HCP #94 - Clearing the inbox with Listener questions and reviewing races

“If you understand High Rocks well, you'll understand that you can't compare a course and a course. And I'm not trying to justify my time, but it was just interesting to get the comments of, like, oh, the APAC races were obviously slower than both London and DC. Like, sure, of course they were, but we all should know that especially now, you cannot compare a course at another course.”

“There's a reason why next year is a point system. Like, that's there's a reason why that had to happen, and that reason is you can't compare courses. Otherwise, at this point, it looks like if it was still just two times, then everybody would just be like, well, I'm gonna go to London and Berlin to get my qualifying times.”

“I'm very happy from the perspective of giving athletes the opportunity to race at the elite level that have never had the opportunity before. You know, even looking at the APAC races, apart from myself and John Wynne, everyone else on that male start line, that was their first elite-level race. Then on the female side, apart from Calypso, Gabby, and Jess Petro, everyone else was debuting as well.”

“It's interesting the wording that people use to kind of think that is my game plan to come from behind. I mean, the truth about that is it's not necessarily my game plan. I'm proud to say that my fitness at that point of the race allows me to do what I've done for two races in a row, rather than it being a choice to start slow.”

“At that point, he did not have anything left. He gave everything he had to the ninetieth wall ball, and when he hit that finish line, the medics had to have been just keeping an eye on him. He put everything he had into that, and that was such a gutsy good race. That's what it takes for people to get that spot to go there.”