How to make the swim portion more exiting? Do like in cyclocross; add hurdles to climb over! Floating bounce castle! Oh, the possibilities are not exactly endless, but they're there
This is really good. May I suggest a simple cheap massive upgrade to your audio for 2025 would be addition of rug & blankets for sound absorption to reduce reverb in the studio for 2025. Congrats on fatherhood, Merry Christmas & happy New Year!
If the PTO races were team-orientated, in a similar way to cycling, it could be more exciting. You can draft within your team, attack solo (Pogacar-esque), or sneakily decide to have a domestique attack for your team to burn other teams' matches. The only requirement was that everyone in the team has to finish within a certain time limit, or placing, of the first person across the line for the result to count.
I agree with both Ollie and Mark regarding the courses now being largely dull (especially the bike). One of my favourite memories of Alastair Brownlee was his win at the 2013 WTS Kitzbuehel, which in my opinion today's courses need to be more like to add a different dimension to Triathlon.
For 2025 I would like to see GTN visiting more "grass root" Tris. Sprint and Olympic tris. I know you did a a few, but there is first so much fun to be had, and 2nd maybe you get maybe more new guys into the sport and maybe able to follow them. I remember for example the Bike fit episodes, and the transition episodes with Belinda. These were great. But to see these ppls doing their first Tris is very entertaining.
Draft legal with time bonus's for koms would be awesome. Time bonus's on the run would be awesome too. Might neutralise the swim a bit more too for the non child swimmers in the pro field. Imagine a 2min time bonus for a KOM when you are in second. That would make for such good racing. More people would blow up. It would be great racing
I know you have done many shows on beginning swimming, but for selfish reason, I would love to see a swimming segment on swimming/improving swimming with an inherent disadvantage. For me, the two that apply is asthma while swimming. I can run and bike forever, but I spend too much of the swim on my back trying to get breath. Also, poor shoulder mobility. As my range of motion has improved I’ve noticed much of my poor swim technique has to do with my shoulders holding me back leading to poor glide, poor rotation, weird recovery, etc.
22:35 “We are going to create a short of that without context”. Ollie was so in it that he didn’t catch the joke 😂 +1 vote for that short, starting at 22:30!
How about making some of the bike courses a bit hillier with some proper climbs? This might produce some exciting racing moments and larger gaps forming.
And even to go a step further. I thought bikes could have white in the rear of the bike and black on the front. Like a Crookes radiometer. White repels light and black absorbs it. I know its not much, but they are always looking for any little help. May make a slight difference over a 100 miles
A draft legal long distance tri would definitely spice things up. Can the swimmers make a pack and stay away? Can the poor swimmers pack swamp them up and make it a running race?
I would like GTN do to some content on larger age group athletes and ways to help them train for a triathlon. I know this is a sport for extremely fit people but there are larger people out there that do this sport and I feel this is never ever really covered because it would seem that is not promoting the sport in a good way. You have covered older people in triathlon but I feel it would be nice for you to acknowledge that the larger community is out there and doing races like ironman
Deep dive story suggestion, older athletes coming back from major injury requiring surgery. Things to think about and how to do it. I’m just coming back from a hip replacement. Making progress. DM me if you want to know more for background and thoughts on things to cover.
I remember texting lionel sanders this about colors. Back when should have won, kona. He was wearing black in his early races. He never responded. It's not a surprise.
Merry Christmas GTN/GCN! Mark got an early pressie by running with Kilian Jornet. He’s a massive fan, in case you didn’t know! 😋 To the presenters, if you could do a a video with your sporting hero, a) who would it be? b) why? c) What would do in the video?
