Episode 163 - Triathlete Christmas Gift Guide

Triathlete Christmas Gift Guide

 

Around this time last year I shared my list of gift suggestions for triathletes in episode 120 (definitely worth a listen if you haven’t done so already!). This year I’m back with four of Santa's helpers (who are also exceptional triathletes) to share 25 of their top Christmas gift ideas. 

From essential gear and training must-haves, to high-tech gadgets and professional services, this episode has something for every budget.

So if you’re looking for inspiration or want to drop some hints to friends and family, this episode is for you.

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Episode 163: Triathlete Christmas Gift Guide

Welcome to the Triathlon Nutrition Academy podcast. The show designed to serve you up evidence-based sports nutrition advice from the experts. Hi, I'm your host Taryn, Accredited Practicing Dietitian, Advanced Sports Dietitian and founder of Dietitian Approved. Listen as I break down the latest evidence to give you practical, easy-to-digest strategies to train hard, recover faster and perform at your best. You have so much potential, and I want to help you unlock that with the power of nutrition. Let's get into it.

163 - Triathlete Christmas Gift Guide

[00:00:00] Taryn: Welcome back to the Triathlon Nutrition Academy podcast with the holiday season and Black Friday sales just around the corner. I'm here with four Santa's little helpers slash triathletes that are going to help you win. Thanks for tuning in. Find the perfect gift for either yourself or the triathlete in your life.

Last year, I did a solo episode by myself, episode 120, which was the ultimate Triathlete Christmas gift guide. If you do want to go and listen to that, they were my suggestions and some ideas, but This year is a special Triathlete's Christmas Gift Guide episode brought to you by four triathlon nutrition academy athletes.

We've got all the dudes online today. We had a couple of female and feminine energy people drop out with sickness. So I'll have to bring my feminine energy to bring down the testosterone on this podcast recording today. But they've got some really thoughtful, practical gift ideas that any triathlete would love. So whether it's some nutrition must have some essential gear that they're loving or some other tools to keep them, training hard and performing at their best.

So if you're looking for some inspiration or want to drop some hints for maybe some friends or family, then this episode is for you. Now, if you're out running or you're on the wind trainer or driving or something like that, don't feel like you have to rush and get a pen and paper. Uh, I'm going to compile all of these gift suggestions in a free download for you that you can go and grab at dietitianapproved.com/xmas. So Christmas is spelt X M A S. All right, to kick us off we have Chad with some excellent gift ideas for you. Welcome Chad.

[00:01:58] Chad: Thank you very much.

[00:01:59] Taryn: Ho, ho, ho.

[00:02:01] Chad: I've got two categories. One's a big gift and then some little stocking stuffers maybe to add to that. So the first big gift would be a bike fit from a professional bike fitter. , this is invaluable, highly recommend this for a number of reasons.

One. Having the correct fit will help you avoid injury. It will make you more comfortable for those long rides and it will give you some extra Watts. I actually had an athlete who just did this and he got an extra 15 Watts on his FTP test. So a bike fit is highly recommended in the big gift category for some stocking stuff for ideas to go along with that.

You could add in some 2Toms Sport Shield, Body Glide, Butt Butter, you know, just to make that undercarriage a little bit happier on those long rides. Some other ideas for stocking stuffers would be just like a variety gel pack maybe a foam roller or a soft flask for running. So those are my holiday gift ideas for you.

[00:03:07] Taryn: Yeah, they're all good ones. The butt shield would be a slightly awkward one to gif. So you want to make sure you're pretty comfortable with the person to give them some butt shield. Kelly gave me some when he was in Australia and I'm like, thanks Kelly. It's currently sitting on my desk.

I'm not really sure what to do with it.

all right. Excellent gift suggestions. Thanks for kicking us off, Chad. Kelly, you're up next.

[00:03:29] Kelly: Okay, and that butt shield was really very thoughtful when I brought that to you. It wasn't just a random, it wasn't random. It was very thoughtful, just like these Christmas gifts I'm getting ready to talk to you. The first on my list is what I'm calling warming gloves. For when you ride the bike in cold weather.

