Thank you buddy, appreciate you watching & supporting! I’m looking forward to showcasing another amazing season in 2025 🚀

Here’s the profile for the bike course: 112.4 Miles | 165ft Peak | 1,696ft Elevation | 4.6% Steepest Climb - 1/4 Mile Long. Here in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 we have a lot of hills. So, IRONMAN Estonia 🇪🇪 isn’t too bad tbh with you. Are you thinking about doing it?

That’s the one!! 😅🤣

No, I had Tredz put a MucOff tubeless set up in my wheels.

Simply making the pull hip dominant.

Thank you for your feedback Karen. I’m really glad you enjoyed the video & hope you continue to enjoy more as they’re uploaded. I’ve been competing in Ironman for 8+ years now and the funny thing regarding your comment is that the only time I’ve been hit by a car was when I was in full Hi-visibility gear, with lights on my bike (front & back) & helmet. I appreciate what you’re saying but there are lots more elements in play when it comes to road awareness & safety. Stay safe & I wish you a merry Christmas 🎄

No. That doesn’t tend to happen because they’ve already spent the money on water safety & other expenses.

Hi Freddie, I hope you’re ok! Merry Christmas 🎄

Yes indeed, Ironman 70.3 World Championship - Taupō, New Zealand 🇳🇿 It was incredible there!

Thank you very much! I hope you continue to enjoy my future content. Merry Christmas 🎄

No connection? Could you please elaborate? Thank you.

Gotta love Jacob's Ladder!! Well done, keep up the great work.

Which one do you take?

@@RecoveryLabTV The brand name was called "Progressive". Im sure many of them are good but this one was one that was available and fairly high quality. There's regular vege which is still good and then there a vege mix with more fruit supplementation in it that helps a lot with energy metabolism. If your diet is absolutely perfect all the time you mau not need this... but I've never met anyone with a perfect diet.

@@RecoveryLabTV Energy is one reason I take it but I also take it for gut health as well... no more belly aches... painful #2s, etc...

@@Sun-ic7rq thank you buddy, I will check it out!!

Thank you so much for your reply Benjamin! Truly appreciate your openness and honesty. Sometimes it’s nice to know that you’re not the only one going through these experiences and emotions. For me, I find it a hard but necessary time. You need the down time to process everything you’ve experienced throughout the year so that you’re able to learn and grown from them but also the break in habit, lack of routine, lack of reward / dopamine, etc can make it incredibly hard. Plus I find the extra time can often be filled with over thinking which sometimes isn’t the best. I’ve also noticed and started to question recently, “am I programming” myself for these feelings and setting myself up for this endless cycle ♻️ and should I look to reframe this period of the year in a more positive light, giving myself other tasks to focus on which may help both my overall growth and me cope a little better with this period of the year. Does that make sense?! Sorry to ask, but what’s your experiences with ADHD medications & antidepressants? Have you found them beneficial? Personally I have had bad experiences with medications as a child. I was young when I was diagnosed and didn’t like taking them because they made me feel different & was quite often pinned down and forced to take them, which often made me feel even worse, dirty and violated almost. Leading me to learn other ways to deal with & control my ADHD. I tend to set a lot of environmental controls that tend to influence my behaviour & mood. But it’s hard at times. People don’t really see the amount of work & energy that goes into it all… But, we keep trying & move forward as best as we can! Hope you’re having a great day! ☀️

You can download it off the official Ironman 70.3 Swansea website, look under the course section. If not let me know and I can send it to you!

Aw thank you very much! Really appreciate your kindness. What event's are you currently training for? Maybe I could create some more content to help you with your race season, if that helps...

Thank you buddy, really appreciate your kind comments. Most definitely the calm before the storm. I always find those moments incredibly interesting from a psychological perspective, it’s always interesting to see how people react and what systems they’ve developed and put in place in order to micromanage their stress levels, anxiety etc.

Thank you 🙏🏼 Yes it was!! How did you find it? I hope you had the race you hoped for…

@@RecoveryLabTVit was our first time running it and we'd say it's one of the best events we've ever run 🎉 definitely up there with some of the big ones and we both pb'ed 🙌 can't get better than that

@@raleyadventures That’s incredible, huge congratulations 🙌🏼 Well done with the PB 👏🏼 Which other ones have you completed? Are you local to Cardiff?

@@RecoveryLabTV we have done countless amounts of races, it must be said 😅😂 we are Midlands based but try to go to as many new races as possible ☺️

@@raleyadventures sounds like a perfect way to do life! Keep up the amazing work & keep having as many adventures as possible!! 😉

@@geraintthomas7869 thank you so much for your support as always my friend!! Sooo good to see you the other day, I hope you’ve had a lovely day 🤗

@@jameswestgate416 incredible isn’t it!! Soooo good! Hope to see you there sometime soon 🤙🏼

I was just in Tenby, lovely place. 4 time ironman here, ROTH is nr 1 by far.

