Join me for news and tons of tips and tricks as we crank out big mileage swimming, biking, and running during the latest cold spell ending in SNOW! Shownotes: Garmin introducing passcode lock on some devices. Drew Dillman is moving to Lauf bikes! Why titanium is probably the best frame material for gravel. Downtube storage... all upsides and no downsides? Chat GPT knows who Zen and the Art of Endurance is! Our town is moving up. We got an REI! Will our Trek store work out? How I use it. Green smoothies make you feel young. Laughing at Backyard Ultra videos by people that think they know what will happen. Ultra events are defined by you having to let go of knowing. Your car is literally a time machine. It shrinks time getting from point A to B. Diet Coke is both healthy and unhealthy and that's OK. Analog watches are making a comeback. YES! Check out the "Captain Willard" Seiko from Apocalypse Now. We are overmonitoring our body metrics. Simplify if you can. Why drying out your swimsuit rightside out is critical after every swim. "When you reach the end, that's when Zen begins." The whole point is to go past what you know, then you can learn. You can train for ultra by doing an ultra. How you treat the people at the aid stations after you've bonked shows who you really are. And knowing who you really are creates the confidence you need in life to be truly happy. The "I'm not X right now" trick. Coming to terms with men wearing pajama bottoms in public. You swim faster when relaxed and in "rest and digest" mode. Planning out huge gravel ride while running with River. Pool will be closed for incoming snowstorm, so planning out biking and running instead. You can strap a bike light to your watch for a flashlight like the Garmin Fenix 8. Phil Gaimon liked my EPO tweet! Using the electronic bike pump and pissing off the neighbors. 10 mile run with River in freezing temps. Gravel ride was great until it wasn't when guts when bad. Weird! Cold weather ultra running tips!

Running with River and how to fix your life in 10 minutes every day. Comparison autopause GPS. Fueling for cheap upsides. Why no-coasting is better. How to use the ghost riders on Zwift segments to tell if you should do intervals or go easy today. Green smoothie update! How to use rituals to zone out get working out when you don't feel like it. Dog chaos time! Why training in terrible socks is actually a good idea. How 4 sets of near-failure reps builds strength and that builds speed.

Join me on an exciting night run with River as we review the latest race, how to achieve training Nirvana, expensive analog (Seiko) vs smart watches (Garmin), and so much more!

How to train and race at your full potential by not getting fixated on only one path. Ride with me 85 miles as we discuss it all plus a whole lot more! I also update the creatine experiment and talk a short bit about our Hugelland Marathon MTB race experience.

Gravel biking and talking about slowing down daily life on purpose. While checking out all the trails at the massive 5,000 acre Lake Houston Wilderness Park. The ultimate flat terrain double and singletrack in Texas??? Video ends when battery dies. Just like life... Lights out! Find out about me and my racing history http://zentriathlon.com/who-is-brett Get coached! Send an email to Texafornia at the gmails and we will get you started! Support the show at https://Patreon.com/zentri https://instagram.com/zentriathlon

Join me along with my workouts while I discuss how to fit in warmups and getting your stuff together into your workouts to save time. If you are a high-volume athlete, this episode is full of time-saving tips so you can train big and still have time for family and work. Also a first look at Kona results.

We train and race in San Marcos and Bastrop TX to see how it measures up as an endurance sports town. Then I cover training tips for an upcoming mega MTB race Leadville qualifier

Justin McQuerry talks with us about going to Worlds, racing against the best, how he makes his YouTube videos, being a pro from Texas, and plans for the future! Find out more about Justin / justinmcquerry Support the show at Patreon.com/zentri Instagram.com/zentriathlon

Join me on a long ride while I talk about how Wu Wei (Flow and Not Trying) is incredibly useful in endurance sports and also in your own life. If you follow the show on YouTube, you can watch while I ride as well. Wu Wei and Not Trying is critical for being able to put in the big volume to be successful at endurance sports. If you try too hard, you burn out or get injured or both. I talk about multiple ways you can use Wu Wei on the swim, bike, and run and also in everything else you do. Enjoy!

Join us for night marathon mountain bike racing! We start at 108 degrees and finish 6 hours later near midnight. A true first time experience. Shownotes: 00:00 Describing race, leaving the pool, injury pains. There's videos up on youtube! 5:00 Race results. Kai hit his head on a tree trunk on the first lap and might have had a concussion. 108 degrees at the start! Garmin "crash alerts" for the both of us. Twice. 9:00 Why I race MTB with flat pedals... and do great! 12:00 Bike repairs on gravel bike and also on MTB before the race. 17:00 Electronic shifting battery failure right before the race. Aid station setup and riding through a barn every loop. 21:00 Fueling and hydration strategy. Why you should support the show at Patreon.com/zentri (it's for the tips!) Kai won fastest 3rd lap Preem... but didn't due to a technicality. 29:00 The bikes we raced and why. 32:00 Training leading up to the race. I haven't ridden my mountain bike for 7 months until race day and still got 18th place. 36:00 Getting and testing our lights for riding at night. 40:00 Keeping yourself busy during tapering by working on race details. 42:00 Describing the race lap by lap. 48:00 My big mistake - Not enough water on lap 2. 51:30 Riding at sunset is AMAZING. 55:00 The Big Wreck. 1:05 "Now it's a race." 1:08 Do I do 6 laps or 7? 1:11 Heading out to video the last lap. 1:18 Out for a run with River in the heat. Injuries update, swimming with separated rib hurts! 1:20:30 Moment of Zen - Nothing is the full story at first. The Tao de Ching and everything has flow. What is the purpose of learning Philosophy. Letting things unfold naturally. One tree's opinion is not the forest. 1:30:30 Back to the race and results. Upcoming races and wrap up.

I take you for a ride and talk about how Zen approaches and studies DEATH! Also, I give tips on how to add your own "nano carbon" clotting agent to your tire sealant for cheap and how to use a digital tire gauge to test if your tires are leaking. Coming to you from San Diego, I mention visiting the Canyon Store and also riding an XL Razor scooter daily to a software conference for a week. Enjoy!