all of a sudden as the gun went off.
Good luck for Kona though, all the best!
I live and train everyday in it, south Louisiana, heat and humidity zap the life out you. I even forget sometimes as I find myself struggling with disappointment regarding my training sessions. Hope you can find works for you, best of luck!!
Vlogs are taking us to school Lionel! We should call you the scientist! Get ‘R Dun Captain Canada!!! Keep smiling!
I love your green running shirt (singlet). Where can I buy?! 🤩
There's a formula that fire fighters use.
It's in Celcius. For every degree over 21, your heart rate will rise 1.5% for the same activity.
So if you could perform a task at 100bpm at room temperature, once you're crawling around a floor in a burning house, which is around 60c. You're heart rate should be around 159bpm.
You also can't hyper ventilate. You can have a vo2 max, but what's your lungs abilities to shed CO2 and lactase emissions? You've discovered the realm of fire fitness. I hope this helped guide you to the rabbit hole. The Swedes have a Uni degree in it..
No one works harder, is more dedicated and loves the sport, than LS. This is your year, go get that shit. A lot of people forget you were runner up at world champs this year. Go get it! No limits!
Love the Eric Lagerstrom vibe at the end.
Heat is humility, and heat and effort aren’t linear. Keep it up!!
I can't believe that he almost decoded to not go to Kona. Here I was thinking that his focus was Kona and he just used Dallas as a training day.
I thought the same at first.
Oh Lionel i wish u the best race that u ever had in Kona. I will see u on the podium💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Hilarious. Best content on triathlon by far. Lionel is THE BEST
Come to Austin, Tx and you can train in the heat and humidity 8 months out of the year! 😂
Rebecca Rush says about racing in the altitude of Leadville..."if you train with power and HR at sea level, you need to start paying attention to perceived exertion during training because the power and HR numbers at altitude won't work". Maybe the focus on all the metrics, independent of the environmental conditions, is problematic. Maybe starting to pay attention to PE at the expected metrics and recording that would help you modulate the effort in more challenging environmental conditions.
Sounds like you have a plan - looking forward to seeing how that pans out. 🤞Either way, you might have to accept high LOE in the heat isn’t your thing - hopefully there’s a fix. I’ve felt / shared your pain after some races - definitely think you should invest in some scientific lab testing under heat conditions. You might find a solution but you might not. Best of luck for Kona!💪👍🏻
Your weight all good bro? You look more ripped that normal. You are an inspiration!
I was in Dallas for the age group race on Sunday and was cheering for you. I was also in Kona in 2016. My strategy then and now is to mitigate the heat with ice on the chest. A pair of toddler panty hose works great. Tie the legs together, fill with ice in T2, wrap around neck, tuck in the suit.
Hope this helps. Be safe.
I think that's the thing with hot conditions. You need to know how to lower your threshold. But I'm not sure how to do that dynamically since if you push regular power you're already in the red and it's too late. Maybe in a hot race ride a pace 2k at the start at an easy power to get a benchmark. Do the math and ramp to race pace after having done that. Same for the run.
Great insight!
Such an inspiration.
I was gutted to see how tough Dallas was for you. But seeing this, in a very selfish way, I’m glad I’m not the only athlete that this happens to. I had a breakout race, best bike leg of my damn life, at a small local race in early July-only to get my ass absolutely handed to me at Age-Group Nationals in Milwaukee. Missed my goal of sub-2 hours by less than a minute, and I’m 120% sure it was because of a lack of adequate heat acclimation. It’s…not *encouraging,* per se, but at least *reassuring* to know that the pros, the best of the best, sometimes have the same struggles, and it really IS encouraging to know that there’s something we can do about it-that we can learn to beat the conditions more than they beat us.
Congrats on the new tooth! 😂 Good luck in Kona
Thanks!
Do your best forget the rest! Time to get out of your head and grind this race with everything you got and when you're breaking, think about your kid and grind some more.
Being real with yourself is one of the most humble things you can do.
For me, "racing" is only against myself and to finish.. but heat (especially with humidity) zaps me physically and mentally.. and wonder if I could even drink/absorb enough to keep up. I also agree with the comment about Collin.. I mean how does someone finish that race in that heat and barely look like he worked up a sweat???
I’m going to go into arm chair bike fitter mode: his saddle really does look too high.
Holistically, you are the best male Tri athlete in the world. Hands down. Thank you for sharing ALL you share and I hope you keep doing it for a long time and maybe one day get you to coach us. Go crush Kona.
No Limits! Maybe the PTO and Ironman could introduce the Core sensor as a requirement across the field in night temp races. You’ll hopefully not see anyone lying down for a delirium induced sleep mid race.
looking forward to the daily vlogs
Yes you live in Tuscan but a lot of your training seems to be indoors so you wouldn’t be getting heat acclimated as well as if you were training all outside right?
Hey Lionel - if Kona is the main goal from here on out in your career, would you consider moving to Kona (or somewhere equally hot and humid) to dial in that nutrition etc???
been waiting on this for a week!
You had me at daily vlogs
Good luck Lionel, I hope you can race Kona at 100% of your ability! For me it's strange that you should suffer that much from the heat, as you seem to be sweating profusely, so as long as you're replacing the fluids & electrolytes, I would have thought you'd be OK... Maybe it was just a bad day at the office? Good luck anyway!
Lionel Sanders if you ever read this comment please answer me, where do you get that drive from to keep pushing forward and neglecting all the shit and all the losses? is it your past still haunting you or what?
Dont be mad Lionel, you cant always shine like a star