In episode 178, Max chats with Olympic Swimmer Mack Horton! Mack takes us through the standoff, Rio, and making himself nervous to energy! All this and much more in episode 178 of Sporting Max!
www.instagram.com/sportingmax.podcast/

Episode 178 - With Olympic Swimmer Mack Horton

Join me for news and tons of tips and tricks as we crank out big mileage swimming, biking, and running during the latest cold spell ending in SNOW!
Shownotes:
Garmin introducing passcode lock on some devices.
Drew Dillman is moving to Lauf bikes!
Why titanium is probably the best frame material for gravel.
Downtube storage... all upsides and no downsides?
Chat GPT knows who Zen and the Art of Endurance is!
Our town is moving up. We got an REI!
Will our Trek store work out? How I use it.
Green smoothies make you feel young.
Laughing at Backyard Ultra videos by people that think they know what will happen.
Ultra events are defined by you having to let go of knowing.
Your car is literally a time machine.  It shrinks time getting from point A to B.
Diet Coke is both healthy and unhealthy and that's OK.  
Analog watches are making a comeback. YES!
Check out the "Captain Willard" Seiko from Apocalypse Now.
We are overmonitoring our body metrics. Simplify if you can.
Why drying out your swimsuit rightside out is critical after every swim. 
"When you reach the end, that's when Zen begins."
The whole point is to go past what you know, then you can learn.
You can train for ultra by doing an ultra.
How you treat the people at the aid stations after you've bonked shows who you really are.
And knowing who you really are creates the confidence you need in life to be truly happy.
The "I'm not X right now" trick.
Coming to terms with men wearing pajama bottoms in public.
You swim faster when relaxed and in "rest and digest" mode.
Planning out huge gravel ride while running with River.
Pool will be closed for incoming snowstorm, so planning out biking and running instead.
You can strap a bike light to your watch for a flashlight like the Garmin Fenix 8.
Phil Gaimon liked my EPO tweet!
Using the electronic bike pump and pissing off the neighbors.
10 mile run with River in freezing temps.
Gravel ride was great until it wasn't when guts when bad. Weird!
Cold weather ultra running tips!
 

ZenEndurance 723 - Cool Runnings

Find More Music @ https:/bit.ly/m/mrtalkofny

Swimming MrTalkofNY

Swimming (jex)

From Palm Beach to Cronulla, Mount Druitt to Bondi, Sydney is a city made for swimming. 

Over a calendar year, lifelong swimmer, educator and writer Chris Baker swam at iconic beaches, municipal pools, harbour baths, tidal rock pools, bushland lakes and a backyard pool,

In this episode of Gleetalks, he talks to curator and broadcaster Michaela Kalowksi about his book Swimming Sydney: A Tale of 52 Swims, a valentine to the beautiful obsession of swimming in the world’s most beautiful city, and how storytelling is the best way to navigate life’s emotional currents.

Gleetalks Chris Baker Swimming Sydney

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558488625163
https://www.instagram.com/anabasis_kolektiv/

Kona Anabazen Live 21 9 2024

Hey! this is my remix of the Mac Miller track 'small worlds' it is an energetic tech house remix, hope you like it :)

I just wanna ball [Mac Miller-Small worlds(CALC!UM REMIX)]

THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy.

'Nigel Slater’s prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with heart, tenderness, yearning and humour' ELIZABETH DAY 

 For years, Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman’s hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna Konditorei.

These are the small moments, events and happenings that gave pleasure before they disappeared. Miso soup for breakfast, packing a suitcase for a trip and watching a butterfly settle on a carpet, hiding in plain sight. He gives short stories of feasts such as a mango eaten in monsoon rain or a dish of restorative macaroni cheese and homes in on the scent of freshly picked sweet peas and the sound of water breathing at night in Japan.

This funny and sharply observed collection of the good bits of life, often things that pass many of us by, is utter joy from beginning to end.