@@willemhaifetz-chen1588 well done buddy! Great job 👏🏼 I haven’t had the pleasure of ROTH but it’s definitely on the “to-do list” 😅 Which others have you completed?

@@RecoveryLabTV Frankfurt, Zurich and Roth twice. 5th time I failed Frankfurt 2nd time (too many wheel spokes broke) -> planning next year again.

@@RecoveryLabTV Well the Roth bike course is super fast and every year together with the government they take away any minor obstruction, slight bump or little unevenness -> absolutely great bike course. High speed.

Thank you buddy! It's a real shame about Ireland as it was a great race and the atmosphere was equally as great! Hopefully it returns soon in some format. In regards to my training, I'm usually a 1:10 distance swimmer, 6:30 bike and the run is usually my weakest so I tend to run at a 6:30 min/km pace. This year in the build up to this I completed my first continuous triple Ironman, so did a lot of zone 2 pace work. I only had 6 weeks to prepare for Ironman Wales so didn't have the opportunity to add much pace development work, only 4 weeks really. In a normal Ironman programme there would be much more race specific development. Will this be your first Ironman next year?

@@RecoveryLabTV yes this would be my first. You swim 3.8km in 1.10??

@@na-dk9vm let me know if you have any questions, need a Coach or a programme. Happy to help! 🤙🏼 Yeah I swim 3,800m in 1hr 10 minutes. What’s your training history / background?

@@RecoveryLabTV that's serious speed! I did an olympic distance triathlon in may, first triathlon. The swim took me 45 mins for a 1500m swim

@@na-dk9vm that’s a great starting place though so don’t knock yourself! 👏🏼 How did you find it? Which race was it?

Incredible aren’t they! I just wore them for Ironman Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Thank you 🙏🏼 Huge Congratulations on completing your first Ironman! How did you find it?

Thank you so much 🙏🏼 Honestly, Ironman Wales is incredible 🤩 Have you ever done it or thought about giving it ago?

@@RecoveryLabTV Yeah it really looked it! I am hoping to give one a go one day. I have had a lot of injuries which have hindered my fitness (ACL inflammation, sprained ankle twice,etc). Hoping that once I have worked on fitness and injury recovery that I can start doing races, Ironmans and more!

@@Sheppey10 So sorry to hear about your injuries… How did you sustain them? Happy to help if you’re at a loss and need some help!

@@RecoveryLabTV I initially had an ACL inflammation injury from running. Went to a Physio and it was because I pulled my hamstring years ago and never got it up to strength compared to my other leg. So now working on that. In terms of the ankle, I did this playing football, any advice on recovery for that / working on improving the strength of my ankle? 😃

@@Sheppey10 what did you actually injure in your ankle? How’s the ACL / Hamstring recovery going?

Thank you for your kindness 🙏🏼 Maybe, one day! Whatever makes them happy 😊

I was just a few bikes up from you (1377), surprised I didn’t see you there but I had my blinkers on just going through my processes! Glad to see you had a good race 🤘

@@StevieL81 Next time 😉 How was your race weekend? Hope you were happy with your time 🏅 Congratulations 👏🏼

@@RecoveryLabTV that swim done me in haha, first lap of the bike was alright but when that weather came in I slowed right down as I seen some bad crashes and just wanted to finish. Run pretty much went to plan though, was only going to do Tenby once but might need another crack at it haha!

@@StevieL81 The swims always interesting isn’t it 😅🤣 I pretty much did the same on the bike, on two of the decents I always came off because the back wheel went out sideways, luckily I managed to keep it in control. However, I just thought to myself it’s better to finish with a slower time than crash for no reason other than my ego getting the better of me!! Runs always the worst for me, but I was happy with my overall performance given the day that we had! 😅 was this your first one?

Thank you so much! You’re completely right, it’s incredible there & I swear that this year was the busiest it’s been and it was hammering it down 🌧️☔️ Incredible to witness and be apart of!

Thank you so much & likewise!! 👏🏼 What events are you looking at completing next year?

@@RecoveryLabTV am doing Newport full marathon Tenby long course the 1 point 2 swim a 112 miles bike ride and a full marathon

Thank you for all of your support! I hope you had an incredible weekend 🤩🥳 What’s your next up and coming season look like?

Super hilly but the crowds are amazing and give you the strength to make every climb 😍🤩

It's because I used dumbbells instead of plates. Learnt the hard way as one of them was rubbing the skin off my lower back. Lesson learnt and went again...

@@RecoveryLabTV Sounds painful.

Thank you as always!! I hope you've had an incredible weekend too...

Thank you, 7th Ironman officially in the bag. Bring on number 8...