Age Grouper For Life Triathlon Podcast
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This is a triathlon podcast for age group triathletes hosted by triathletes Colin Cook and Danny Royce. The podcast focuses on providing helpful information to the everyday triathlete that is trying to optimize their time and get faster.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed race postmortems and candid training conversations connect triathlon performance with fueling, injury, family commitments, and the realities of amateur competition.
Colin and Danny Royce make triathlon performance feel less like a clean training plan than an ongoing negotiation with ambition, injury, family, and limited time.
At Chattanooga, Danny's race goes sideways; you get the honest account instead of a victory lap.
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A candid triathlon conversation about aging, missed training, and keeping perspective when the schedule gets interrupted.
Age Grouper For Life Triathlon Podcast settles into the familiar tension between missed training, getting older, and the push to keep improving while life keeps cutting across the plan.
A grounded endurance story about sustainable training, cross-training, and staying in motion.
Mike Beeman gives the episode its center: a veteran athlete choosing durability over pace, with cross-training, biking, and rowing all part of the same endurance mindset.
A loose but useful triathlon check-in that keeps returning to swim efficiency and race-day carryover.
Age Grouper For Life feels like a holiday-season check-in, with the hosts getting the show back on schedule and circling the old question of how much swim work really changes a triathlon day.
A practical triathlon conversation about coaching, maintenance, and balancing racing with the rest of life.
This triathlon conversation keeps its attention on what helps athletes stay healthy, steady, and clear-headed. Aaron Geiser comes across as a full-time triathlon coach with a background in sports medicine and exercise physiology, and his years playing baseball add lived…
A grounded triathlon story about family, care, and what sits beside the race.
The show spends its time with the people who keep age-group triathlon moving, and Dan Royce comes through as the family sherpa, steady around the sport.
A steady triathlon conversation about racing, access, and making room for the next athlete.
The episode treats Leslie Battle's story as more than a race result. It moves from losing 100 pounds to years of racing, then into the push for a place at the table for Athena and Clydesdale athletes.
A grounded return to age-group triathlon talk that links training, racing, and real life.
Age Grouper for Life returns with Danny and Coach Collin, and it stays close to the show's central purpose: helping age-group triathletes improve training and racing while still managing careers, families, and the rest of daily life.
Rowing roots, big rides, and a relaxed endurance talk that stays human.
Mark Castrovinci's path into endurance sport gives the piece its anchor, moving from rowing in Boston to triathlon with an easy athlete-to-athlete rhythm.
Outdoor talk from the camp table.
Trail miles, gear sense, and outdoor memory.
Host Colin Cook interviews Norman Kim, a triathlete with 40 years of experience who started racing in 1986.
Leslie Battle, an age group triathlete and Athena national champion, shares her journey from losing 100 pounds and completing over 350 triathlons to advocating for inclusivity in the sport.
Danny and Coach Collin come back after a hiatus and let listeners know the show is still here.
Colin and Danny Royce spend the episode on Danny's rough Ironman Chattanooga day.
Colin and Danny start by calling out the gap between episodes.
Colin and Danny bring on Mark Castrovinci, better known as Whiskers.
Colin and Danny catch up after the World Championships and unpack the men's race, the women's race, and how Kona and world-championship qualification fit into the wider picture.
Colin and Danny welcome Liz to the Age Grouper for Life Triathlon Podcast.
Colin and Danny sit down with Mike Beeman for a conversation about staying active at 68.
Colin and Danny bring on Dan Royce, Danny's father, and set him up as the elite sherpa behind the show.
Colin opens with his co-host and their usual back-and-forth about being called elite-level age-group triathletes.
Colin opens the year with an injury update.
Colin welcomes Aaron Geiser for a coach-to-coach triathlon conversation.
Colin and Danny open by framing a new era for the Age Group for Life triathlon podcast.
Colin and Danny sit down with Tim Surface.
Mike Consolini, called “Backdraft,” describes going from Western Massachusetts sports and 9-1-1 ambulance work to paramedic firefighter duty in Agawam, where he and the crew rotate between the ambulance and the fire truck.
Age Grouper for Life Triathlon Podcast episode 135 features Anthony McCauley, a Massachusetts age-group triathlete, four-time Ironman finisher, and food-industry worker who also spent years as a chef.
Nate Thomas describes how a teacher in Bedford, Massachusetts turned a 2010 P90X experiment into seven Ironmans, a coaching career, and a Kona qualification at Ironman Norway in 2019.
Colin and Danny debrief the Top Guns Tri Team Camp in Austin, Texas, where a dry forecast turned into two days of heavy rain, slick roads, and multiple crashes.
Raymond Bartolo shares his triathlon journey from a clueless beginner to a seasoned pro and coach, discussing key lessons on fueling, open water swimming, and mental challenges.