How do we create a culture of camaraderie within Triathlon? Find motivation, while also not aligning our self-worth with our results? This week on the pod, Haley talks with Lotte Miller - Norwegian Triathlon extraordinaire. Representing Norway in the 2020 summer Olympics, Lotte has been swimming at an elite level since she was 13. Lotte has most recently been recognized for the support she gave fellow competitor, Claire Belanger, at the Tokyo Olympics. In a video that went viral, you can hear Lo...
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr 7 min
This week on the show, Haley and Alyssa talk with Samantha Kingsford. Samantha is one of the fastest elites in all of Xterra, winning three majors on the world tour in 2019 - and getting the Xterra Pan American Tour Title. She recently finished fourth in CLASH Miami after participating in the couple's Triathlon. Samantha talks about her experience starting road racing as an Xterra professional. While Alyssa and Haley make some good arguments - Samantha seems pretty set on off-roading. Further, s...
Apr 07, 2022•59 min
This week on Ironwomen, Haley and Alyssa chat with Jess Smith. Jess is a professional triathlete, winner of the Amateur 70.3 World Championships, coach, and mother. As Jess describes herself, she is a lifer. She will be that woman you see sprinting across that finish line at 90 years old. Jess shares just how she got to where she is today - from her first triathlon to her most recent race. She tells us about the importance of role models, and what it means to her to be a role model for others. H...
Mar 31, 2022•1 hr 8 min
This week on Ironwomen, we discuss the joys of winning and the joy of losing. Haley shares her experience winning the Challenge Puerto Varas race this past weekend, while Mary Cain - our special guest, could barely get her helmet on at the Claremont Triathlon. Mary Cain is a professional middle-distance runner who got her start in athletics very early on in life. Cain is the youngest person to ever represent the U.S. at the Track and Field World Championship and was deemed the fastest girl of he...
Mar 24, 2022•1 hr 35 min
This week on the show, Ironwomen has a VERY special guest. Our very own Alyssa Godesky has just recently attempted the Barkley Marathons, and will be sharing all of the trials and tribulations of this gnarly route. Barkley is designated as an “Ultramarathon Trail Race” that spans 100 miles and has a time limit of 60 hours. With around 16,500m of vertical climb, it is understandable why not a single runner was able to finish the entire course this year. Alyssa gives us the run-down of the maratho...
Mar 17, 2022•1 hr 8 min
This week on the show Haley & Alyssa are chatting with professional triathlete Rachel Olson. Rachel grew up as a competitive swimmer, but after her collegiate swimming years she transitioned into triathlon. After a breakout season in 2019 as a professional with several top 5 finishes at the 70.3 distance, Rachel battled a knee injury that kept her from training and racing at full capacity for almost two years. But after a successful surgery to repair her knee Rachel is ready to make her 2022...
Mar 03, 2022•59 min
This week on the show, Haley and Alyssa bring us an interview with Spanish professional triathlete Sara Perez Sala. Sara has been racing on the WTS circuit for almost 10 years, but she burst onto the long course scene last year with her 4th place finish at Challenge Miami, and 2nd place finish at the Challenge Championships in Slovakia. A life-long athlete, Sara swam for her country as a breaststroker in the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Shortly after, she switched to triathlon and fell in love with ...
Feb 24, 2022•52 min
On this week’s episode Alyssa & Haley are chatting with Olympic gold medalist Flora Duffy. In the world of triathlon Flora is one that needs little introduction, but her long list of accolades include being a 4-time Olympian, gold medalist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, WCTS World Champion, Commonwealth Games gold medalist, and 6-time Xterra World Champion. Flora speaks candidly about her experience at the Games, and talks through the weeks, months, and years of preparation that lead her t...
Feb 17, 2022•1 hr 6 min
This week we are bringing you a special episode - the live launch of Feisty Media’s newest production; the Feisty Women’s Performance Podcast. We have observed that there is A LOT of B.S. information out there for women coming from the fitness and health industries, which gets even worse as we age. Because of this, we saw the need to bring trusted information to women so we can feel and perform our best. The launch of the Women's Performance Podcast features host Sara Gross, with three change-ma...
Feb 10, 2022•1 hr 22 min
This week on the IronWomen Podcast, Haley and Alyssa are chatting with Swedish professional triathlete and medical doctor Sara Svensk. Sara raced her first triathlon in 2014, by 2015 she won her age group at the ITU Long course world championship and at the 70.3 distance national championship in Sweden. With her quick rise to the top of the age group ranks, Sara decided to make the jump to professional racing in 2016. Since then, Sara has amassed numerous podium and top ten finishes at both the ...
