Joe popped up on my Instagram last night (probably because I watched his EP review?!), did his local 10 in 19:39 on 405w.
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I know we all joke, and he might be overly childish/laddish for some at times, but isnāt it refreshing that there is at least one elite athlete who isnāt a robot, and not just that, isnāt afraid to share his failures as well as his āI smashed 800 watts with a HR of 95ā type posts. It does help its a fringe sport within a fringe sport but even so.
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Impressive riding!
Yes, I can imagine a lot of pro endurance athletes are very āboringā. I think itās a combination of a lot of time training alone and the general personality type thatās either inherent or developed.
I would probably fall into the category of āsociable lonerā
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I was watching the Brad Wiggins āA Year in Yellowā last night.
Mrs W was asked what is Bradley like?
She said he is two peopleā¦ā¦.father and husband fantastic, cyclist is single minded, stubborn unsociable ā¦ā¦.which might mean incredibly focussedā¦ā¦but I donāt think she meant it in a positive way.
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probably why they are no longer together.
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Surely the case for many successful type A people. It all comes at a cost.
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Fully agree. I really like the guy. Did you see the accidental hand shake video from his last Ironman win. Heās been on Instagram laughing at himself about it over the last few days. Top bloke 
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He would have appealed to me and my mates in my mid twenties - if heās been around then I might have got into tri ten years earlier.
I watch or listen to most of their content and follow his racing.
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Listened to Triathlon Mockery on my run today. FFS his life is a soap opera.
It didnāt have my full attention as large parts of the run I ran the risk of going AOT 
but heās been taken to court for not paying his endless pool fitter & BTF are saying they wonāt be giving him a reference for his pro licence unless he coughs up some moneyā¦he says USA Triathlon here he comes 
He explains & justifies his actions much better on his podcast & I really should go back & listen properly.
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That Endless Pool sounded like the consummate money pit.
Should be called āEndless Expenditureā
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Heās in absolute agreement with you there. He reckons it would be cheaper to hire a 911 to go to a pool rather than buy & heat oneā¦& his neighbours wouldnāt hate him 
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He only got one because Lionel has one.
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If thereās one person who I was going to copy to improve my swimming ability, I think Iād choose someone else 
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Think i mentioned before but on my HPCP i met another coach, this was 2018, who had put one in his āboutiqueā gym he owned. Pool cost 50k as he had treadmill in it and all the cameras. He said he barely broke even on monthly costs as it cost Ā£300 a month in electric. This was indoors and before Vlad stitched us up. I could easily see it being a grand now, especially outdoors. Good coaching tool but youd have to be coaching a lot of people for a lot of time to get that investment to start turning a profit. Im guessing chemicals and cleaning isnt cheap either
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Sounds niche 
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He was in the news recentlyā¦ Was loosing his memory, migraines and stuff
Has to rest and canāt compete for remainder of the season
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They should do a Netflix series on him, thereās always some new calamity around the corner FFS
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Good tool for runners recovering from some injuries.
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Alistair Brownlee had one in his garage for lockdowns but by the look of his and Ruth Astleās Insta, it has gone.
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The endless Pool sounds a right sack of shittt & the company he bought from also sounds like the locals arent that happy with it either.
what amazes me WTF are BTF FXXKing thinking ,don,t think hes the first or last to have issues with elite āathletesā
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