So I live in Idaho and last spring I wanted to go race in Galveston in April. And so I couldn't even get outside to ride until March. And in March, it's still really cold in Idaho. So I get out riding and. If it's very cold, and I mean cold is 40 degrees F, which is, I don't know how many degrees C, probably 5 or something.

But, um, my hands get to where they don't work really very well. It's hard to squeeze a water bottle, and it can be hard to open nutrition packets, you know, gels and things. So, I ended up getting some gloves that's called, they're actually called heated glove liners, and the brand that I have is Neberon, which is spelled N E B E R O N, but you can Google them on Amazon.

And the gloves were really nice, they're really thin, lightweight, and they go just above the wrist, but you put a little battery in them, up in the wrist area. And then, for the gloves that I have, you can set them for a low, medium, or high temperature, and it really is very nice. That you can either wear them under another pair of gloves, or just wear them in general just the way they are without other gloves, that they keep your hands warm.

And then I was able to do my nutrition just fine with those gloves on, or you can take the gloves off if you need to, to do your nutrition and put it back on. But it was really helpful because I was doing three hour bike rides, and I was really, trying to struggle with, well, how do I do my nutrition, but yet get some bike time in, in the outdoors.

So that was a great option. I think that it's a well worth it. If you ride outside in the cold weather.

[00:05:18] Taryn: Can you touch your phone with the gloves on? You know how some of them, your fingerprint doesn't work?

[00:05:23] Kelly: Yeah. These are set up to where, you can still operate your phone with them. I didn't really spend too much time using my phone, so I don't have a lot of practice with them, but they advertise that they do. And I recall that I, was able to use my phone, but that is an important point that I think was a selling point for them.

[00:05:37] Taryn: Yeah, nice. Alright, we'll put that on the list so that You don't have to go and try and figure out which ones Kelly is talking about. Go and grab the list dietitianapproved.com/Xmas and we'll put the link for the specific ones in there.

[00:05:49] Kelly: the next item on my list. is a product from a company called SwimBETTER. And it's a wearable technology that you put on your hands, and they kind of clip on your hands or slip over your hands, and you wear them to palm your hands when you're swimming and it's used to give you data on your hand positions and your arm stroke when you're swimming to help you know if you're getting optimal propulsion or swim position whenever you're swimming. So it's really. An excellent technology. It's a little more pricey. you can get two different models. You can get a model that records about 15 minutes worth of swim data, which can be plenty for a lot of people. And then they have another model that'll record up to 90 minutes of swim data. I bought the 90 minute model because I try to, you know, record an entire hour long swim session and then I come home and I review the data later.

And I also capture some video on a GoPro. But I use it to analyze my swim stroke and look to see if I have these optimum positions because it'll tell you, it'll tell you subtleties like, are your hands facing in a little bit or are they facing out a little bit? And whenever you're going through your stroke, it'll tell you if your arms moving up and down.

And as you go through all the way through the. All the phases of your stroke when you're coming through recovery, it shows you how far out your arm swings. And when you're going into the water, it tells you how long you, you glide. And it's all visually graphed out for you. I mean, it's better than Excel spreadsheets.

And so, it's just a wonderful tool for someone like me even though I've had a coach help me with my swimming for a long time, and the coach has been really very good at helping me understand what it is that I need to do to correct, I will think that I'm doing the right things. I will think that I am making those corrections that the coach is telling me to do.

But yet, as I swim over time, the improvement just isn't there as much as I'd like it to be. This one better technology helps me know more of in a real time after every section session review helps me understand what I need to do to improve. And so it's really just this eye opener for an old guy like me that just, an old dog, new tricks.

This is helping me. Get better at something that has been hard for me to do.

[00:07:59] Taryn: Can you set it up to see how close you are to beating Taryn at Sunny Coast 70.3 Swim?