Feb 03, 2022•50 min
This week on the show Haley and Alyssa sit down with triathlete and Certified Sports Nutritionist Elizabeth Inpyn. She is the founder of INPYN, a nutrition coaching company that provides support for athletes of all levels to reach their athletic and wellness goals. Elizabeth studied chemistry and biology at UC Santa Barbara, where she also swam and played water polo at the collegiate level. After college she was given a bike as a birthday gift, this sparked her interest in triathlon and she has ...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 13 min
On this week’s episode Haley and Alyssa catch up with professional triathlete Manami Iijima. Manami was born in Japan, but has spent most of her life on the island of Guam. After two years without racing, Manami traveled to the US in the fall of 2021 to race 70.3 Oceanside and 70.3 Indian Wells, finishing 8th and 15th respectively. In between the two races Manami had to make the long trip back to Guam, but for a worthy reason; to attend a ceremony that granted her naturalized citizenship in Guam...
Jan 20, 2022•1 hr 2 min
This week on the show Alyssa and Haley are chatting with adventurer and multi record-breaking athlete Quinn Brett. Quinn grew up as a competitive swimmer, and she dabbled in road triathlon before finding her love for outdoor adventures sports like mountain running, climbing and off-road triathlon. In 2017 while climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, Quinn fell over 100 feet and suffered a spinal cord injury that left her paralyzed from the waist down. She talks about how this life-changi...
Jan 13, 2022•1 hr 3 min
On our first episode of 2022, Haley and Alyssa are welcoming a special guest; surfer, marine scientist, and climate activist Finn van der Aar. Finn is a marine mammal observer and scientist in her home country of Ireland. She talks about what her job entails, and how that puts her on the front line of observing the effects of climate change. As a surfer and swimmer, Finn is an all around lover of the ocean. She gives us some of her best tips on the small changes we can all make this year to move...
Jan 06, 2022•1 hr 1 min
On this week’s show Alyssa and Haley welcome back triathlete and Olympian, Taylor Knibb. Taylor, along with her teammates, recently won a silver medal in the triathlon mixed team relay at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. She tells us about her Olympic experience in both the team and individual events, what she did in the days between the two events, and how she felt about her Olympic debut. Taylor wasted no time jumping back into racing, competing at Boulder 70.3 the weekend after The Games, and fi...
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 2 min
This week on the show Alyssa and Haley chat with rookie professional triathlete Clarice Lorenzini. Clarice qualified for her pro card at Ironman Florida in 2020 and raced her first race as a professional at Ironman Tulsa this spring. After a not-so-perfect start to the race, she tells us how she dug deep to get through the tough bike course and run her way through the field to an impressive 11th place finish. Clarice identifies as Filipino-American, and is just the second ever female professiona...
Dec 23, 2021•1 hr
This week on the show Alyssa and Haley are chatting with newly minted professional triathlete, and PhD student Rachel Zilinskas. After a super successful start to the year in the age group ranks including age group wins at Ironman Lake Placid and Ironman 70.3 World Championships, Rachel decided to make the jump up to the professional ranks. She recently made her professional debut at Ironman Florida, finishing in an impressive 8th place on a very tough day. With her success in the age group rank...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 5 min
On this week’s episode Haley & Alyssa welcome back Australian pro triathlete Grace Thek, who recently finished 5th at the 2021 Indian Wells Ironman 70.3. We last heard from Grace back in February of 2018 as a newly minted pro. Since then she has had several wins and podium finishes at the 70.3 distance. In 2021 Grace decided to transition to a full time professional athlete, leaving behind her job as a physical therapist in Australia to focus on training, racing, and recovery. She talks abou...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 1 min
This week on the podcast, Haley & Alyssa bring us two great interviews to recap the NCAA Triathlon National Championships that took place in Tempe, AZ on Saturday November 13. The first is with Kira Gupta-Baltazar, a Canadian athlete competing for the University of San Francisco, who was the champion of the Division 1 National Championship race. Kira’s first place finish also helped her USF team clinch the second place spot in the team competition behind Arizona State University. Hira talks ...
Dec 02, 2021•51 min
On this week’s episode Alyssa & Haley chat with the photographer and videographer Holly Charles. Holly is the sister of last week’s guest, professional triathlete Lucy Charles-Barclay, and she has been at the helm of the Charles-Barclay media team for the last two years, creating videos and capturing the perfect Instagram photos to highlight Lucy’s hardwork and success on and off the race course. A true artist, Holly studied fine art in university. She talks about the transition from analog ...
