2,429 Days Since Lionel's Last Ironman Victory

[@miguelpfeffermann]

It’s simple: Lionel uploads a video, I click!

[@donaldlamarche9886]

Don't destroy yourself in Lake Placid. It's your training session for Kona. Like you said, "The peak comes in October". Love it. Listening to you speak is bringing out the 2017 Kona vibes. You have no idea how many people you're going to make cry if you win Kona. Wishing you all the best.

[@LandUpOver]

Never let another athletes training get in your head. A Belgium newspaper wrote a nice article about it in 2019. It's called Stravanoia.

[@apach3895]

Can't wait to see you blow past me on the bike course! Race your race , chase that W and if it happens, it happed because your training is on point. Good luck from a fellow Canuck!

[@zachnagle8889]

Hey Lionel and Talbot. Love the content and the open honest thoughts I’ve been following the channel since the days up in Windsor. This is totally unrelated but It looked like you might not have a fence around your pool at you house and seeing your amazing little guy out there freaked me out. I am a fire captain in Arizona and have seen so many unfortunate outcomes with little ones and unfenced pools here in our state. I know you guys are amazing parents and by no means am I trying to preach to you nor would I try and tell anyone how to parent their children. Just something that may not be in the forefront of your mind coming from a place that doesn’t have many pools and drowning cases. Wish you all the best with training and your lovely family!

[@max7679-x7h]

You are by far the MOST in athletic professionalism. The honesty and dedication is truly amazing. Always enjoy the sessions!!

[@GerardEncabo]

Lionel is getting in shape and also wiser. The latter might outweighs the former. Let's go 🤙🏻

[@leegmann2282]

Win or learn, we love you, Lionel!

[@garyott7536]

You’re the man. So exciting to see you so excited.

[@adamd9418]

Lionel has a maturity that is amazing to see.

[@franksey_]

Its a good day when lionel uploads. Content is immacualte talbot

[@vadenpadgett8712]

The Jan affect!!

[@SchachKartoffel]

oh yes he wants the "w". he really wants the "w". and he also deserves it. i very rarely wish one specific athlete the win... be it cycling or running or triathlon or whatever but this guy deserves it.

[@scottblack8735]

I exited too! Can’t wait till the weekend!

[@mrskreesma]

I'm in a very challenging period of my life and motivation is absent... thank you for inspiring me

[@megmikerodriguez6011]

I CANNOT WAIT, TOO...IMLP OR BUST!! I'll be peeling wetsuits and praying, LS! God bless the journey, Megan 🙏🙏 ps. Levi = most adorable kiddo ❤

[@michaelhatch1994]

Wish you nothing but success this coming weekend.

[@davemort83]

Hey Lionel, good luck on Sunday at LP! You'll ride right past North Country School/Camp Treetops! The kids will be out there cheering you (and all the competitors)! Give them a wave if you can!

[@KiwiBigfoot]

Cool to hear you sounding super confident and in a good place!

[@didiervanrompaey]

Hawk Tuah on that HRM pro :-)

[@yoyo54314]

beautiful kid,congrats

[@Runmaerun]

Can’t wait to see you race in person at IMLP!!

[@gipvision6937]

Hey, Lionel, I'd love to hesr more about your story before you got into the sport. You talked about it before, but I think a video dedicated to that may help many youngsters who are trying to stay away from trouble. Your story is inspiring!

[@samholder196]

LFG Lionel!

[@alfredosanchez-tojar3132]

"Listen to your body and do the absolute best that YOU can do each and everyday, and that has nothing to do with anybody else"

[@Ghostina1]

Nice Escalade Lionel!

[@dudemycarislos]

From Tucson and live in Jersey! First Ironman in placid - see you out there!

[@ddan1139]

Hey Lionel, how do you think yours gains in the wind tunnel will affect you in your next race? i can't wait to see the impact of thoses gains also. Go Lion...

[@chrisfenet]

CANNOT WAIT FOR IM PLACID!!! yewwwwwwww 🔥🔥🔥

[@rascalroy6745]

The guys highly admirable

[@mariemeyer6852]

Cheering for you to win Kona!!

[@Kokosmilch1214]

100% he will win WC one day 🔥

[@hcronos]

Lionel is channeling his inner jedi

[@vits-swimtrainingevolution9886]

Unfortunately, will never happen anymore it seems - unlikely - but probably, if he would try .... 🙂 But its ok, the reliable steady fighter, hunting behind the others ... not that pressure in must lead - that can make more fun, and its still so exciting ... like going crazy ...

[@troycollett8540]

Wouldn’t mind seeing him race in Australia or New Zealand

[@stpOwner]

Come do challenge canberra in November

[@rogerc23]

He should do Busselton. It’s almost the perfect race for him.

