THE SHORT ANSWER
Ger Remond, irish ironman triathlete, sub-9:30 self-coached pro, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Remond lands on recovery. 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 navigating mid-life pivots into endurance sport, he is one of the most useful counter-examples to the structured-coaching orthodoxy.
REMOND ON RECOVERY
Remond’s key positions on recovery.
- 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 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”
“we were on social welfare but it was four year kids and yourself so six kids out together on south welfare living in uh deployed the area so the game that that wasn't enough and electricity and shopping and skill and birthday presents and christmas presents and you know we needed money from elsewhere we needed a different different outlet”
“what are you in for and i said oh drug offense when he said what you ain't finding those murderers but it was really like hitting you know wow like and look at the chap was looking he was fine he didn't do anything didn't didn't get smart and say but that hit me like [ __ ] like this”
HEAR IT ON THE PODCAST
Episodes where Ger Remond covers recovery and related ground.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Ger Remond say about recovery?
Ger Remond, irish ironman triathlete, sub-9:30 self-coached pro, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Remond lands on recovery. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Remond's main point on recovery?
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 recovery?
Remond discusses recovery in this episode: "Prison to Pro Ironman: No Coach, Sub-9:30 | Roadman Cycling Podcast".