Nov 25, 2021•50 min
This week on the show Alyssa & Haley are joined by professional triathlete and 2021 Ironman 70.3 World Champion Lucy Charles-Barclay. Lucy had an incredibly busy race schedule in 2021, competing across many distances and disciplines from Olympic Trials in swimming, to Ironman and sprint distance triathlons, and even a local 10k. She explains how she approaches each race with the mindset that embraces learning from new experiences, and hopes that by jumping into new things it will help to mak...
Nov 18, 2021•56 min
This week on the show Haley and Alyssa welcome back professional triathlete and NCAA triathlon coach Kinsey Lane. Kinsey is the Head Coach of the women’s triathlon team at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, CO. The last time we heard from Kinsey was in January 2020 and she was just getting geared up for her own 2020 race season. While the pandemic put a halt on her own racing aspirations, she used the opportunity to dive head first into her head coach role at Colorado Mesa. She talks ab...
Nov 11, 2021•1 hr 5 min
This week on the podcast Haley & Alyssa catch up with Brazilian professional triathlete and two-time Olympian Pâmella Oliveira. Pâmella got her start in endurance sport as a young swimmer whose talent was recognized by her swim coach. She talks about growing up as an athlete in Brazil, and why she chose to stay focussed on short course racing to compete at the Olympics in her home country before switching over to long course/ Pâmella was just part of the Mulheres Do Tri experience, a program...
Nov 04, 2021•41 min
On this week’s episode, Haley & Alyssa welcome back sport psychologist and former professional triathlete, Ruth Brennan Morrey, PhD. Ruth has a masters degree in Athletic Counseling/Sport Psychology, a PhD in Counseling Psychology, and a mindset coaching certification from Positive Performance Mindset Coach Academy. Since retiring from professional sport, Ruth has launched RBM Performance Coaching, mental skills performance coaching to help athletes build mental skills and character hardines...
Oct 28, 2021•1 hr 11 min
This week on the IronWomen Podcast Haley and Alyssa are chatting with professional triathlete Fiona Moriarty. Fiona made her Ironman pro debut at Ironman Florida in 2020 finishing in 5th place among a stacked field. She has her sights on the IMFL start line again this year and talks to us about her training leading up to the event. She also gives a few insider tips for folks signed up for the race in 2021. Fiona’s Irish roots provided her with a unique sporting background growing up. She tells u...
Oct 21, 2021•1 hr 15 min
On this week’s episode Haley and Alyssa welcome back professional triathlete Nikki Bartlett. Nikki is fresh off a second place finish at Lanzarote 70.3. She gives us all of the details about how her race unfolded, talks about her training days in Lanzarote, and what she loves most about training and racing on the island. Nikki was a guide to paratriathlete Alison Peasgoodat the Paralympics in Tokyo this past summer, she shares her pride for the pair’s impressive 4th place finish despite many dif...
Oct 14, 2021•1 hr 8 min
This week on the show Alyssa and Haley are chatting with rookie pro triathlete Tara Grosvner. Tara made the leap up to the pro ranks in 2019 after quickly progressing through the age group field in the seasons prior. She talks about her decision to get her pro card, and how different it is racing as an elite. Tara has had a busy season of racing in 2021, including four top 10 finishes at the Ironman and 70.3 distances, and a Kona qualification slot at Ironman Tulsa. Tara didn’t grow up as an ath...
Oct 07, 2021•55 min
On this week’s episode, Haley & Alyssa are joined by Paralympic Gold medalist Kendall Gretsch. Kendall fought her way to a gold medal in the women’s Paratriathlon Wheelchair (PTWC), winning the race in its Paralympic debut by just one second in an exciting sprint finish. She tells us what was going through her mind in those moments of the race, breaks down her race tactics, and shares how she prepared both mentally and physically for the race. Kendall has been competing in Paratriathlon sinc...
Sep 30, 2021•56 min
This week on the podcast Haley & Alyssa get the full run down on the 70.3 World Championships from the second place finisher Jeanni Metzler. Jeanni gives us all of the details on the race, what it feels like to be on the second step of the podium at the world champs, and how she is recovering from racing the gruelling course in St. George. Her incredible run strength gave her an edge on this course, and she passed American Taylor Knibb on the run to move into second place, and managed to pus...
Sep 23, 2021•1 hr 1 min
On this week’s episode Alyssa and Hale catch up with retired pro triathlete and former co-host of the Triathlon Preview Show podcast Emily Cocks. She joins us to give her insider scoop on the upcoming Ironman 70.3 World Championship race, and the three discuss everything from water temperatures, to wave start times, to bike course profiles. With the ups and downs of the 2021 season they speculate on who may or may not be toeing the line in St. George this Saturday, and how the race may play out....
Sep 16, 2021•50 min
