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.
The major positions Remond is known for in cycling and endurance sport.
Every appearance by Ger Remond on The Roadman Cycling Podcast — 3 episodes in total.
“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.”
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