If Challenge Roth Is On Your Bucket List, Listen to This First

Thinking about putting Challenge Roth on your bucket list? Three TNA athletes just raced it, and they are telling you exactly what to get right before you sign up.

Three TNA athletes share what it really takes to race Challenge Roth, from importing race nutrition into Australia to riding through Solar Hill. Real lessons on fuelling, logistics and pacing for anyone with this iconic full distance race on the bucket list.

Jo, Lisa and Leanne are all TNA athletes, all from Queensland, and they have just ticked one of triathlon's biggest bucket list events off the list: Challenge Roth in Bavaria, Germany. In this episode they share what training for and racing this iconic full distance event was really like, from importing race nutrition into Australia to talking themselves through a mid-race gut issue on the run.

In this episode you will learn:

Why Australians book Challenge Roth through a travel company, and how fast the race actually sells out What to pack, and import, when the on-course sports nutrition brand is not sold at home How to handle a mid-race gut issue without abandoning your fuelling plan Why nailing your everyday training nutrition is what actually gets you to the start line healthy Why hiring a bike for race day can cost you more than it saves What Solar Hill is really like, and why it might make you cry TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Cold open: why you should never hire a race bike

00:41 Meet Jo, Lisa and Leanne, fresh from racing Challenge Roth

01:04 What Challenge Roth actually is, and why Solar Hill is legendary

02:06 Did the race live up to the hype

02:36 Leanne on her 19th full distance race, and feeling her best yet

03:10 Jo's emotional swim start and watching Lucy Charles-Barclay

04:33 5am beers and the Bavarian party atmosphere