Hosted by MichandaShines · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 192 episodes
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We exist because we want you to Tri! We talk with coaches, professional athletes, beginner athletes, race and event directors and announcers, triathlon media, and other industry leaders who share their beginner stories, and what it takes to be successful in this sport - and life.
MichandaShines hosts Tri Beginner‘s Luck, a sports show with 192 episodes published.
What if the person behind your race experience has been living inside this sport since before they could drive? This episode brings you inside the world of a man who didn't just grow up loving triathlon but grew up build
Some people don't find triathlon. Triathlon finds them. It calls quietly for years until the timing, the spirit, and the courage finally align at once. Brandon Woolfolk is a certified personal trainer, nutrition coach, m
For over 20 years, Betty Collins led troops, mentored communities, and built others up from the inside out. So what happens when the person who is always pouring into others has to finally let others pour into her? Betty
What does it take to come out of the water nearly last and choose to come back? Not once, but race after race, distance after distance, through graduate school, a pandemic, and the arrival of three children in 17 months.
What if the most decorated athlete you've ever seen race was doing it on stolen hours, powered by discipline she didn't know she had until the military turned it on? That's exactly the kind of story that stops you mid-sc
Some people count down the days to their birthday. Beatriz Sampaio counted down the laps. For her first triathlon, she chose the most meaningful finish line she could think of: race day on her birthday, surrounded by the
Three weeks after writing a half-Ironman goal on his bathroom mirror, Scott Stanley got a cancer diagnosis. Forty-six days after colon surgery, he was at the starting line of a 10K. What do you do when life hits hardest
A first triathlon. A breakup. A lifelong love story with endurance sports that nobody saw coming. Before triathlon became one of the biggest endurance sports in the world, Leslie Knibb was standing on a start line in Chi
Hilary Topper didn't run until she was 48. She didn't know how to turn on a treadmill. Five years later, she signed up for her first triathlon in Florida without realizing there were races in her home state of New York.
What does it mean to be a triathlete? For Liz Kollar, Director of Constituent Engagement at USA Triathlon, the answer is simple: you're a triathlete the moment you cross any finish line, whether it takes you an hour or s
What happens when you’re ready to quit the sport you once loved? And what if the answer isn’t more training, but more community? Juan Pablo, known as "the People's Principal" in Plainfield, New Jersey, brings raw honesty
What happens when someone tells you your idea will never work, and you build it anyway? What does it look like to create a space where trying matters more than finishing first? Angi Klick didn't just start a triathlon ev
What does it look like to chase greatness without losing yourself along the way? How did Chelsea Sodaro win the Ironman World Championship just 18 months after giving birth? In this episode, the triathlon world champion
What if the thing that scares you most is actually the doorway to your next chapter? And what if beginning again at 56 is exactly where your triathlon journey is meant to start? In this episode, we meet Jini Thornton, a
What happens when a Division I swimmer suffers a career-ending spinal injury and decides to try triathlon anyway? Twenty-two months after spinal fusion surgery, Farrin Saba crossed the finish line of Ironman 70.3 Maine.
Listeners meet Bianca Fernandez-Clark, a seven-time Ironman finisher, co-founder of Women in Tri UK, and a tireless advocate for inclusion in endurance sport. What begins as a conversation about one woman’s journey into
Andrew Gray's triathlon journey is proof that progress does not have to take decades. In just four years, he went from finishing 18th in his first sprint triathlon, navigating rough transitions and limited gear, to becom
Triathlon has a way of meeting you exactly where you are and then asking you to grow. In this episode of Tri Beginner’s Luck, Tammy Dotson shares what it looked like to start triathlon after 40 with no swim experience an
Alignment is paramount. Mind. Body. Soul. Nutrition. This is Triathlon Zen. In this episode of the Tri Beginner’s Luck Podcast, Stuart Shine, a Marine Corps veteran, endurance coach, and founder of Shine Collaborative Sp
Friendship is fuel, and sometimes it sounds like, “Gee Tex made me buy it,” or “RoJo’s reviews,” and maybe even a little revenge. But ultimately, it is because the friendship fine print says so. What starts as a running
Scott Stanley
research scientist · North American Association of Visionary Churches
1 appearance on this show
Chelsea Sodaro
Ironman World Champion, Mom, Equality in Sport and Mental Health Advocate
1 appearance on this show
Mark Allen
six-time Ironman World Champion, coach, lifelong student of the sport · Royal Oak Realty Trust
1 appearance on this show
Mark Batterson
New York times Best Selling Author · National Community Church
1 appearance on this show
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Tri Beginner‘s Luck is hosted by MichandaShines. The show is categorised under sports (health) and has published 192 episodes.
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