[00:08:05] Kelly: my goal is to shave eight minutes off my sunny coast swim time from last year. Unfortunately, that's not enough time to beat Taryn, because I already did the math. She beat me by over eight minutes last year. But if I can just shave eight minutes off my swim time, I'll be close enough that she won't have time to get out of the water and get up there and record me coming out of the water with her phone. But that's what she did this year. She got out of the water and she was there recording me. so you spanked me pretty good and it'll be okay. on my 

[00:08:35] Taryn: funny. How much does a SwimBETTER better cost? Is this a big ticket item for a gift or is it a stocking stuffer type thing? 

[00:08:41] Kelly: No, it's a big ticket item. So if you get like the 15 minute recording option, it's like, $799USD and the full 90 minutes of recording time was like $999USD and then I had to buy a subscription for them, if you buy an annual subscription, it was like eight dollars and 99 cents a month. And so I bought an annual subscription, which gives you this access to the platform where you can see all your data so I'm giving myself a year to shave off those eight minutes and we'll see how well it works from there. So maybe we can revisit this product next year to see if it was money well spent.

But, uh, yeah, it's, it's kind of pricey.

[00:09:21] Taryn: And I think it would be helpful for you, right? People that don't have access to, say, a swimming club or a coach that can watch them swim. It's going to give you that real time feedback to know whether you are doing the right thing or not. If you know you are trying to improve.

[00:09:35] Kelly: I agree. I think the next best thing, well, even I think ideally, if you can afford it is to have a coach also that a coach can help you because there's still, I think there's still this need that if you had enough, you know, camera capability, you want to be able to record yourself, your swim stroke above and below water and be able to then go back and do a And compare it because this, the technology, the SwimBETTER technology, it allows you to synchronise video with the digital data that's provided graphically so that as you go back and review your data and can watch, you yourself swimming on a video and also see graphically where it is that your propulsion's the best or where you're starting to lose, you know, lose power or you're, you're going too deep or you're just having problems. You can see that graphically and on video. Synced with video is very helpful. I haven't quite figured out all the video stuff yet but I do record my sessions and I'm getting that figured out.

The next item on my list was to have a coach. I think the coaches are really very valuable and can do a lot of things to help you improve. And so I recommend a coach. And so if you can afford one of those, so you look at it and say, is that on the, price you're in?

It just depends on who you go with and what it is you're trying to accomplish. But I think a coach is money well spent. Then the next item on my list, and this is one I thought everybody would have on their list, and that's to join the Triathlon Nutrition Academy. You can do a lot of things, spend a lot of money and not get your nutrition figured out.

But if you can join the Triathlon Nutrition Academy for the money that you spend, it helps you get your nutrition dialed in. It's a nine month program that is difficult to find a matching place else for what you learn, the education program, what you get from it. And so I think joining TNA, the Triathlon Nutrition Academy, is something that everybody should consider.

Or if you can't afford it this year, You know, start looking at, when should I do it? Can I do it when the door's open next time, which is next January, or, do I have to wait for a while but look at it and, uh, plan ahead,

[00:11:41] Taryn: Thanks. I think everyone should add that to the list as well. Great idea.

[00:11:46] Kelly: Yeah. A couple more things on my list. I have a GoPro camera.

I think a lot of people are familiar with GoPro. So a lot of my, my things are probably a little pricier because I, I have spent a lot of money on technology to try to improve my performance and it does pay off, but the GoPro cameras, I actually bought a GoPro camera about a year ago and I use it for a variety of different things.

I, I capture swim videos. So I can do self evaluations, but I also swim, I send those swim videos to a coach and have them have the coach do evaluations and give me feedback. And I use the GoPro on my bike. When I record, when I'm out riding, I record different things. And so there's just a lot of really good, useful things you can use a GoPro for.

And so I recommend the GoPro. I don't remember What I paid for the GoPro, it was probably around a thousand dollars by the time I bought extra batteries or whatever. I mean, it's hard to, it's hard to buy cheap, things are just not cheap. 

[00:12:46] Kelly: Yeah. That's why when you look at nutrition, you know, nutrition's, you look at how much it costs for the Triathlon Nutrition Academy, you're going to easily spend that much money on equipment.

You know, one way or another, you're going to spend your money. So nutrition's a good choice too.