[@parkerjackson9512]

Got that wahoo treadmill

[@bonn1771]

looking forward to IMLP

[@MDROBS]

LFG🔥

[@philipemslie476]

Let’s gooooo

[@robbo3132]

Also second to Jan at tri battle

[@andrewmetcalfe9898]

12:00- what happened between St George and Kona in 2022? From the outside looking in one thing stood out to me at the time (sure there were a bunch of other stuff that none of us KZbin tuber fans would have the first clue about). In my view - having raced an ironman once a month since June 2021 to November AND the ‘2021’ WC p[postponed to May 2022, it did not seem to me that you had a proper ‘end of season’ full body shut down for 2-4 weeks. THAT is what you needed to do for the rest of May 2022, then start to rebuild from ‘ground zero’ in June (ie. do the pre season stuff you’d usually do in October-Nov the year before before your traditional ‘first race’ of the next year at Indian Wells. I think you got carried away with a combination of ‘the Norwegian method’ (especially thinking ‘well Gustavo and Kristian aren’t having a break, why should I’) and the fact that the PTO were debuting their three big money races (PTO Open canada and USA and also the 2nd edition of the Collins Cup). Compounding that was the dilemma of yet another scoring Arizona summer and doing your first ‘altitude block’ at Flagstaff: put a fork in you, you were cooked! In hindsight (lols), a month off then indoor training at home for 6-8 weeks, followed by an altitude camp at say Boulder for 3 weeks in August would have set you yourself up for a perfect 8 week Kona specific preparation at the back end. Of course that would have meant doing the Canadian Open as an ‘early season race’ - in only ‘early season’ form and probably skipping both the Collins Cup and the US Open, but you would have been tip top by Kona in October.

[@nickbarnes3162]

PLLLLEEEEEEASSSSSSEEEE do Challenge Roth next year!

[@deepvalue4651]

Time‘s ticking

[@KerenWang]

Discord gang🎉

[@natpagle2323]

I was at the Ironman Arizona as a spectator. I remember some dude with a mustache was all alone transitioning off the bike to the run.

[@brentrgustafson]

That was my first IM

[@ProjectJake]

What training did Lionel do when he broke his rib? I’ve just started to get back into training and don’t want to lose all progress but managed to fracture a rib in the weekend. Just wondering what he did 😅

[@andreaolive5912]

He sat up on his couch. He was just recovering- laying down and sat up.

[@ProjectJake]

@@andreaolive5912 sad times, at least I’m consistent 🥲

[@rogerc23]

Toe curls. 30,000 a day.

[@gaiusvelleius]

Who is his coach right now? Does anybody know?

[@jonathanz9889]

Still waiting on the Slowtwitch react video

[@DesertTriDad]

Do I spy the wahoo kickr run?

[@Prettyboyskiingonleasedland]

ultra bikepacking events!!!

[@Getagrip1999]

What coffee beans are we rocking with?

[@kyleglass91]

Fire emoji

[@joshpain349]

Typing

[@waynemacdougall8667]

That's where communication with your coach is so important. To much fuvking around for 2 many years.

[@guidoschenk6078]

Rooting for you. Please train according to what you know is working! With this bike a couple of years ago and Patrick Lange would have never caught you. Focus man. A sentence I picked up lately: "Develop a sense of urgency." 🤙🏻

[@MontyB97]

Haha driving shirtless 🫣

[@vozzen]

Indoor training may be phenomenal in terms of training effect, but Zwifites are crashing all the time and losing time in downhills and corners

[@smallbobcat8758]

Kona is a straight road

[@firminodias4419]

Yup… LCB agrees with you. The WC.

[@rpconsumption4004]

I’m with you on amateur Zwifties, but the guy has been a pro triathlete for over a decade, I think he’s a safer bet for all-indoor training

[@mitchfrank48]

I agree with you about Zwift riders not having great bike skills, but they’re also not getting hit by cars or trucks

[@MR-wh5wp]

Zwifties for the win 🎉🎉🎉

[@jensluder1824]

Grey beard ??

[@marcelezo]

Why Lionel uses gloves indoor?

[@drdumbo9124]

Sweat.

[@nimbra2]

Germs

[@LiberaTeTutemetExInferis]

It is better than 24329 years

[@rogerc23]

The 2022 Kona was such a disappointment. The training under Iden was clearly excellent. But Lionel and I think it was Gustav, Colin Chartier and VonBerg decided to actually race Kona a few days before in their training session. VonBerg decided to drop out. And Lionel let the drug cheat Chartier get into his head. Thankfully that parasite is gone. But the lesson is you always race within your own mind and on that day. Visualization is extremely important. But letting others control your thoughts isn’t. And of course, after Kona Lionel threw the entire baby out with the bath water. Fired his coach and quit IM. And pointing this out on his Discord channel got me banned by one of his woke moderators who was crying about “negative language”. The last year it looks like his focus is back with some real attention to detail. Oceanside and MT were very good races. Now it’s time to see where’s he’s at for IM. Hope he stays injury free and has a great day. Always wishing you the best Lionel. You probably have no real idea how many people you’ve inspired to doing things they never dreamed.

[@khaubensak]

So anyone who wants you to shut your trap is woke, huh? Lol

[@leslie7922]

Baby near the pool scared me, legally in my country you have to build a childproof fence around the whole area

[@ebhkkc1]

All good celebrate your wins. Too late for Kona win. Too many others in the arena now. Still very proud of you!!!!

[@chrisotc6832]

Unfortunately 2nd is 1st loser!🤷‍♂️

[@robbo3132]

Has lionel ever done Roth?

[@kinseybruno5920]

I think he just needs some weed.