‘I loved this. It is a secular book of hours – thoughts and pleasures beautifully cadenced and generously placed’ Edmund de Waal

‘﻿Nigel Slater has a magical capacity to find beauty in the smallest moments. A nourishing, sustaining book’ Olivia Laing

‘His evocative, uplifting observations are a balm for life: a prose-poem for eaters and a spiritual companion for thoughtful cooks. A true and enduring joy’ Nigella Lawson

‘You can’t always feel buoyant and grateful but noticing – and getting pleasure from – the seemingly insignificant is a good way to live. As he says, feel the “small moments of joy”’ Diana Henry

A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy … A Memoir of Sorts, By Nigel Slater, Read by Nigel Slater

This week’s guest is Rachel Zilinskas, currently a professional triathlete, who swam at the Univ of Georgia, a six-time national champion swimmer who was part of Team USA.

Blessed2Play - 2025-02-02 - Rachel Zilinskas

Experiment: Letting things take as long as they take.
Walking Zoey in the ice.
"Time crunched athlete" sucks.  Figure things out and take back your time!
Mindfully doing things, like a Japanese Tea Ceremony.
If you have to come in to work, check to see if your CEO is at his/her desk too. ;)
Driving in the snow to work!  (Rarity in Texas)
Getting old sucks, but...
Dream car - Toyota Land Cruiser (for the adventure offroad)
Creating buffers around your time also protects yourself from yourself.
Taking time to pause and think when leaving the house so you don't forget things.
Visualizing your next workout, so you don't forget things and also mentally get started on it.
I like exploring, hence why I like gravel biking and 4x4 vehicles.
Thoughts on older Toyota Land Cruiser vs. modern 4x4 American truck with AWD.
Slow living isn't just about protecting yourself from others, it's about protecting yourself from yourself!
Doing fewer things, but doing them better. So you have to decide what's most important.
Asking yourself who are you doing this for.  You or somebody else?
"Jeffing".
So mindful, so demure.  ;)
Slowing down helps you to stop forgetting things for your workouts, especially gear and accessories.
Some good responses when people push back against you slowing down.
Daily reminders to walk slowly and don't talk to much in conversations at work.
How I learned to walk slowly all the way back in high school from a powerful Senior.
Learning confidence through Marine Corps military school, Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, nightclub bouncer, boxing...  You don't need to "be Alpha" when you already have been through stuff and know yourself and your limitations and the limitations of others.
Walking meditation is cooooooool.  How to do it.
Being slow has a calming effect on others.
Went swimming after it was 19 degrees Fahrenheit outside. Cut it short due to starting to get hypothermia.
There was room on that door! (Titanic).
Taking the time to put things in the right place at the right time.
Exercise is the foundation block that should be "non-negotiable"
I let people pass me on the road so they aren't putting pressure on me to drive faster than I want.
You want to get where working out is a habit that is harder to NOT do.
"Rest and Digest" IS the state of Zen Flow.
Habits where you don't have to think that much keep you in "Rest and Digest" mode.
Stoicism is just being tough for being's sake.
Gen X stories are true.
I pee before driving anywhere so I can enjoy the drive.
Do hard things on purpose when it's easy.
Could Native shoes be the solution for wet feet getting to work after swimming?
The art of keeping your shoes from stinking by showering in them and letting the soap help out.
Fenix 8 has flashlight AND voice memos!
Taking bike to the shop, drinking an Athletic Brewing Co. non-alcoholic IPA.  Pretty good!
Why diving watches make for great sports watches - the rotating timing bezel.
We have hit "peak smartwatch" and now people want to go back to basics.
Training totals for the week and CTL.
I broke my chainring!  Must be all the powah.  
Advancements in show making.
Typical things to use diving timer bezel for besides working out.

ZenEndurance 724 - Snow Day like Tomorrow

Gleetalks is a series of some of the most interesting and popular conversations from Sydney’s finest literary events program at Sydney's best loved bookshop. Go to our events page to discover even more fascinating discussions featuring some of Australia and the world's most interesting people!

🌗.       Big Drift🌗🌗🌗🌫️lil synth 
   🌓🌓🌓🌓🌓🌓🌓
  💿📀💿📀📀💿💿📀📀

Publishers of award-winning fiction and non-fiction audiobooks for adults and children. Listen to exclusive clips from our books and free audioook extracts here on Soundcloud.

Our host Max Becker takes us on the journey of the lives of sporting stars, their careers, struggles, growing up and of course a few laughs along the way!

New tracks tagged #Swimming