Katie Zaferes sits down with Bob!

Kush Mahan is the co-founder and CEO of ZoneIN, a personalized nutrition app that will be launching soon. He came on to chat about his background as a professional squash player and how, over time, he and so many other athletes could really use some direction when it came to the best fueling for the best race day performance. The website is www.getzonein.com.

The amazing Angela Madsen is in the midst of rowing 3,000 miles from California to Hawaii. She took time out from rowing 12 hours a day to chat with us on her satellite phone. During the conversation we surprised Angela with a $2500 Challenged Athletes Foundation grant!

Karen Smyers was still racing as a professional triathlete at the age of 50. The US captain for the Collins Cup, Ironman World Champion and multiple time ITU World Champion came on to chat about her spectacular career!

Nate Garcia is the long time track and cross country coach at UC San Diego. Before that he ran for legendary coach Ted Van Arsdale. We chat about his running and coaching careers and how he is adapting to UCSD becoming a Division I school.

In a typical May weekend, Marc Roy from SportStats and his team would be handling the timing for up to 43 events all over the world. In a typical year 1.5 million people would cross Sportstats finish line. So how do you pivot to virtual racing while keeping your business afloat? I learned so much from this conversation!

A few weeks back the founder of Spartan Race, Joe DeSena, called me. Covid-19 was wrecking havoc with the world of endurance sports and he was hoping to put a coalition of endurance sports leaders together to see if they could combine forces to get some government support for an industry that has been devastated by the Pandemic.

I reached out to Rich Harshbarger at Running USA and Rocky Harris at USA Triathlon to get the ball rolling and things have been moving at warp speed ever since. Joe came on the show to chat about the creation of the Endurance Sports Coalition which represents over 475 organizations, 50,000 events and 30 million Americans. It’s nice to see what can come out of one five minute phone call!

Ben Hoffman is coming off one of his best years ever with his third win at Iromman South Africa, a fourth on Kona and then a second place at Ironman Florida where he ran a 2:36 marathon.

Kenny Souza was the King of Duathlon in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was great to have Kenny Kaboom on to chat about hos awesome career!

Robin Englehardt completed the 1981 Ironman when he was only 14 years old and, since the age limit was bumped up to 18 not long after that, I am the only person who can claim that he was out kicked by a 14 year old at the Ironman World Championship.
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Tom Sullivan has never let being born blind get in his way. Every time i chat with Tom I leave the conversation invigorated!