Thanks GTN for your efforts - fab progression of coverage my thoughts No to drafting - it should just be enforced more effectively - you in essence remove the use of TT bikes / time bonuses are interesting I think the swim is entertaining.. in the men’s there is switching and some seriously fast times and as someone who races I think it’s about people understanding the true level you have to be at to do these times. T100 has been great - I think they have needed to settle the races and organisation has been really hard / the pro differences / the effect on the pros going from standard to t100 to middle distance to Ironman makes sense and most age groupers really enjoyed the distance and way you were treated through the race. Whilst protein news gave the suggestion Ironman world champs was incomparable this may be true, Ironman has had more time, the brand is worse and the number of people at the world champs is relatively vs total age groupers. Overall t100 is keeping Ironman honest and that is brilliant. I hope challenge gains support from athletes given lower cost and the races often are more enjoyable than Ironman branded middle distance races which can at times feel like you’re in a procession and not respected. Ideas; perhaps other awesome races either triathlon or trail runs or gravel or athletes from other sports and their mentality or experiences through a race. Gcn and gtn team work across a race (collab with pro Tri news?) Eg Dan Lloyd is doing (yup Dan, it’s locked 😂) a charity ride over something like 300 miles (roughly) - they could do that as a group
T-100 Boring & Boiling venues - It's synthetic racing cooked up in some made for TV lab🙄 They Hijacked the Escape from Alcatraz event which provided the best Men's finish of the year. San Francisco as they call it is not listed on the 2025 schedule. Instead they are going back to the same boring and not friendly to bike venues. Kona, Nice & Taupo were epic in 2024. T100 cannot compete with Ironman Pro Series venues. They were much better in places like Edmonton but they have now defaulted to places that are heat survival tests vs athletic competition. There are so many beautiful and natural courses around the world yet T100 can't find them.🤔
it's a shame our sport looks so hideous from the outside... the bikes, the helmets, the kit... marginal gains, I know but we're all looking like clowns. I agree, drafting should be legal and there should be extra points on the course. A proper technical trail run to finish it off would also be more interesting to watch.
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Thanks for watching GTN through 2024 and pushing us towards 1 million subscribers! What was your favourite GTN video this year?
The freezing cold water swim challenge and all of Mark's other crazy challenges! Can't wait to see what 2025 has in store.
My favorite was the retro softride bike with the vintage helmet and get up.
Need to do something like that again!
Nice to see a gtn - gcn colab… and to see ollie talk about triathlon ✌️
How to make the swim portion more exiting? Do like in cyclocross; add hurdles to climb over! Floating bounce castle! Oh, the possibilities are not exactly endless, but they're there
Have thoroughly enjoyed the content this year...keep up the amazing work! Merry Christmas to all.
Exciting year! It would be nice to see more content about women training topic both in GTN and GCN in 2025!
This is really good. May I suggest a simple cheap massive upgrade to your audio for 2025 would be addition of rug & blankets for sound absorption to reduce reverb in the studio for 2025. Congrats on fatherhood, Merry Christmas & happy New Year!
Would be great to have Fraser back once in a while! He was so much fun! Great presenter!
The most cheerful I've seen Ollie in weeks.
Great to have Ollie on the show !
If the PTO races were team-orientated, in a similar way to cycling, it could be more exciting. You can draft within your team, attack solo (Pogacar-esque), or sneakily decide to have a domestique attack for your team to burn other teams' matches. The only requirement was that everyone in the team has to finish within a certain time limit, or placing, of the first person across the line for the result to count.
Ollie's totally got it - make drafting legal and encourage some in-race competition!
Amazing uploads thank you GTN!
I agree with both Ollie and Mark regarding the courses now being largely dull (especially the bike). One of my favourite memories of Alastair Brownlee was his win at the 2013 WTS Kitzbuehel, which in my opinion today's courses need to be more like to add a different dimension to Triathlon.
Love the primes idea!
Nice one - cheers guys!
Getting back to running after serious illness,e.g., heart problems and cancer, would be an interesting story
For 2025 I would like to see GTN visiting more "grass root" Tris. Sprint and Olympic tris. I know you did a a few, but there is first so much fun to be had, and 2nd maybe you get maybe more new guys into the sport and maybe able to follow them. I remember for example the Bike fit episodes, and the transition episodes with Belinda. These were great. But to see these ppls doing their first Tris is very entertaining.
Famed runner, Ollie Bridgewood. 🙂
Yay Ollie!!!!
I wish they’d add Channel Crossing to the GCN membership lineup. I really want to watch that again.
I’d absolutely watch a Bridgewood Series!
Draft legal with time bonus's for koms would be awesome. Time bonus's on the run would be awesome too. Might neutralise the swim a bit more too for the non child swimmers in the pro field. Imagine a 2min time bonus for a KOM when you are in second. That would make for such good racing. More people would blow up. It would be great racing
I know you have done many shows on beginning swimming, but for selfish reason, I would love to see a swimming segment on swimming/improving swimming with an inherent disadvantage. For me, the two that apply is asthma while swimming. I can run and bike forever, but I spend too much of the swim on my back trying to get breath. Also, poor shoulder mobility. As my range of motion has improved I’ve noticed much of my poor swim technique has to do with my shoulders holding me back leading to poor glide, poor rotation, weird recovery, etc.
