{"id":8059,"date":"2021-05-07T06:57:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T06:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=8059"},"modified":"2021-05-07T06:57:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T06:57:56","slug":"david-mcnamee-on-tackling-ironman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=8059","title":{"rendered":"David McNamee on tackling Ironman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Along with Joe Skipper, David McNamee was the break-out Brit Ironman male of the 2015 season. McNamee came through the British Triathlon set-up before leaving for the long-course world in late 2014. The next year saw him take the Ironman UK title and finish 11th at the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii, the best male Brit of the day and with the fastest marathon time, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The race led to the Scot joining the BMC Etixx Pro Tri Team for 2016, working alongside Will Clarke, Liz Blatchford and a host of non-drafting pros aiming for long-course dominance. We caught up with the 27-year-old to talk through his career\u2026<\/p>\n

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\nON STARTING TRI\u2026<\/p>\n

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I started triathlon at the New Year\u2019s Day triathlon in Edinburgh, it was freezing and I was horrific. [Scot pro] Fraser Cartmell won it and that was cool to see; six months later I was training with him in Stirling. British Triathlon became involved after I was fourth at Blenheim; a few weeks later I was racing the ITU World Series at Kitzbuhel and didn\u2019t have a clue who anyone was. But I came sixteenth and that got me into the U23 Worlds that year and I ended up doing six ITU World Champs.<\/p>\n

ON EXITING BRITISH TRI SET-UP\u2026<\/p>\n

There are things I\u2019d change but I feel positive about it all, it set me up for my career. To be honest, I don\u2019t think I could\u2019ve won at Olympic medal. I saw the frustration that Will Clarke and Tim Don went through in 2012 and I didn\u2019t want that for 2016, so it felt like the right time to move on. As soon as the Selection Policy was announced, I worked out quickly that I wasn\u2019t going to Rio and there was nothing I could do about it. It\u2019s [the ITU] a claustrophobic scene and it\u2019s hard when you feel like an outsider; they [British Triathlon] want you to do well in the series races but, once the big show comes around, then they\u2019ve no intention of taking you. That\u2019s not what I\u2019m in the sport for, I want to go to the big stages and perform. Ironman and 70.3 allows me to do that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

ON IRONMAN ASPIRATION\u2026<\/p>\n

I knew about Ironman Hawaii before I know about triathlon. I remember being young and watching Trans World Sport at silly o\u2019clock and Kona would be on. I thought they were a bunch of crazy lunatics but it\u2019s amazing how something just sticks with you. I remember Simon Lessing racing it, Thomas Hellriegel too. I think physiologically I\u2019m better at the long-distance stuff, I\u2019m an athlete who likes to suffer more and fundamentally I\u2019ve always lacked a little speed. And you need that even in a two-hour Olympic-distance race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

ON TEAM BMC\u2026\n<\/p><\/div>\n

They\u2019ll sort your sponsors out for you, bring a mechanic and a masseuse, and all of the stuff you don\u2019t think about. You can\u2019t put a price on that. For a pro, to rush around looking for a local bike shop before a race, and then trusting someone who won\u2019t be familiar with your bike, isn\u2019t what you need come race week. It\u2019s like the cycling world, with huge support staff but that hasn\u2019t been embraced in triathlon until now.<\/p>\n

ON IRONMAN NUTRITION\u2026<\/p>\n

Short-course fuelling is very simple and you don\u2019t need a huge amount; you can keep it simple with a gel or two on the bike and a bit of isotonic drink. For 70.3 and Ironman races, by hour three you\u2019ve run out of the energy sources you started with so you need to top things up on the bike. Figuring out how to eat on the bike is critical, and people will recommend countless ways like energy bars, dried fruit, sweets, but I prefer gels. I\u2019ve got a sweet tooth so i put about 16 gels into my bottle for a race and suck that. And it\u2019s key to monitor the sodium intake at hot races especially. [New BMC co-sponsor] Etixx are a premium brand. The prices may be a little higher but that\u2019s what performance costs and it works.<\/p>\n

For more on BMC Etixx head to www.uplacebmctriathlon.com and for more info on Etixx Sports Nutrition visit www.etixxsports.com<\/p>\n

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