If you make it to the end and understand what’s going on you get a lifetime sub
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I love the podcast, if anything I want it to be longer
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You would literally die. haha I just did a quick search of the youtube transcript and in last week’s pod there were 972 instances of the word ‘like’. Now this doesn’t account for correct usages such as “I like coffee” or “thing X is like thing Y”. But just by quickly scrolling there were a decent amount of “When someone has like one bad workout”.
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Yes, thanks for confirming, I’m surprised it didn’t break the 1k mark! I found it so frustrating I couldn’t listen any more.
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I gotta be honest, I used to love it, now I barely make it past the announcements before leaving. I don’t listen live anymore, I wait for it to be published, scan the topics, decide I’m not interested in any of them and leave. I know you can’t go on forever repeating the same stuff but maybe it’s had its day.
Must be a bit of a chore for the staff too, 30 minutes is all it needs nowadays I think.
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Ditto, used to be religious about listerning to it, not bothered for a while, did listern to AI one, but that was just an advertisment
Not too long IMO. Perfect for those 2h rides.
Also appreciate the effort to diversify by adding the “science of getting faster” and “successful athletes” variants. That’s an example of responding to the sentiment of this thread’s topic.
The science of getting faster has a lot of potential.
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I think currently there is a simple problem of content generation as nothing is going on - no races, no challenges, apparently a lot to do inside the company and number of topics you can touch is finite. There is also a problem of maturity of the audience - the more you know, the less you are interested in “simple truth” that was so appealing in the beginning. (Great example for me is GCN - when I started to be remotely interested with cycling it was great to watch, currently I usually cannot stand a single episode).
The science of getting fast looked very interesting and the idea is great. I think in the long run TR will need bigger names from time to time to attract mature audience. At the moment That Triathlon Show is awesome in this as there are great guests from different backgrounds and the spectrum of topics is quite broad.
There is also the “conflict of interest” between being a company and runnig a podcast (in terms of promoting and not diminishing the product).
I would love to see some format like “training methodologies battle” where people with different philosophies would argue about training - I know there would be not any conclusions what is better but it would be quite entertaining and probably everybody would find something for himself.
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I don’t mind the length of the podcast, or that the hosts use a lot of filler words, or even that they cover the same topics over and over (maybe consistency in messaging is as important as consistency in your training?).
The thing that has me listening less is that the thing I like most about the show isn’t there any more. For a couple hundred episodes you had the core TR guys chatting about their training or their racing. Then Amber came in as a regular last year and fit right in. The chemistry among the hosts is pretty good and they all seemed to be having a pretty good time.
Lately we’ve seen rotating hosts and (it seems) a lot more interviews. Maybe a lot of people like that, but it’s not why I listen. I’d mostly like to see the show get back to a more consistent slate of hosts. Maybe I’m being too hard on them, and the combined lack of racing and general pandemic fatigue is getting to the fine folks at TR, just like it’s getting to me. I hope things will settle down when everybody has their vaccine (and more AT bugs get worked out).
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Hard Disagree on it being done. Can always choose to listen less.
As mentioned above, the change recently has been the decrease in banter as races and training opportunities have been lessened.
Once Cape Epic starts drawing nearer I think it’ll return to it’s entertaining self. Not to mention Jonathan racing in Canada in the stage race and his training for Nationals.
Even once training starts ramping up and they can do some more pre Epic group ramp tests.
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