Different goofy challenges (cheap shoes, pink trisuit, etc.) were the best!!
James story was epic. The gtn hat that he was wearing. I liked also
The bike should definitely get some changes. I like the suggestions. Merry christmas.
22:35 “We are going to create a short of that without context”. Ollie was so in it that he didn’t catch the joke 😂
+1 vote for that short, starting at 22:30!
A video I would definitely like to see is Hank from GCN doing an Ironman like he said he was going to on GTN Show episode 55.
Nice! Ollie is my fav presenter😅
How about making some of the bike courses a bit hillier with some proper climbs? This might produce some exciting racing moments and larger gaps forming.
And even to go a step further. I thought bikes could have white in the rear of the bike and black on the front. Like a Crookes radiometer. White repels light and black absorbs it. I know its not much, but they are always looking for any little help. May make a slight difference over a 100 miles
A draft legal long distance tri would definitely spice things up. Can the swimmers make a pack and stay away? Can the poor swimmers pack swamp them up and make it a running race?
If you want exciting races, look back to the Tooheys Blue Series in Australia. Fantastic formats and thrilling athletes.
I would like GTN do to some content on larger age group athletes and ways to help them train for a triathlon. I know this is a sport for extremely fit people but there are larger people out there that do this sport and I feel this is never ever really covered because it would seem that is not promoting the sport in a good way. You have covered older people in triathlon but I feel it would be nice for you to acknowledge that the larger community is out there and doing races like ironman
Deep dive story suggestion, older athletes coming back from major injury requiring surgery. Things to think about and how to do it. I’m just coming back from a hip replacement. Making progress. DM me if you want to know more for background and thoughts on things to cover.
I remember texting lionel sanders this about colors. Back when should have won, kona. He was wearing black in his early races. He never responded. It's not a surprise.
Merry Christmas GTN/GCN!
Mark got an early pressie by running with Kilian Jornet. He’s a massive fan, in case you didn’t know! 😋
To the presenters, if you could do a a video with your sporting hero,
a) who would it be?
b) why?
c) What would do in the video?
So much effort went into losing the belly, only to discover it's actually quite aerodynamic.
Thanks GTN for your efforts - fab progression of coverage
my thoughts
No to drafting - it should just be enforced more effectively - you in essence remove the use of TT bikes / time bonuses are interesting
I think the swim is entertaining.. in the men’s there is switching and some seriously fast times and as someone who races I think it’s about people understanding the true level you have to be at to do these times.
T100 has been great - I think they have needed to settle the races and organisation has been really hard / the pro differences / the effect on the pros going from standard to t100 to middle distance to Ironman makes sense and most age groupers really enjoyed the distance and way you were treated through the race. Whilst protein news gave the suggestion Ironman world champs was incomparable this may be true, Ironman has had more time, the brand is worse and the number of people at the world champs is relatively vs total age groupers.
Overall t100 is keeping Ironman honest and that is brilliant. I hope challenge gains support from athletes given lower cost and the races often are more enjoyable than Ironman branded middle distance races which can at times feel like you’re in a procession and not respected.
Ideas; perhaps other awesome races either triathlon or trail runs or gravel or athletes from other sports and their mentality or experiences through a race. Gcn and gtn team work across a race (collab with pro Tri news?)
Eg Dan Lloyd is doing (yup Dan, it’s locked 😂) a charity ride over something like 300 miles (roughly) - they could do that as a group
T-100 Boring & Boiling venues - It's synthetic racing cooked up in some made for TV lab🙄 They Hijacked the Escape from Alcatraz event which provided the best Men's finish of the year. San Francisco as they call it is not listed on the 2025 schedule. Instead they are going back to the same boring and not friendly to bike venues. Kona, Nice & Taupo were epic in 2024. T100 cannot compete with Ironman Pro Series venues. They were much better in places like Edmonton but they have now defaulted to places that are heat survival tests vs athletic competition. There are so many beautiful and natural courses around the world yet T100 can't find them.🤔
excitement? has Ollie watched superleague?
it's a shame our sport looks so hideous from the outside... the bikes, the helmets, the kit... marginal gains, I know but we're all looking like clowns.
I agree, drafting should be legal and there should be extra points on the course. A proper technical trail run to finish it off would also be more interesting to watch.