The #SVT Podcast · Swansea Vale Triathlon Club

46. November 2025 | The one with Abbie Evans

·1 hr 23 min·5 clips

Abbey Evans says she finished and thought, "I am never ever doing this if this is what Nice is like."

The episode opens with a warm welcome back. The hosts joke about the gap since the last podcast and admit they would rather not let the same drivel run out, which sets the tone for a loose, familiar catch-up. Abbey Evans joins the table. She has just come back from Ironman World Champ 70.3 in Marbella, and the hosts use that as the anchor for the conversation. The chat stays in triathlon territory. They cover swimming, biking, and running, but keep drifting back to the club side of the sport, which is where a lot of the real feeling lives. The run course gets the most attention. Four laps, the lighthouse climb, and the way each lap gets uglier all come up, along with the sense that the fourth ascent is where the course stops being scenic and starts being a negotiation with gravity. The downhill is no relief either. By then the quads are cooked, and the way back down is where the damage really lands. The drummers on the flat section get a mention too. You can hear them, but not reach them, which makes for one of those small race memories that sticks. Club politics comes into the mix as well. Activity Wales stopping club discounts leads into a plainspoken debate about loyalty schemes, event value, and whether organisers are giving away the wrong thing. The hosts do not dress it up. They work through it from a club perspective and point out that people already support events through their clubs, and that some races are the sort you do once or twice rather than every season. Abbey is treated with steady respect throughout. She comes across as a strong athlete who has put in the work, and the tone stays warm and grounded rather than turning into a medal parade. The episode ends by looking ahead a little, with talk of another episode after the awards night and maybe a Christmas special, so the whole thing closes like a club chat that will probably pick up again over another pint, another run, or another bit of race gossip.

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A loose, club-rooted catch-up built around Abbie Evans' Marbella return.

This episode sits firmly in club-chat territory, with Abbie Evans back from Ironman World Champ 70.3 in Marbella and the Swansea Vale Tri crew easing into the usual mix of race talk and side banter.

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Abbey Evans comes in fresh from Ironman World Champs 70.3 in Marbella, with SVT club-table energy and proper tri chat.

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