I sat down with my BONT team-mate Diogo after the Arena Geisingen International and had a chat about a little bit of everything. Diogo is multiple World & European Championships medalist and an allround cool guy.

Listen to Diogo talking about the optimal relaxed mindset, reflecting on his progression the last few years, getting more professional with training, his first encounter with ice marathon skating and his future goals the next few years.

#1 - Diogo Marreiros

During a rainy weekend at the Gross-Gerau Kriterium, I fled in cover at my old team-mates Simon Albrecht's house to sit down with him and my other long-time buddy Etienne Ramali. In this podcast I talk with these two German sprinters about their time growing up, stories about specializing towards sprint and their general outlook on how they made it this far. I hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as I did recording it. 

Special spontanesus appearance: Ron Pucklitzsch ! (and Simon's mom...)

#2 - Simon Albrecht & Etienne Ramali

Former skater and National coach of The Netherlands (Frank Fiers) and multiple-times World Champion and current Coach (Pascal Briand) sat down with me in Geisingen to talk about the good 'ol days and the life as a coach. They look back on how skating has changed as a sport and highlight some of the things they think are the most important when it comes to training and coaching speed skaters. I hope you enjoy and learn something from this episode! :)

#3 - Pascal Briand & Frank Fiers

Jota Bolaños is Ecuadorian World Champion Inline Speed Skater and a friend of mine since quite some years. I've skated together with him on the Maple Skate Team and I've lived together with him for 3 months in Colombia. First time I notice him skate, was in the break-away on the marathon at my 1st World Championship in Guarne, Colombia 2010, when I was just 15 years old and he was a young senior skater. He did not become World Champion that year, but it's something he's achieved since then and he is still hungry for more. Listen to the conversation i had with him about his background, training in Ecuador/Colombia and how he keeps up his motivation and set goals. Hope you enjoy listening.

Stefan Due