[00:13:00] Taryn: Yeah. We've had a GoPro since they first came out. My husband's very much an early adopter with things like that. And it is excellent. Like, it comes everywhere with us. It gets wet. It goes underwater. It captures all the fun family moments that a normal camera is just not right for.

[00:13:15] Kelly: Well, yeah, good point because whenever I first started, I actually used my iPhone and I bought a case, a waterproof case of Amazon and I submerged my phone underwater and you know, and I take above water photos when I was swimming and it worked just fine, but it just took all this extra work to get it in the special case and make sure it was watertight and then take the video and then I had to take it out of the case afterwards and it was a big pain and I was always worried about, was it going to damage my phone somehow?

So I ended up getting the GoPro and it's been great because the GoPro, I just plop it in the water or wherever. I mean, it's designed for that and I don't have to worry about damaging it. And it's, it's worked great. The next thing on my list is form goggles. most translators are familiar with form goggles.

I have the form two goggles out now, which the form, the difference between form one and the form two is that the form two has a built in heart rate monitor that senses your heart rate off of your temple.

[00:14:11] Taryn: Cool!

[00:14:13] Kelly: If you need heart rate, you know, that's the newest thingy. That's a selling point for form, but FORM goggles are really nice because before I got FORM goggles, There was always this mystery about how fast was I swimming, you know, and form helps, you know, your stroke rate, what your pace is while you're swimming, your total distance.

I mean, it just gives you all this information that previously I was having to use other things to try to measure it, whether I was using my watch or a stopwatch or some other darn thing, trying to keep track of how many laps I was swimming. The FORM goggles made all that easier. One of the things that is really going to be, play a bigger part for me this year is the direction, what do you call it? It tells you what direction you're swimming. So whenever you're trying to swim, yeah, when you're trying to swim, you're trying to swim straight. You're trying to swim and make sure that you're not swimming left and right and zigzagging through your swim course.

The FORM goggles have this capability to help you swim in a straight line. And, uh, I'm going to use that. That feature this year to swim, hopefully in a straighter line in sunny coast next year, make sure 

[00:15:17] Taryn: Steve needs these goggles so that he doesn't go off into the beach when he's swimming 

[00:15:21] Kelly: in the, yeah, where they have to guide him back onto the course.

And even in my race, I'll be in New Zealand in December for world championship. I will use it there. I intend to use it there in the race. And so I think it's gonna be pretty handy and help. Hopefully it'll save some time in my races. Hope so. So if I can shave eight minutes off my time, just in better swim performance with these SwimBETTER technology.

And if the goggles will help me swim straight, I really could be happy with myself eventually here. Then, uh, books. So books are nice. They can be like stocking stuffers. They don't cost that much. And I'm not going to read a list. What I'll point to is that Podcast Episode 151 had a list of 20 books that every athlete should read.

And if I was to pick one off of that list and say, this is the one I thought was really meaningful for me, it was called, uh, Fast After 50. And it was really good to listen to that book, uh, listen to the audio book. And so it was, all the books were really good, but Fast After 50 was one that resonated well with me.

And so I, I think that's a good option for, for me. Stocking stuffers. And the last item on my list for today is Digital Travel Scales. So if you travel very much, which I do, and if you travel on airlines and you have these weight limits, it's nice to have a little portable digital weighing or scale that you can use to lift your luggage with and see how much it weighs before you leave the hotel or you leave to go get on the airline.

Now I use these most recently. I use them all the time before I leave home, but I took them with me to Australia last September for Sunny Coast 70. 3 because I knew I'd be getting souvenirs and other things coming home. And I was, I really managed my weight really very closely. And so, even on the hotel room on my last day that I was there, in order to make weight, I was thrown out.

Any extra toothpaste, or if I had anything that I didn't think I was going to need between when I left the hotel till I got home, I was throwing away. So I was throwing away extra soap. You know, instead of bringing home souvenir soap from the hotel, I was throwing away soap. I was throwing away extra toothpaste, anything I didn't need because that's how close I was on my, and those scales are really helpful, that I made sure that the stuff I needed got home and the other stuff I left there.

