All up in this area here.

That's what I gotta say about your heat.

Oh boy, you'll see what that workout was in a bit.

Trust me, big wow, after I eat, heat train,

clean myself up, Ironman versus triathlons,

there's a difference, small but true.

What is up, what is up trainiacs.

It is good to be back with the normal you again,

after suffering through a week with the other

vlogging camera that is gonna go home,

it's nice to have the normal you back.

So we are now eight days away from flying out

to Kona for the Ironman world championship in 2017.

Yeah, like this is so exciting that the whole

bunch of us, me and TK,

Mel, Mel's man, all get to go to Kona and cover it.

I think we might even be media, like a legitimate

group of individuals, not just a bunch of hoodlums,

and show up with camera gear and point them at

people like weirdos.

We're still gonna point cameras at people

and they're gonna think we're weird, but we

will be accredited weirdos.

And one of the things that I know is that people

are looking up Ironman versus triathlon.

We'll talk about Ironman for starters.

Ironman is a triathlon, it's a distance of triathlon,

but in addition to that, Ironman is a brand

of the world triathlon corporation,

which is now owned by

Dalian Wanda Group, which is a Chinese

company that bought it from the private equity

company that had previously run the Ironman

brand for I want to say eight to ten years or so,

and grown it into the behemoth that it is,

so the easiest way to look at what Ironman is,

is number one, it is a distance of triathlon,

but it's also this company that holds Ironman

branded races.

They're the full Ironman distance of that

2.4 mile swim, the 112 mile bike, and the 26.2

mile run, or the Canadian and everyone but the

US folk out there, a 3.8 kilometer swim, a 180

kilometer bike, and then a 42.2 kilometer run.

They also do the half Ironman branded races.

Those being the 70.3s, the 1.2 mile swim,

the 56 mile bike, and then 13.1 mile run.

Metric, 1.9 kilometer swim, a 90 kilometer bike,

and then a 21.1 kilometer run.

In addition to that, Ironman has branched out

into a huge number of things.

That MDot that you see tattooed onto people's

legs so they can advertise how tough they are,

that goes on every piece of gear that they

can slap it on.

Backpacks, bags, all triathlon equipment,

Ironman branded watches, they've also

got a series of short course races.

They've got the Ironkids, they've got

road running races, they've got cycling races.

That MDot has become iconic and it's kind of like,

it's not necessarily just a distance of a race,

it's like a brand like Pepsi, Coke, the MDot

is a very powerful brand and I want to say

that that Chinese company bought it for something

like $600,000,000 or $700,000,000.

Now the flip side of that, a triathlon

is basically what we know as a race in the pure sense of it.

Basically defined as one sport that is comprised

of three different sports.

Typically, it is a swim, a bike, and a run,

however there's a women's track and field event

that's 100 meter run, a high jump, and then a shot put.

It might take a little bit less time than we

take in our races, but then there's also

a British version of a triathlon that is

fly casting, horseback riding, and trap shooting.

They're gonna attract a different kind of cat

than comes into our version of a triathlon.

- We just identified them for you.

Vivian Smith's (mumbles).

- Now that's not to say that just pure

triathlons can't be the distance of Ironman

events, but those are different.

Unless they are an Ironman branded event,

basically they're licensing the name of Ironman,

and they're partnering with Ironman and it's

an Ironman sanctioned event, the Ironman events

have to be referred to as Ironman distance events.

So the (mumbles) half Ironman that I completed

last summer, it was a half iron distance,

not a half Ironman.

Very finicky legal stuff.

If you want to go with, say, the most

pure triathlon, because it is an Olympic sport,

it's governed by the ITU and the ITU,

the International Triathlon Union is what

lobbied and grew the sport internationally

and got it adopted in the Olympics.

We are talking about a 1500 meter swim,

a 40k bike and a 10k run.

But if you're putting yourself through

any distance, that distance, shorter distance,

a longer distance, they're all triathlons.

You're all trainiacs, you're all badasses,

be proud, kick ass, have fun, make new friends, all right?

Speaking of kicking ass, workout this morning,

as I mentioned, four hours, four hours

over a three hour bike, and then over a 50 minute run.

I'm getting fit, I'm getting fit, all up in

this area here.

(upbeat music)

It's hot in here.

(phone ringing)

Promise you I'm done with Austin now

almost exactly a month away.

I am heavily working on heat training.

I got my ass handed to me in Campeche in the heat.

Now I was going to Campeche after an entire winter

out in minus 30 Winnipeg, that's not very hot.

And it's cooling down outside now, but it's

still nice enough, that what I'm making sure

that I do is, when possible I do a bunch of

work like first thing in the morning,

one of the benefits of being self-employed.

Trust me, there are drawbacks.

And then I do a lot of my training later in the day,

when it's slightly warm out and then the

protocol for heat training that I learned from

Team Wurtele, Trevor and Heather Wurtele,

pro Ironman and half Ironman athletes,

is that three or four times a day in the

last six weeks before your race, you want to

get into a sauna as soon as you can

after a workout, and here's the key,

don't hydrate in between the end of that workout

and while you're in the sauna.

So you just sit in there and bake.

So hopefully Austin, that's what I gotta

say about your heat.

And public safety announcement, hydrate a lot

after doing that sauna work.

Crucial.

And if you really want to live dangerously,

right after the sauna, and the hydrating,

hop into the shower and hit yourself with about

15 to 30 seconds of straight cold.

It's gonna flush a ton of all the gunk

that accumulates during that workout out of

your body, well kind of get your body moving,

because everything goes (grunts) and constrict,

it's kind of that sauna relaxes everything

and then the cold restricts it and you're gonna

get a rush of endorphins and you're gonna be

just a total badass.

(water running)

Oh, oh it's cold.

I didn't say you'd like it.