THE SHORT ANSWER
Ger Remond, irish ironman triathlete, sub-9:30 self-coached pro, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast 3 times. Here's where Remond lands on the mental side of cycling. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
WHO IS GER REMOND?
Ger Redmond is the North Dublin athlete who went from Mountjoy Prison to a sub-9:30 Ironman pro license without a coach — and never having swum a length of a pool before signing up for his first Ironman. His story disrupts every 'you must do X to do Y' frame in endurance training: no periodisation programme, no athletic background in the discipline, no support team. For Roadman's audience facing mid-life pivots into endurance sport, he is one of the most useful counter-examples to the structured-coaching orthodoxy.
REMOND ON MENTAL PERFORMANCE
Remond’s key positions on the mental side of cycling.
- Sub-9:30 Ironman is achievable without a coach, a periodisation plan, or a swimming background — story disrupts the orthodoxy of structured triathlon coaching.
- The original life arc was football — 16-year-old North Dublin kid signs for Dunfermline, scores a 4-3 winner off the bench in his trial, lives the dream until a family crisis call brings him home and the spiral starts.
- The €500-stolen-boots story is a parable for how a single bad decision ends a Premier League trajectory — the talent isn't the limiting factor, the mentorship is.
- Mentorship and role models matter more than talent identification — the kids who go pro and stay pro are the ones who had someone explain right from wrong before the wrong choice broke their dream.
- Endurance sport is unusually accessible to second-chance athletes — the time you put into training, not the time you started, is what determines the result.
IN REMOND’S OWN WORDS
Verbatim from Ger Remond’s appearances on the podcast.
“I looked up the time, the time to get was like a so annoying tour deorama. My best was like 10.50 at this stage. I think I had seven months to do it, so I picked Barcelona. I landed in Barcelona in 2017, 22 months after I took up the spark of triathlon. And I became a noise professor at triathletes.”
“Everyone wants to be a gangster until it's time to be a gangster. It's the greatest quote ever. And it's the same even for trying. Everyone wants to be an Ironman till it's time to try and for an Ironman or to be whatever the pinnacle will be of your sport.”
“I'll take the advice of people who are better than me. And they don't go after them to be better than them, they go after them to get their information and try and be the best they can be. The way to do that is to go to the person who's done over five years and try to adapt all his faults and not make them faults, not make them mistakes that he's made and try and land where he is newly.”
“i got involved in the criminal gang warfare protection until double field on the table so it was about that was holding up as well that um on these houses as well you know... you become an asset to them that's how you do it like i obviously knew them all because this is where they grew up this is the normal area so i i knew these lads as it was and all it took for me to do was to sort of offer to serve studying like i can hold stuff or i can do something you know and that's how you get in and once you're in then and you're trusted so look at they need you as much you need them”
HEAR IT ON THE PODCAST
Episodes where Ger Remond covers the mental side of cycling and related ground.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Ger Remond say about the mental side of cycling?
Ger Remond, irish ironman triathlete, sub-9:30 self-coached pro, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast 3 times. Here's where Remond lands on the mental side of cycling. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Remond's main point on mental performance?
Sub-9:30 Ironman is achievable without a coach, a periodisation plan, or a swimming background — story disrupts the orthodoxy of structured triathlon coaching.
Which Roadman Cycling Podcast episodes cover Ger Remond on mental performance?
Remond discusses the mental side of cycling in these episodes: "Ger Redmond - The Winners Mind", "Prison to Pro Ironman: No Coach, Sub-9:30 | Roadman Cycling Podcast", "Ger Redmond - From Prison To Pro".