You know, I had spare batteries I was throwing away that I didn't need and things like that.

So Digital Scales made a big difference.

[00:17:52] Taryn: Yeah, that's a really good one. That was Lyn's suggestion who couldn't make it today and I watched you use those and they, they're going to be great for any triathlete that has to travel. Stuff adds up so quickly, particularly if you're travelling with a bike. So being really mindful that you don't go over on the weight limit because you get stung for massive fees going over by, you know, half a kilo or a kilo, which is what, 2 pounds. So that they're really light and great to travel with. So really good stocking stuffer, I think. if you couldn't tell Kelly is very much our data junkie, loves a good spreadsheet, loves to analyse things. So if you are that way inclined or your triathlete, family friend, or whoever it is in your life is that way inclined, a lot of those suggestions while on the more expensive end could be very well received on Christmas day.

So I'm going to go through Lyn's other suggestions, because she had some really good ones that I think need to still make the list. Her suggestions were the digital travel scales, but Elastic Laces, which anybody could buy as a stocking stuffer. They're very cheap. Make sure the colour thoug, matches the person's tri suit or matches their shoes. That's really important. But Elastic Laces are going to save you so much time in transition. And particularly if you're new to the sport, you need to get amongst elastic laces. We're not going to go down the sock, no sock debate today, but that has happened on the podcast before.

But whether you're putting on socks or not, no judgement here, but make sure you've got elastic laces so that you can just slip your foot in your shoe really quickly. Lyn's other suggestion was a gift voucher for some remedial sports massage, which as an active person, those things are gold, right? You just can't get enough of those.

If I'm ever rich, I don't want the fame, just the riches, then I would have a massage every day. Like, how good would it be to have somebody massage your calves, and your shoulders before you go to bed every night? That's like, that's living Barry for me. So massage vouchers for somebody who does a sports massage, right?

So if you're listening and you're a triathlete, you know what I mean, but it has to be, it has to hit the right spot. None of these are like light finger touchy relaxation things. Oh, they just make me more frustrated than relaxed. They've got to actually. sort the body out, put it back into shape and keep you training hard.

All right, next we have Tony with his gift suggestions. He's got some goodies as well.

[00:20:17] Tony: Yeah, so, as a coach, I think Kelly was right. Everybody needs a coach. And I also think for the FORM Goggles, one of the things that the old version will display heart rate if you have something that will project heart rate to it. So, like, if you can project it from your wrist off your, like, garment or whatever, you should be able to get it in the older version of the form goggles.

But mine starts with the bike trainer. So, you know, if you live in extreme weather conditions or rainy weather, hot or whatever a bike trainer and you can go anywhere on the scale of a bike trainer. You can get a wheel where you don't have to take the wheel off. You can just spin, just throw your bike on it and spin and go.

Or you can get one where you have to put it. On, you know, take your back tire off, put the chain onto the drive, and you ride virtually on a course like, uh, swift or ROV or full gas or something like that. um, and it gives you more of an experience of actually riding outdoors and it'll adjust with the incline and the power that you're putting out. , and to go along with that, uh, if you want and like to ride hills or whatever, you can get the kicker climb. So when you start going up those hills, your bike will actually lean up like you're actually going up the hill. And so you can get a more true experience on riding outside.

Another thing you can get for your bike highly recommend it, especially if you ride outside a lot, is the Varia Bike Radar. You can get the Radar, they've got a few different versions, they've got one that's got a recorder in it, and they've got one that's just the light that flashes, and the Radar, if you've got a, Bike computer connected to it.

The radar will let your bike computer know when there's a vehicle behind you, it'll do, it'll pick up bikes, it'll pick up people, it'll pick up cars and trucks, and it kind of gives you an idea how fast they're coming up behind you as well. And if there's multiple vehicles or just one, so they don't scare you when Flies by and buzzes you way too close which happens to everybody, right?

And then some gift card ideas. I think your local bike shop. It probably ought to be the top on the list. Can't go wrong there. Cause you know, you're in there a lot anyway, so might as well spend money, right? Amazon, so you can put it in the cart, right? So add everything to the cart, the feed, if you don't know what kind of gels they want specifically or nutrition products that they use on their bikes or while they're out running, um, the feed, they can probably get what they need.

And then the last thing I would say is like for recovery, recovery. Um, you could get like, uh, a whoop band. Like this or the Oura ring and just to monitor recovery better tells you when you're supposed to go to sleep and how much sleep you need and how tired your muscles are for recovery purposes.

[00:23:19] Taryn: Good one. The last one is good. There are so many, there's so much cool wearable technology at the moment, isn't there? Like it's just getting bigger and better. Going back to your smart trainer, is there any particular ones that you guys like? Because it is like a huge minefield of information about what one to go. Perhaps we even need to do a podcast episode solely on what type of trainer is, a good one to get. 

[00:23:44] Tony: I mean, you have to know what size cassette it'll hold. The newer ones will hold a 12 speed some of the older ones will do 11 and below, and some will do 10 and below, so you just need to know, like, what gears you have, uh, especially for the, direct drive with where you take the back wheel off.

And there's also power tolerance variances like, like the Wahoo, the newest Wahoo and the newest Garmin, uh, I think are like 1 percent off. So, where some of the older ones and a lot of them with the wheels on trainers are 4 or 5 percent difference. So. 

[00:24:25] Taryn: Okay. Anybody else have some good suggestions around smart trainers?  Nope. 

[00:24:30] Kelly: I've been using the Wahoo, but that's the only one I've used. I've, I'm very pleased with it. I've used it for, this is my third winter and it's been very reliable and I've enjoyed it, but that's the only one I have experience with.

[00:24:45] Taryn: Yeah, maybe I'll, I'll jot down an idea to get somebody on to talk to us about trainers to decide. Cause yes, the world is your oyster. I, they didn't exist when back in my day I used to train on rollers. You know, there's things that you just try and hang on for dear life. Yeah. Really good for sorting out pedal stroke efficiency, but also a little bit scary.

Okay. Thank you, Tony. To wrap us up, , we have Josh who is making his first podcast debut. He is only in phase one of the Triathlon Nutrition Academy program. And he's like, yeah, I'll do a podcast. So welcome Josh.

[00:25:16] Joshua: Thank you very much. 

[00:25:18] Taryn: Well, 

[00:25:18] Joshua: Good to be here.

[00:25:19] Taryn: what are your gift suggestions for the triathletes in your life? Or, you know, maybe selfishly yourself.

[00:25:23] Joshua: Uh, it's all selfish. My list. It's all about me Christmas. So, I guess following on from Kelly and that the coaches thing actually, I think that's a great idea. but across all four disciplines, like you could obviously have a multi-sport triathlon coach.

You know, which, I've had a couple over the years. would always recommend a swim coach. Cause you can, use a huge amount of time in the pool and spend hours and hours and hours and weeks and months and months get very little improvement.

Um, But if you've got a coach on deck looking at you and doing stroke correction and drills, amazing difference that'll make. Yeah. And I went from a. two minute plus per hundred, uh, swimmer after, you know, 18 months of swimming and then got a coach and got down to, you know, repping 135s, 138s over Ironman distance in about six, eight months.

So, certainly recommend it. 

[00:26:10] Taryn: And if you don't have access to that, get Kelly SwimBETTER and Form Goggles to help with that as well.

[00:26:18] Joshua: And then, look, just in my short time and being part of this program and, the impact that it's had on my training, um, and recovery already as TNA membership, get on it, it's made such a difference. And I'll be honest, look, I haven't embraced it all and got my life organised and, and doing it to the letter yet.

[00:26:34] Taryn: Oh, it's early days, mate. It's early days.

[00:26:37] Joshua: I don't know, and I'm, I'm like midway through moving house and everything as well. So. already what I've, learned and what I've implemented is making a massive difference, a massive difference. And for the price of some of the other things that are on my wish list here, you've got a membership to TNA and it's going to make a huge difference to your racing and performances.

So yeah, certainly recommend that. But my main list, is race entries. So this isn't a cheap sport by any stretch of the imagination. And I seem to have a taste for expensive races for whatever reason. The longer you go, the dearer it gets. And anyone who knows me well enough has got a pretty good idea of the races I like to do.

But by all means, if you want to pony up for Hell of the West for me, any of the Half Ironman series, particularly Sunny Coast or Melbourne, or if you want to chip in and pay for Busselton Ironman for me, by all means I'll give you a shout out. um,

[00:27:31] Taryn: it is an expensive sport. Just check with the person or, you know, maybe hint at what race entry you want so they're not registering you for something like, I don't know, Challenge Roth Or Alcatraz or anything like that, then you don't actually want to do it.

[00:27:44] Joshua: thing on my list is a bulk supply of my preferred race or training nutrition will always be warmly received.

Once again, anyone who knows me probably knows what I use, but. Similar to what the others have said vouchers for the feed or something like that, or even, at the Trailco or, or Lolfire or any, anywhere like that here in Australia yeah, it's going to get utilised very, very well, because that's one of those on costs that people who aren't in the sport don't realize that.

How many hundreds or thousands of dollars a year that we burn on consumable nutrition throughout the course of the year.

[00:28:20] Taryn: Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it? Particularly if you're using the more expensive end of the spectrum gels like Morten and SAS Beautyfuel, they're about five bucks a gel, and that adds up really quickly if you're having a couple of those an hour.

[00:28:32] Joshua: Yeah, and that's the thing I've done, and I'm also in the processes of trialling a new one. So I normally use Pure and I order them in bulk, but I'm in the processes now of my, my body saying, yeah, we might need to try something different. So yeah, I'll probably end up with something expensive like that, knowing my luck, but we'll see what happens.

For anyone who wants to make me feel really, really special, and the absolute love of their life. 

[00:28:58] Taryn: Are you, are you suggesting I give this suggestion to your partner? I'll just send her the link for this episode for you.

[00:29:04] Joshua: You two can work it out between you. Ha ha ha. So yeah, some new race wheels. 

In particular Craftworks Ultima SL85s. Just as an example. But yeah, that would fit in the stocking nicely. I'll even get a large stocking to accommodate. And then, new bike computer. Only Garmin. Please don't buy another model.

It'll have to be Garmin. I'm just a stickler for that.

[00:29:30] Taryn: Josh. Specifically wishlist for Josh, but

[00:29:35] Joshua: interested

[00:29:38] Taryn: perhaps something that you can then add to your list. I love that. We've got a big range of costs too. We've got some very, lower end of the spectrum, things like a foam roller, elastic laces. All the way up to a smart trainer.

So depending on how good you've been this year, there's a variety of different options. So maybe what I would suggest if you are being selfish and want things specifically for you, print out the list of all of these gifts and leave it, up there. Unattended on the kitchen counter with some circles around the products that you would love.

So go and grab that at dietitianapproved.com/xmas. Okay. Another bonus one to add to the list. Tri suit. We do have a TNA tri suit coming, but that is only for TNA athletes. So not one you can add to the list, unfortunately. Well, lads, thank you so much for giving our listeners your Christmas suggestions, but also to, you know, give them a little bit of a leg up with some ideas for themselves or the triathletes in their life.

It has been a very male, it has been a very male dominated episode, but we did have some female influence in there. Hope you get better soon, Lynn, but thank you so much for joining me. Print out the list dietitianapproved.com/xmas. And I wanted to drop this episode before the black Friday sales hit so that you've got a few weeks time to get organised for Christmas.

Because like me, if you like me, I like to be organized and all of my Christmas shopping is done in November. I'm not a last minute Larry. I'm sure you've probably picked that up about my personality already. But you're not likely to make a good choice and make a good decision if you're out shopping for Christmas presents on Christmas Eve in the late night extended shopping hours, right?

You're just going to grab the closest hamper to the checkout and be done with it. And, you know, maybe that's okay, but I reckon we can do better. So go and grab the list www.dietitianapproved.com/xmas and we all wish you a very Merry Christmas.

 

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